Video: '"Judgement at Nuremberg" (1946) BBC Radio'

(Tuesday, October 1, 1946, individual sentencing handed down at 3:00-3:40 p.m. CEST; during the Nuremberg trials) — One day after the verdicts were rendered in the Nuremberg Trials in Germany, twelve of Nazi Germany’s most murderous leaders were given two weeks more to live today, with hangings scheduled for Oct. 15, 1946.

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Among those condemned to death by hanging were Hermann Göring, former Reichsmarschall and commander-in-chief of the Luftwaffe; Joachim von Ribbentrop, former minister of foreign affairs; Wilhelm Keitel, former field marshal and chief of the Armed Forces High Command; Ernst Kaltenbrunner, former chief of the Reichsicherheitshauptamt; Alfred Rosenberg, former Reich minister for the Occupied Eastern Territories; Hans Frank, former governor-general of occupied Poland; Wilhelm Frick, former minister of the interior; Julius Streicher, former Gauleiter of Franconia and publisher of Der Stürmer; Fritz Sauckel, former general plenipotentiary for labour deployment; Alfred Jodl, former chief of the Operations Staff of the Armed Forces High Command; and Arthur Seyss-Inquart, former Reichskommissar for the occupied Netherlands.

Martin Bormann was convicted and sentenced to death in absentia, as the Allies were unaware of his death.

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

Three others were acquitted.

The defendants tried to blame their crimes on Hitler, who was mentioned 12,000 times during the trial—more than the top five defendants combined.

Other absent and dead men, including Himmler, Reinhard Heydrich, and Adolf Eichmann were also blamed.