On November 20, 1945, the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg was officially opened, and the Nazi war criminals of World War II ushered in the final trial. On the eve of Nazi Germany's surrender in 1945, Hitler, Himmler, Krebs, and Goebbels committed suicide one after another, and thus were not arrested and imprisoned for trial. The International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg tried 22 war criminals, all of whom were military and political leaders of Nazi Germany during World War II, including Goering, Ribbentrop, Keitel, Dönitz and others. The photo shows the presiding judge of the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg entering the courtroom, and the presiding judges are four from Britain, France, the United States and the Soviet Union.
From 20 November 1945 to 30 September 1946, the Nuremberg Trials lasted for 10 months. Of the 22 Nazi war criminals, 10 were convicted of crimes against peace, plans of aggression, and most of all, hanging. The scene of the 1946 Nuremberg trials, attended by the chief prosecutor, the chief prosecution lawyer, the war criminals and the war criminals defense lawyers.
Three were sentenced to life imprisonment for crimes against peace and humanity, and four were sentenced to prison terms ranging from 10 to 20 years for crimes against humanity. Five were acquitted from prosecution. During the 1946 Nuremberg Trials, Keitel, Ribbentrop, Hess, and Goering (from right to left) stand in the front row.
In this trial, the Nazi war criminals were doing a final "stubborn resistance" to try not to be sentenced to death, in which Goering tried to blame Hitler for all the British airstrikes, but because the evidence pointed out that he was the mastermind of the bombing, Goering was eventually sentenced to hanging. The photo shows Goering at the Nuremberg trial listening to the prosecution officer's testimony with a translator's headphones.
However, Goering committed suicide the day before his execution, in such a way as to defy his trial at the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg. The remaining nine Nazi war criminals sentenced to death were all hanged on October 16, 1946, and the Nuremberg Trials ended. Next, let's look back at these images from these photographs at the Nuremberg Trials.
Photographed during the Nuremberg Trials in 1946, Nazi war criminals sit in the courtroom, with Goering, Hess, and Ribbentrop in front of the camera, all of whom were Germany's military and political leaders during World War II.
Photographed during the Nuremberg Trials in 1946, Goering read the book, and during his indictment he consistently stated that most of the crime orders were signed by Hitler and that he was not guilty.
Photographed during the Nuremberg Trials in 1946, Keitel, the commander-in-chief of the German high command, read an appeal, the most senior commander of the German army in World War II, and has since become one of the 10 Nazi war criminals hanged.
Photograph taken during the 1946 Nuremberg Trials, at the site of an International Tribunal trial, Nazi war criminals were charged as war criminals.
The photograph was taken during the 1946 Nuremberg Trials, where Goering and Hess sat in a seat of war criminals, who was deputy leader of the Nazi Party in Germany during World War II and was later sentenced to life in prison.
Photograph taken during the Nuremberg Trials in 1946, when Goering was chatting with a war criminal in the back of the war criminals' bench, and Goering turned sideways.
The photo was taken during the Nuremberg trials in 1946, during a trial suspension period in which Keitel and his appellate lawyers exchanged views.