Nuremberg Trials Executions

Date: October 16, 1946 • Location: Wetzendorf, Germany

Nuremberg trials: Ten defendants found guilty by the International Military Tribunal are executed by hanging.

The Nuremberg trials were international criminal trials held by France, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States against leaders of defeated Nazi Germany for plotting and carrying out invasions of several countries across Europe and committing atrocities against their citizens in the Second World War.