The Nuremberg Trials
- Martin Bormann — Guilty, sentenced to death in absentia. Later proven he committed suicide to avoid capture at the end of World War II in Europe. Remains discovered in 1972 later conclusively proven to be Bormann by forensic tests on the skull in 1998. Nonetheless, Simon Wiesenthal, Hugh Thomas and Reinhard Gehlen refused to accept this. Gehlen further argued Bormann was the secret Russian double agent 'Sasha'.
- Karl Dönitz — Guilty, sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment
- Hans Frank — Guilty, sentenced to death by hanging
- Wilhelm Frick — Guilty, sentenced to death by hanging
- Hans Fritzsche — Acquitted. Tried, convicted and sentenced to nine years imprisonment by a separate West German denazification court. Released September 1950.
- Walther Funk — Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment (released 1957 on grounds of ill health)
- Hermann Göring — Guilty, sentenced to death, committed suicide before execution.
- Rudolf Hess — Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment
- Alfred Jodl — Guilty, sentenced to death by hanging, Henri Donnedieu de Vabres called the verdict a mistake in 1945. In 1953, the denazification courts reversed the decision and found Jodl not guilty. His property, confiscated in 1946, was returned to his widow.
- Ernst Kaltenbrunner — Guilty, sentenced to death by hanging
- Wilhelm Keitel — Guilty, sentenced to death by hanging
- Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach — Medically unfit for trial
- Robert Ley — Committed suicide before his trial began
- Konstantin von Neurath — Guilty, sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment (released 1954 on grounds of ill health)
- Franz von Papen — Acquitted. Tried, convicted and sentenced to eight years imprisonment by a separate West German denazification court. Released on appeal in 1949.
- Erich Raeder — Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment (released 1955 on grounds of ill health)
- Joachim von Ribbentrop — Guilty, sentenced to death by hanging
- Alfred Rosenberg — Guilty, sentenced to death by hanging
- Fritz Sauckel — Guilty, sentenced to death by hanging
- Hjalmar Schacht — Acquitted
- Baldur von Schirach — Guilty, sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment
- Arthur Seyss-Inquart - Guilty, sentenced to death by hanging
- Albert Speer — Guilty, sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment
- Julius Streicher — Guilty, sentenced to death by hanging
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