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Hitler commits suicide
Adolf Hitler commits suicide before capture, in his bunkbed below the Berlin sewer system -
World War II ends for Europe
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Himmler commits suicide
British tanks enter Flensburg, Germany. In Flensburg, the British take several of the Nazis that will be tried in the Major War Figures Trial in Nuremberg, including Donitz, Jodl, Keitel, Rosenberg, and Speer. Heinrich Himmler, the most powerful Nazi leader after Hitler, commits suicide. -
Prosecution
The London Agreement is signed by the Allies, enabling the prosecution of war criminals. -
United Nations were formed
The United Nations were formed by the Allies which they then created the Universal Declaration of Human RIghts. -
Robert Ley commits suicide
Robert Ley, former chief of the German Labor Front and one of the prisoners awaiting trial, commits suicide. -
Nuremberg Trials begin
The trial of the major war criminals by the International Military Tribunal begins at 10am in Nuremberg, Germany. -
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Nuremberg Trials
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German organisations found
The prosecution begin introducing evidence to prove the criminality of seven German organizations: the Nazi party leadership, the German High Command, the SS, the SA, the SD, the Reich Cabinet, and the Gestapo. -
Goering eats alone
The decision is made to end the practice of allowing all the defendants to eat together on days the court is in session. From this date on, the defendants eat in groups of four--except for Goering who is left to eat alone in an attempt to reduce his influence over the rest of the defendants. -
Verdicts are in
Eleven of the twenty one war criminals are sentenced to death -
Goering commits suicide
Hermann Goering smuggles a cyinide pill and swallows it to kill himself before he was sentenced to be hung on the 16th of October 1946. -
Death sentences carried out
Those who were sentenced to death, were hung on this day. The U.S army denied claims that the drop length was too short which caused the evicted to die slowly from being strangled instead of quickly from a broken neck -
Military Tribunal I
The U.S Military Government for Germany establishes Military Tribunal I, which will try twenty-three Nazi doctors in the first of eleven subsequent trials in Nuremberg. -
Militaray Tribunal II
Sentences twenty convicted defendants in the Einsatzgruppen Trial. Fourteen of the defendants are sentenced to death. -
Military Tribunal I verdicts
Military Tribunal I sentences sixteen Nazi doctors found guilty in the Doctors Trial. Seven doctors are sentenced to death. -
Military Tribunal III
Military Tribunal III sentences ten convicted officials in the Reich Ministry of Justice and judges of the People's and Special Courts, as the Justice Trial concludes. -
Military Tribunal IV
19 defendants were found guilty in the Ministries Trial, a trial involving 3 Reich Ministers and 18 other members of the Nazi party accused of war crimes against humanity. Appeals continued in this case until January of 1951. This then brings an end to the 5 year long Nuremberg Trials.
