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In the Nuremberg Trial of the Major War Crimes, German politicians, military officers and Nazi officials were held criminally responsible for the first time after the Second World War for the planning, preparation, initiation and execution of a war of aggression, crimes against the civilian population and prisoners of war, and for the mass murder in the extermination camps. This trial was the first of the thirteen Nuremberg Trials. It lasted from November 20, 1945 to October 1, 1946 and took place in the Palace of Justice in the city of Nuremberg. Of the twenty-four defendants, twelve were sentenced to death and seven to prison terms. The defendants Martin Bormann (Hitler's "deputy", sentenced to death in absentia) Karl Dönitz (Hitler's successor and admiral, sentenced to ten years imprisonment) Hans Frank (Governor General, sentenced to death) Wilhelm Frick (Reich Minister, sentenced to death) Hans Fritzsche (Head of the Broadcasting Department in the Propaganda Ministry, acquitted) Walther Funk (Reich Minister of Economics, life imprisonment) Hermann Göring (Reich Marshal, sentenced to death) Rudolf Hess (Reich Minister, life imprisonment) Alfred Jodl (Colonel General, sentenced to death) Ernst Kaltenbrunner (Head of the Reich Security Main Office, sentenced to death) Wilhelm Keitel (Field Marshal, sentenced to death) Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach (Head of the Defense Economy, proceedings discontinued) Robert Ley (Reich Organization Leader of the NSDAP, evaded the trial by committing suicide) Konstantin Freiherr von Neurath (Foreign Minister and Reich Protector in Bohemia and Moravia, 15 years imprisonment) Franz von Papen (politician, acquitted) Erich Raeder (Grand Admiral, life imprisonment) Joachim von Ribbentrop (Foreign Minister, sentenced to death) Alfred Rosenberg (Reich Minister, sentenced to death) Fritz Sauckel (Reich Defense Commissioner, sentenced to death) Hjalmar Schacht (Economics Minister, acquitted) Baldur von Schirach (Reich Governor, 20 years imprisonment) Arthur Seyß-Inquart (SS-Obergruppenführer, sentenced to death) Albert Speer (Armaments Minister, 20 years imprisonment) Julius Streicher (Group Leader SA, sentenced to death) Subscribe to chronoshistory: http://goo.gl/IVGjVB