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. Continue reading Ten former high Nazi officials executed in Nuremberg 70 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Oct 16 1946) →

Video: 'Nazi Documentary | Hitler's second man [Chapter 3/3]' (Oct. 15, 1946, at 44:02)

(Tuesday, October 15, 1946, 10:45 p.m. CET; during the Nuremberg trials) — Nazi war criminal Hermann Goering, the second-most powerful man in Hitler’s Germany, committed suicide with a potassium cyanide capsule tonight in his prison cell in Nuremberg, just hours before he and ten other former high Nazi officials were to have been executed. Continue reading Nazi war criminal Hermann Goering commits suicide hours before scheduled execution 70 years ago #OnThisDay #OTD (Oct 15 1946) →

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. Continue reading 12 Nazi leaders sentenced to be hanged 70 years ago #OnThisDay #OTD (Oct 1 1946) →

Video: 'Nuremberg trials' (14 videos of Sep. 30 1946)

(Monday, September 30, 1946, 10:00 a.m.-4:22 p.m. CEST; during the Nuremberg trials) — Hermann Goering, Rudolf Hess, Joachim von Ribbentrop and sixteen other arch-conspirators of the Nazi regime were found guilty of war crimes by the International Military Tribunal today in Nuremberg, Germany, and it was virtually certain that all or most of them would hang or be shot.

Sentences will be announced tomorrow.

Video: 'Vietnam a Television History Episode 1' (Ho Chi Minh in Paris, Fontainebleau conference at 30:38)

(Tuesday, September 10, 1946; during War in Vietnam (1945–46)) — The Fontainebleau conference, a negotiating session between the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and the French Fourth Republic at the Palace of Fontainebleau (65 kilometers south of Paris), concluded today without agreement on Cochinchina, a region encompassing the southern third of current Vietnam.