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Parent topics
- International law [r]: The formal conduct of interactions between nation-states, both at the national level and on behalf of their citizens; generally accepted as first formalized by Hugo Grotius. [e]
- Second World War [r]: Add brief definition or description
- War crime [r]: Add brief definition or description
Subtopics
Individual defendants
- Hermann Goering [r]: prominent Nazi politician, effectively #2 in status for most of the war and Commander-in-Chief of the German Air Force (Luftwaffe) during WW II. Sentenced to death by the International Military Tribunal (Nuremberg) but committed suicide shortly before execution [e]
- Rudolf Hess [r]: Early Nazi Party member to whom Adolf Hitler dictated Mein Kampf; became Deputy Fuhrer but lost bureaucratic power; made an unauthorized flight to Great Britain in 1941 to seek a peace agreement but was interned; sentenced to life imprisonment by the International Military Tribunal (Nuremberg) and died in Spandau Prison [e]
- Joachim von Ribbentrop [r]: Foreign Minister of Nazi Germany, of lessened importance when the extension of national policies became military rather than diplomatic; tried and executed, principally for planning war, by the International Military Tribunal (Nuremberg) [e]
- Wilhelm Keitel [r]: Field Marshal of Nazi Germany who headed the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht; executed for war crimes by the International Military Tribunal (Nuremberg) [e]
- Ernst Kaltenbrunner [r]: Second commander of the Reich Main Security Administration (RSHA) of the SS of Nazi Germany; executed for war crimes by the International Military Tribunal (Nuremberg) [e]
- Alfred Rosenberg [r]: Early Nazi Party member and ideologist, later Minister for the occupied territories on the Eastern Front; tried and executed by the International Military Tribunal (Nuremberg) [e]
- Hans Frank [r]: Nazi lawyer, who directed the occupation of Poland; executed by the International Military Tribunal (Nuremberg) [e]
- Wilhelm Frick [r]: Minister of the Interior of Nazi Germany; titular authority over the police apparatus that was actually controlled by Heinrich Himmler; executed by the International Military Tribunal (Nuremberg) [e]
- Julius Streicher [r]: Early member of the Nazi Party, who published an extremely anti-Semitic newspaper and was an outspoken advocate for what the International Military Tribunal (Nuremberg) considered crimes against humanity. While he was not in the war planning circles, he was executed for his participation in incitement to genocide [e]
- Walther Funk [r]: President of the Nazi Reichsbank from 1939, after replacing Hjalmar Schacht, taking a supportive but not primary role in confiscation of assets from Jews and from conquered countries, and sentenced to life imprisonment by the International Military Tribunal (Nuremberg) [e]
- Karl Doenitz [r]: German naval officer who rose to head the submarine forces of Nazi Germany, then the overall naval command (Oberkommando der Marine), and was briefly Adolf Hitler's successor as Reichkanzler. Sentenced to 10 years imprisonment by the International Military Tribunal (Nuremberg) [e]
- Erich Raeder [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Baldur von Schirach [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Fritz Sauckel [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Alfred Jodl [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Arthur Seyss-Inquart [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Albert Speer [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Constantin von Neurath [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Martin Bormann [r]: German Nazi administrator, little-known to the public but became immensely powerful as the head of Adolf Hitler's personal office, essentially controlling access to him. Unaccounted-for at the end of the Second World War but tried and condemned in absentia by the International Military Tribunal (Nuremberg); now generally believed to have died during the final breakout from Hitler's bunker in Berlin [e]
- Hjalmar Schacht [r]: First President of the Reichsbank during the rearmament of Germany, resigning in 1930, then accepting that post and the Ministry of the Economy in 1934, resigning all substantive posts by 1939 and being an opponent of Hermann Goering's economic policies. Imprisoned in Dachau Concentration Camp on suspicion in the 20th of July plot against Adolf Hitler, he was still tried by the International Military Tribunal (Nuremberg), acquitted, tried by German courts, and eventually winning an appeal in 1948 [e]
- Franz von Papen [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Hans Fritzsche [r]: Public spokesman for the Propaganda Ministry of Nazi Germany; tried by the International Military Tribunal (Nuremberg) and acquitted of all charges [e]
Organizational defendants
- Nazi Party leadership corps [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Oberkommando der Wehrmacht [r]: In Nazi Germany, the High Command of the Armed Forces, or the military staff office in direct support of Adolf Hitler [e]
- Gestapo [r]: The secret political police force of Nazi Germany, a state rather than party organization, reporting both to the SS (Party) and Ministry of the Interior (State) [e]
- Schutzstaffel [r]: A Nazi German organization, the "SS". technically part of the National Socialist German Workers' Party but in many respects a "state within a state", its functions intermingled with government offices in a manner characteristic of Adolf Hitler's desire to keep final control. While it is best known for its security and genocidal operations, it also had major economic and regular military roles, a far growth from its original role as Hitler's personal bodyguard [e]
Officials
- Avery Neave [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Telford Taylor [r]: Add brief definition or description
Other related topics
- Nuremberg Military Tribunals [r]: A set of twelve trials of officials of Nazi Germany, conducted by the United States in its zone of occupation of Germany, following the International Military Tribunal (Nuremberg) [e]
- International Court of Justice [r]: Add brief definition or description
- International Criminal Court [r]: A permanent tribunal, established by treaty among over 120 nations but not part of the United Nations, for trying individuals for crimes against humanity; a number of major countries do not accept its authority [e]
- International Military Tribunal (Tokyo [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Treaty providing for the renunciation of war as an instrument of national policy [r]: An international agreement, first signed in 1928 and eventually agreed-to by a large number of the world's nations at the time, which rejected the use of war to settle disputes; it had no notable effect on world events [e]
