Nuremberg trials

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1. Trials of Nazi leaders conducted after World War II. A court set up by the victorious Allies tried twenty-two former officials, including Hermann Goering, in Nuremberg, Germany, for war crimes. Goering and eleven others were sentenced to death. Many of the highest officials of Nazi Germany, including Adolf Hitler, Joseph Goebbels, and Heinrich Himmler, had committed suicide before they could be brought to trial, and Goering killed himself before he could be executed.

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Several of those accused at the Nuremberg trials offered the defense that they were merely carrying out the orders of their superiors. This defense was not accepted.

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In the wake of World War II, Jackson took a leave from the court and served as a prosecutor in the Nuremberg trials of Nazi leaders.

From Salon • Jun. 24, 2025

He is also represented onscreen by an actor in scenes recreating the series’s other primary framing device, the first Nuremberg trials in 1945.

From New York Times • Jun. 5, 2024

He took part in Operation Manna dropping food to the starving in the Netherlands and later he was at the Nuremberg trials.

From BBC • Nov. 10, 2023

Ferencz died Friday evening in Boynton Beach, Fla., according to St. John’s University law professor John Barrett, who runs a blog about the Nuremberg trials.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2023

He also read an account of Nazi general Ernst Kaltenbrunner, a leader of the SS who ended up being found guilty at the Nuremberg trials and executed.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady