At the Nuremberg Trials, 12 of the 24 defendants were sentenced to death. These sentences were carried out on October 16, 1946, with some notable figures among the executed, including Hermann Göring and Joachim von Ribbentrop. Three other defendants sentenced to death committed suicide before their executions, bringing the total number of individuals who died as a result of the trials to 15.
11 were hanged and one (Goering) comitted suicide the night before his execution.
Victorians would put Nuremberg angels on top of Christmas trees.
In post WW 2 Europe, Nuremberg Germany was the city where the allies put Nazi war criminals on trial. The trials exposed to the horror of most people, how many war crimes were committed and how many innocent civilians were put to death. The trials also exposed the Holocaust and the genocide of Jewish people in Europe during the war. Many Nazi's were given death sentences and long prison terms.
Top Nazi officials were put on trial in Nuremberg for crimes against Humanity, and conspiracy
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1935
They would put them on the top of their Christmas trees.
September 15, 1935
In Nuremberg (Bavaria).
After World War II, 24 major leaders of the Third Reich were indicted and put on trial at the Nuremberg Trials, which began in 1945. Of those, 21 were tried, with 12 receiving death sentences, three receiving life imprisonment, and others receiving varying sentences. Additionally, subsequent trials, such as the Subsequent Nuremberg Trials, addressed other key figures and collaborators. Overall, many leaders and officials faced justice for their roles in the Nazi regime.
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He was captured and put on trial at Nuremberg. When, in 1946, he was sentenced to hang rather than a soldiers death by firing squad he took cyanide which he had hidden in a pot of skin cream.