Daily Archives: November 20, 2015

Nazi war criminals go on trial at Nuremberg 70 years ago this hour (Nov 20 1945)


Video: 'Nuremberg Day 1 Indictments'

(Tuesday, November 20, 1945, 10:00 a.m. CET; during the Nuremberg trials) — 22 former Nazi officials, the most important political and military leaders of the Third Reich, went on trial today before an international war crimes tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany.

Not included were Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler and Joseph Goebbels, all of whom had committed suicide in the spring of 1945.