November 20, 1945: opening of the Nuremberg trial

Legend: the 21 Nazis tried by the Allies in the dock during the military tribunal of Nuremberg, November 1945

In the front row, from left to right: Hermann Goering, Rudolf Hess, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Wilhelm Keitel, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Alfred Rosenberg, Hans Frank, Wilhelm Frick, Julius Streicher, Walther Funk and Hjalmar Schacht. Second row, from left to right: Karl Dönitz, Erich Raeder, Baldur von Schirach, Fritz Sauckel, Alfred Jodl, Franz von Papen, Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Albert Speer, Konstantin von Neurath and Hans Fritzsche

Shoah Memorial/photo Ray of Addavio

The Nuremberg trial (20 November 1945 – October 1946) judge 21 of the main Nazi dignitaries, in the absence of Hitler and Himmler, who committed suicide. None of them will plead guilty. 11 will be sentenced to death. In the twelve other trials conducted by the Allied military courts against senior Nazi officers, of the 5,000 war criminals recorded in 1945, only 185 were tried in 1946.

Legend: during the entire trial, American guards maintain a constant surveillance of the accused locked up in the prison adjacent to the courthouse at Nuremberg, November 1945.

Shoah Memorial/photo photo Ray d'Addavio