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The Accused: Who's Who of the Nazis on Trial at Nuremberg 75 Years Ago
In May 1945 Germany finally surrendered after the "Führer", Adolf Hitler, committed suicide along with his lover Eva Braun in his Berlin bunker.
Six months later the British, US, French and Soviet governments jointly funded a trials process in the city of Nuremberg, which was deliberately chosen because it had been there in the 1930s that the Nazis held their infamous rallies.
Hitler, his propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels or SS commander Heinrich Himmler never faced trial.
Goebbels had murdered his children and then committed suicide in Hitler’s bunker while Himmler also took the easy way out after being captured by the British.
Although a total of 199 people were put on trial, only 24 defendants were accused of being major war criminals.
So who was on trial?
Rudolf Hess
Rudolf Hess was once the second most important man in Germany after Adolf Hitler.
He had been deputy leader of the Nazi Party.
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