Video: 'Nuremberg trials' (21 videos of Oct. 1 1946)

(Tuesday, October 1, 1946, afternoon CEST; during the Nuremberg trials) — twelve of the original twenty-four defendants indicted in the Nuremberg war crimes trials were sentenced to death today in Nuremberg, Germany.

Among those condemned to death by hanging were Joachim von Ribbentrop, Nazi minister of foreign affairs; Hermann Goering, founder of the Gestapo and chief of the German air force; and Wilhelm Frick, minister of the interior.

Seven others, including Rudolf Hess, Adolf Hitler’s former deputy, were given prison sentences ranging from 10 years to life.

Three others were acquitted.