Nuremberg Trials

The Nuremberg Trials were a series of military tribunals conducted by the Allied Forces of World War II in Nuremberg, Germany, in the immediate aftermath of the war, which prosecuted several prominent political and military leaders of Nazi Germany. The most famous was the Trial of the Major War Criminals (October 1945-October 1946), carried out by an international tribunal against 24 prominent leaders, although only 22 were actually tried, and not all of those tried were convicted. Several critical leaders, including Josef Goebbels, Heinrich Himmler and Adolf Hitler committed suicide in the closing days of the war.

The 24 indicted and their verdicts are as follows:

Defendant	Verdict	Sentence
Martin Bormann Tried and sentenced in abstentia. Remains found in 1972.	Guilty	Death
Karl Dönitz	Guilty	10 years
Hans Frank	Guilty	Death
Wilhelm Frick	Guilty	Death
Hans Fritzsche	Not Guilty
Walter Funk	Guilty	Life imprisonment (Released for ill health in 1957, died 1960)
Hermann Göring	Guilty	Death (committed suicide the night before scheduled his execution)
Rudolf Hess	Guilty	Life Imprisonment
Alfred Jodl	Guilty	Death
Ernst Kaltenbrunner	Guilty	Death
Wilhelm Keitel	Guilty	Death
Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach	Deemed Medically Unfit for Trial	Released
Robert Ley	Committed suicide before trial
Konstantin von Neurath	Guilty	15 years
Franz von Papen	Not Guilty
Erich Raeder	Guilty	Life imprisonment
Joachim von Ribbentrop	Guilty	Death
Alfred Rosenberg	Guilty	Death
Fritz Sauckel	Guilty	Death
Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht	Not Guilty
Baldur von Schirach	Guilty	20 years
Arthur Seyss-Inquart	Guilty	Death
Albert Speer	Guilty	20 years
Julius Streicher	Guilty	Death

Literary comment

The Nuremberg Trials are referenced in a number of Harry Turtledove timelines with a Point of Divergence after 1946. However, the vast majority of stories focusing on German affairs place the relevant POD well before 1945, and usually result in there being no such thing as the Nuremberg Trials.

Nuremberg Trials in The Man With the Iron Heart

In 1945, nearly two dozen German officials who was captured by the Allies at the end of World War II. The Allies sought to try them for war crimes. These plans were stopped twice by the German Freedom Front, first in November 1945 when the GFF destroyed the Palace of Justice in Nuremberg and second in 1946, when the GFF destroyed the American residency zone in Frankfurt with a radium bomb.

In 1947, the Soviets decided to try the officials in their zone. The GFF prevented this by crashing a plane into the Berlin courthouse, killing all the lawyers and judges, but leaving the accused unharmed.

Literary comment

As the text does not identify all defendants by name, the administrators have elected not to create articles for each and every defendant unless they are specifically identified in this or another work on this wiki.