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(Tuesday, November 20, 1945, 10:00 a.m. Central European Time; 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.

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• The list of defendants included:
• Martin Bormann
• Karl Dönitz
• Hans Frank
• Wilhelm Frick
• Hans Fritzsche
• Walther Funk
• Hermann Göring
• Rudolf Hess
• Alfred Jodl
• Ernst Kaltenbrunner
• Wilhelm Keitel
• Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach
• Robert Ley
• Konstantin von Neurath
• Franz von Papen
• Erich Raeder
• Joachim von Ribbentrop
• Alfred Rosenberg
• Fritz Sauckel
• Hjalmar Schacht
• Baldur von Schirach
• Arthur Seyss-Inquart
• Albert Speer
• Julius Streicher

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