{"id":85403,"date":"2025-11-20T04:00:28","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T10:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/?p=85403"},"modified":"2025-11-20T04:09:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T10:09:11","slug":"on-this-day-in-history-1945-nuremberg-war-trials-begin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thetacticalhermit.com\/index.php\/2025\/11\/20\/on-this-day-in-history-1945-nuremberg-war-trials-begin\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day in History 1945: Nuremberg War Trials Begin"},"content":{"rendered":"
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At the end of World War II in Europe, the victorious Allied powers created the first international court to try war criminals from Nazi Germany. Headquartered in the German city of Nuremberg, the first and most famous trials of the major war criminals were held between November 20, 1945 and October 1, 1946, with verdicts announced on September 30 and October 1.<\/h2>\n

In the end, a large number of senior Nazi leaders were sentenced to death, including\u00a0Hermann Goering<\/a>\u00a0(who killed himself with cyanide the night before his sentence was to be carried out),\u00a0Karl D\u00f6nitz<\/a>,\u00a0Martin Bormann<\/a>\u00a0(who was missing but sentenced to death in abstentia),\u00a0Alfred Jodl<\/a>,\u00a0Joachim von Ribbentrop<\/a>\u00a0and various others. Some leaders, like\u00a0Rudolf Hess<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Albert Speer<\/a>, were given prison terms in Spandau Prison.<\/h2>\n

The death sentences were carried out on October 16, 1946.<\/h2>\n

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