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15 unusual facts about Nuremberg Trials


Alan Bullock

In 1952, Bullock published Hitler: A Study in Tyranny, the first comprehensive biography of Hitler, which he based on the transcripts of the Nuremberg Trials.

Auschwitz Report

the Auschwitz Protocols, also known as the Auschwitz Reports or Auschwitz Report, a collection of three eyewitness reports about Auschwitz (written 1943–1944) that were submitted in evidence at the Nuremberg Trials (1945–1946)

Charles Antone Horsky

In the wake of World War II, Horsky approached Robert Jackson, the chief prosecutor for the Nuremberg Trials, to collaborate on the cases.

Charles M. La Follette

He served as a Republican in the United States House of Representatives during the 1940s and took part in the post-World War II Nuremberg Trials.

Country lawyer

Robert H. Jackson (1892–1954), last U.S. Supreme Court justice (1941–1954) not to have graduated from law school, chief U.S. prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials (1945–1946).

Couvonges

Koudelka gathered evidence for use in the Nuremberg Trials, however Major General Hecker was released in 1947 and never tried.

Criminales de guerra

The film was made by excerpts of international news programs who covered the Nuremberg Trials.

Ernest Pérochon

During the Nuremberg Trials, this extraordinary man acted as deputy prosecutor.

Felix Steiner

After the capitulation of Germany, Steiner was imprisoned and indicted as part of the Nuremberg Trials.

Hart Side

In addition to his role as a judge at the Nuremberg Trials, Birkett was a strong defender of the Lake District and was instrumental in the defeat of a plan to raise Ullswater and convert it into a reservoir.

John E. Dolibois

He graduated from Miami University and served in the United States Army during World War II where he was an interrogator during the Nuremberg Trials and became acquainted with many of the most significant Nazi war criminals.

Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League

With the end of the war they also unsuccessfully tried to get the Nuremberg court to prosecute the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem for having aided Hitler during the war, sparking an investigation into Arab propaganda in the U.S, mainly the Arab office.

Richard Llewellyn

Following the war, he worked as a journalist, covering the Nuremberg Trials, and then as a screenwriter for MGM.

Verboten!

Determined to show him the error of his ways, she takes him to the first session of the Nuremberg Trials.

Wilhelm Keitel

He soon faced the International Military Tribunal (IMT), which indicted him on all four counts before it: conspiracy to commit crimes against peace, planning, initiating and waging wars of aggression, war crimes and crimes against humanity.


Bessie Margolin

Following World War II, Margolin was termporarily assigned to the War Department at the Nuremberg trials.

Johann Reichhart

He cooperated with Allied chief executioner Master Sergeant John C. Woods in the preparations for further executions of those found guilty and sentenced to death at the Nuremberg Trials.

Krupp Trial

The main defendant was Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, CEO of the Krupp Holding since 1943 and son of Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach who had been a defendant in the main Trial of the Major War Criminals before the IMT (where he was considered medically unfit for trial).

Maurice Neil Andrews

He was a U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia from 1942 to 1946, and served as a staff member of Justice Robert H. Jackson during prosecution of war criminals in the Nuremberg Trials in Germany.

Museum of World War II

Formed over a period of more than 50 years by its founder, Kenneth W. Rendell, the museum's collections document in detail the events of the war, from the signing of the Versailles Treaty, which ended World War I, to the Nuremberg and Tokyo war crimes trials, which brought the Second World War to its close.

Niklas Frank

Niklas Frank (born 9 March 1939) is a German author and journalist best known for writing a book which denounced his father Hans Frank (a German lawyer who was executed after being found guilty at the Nuremberg trials for his actions, including war crimes and crimes against humanity, arising from his involvement with the Nazi party and as Governor-General of occupied Poland during World War II).

Reactive arthritis

Dr. Reiter's Nazi Party affiliation, and in particular his involvement in forced human experimentation in the Buchenwald concentration camp (which, after his capture at the end of World War II, resulted in his prosecution in Nuremberg as a war criminal), have come to overshadow his medical accomplishments.

Robert Gellately

Gellately recently published a set of original documents by Leon Goldensohn dealing with the 1945-46 Nuremberg trials of war criminals in The Nuremberg Interviews: An American Psychiatrist's Conversations With The Defendants and Witnesses (Alfred A. Knopf, 2004).

The Egg and I

The case was heard before a jury in Judge William J. Willkins' (who was also one of the presiding Judges at the Nuremberg Trials) courtroom in King County Superior Court beginning February 6, 1951.

Wannsee Conference

It was not until 1947 that Luther's copy (number 16 out of 30 copies prepared) was found by Robert Kempner, lead U.S. prosecutor before the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, in files that had been seized from the German Foreign Office.

One copy of the Wannsee Protocol, the circulated minutes of the meeting, survived the war to be found by Robert Kempner, lead U.S. prosecutor before the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, in files that had been seized from the German Foreign Office.