Nuremberg Trial Summary

NUREMBERG: THE NAZI DEFENDANTS

Summary:
The International Military Tribunal finished its work and handed down its verdicts on October 1, 1946, ironically, on the Jewish Day of Atonement. Of the 22 principal defendants, 11 were given the death penalty, 3 were acquitted, 3 were given life imprisonment and four were given imprisonment ranging from 10 to 20 years. Those sentenced to death were hanged at Spandau Prison on October 16, 1946. Those acquitted were placed in the inept denazification program following the trial. Those who received prison sentences were sent to Spandau Prison. There were originally 24 indictments but 2 of those indicted did not stand trial. The two were Gustav Krupp (industrialist and major supplier of war armaments) who could not stand trial due to ill health, and Robert Ley (leader of the labor movement) who committed suicide prior to trial on October 25, 1945.

Those indicted who did not stand trial:
    
Gustav Krupp       Robert Ley   

View of the Nazi defendants at the Nuremberg Trials.
Row 1 (from left to right:
Hermann Göring, Rudolf Hess, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Wilhelm Keitel, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Alfred Rosenberg, Hans Frank, Wilhelm Frick, Julius Streicher, Walther Funk, Hjalmar Schacht


Guards on suicide watch after Robert Ley committed suicide in his cell in October 1945 at the start of the trial.