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You are here -> HOME - RETROVILLE - 1946 |
- In the News - Nuremberg Verdicts |
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Welcome to Retroville! It's 1946! |
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The International Military Tribunal finished its work and handed down its verdicts on October 1, 1946, ironically, on the Jewish Day of Atonement. Certainly, if Hitler had not committed suicide just before the end of the war, his would have been the most important part of the trial. Of course, we'll never know how the Tribunal would have dealt with him since they never had the chance. Many believe that a simple death sentence would never have been enough.
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Of the 22 defendants, 11 were given the death penalty, 3 were acquitted, 3 were given life imprisonment, and 4 were given imprisonment ranging from 10 to 20 years. Those sentenced to death were hanged at Spandau Prison on October 6, 1946. Those acquitted were placed in the inept denazification program following the trial. Those who received prison sentences were sent to Spandau Prison.
The sentences, for the major defendants (in alphabetical order), were as follows:
- Karl Doenitz
Supreme Commander of the Navy; in Hitler's last will and testament he was made Third Reich President and Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces
Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison
- Hans Frank
Governor-General of occupied Poland
Sentenced to Hang
- Wilhelm Frick
Minister of the Interior
Sentenced to Hang
- Hans Fritzsche
Ministerial Director and head of the radio division in the Propaganda Ministry
Acquitted
- Walter Funk
President of the Reichsbank
Sentenced to Life in Prison
- Hermann Goering
Reichsmarschall, Chief of the Air Force
Sentenced to Hang
- Rudolf Hess
Deputy to Hitler
Sentenced to Life in Prison
- Alfred Jodl
Chief of Army Operations
Sentenced to Hang
- Ernst Kaltenbrunner
Chief of Reich Main Security Office whose departments included the Gestapo and SS
Sentenced to Hang
- Wilhelm Keitel
Chief of Staff of the High Command of the Armed Forces
Sentenced to Hang
- Erich Raeder
Grand Admiral of the Navy
Sentenced to Life in Prison
- Alfred Rosenberg
Minister of the Occupied Eastern Territories
Sentenced to Hang
- Fritz Sauckel
Labor leader
Sentenced to Hang
- Hjalmar Schacht
Minister of the Economics
Acquitted
- Artur Seyss-Inquart
Commisar of the Netherlands
Sentenced to Hang
- Albert Speer
Minister of Armaments and War Production
Sentenced to 20 Years in Prison
- Julius Streicher
Editor of the newspaper Der Sturmer, Director of the Central Committee for the Defence against Jewish Atrocity and Boycott Propaganda
Sentenced to Hang
- Constantin Von Neurath
Protector of Bohemia and Moravia
Sentenced to 15 Years in Prison
- Franz Von Papen
One-time Chancellor of Germany
Acquitted
- Joachim von Ribbentrop
Minister of Foreign Affairs
Sentenced to Hang
- Baldur Von Schirach
Reich Youth leader
Sentenced to 20 Years in Prison
One other defendant, Martin Bormann, was believed to be dead.
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