Event

Trial of the Major War Criminals

The main Nuremberg trial of the leading Nazis before the International Military Tribunal, 20 November 1945 to 1 October 1946.

7 links, 6 backed by primary records

Connections 7

International Military Tribunal Primary record 1
Hermann Göring convicted Primary record 2
Hjalmar Schacht acquitted Primary record 2
Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach indicted; his case was postponed Scholarship & press 3

Timeline 1 date

Proof 5 sources

Nuremberg Trial Proceedings, Volume 22: Monday, 30 September 1946 (the Judgment), Avalon Project, Yale Law School, 30 Sep 1946. Primary record
Nuremberg Trial Proceedings Volume 22
entered into an agreement establishing this Tribunal for the trial of War Criminals whose offenses have no particular geographical location
Nuremberg Trial Proceedings, Volume 22: Tuesday, 1 October 1946 (the Judgment on the defendants, and sentences), Avalon Project, Yale Law School, 1 Oct 1946. Primary record
The Tribunal finds the Defendant Goering guilty on all four Counts of the Indictment.
The Tribunal finds that Schacht is not guilty on this Indictment
NMT Case 10: USA vs. Alfried Krupp, et al., Harvard Law School Library, Nuremberg Trials Project. Scholarship & press
He had also been indicted in the Trial of the Major War Criminals (IMT), but the Tribunal granted an application by his lawyer for postponement of the proceedings.
Affidavit of Georg von Schnitzler (document EC-439), p. 555 with the editors’ note, Trials of War Criminals before the Nuernberg Military Tribunals, Volume VII (U.S. Government Printing Office; Mazal Library copy), 10 Nov 1945. Primary record
This affidavit was introduced in the IMT case as Exhibit USA 618.
International Military Tribunal, Blue Series, Vol. 2, p. 224 (trial of 23 November 1945), International Military Tribunal (Mazal Library copy), 23 Nov 1945. Primary record
It is the speech made at the meeting on the 20th of February 1933 at Berlin.

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