Video: 'Post-Nuremburg Executions and Hermann Goering's Suicide (1946)'

(Wednesday, October 16, 1946, 1:16-2:45 a.m. CET; during the Nuremberg trials) — One by one, ten remaining Nazi war criminals on death row were hanged this morning in a gymnasium in the Nuremberg Palace of Justice premises.

Taking the place of Gestapo founder Hermann Goering (who had committed suicide in his cell only hours before on Oct. 15, 1946) as first in line was Joachim von Ribbentrop, 53, the German Foreign Minister; followed by Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, 64; Ernst Kaltenbrunner, 43, Commander of the German SS national police; Alfred Rosenberg, 53, Minister of Eastern Occupied Territories, 1941–45; Hans Frank, 46, Governor General of Poland, 1939–45; Wilhelm Frick, 69, Interior Minister 1933-43, “Protector of Bohemia and Moravia” 1943-45; Julius Streicher, 61, propaganda publisher; Fritz Sauckel, 51, administrator of “labor deployment” for 5,000,000 workers imported from occupied territories; and General Alfred Jodl, 56, Supreme Commander of Nazi armed forces.

The last was Arthur Seyss-Inquart, 54, Reichskommissar of the Netherlands 1940-44.