Start of Nuremberg Trials

Date: November 20, 1945 • Location: Wetzendorf, Germany

This milestone marked the outbreak and beginning of this historic period, which spanned 1945–1946.

Nuremberg trials: Trials against 24 Nazi war criminals start at the Palace of Justice at Nuremberg.

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.