Nuremberg trials
뉘른베르크 재판
The international trials held by France, the Soviet Union, Britain and the United States at an International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg after the Second World War, which tried the political, military and economic leaders of Nazi Germany for conspiring and waging wars of aggression, war crimes and crimes against humanity.
In depth
From 20 November 1945 to 1 October 1946 the tribunal tried 22 surviving leaders and six organisations, among them the Nazi leadership corps, the SS, the Gestapo and the SD. The chief Soviet prosecutor was Roman Rudenko. Twelve defendants were sentenced to death, including Göring, Ribbentrop, Keitel, Kaltenbrunner, Rosenberg, Frank, Frick, Streicher, Sauckel, Jodl, Seyss-Inquart and Bormann in absentia; ten were hanged on 16 October, Göring having killed himself the night before. Hess and Raeder received life, Speer and Schirach twenty years and Dönitz ten. Twelve subsequent trials before American tribunals, of doctors, lawyers, industrialists and Einsatzgruppen commanders among others, followed until 1949.