24
senior Nazi's were put on trial over atrocities committed during World War Two.
Lord
Justice Geoffrey Lawrence presided over the trial which took 10 months, with 216
court sessions. 12
Nazi's were sentenced to death by hanging. 7 convicted of prison sentences 10
years to life. The
Nazi leaders were hanged on 16th October 1946. Trials
of other, lesser, Nazi's continued into the 1950's. 5,025 were convicted, 806
were executed. |