Executions of Those Sentenced at Nuremberg

Some of the Nazi leaders sentenced to death by the International Military Tribunal are executed.

The judgments were delivered on 1 October 1946 after a lengthy trial examining documents, orders and testimony about crimes committed by the Nazi regime.

The death sentences were carried out on 16 October. Other defendants received prison sentences or were acquitted.

The Nuremberg Trial established the principle that state leaders can bear individual criminal responsibility for international crimes.

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