Historical Events
Nuremberg Trials
10 Nazi leaders are hanged as war criminals after Nuremberg war trials, including Wilhelm Keitel, Joachim von Ribbentrop and Alfred Jodl
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Alfred Jodl
Alfred Jodl, German general during World War II (head of the German High Command, signed unconditional Nazi surrender), hanged by Allied forces after the Nuremberg trials at 56
Alfred Jodl
- Alfred Rosenberg, German war criminal, hanged
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Hans Frank
Hans Frank, German Nazi Governor General of Occupied Poland, hanged by Allied forces after the Nuremberg war trials at 46
Hans Frank
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Joachim von Ribbentrop, Nazi foreign minister and war criminal, hanged at 53
Joachim von Ribbentrop
- Wilhelm Frick, German war criminal, hanged
Wilhelm Keitel
Wilhelm Keitel, Nazi military leader (head of the German High Command), is hanged at Nuremberg at 64
Wilhelm Keitel