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Nuremberg war crimes trial, Germany, 1946. Between 20 November 1945 and 1 October 1946 the 24 surviving most senior Nazi leaders were tried before the International Military Tribunal in the Palace of Justice in Nuremberg. The defendants pictured are as follows. Back row (left to right): Admiral Karl Doenitz, Admiral Erich Raeder, Baldur von Schirach (leader of the Hitler Youth), Fritz Sauckel (head of the Nazi slave labour programme), General Alfred Jodl, Franz von Papen. Front row (left to right): Hermann Goering, Rudolf Hess, Joachim von Joachim von Ribbentrop (Foreign Minister), Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, Alfred Rosenberg, Hans Frank (ruler of occupied Poland), Wilhelm Frick (Interior Minister). Von Papen was acquitted, Doenitz, Raeder, von Schirach and Hess received prison terms (the latter for life) and the remainder were sentenced to death. (Colorised black and white print).