TIM MAGUIRE

Twenty-four high-ranking Nazis went on trial in Nuremberg,
Germany, for atrocities committed during World War II
beginning on November 20, 1945.

The Nuremberg trials were conducted by an international
tribunal made up of representatives from the United States,
the Soviet Union, France and Great Britain.

Lord Justice Geoffrey Lawrence, the British member, presided
over the proceedings, which lasted 10 months and consisted
of 216 court sessions.

Lord Justice Geoffrey Lawrence (left).

On May 11, 1960, Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi SS officer who
organized Adolf Hitler’s “final solution of the Jewish question," 
was captured in Argentina. On May 23, Israeli Prime Minister
David Ben-Gurion announces to the world that he will stand
trial in Israel.

Rafi Eitan, the Mossad agent who led the Israeli team that captured
Nazi Adolf Eichmann, died at aged 92 in 1919.

In Tel Aviv, Israel, Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi SS officer who
organized Adolf Hitler’s “final solution of the Jewish question,
” is condemned to death by an Israeli war crimes tribunal.

He claimed he was just following orders, but the judges
disagreed, finding him guilty on all counts on December
15 and sentencing him to die.

Twenty-four high-ranking Nazis went on trial in Nuremberg,
Germany, for atrocities committed during World War II began
on this day.

The Nuremberg trials were conducted by an international
tribunal made up of representatives from the United States,
the Soviet Union, France and Great Britain.

Herman Goering

The defendants at the Nuremberg trials. Front row (L-R): Hermann Goering, Rudolf Hess, Joachim Von Ribbentrop, Wilhelm Keitel and Ernst Kaltenbrunner. Back row (L-R):
Karl Doenitz, Erich Raeder, Baldur von Schirach and Fritz Sauckel.

The Nuremberg court room as it looks today.