On This Day: 12 Nazis sentenced to death in the Nuremberg Trials

• Published date: 01 October 2021
• Author: SIMCHA PASKO
• Publication title: Jerusalem Post, The: Web Edition Articles (Israel)

The Nuremberg trials were a series of 13 trials carried out between 1945 and 1949, with the Trial of Major War Criminals being held from November 20, 1945 to October 1, 1946.

Adolf Hitler and two of his top associates had committed suicide before they could be brought to trial but numerous other high-ranking Nazis did stand trial.

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Twelve creators of Nazi policy were sentenced to death. Seven others were sentenced to prison, with sentences ranging from 10 years to life. Three were acquitted, one of whom was a German politician who had played a key role in Hitler being appointed as chancellor in 1933.

Ten out of the twelve Nazis sentenced to death were hanged on October 16, and of the other two, one was condemned to death in absentia - a legal status imposed on an individual who has been missing for several years - and the other committed suicide before his execution with a cyanide capsule he had hidden in a jar of medication.

The verdict was handed out after 216 court sessions over a...