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The Nuremberg trials (1945-6), held in Nürnberg (Nuremberg), Germany, were a series of trials involving the senior surviving Nazis to hold them accountable for waging war and committing war crimes and crimes against humanity during the Second...

The Nuremberg Rally, or the Reich Party Congress, was an annual event held from 1927 to 1938 in Nürnberg, Germany. Organised on a massive scale by the National Socialist Party (Nazi), these operations in pomp, ceremony, and propaganda were...

The Nuremberg Laws of September 1935 were a set of racial laws which set out a number of restrictions on Jewish people such as depriving them of the right to German citizenship and right to marry non-Jews. Amendments to the laws then defined...

The Salem Witch Trials were a series of legal proceedings in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692-1693 resulting in the deaths of 20 innocent people accused of witchcraft and the vilification of over 200 others based, initially, on the reports of...

A photograph of the judges at the Nuremberg Trials (1945-6). The panel, which decided the fate of 22 senior Nazi figures after the Seocdn World War (1939-45), was made up of two judges selected from each of the victorious Allies: USSR, USA...

A photograph of a number of the Nazi defendants at the Nuremberg Trials of 1945-6. Front row (L to R): Hermann Göring, Rudolf Hess, Joachimvon Ribbentrop, Wilhelm Keitel Rear row (L to R): Karl Dönitz, Erich Raeder, Baldur von Schirach...

A 1945 photograph of three Nazi war criminals (L to R): Alfred Jodl (1890-1946), Chief of the Army's Operations Staff, Hans Frank (1900-1946), Nazi Chief in Poland, and Alfred Rosenberg (1893-1946), racial theorist and Reichs Minister. All...

Lieutenant-general Otto Ohlendorf during the Nuremberg trials. Ohlendorf was a German SS commander of Einsatzgruppen D operating on the Eastern Front. He was found guilty of war crimes and hanged in 1951. (United States Holocaust memorial...

A photograph of the leading Nazi Hermann Göring (1893-1946) at the Nuremberg Trials of 1945-6. (Harry S. Truman Library & Museum)

Adolf Eichmann (1906-1962), a lieutenant-colonel in the Nazi SS, was responsible for organising the transportation of Jewish people and other victims of Nazism to concentration, labour, and death camps. Eichmann played a key role in the Holocaust...