They found in the cell a small envelope marked H. Goering on the outside, inside of which were three notes, one addressed to Colonel Andrus [the prison commandant] from Goering, and the cartridge case in which the vial of potassium cyanide had been preserved. As yet, the contents of the notes have not been released for publication and how Goering got the poison remains unsolved.
He walked to the foot of the thirteen stairs leading to the gallows platform. He was asked to state his name. Flanked by two guards and followed by the Chaplain, he slowly mounted the stairs.
He stood on the trap and his feet were bound with a webbed Army belt. God have mercy on my soul. The trap was sprung and Ribbentrop died at In the same way, each of the remaining defendants to receive capital sentences approached the scaffold and met the fate of common criminals.
All, except the wordy Nazi philosopher, Rosenberg, uttered final statements. Over 2,, German soldiers went to their death for their Fatherland before me. I now follow my sons. I did my duty according to its laws. I am sorry that in her trying hour she was not led only by soldiers. I regret that crimes were committed in which I had no part. And now to God. The Bolshevists will one day hang you. The verdict was wrong. Got protect Germany and make Germany great again.
Seyss-Inquart died at less than two hours after von Ribbentrop had entered the execution chamber. It was over—the trial ended, evil requited, and as Dr. Three of the four judges were needed for conviction. They were hanged, cremated in Dachau, and their ashes dropped in the Isar River. Hermann Goering, second only to Hitler in the Nazi regime, escaped the hangman's noose by committing suicide before his execution.
The IMT sentenced three defendants to life imprisonment and four to prison terms ranging from 10 to 20 years. It acquitted three of the defendants. Despite a series of postwar trials, many perpetrators of Nazi-era criminality have never been tried or punished.
The defendants generally acknowledged that the crimes they were accused of occurred but denied that they were responsible, as they were following orders from a higher authority. The Nazis' highest authority, the person most to blame for the Holocaust, was missing at the trials.
Adolf Hitler had committed suicide in the final days of the war, as had several of his closest aides. Many more criminals were never tried. Some fled Germany to live abroad, including hundreds who came to the United States.
Trials of Nazis continued to take place both in Germany and many other countries. Simon Wiesenthal, a Nazi-hunter, provided leads for war crimes investigators about Adolf Eichmann.
Eichmann, who had helped plan and carry out the deportations of millions of Jews, was brought to trial in Israel. The testimony of hundreds of witnesses, many of them survivors, was followed all over the world. Eichmann was found guilty and executed in Leading Nazi officials will be indicted and placed on trial in Nuremberg, Germany, under Article 6 of the IMT's Charter for the following crimes: 1 Conspiracy to commit charges 2, 3, and 4, which are listed here; 2 crimes against peace—defined as participation in the planning and waging of a war of aggression in violation of numerous international treaties; 3 war crimes—defined as violations of the internationally agreed upon rules for waging war; and 4 crimes against humanity—"namely, murder, extermination, enslavement, deportation, and other inhumane acts committed against any civilian population, before or during the war; or persecution on political, racial, or religious grounds in execution of or in connection with any crime within the jurisdiction of the Tribunal, whether or not in violation of domestic law of the country where perpetrated.
Martin Bormann Hitler's adjutant is to be tried in absentia. Three are sentenced to life imprisonment Hess, economics minister Walther Funk, and Raeder.
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