Nuremberg Trials:

The Nuremberg Trials were a series of war crimes trials held in Nuremberg, Germany, following World War II. The first of these trials accused twenty-four individuals with war crimes. These included Hermann Goring and Joachim von Ribbentrop. Certain Nazi organizations such as the Gestapo and SS were also put on trial. Beginning on November 20, 1945, the Nuremberg tribunal came out with a decision in September 1946. The decision sentenced twelve of the defendants to death, including von Ribbentrop. The tribunal declared the Gestapo, the SS, the Nazi Security Service and the Leadership Corps of the Nazi party criminal organizations. There would be twelve more trials held, indicting about 210 individuals. Of these individuals thirty-five were acquitted, and about forty were sentenced to death. The rest were handed down prison sentences ranging from ten years to life.

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