The Nuremberg trials were a series of trials held between 1945 and 1949 in which the Allies prosecuted German military leaders, political officials, industrialists, and financiers for crimes they had committed during world war 2.
The charges of the trial were crimes against peace (including planning, preparing, starting or waging wars of aggression or wars in violation of international agreement) War crimes ( including violations of customs or laws of war) and crimes against humanity ( including murder, enslavement, or deportation of civilians or persecution on political, religious, or racial grounds).
The first trial took place in Nuremberg, Germany, and involved twenty-four top-ranking survivors of the National Socialist German Workers' Party (Nazi Party). The subsequent trials were held throughout Germany and involved approximately two hundred additional defendants, including Nazi physicians who performed vile experiments on human subjects, concentration camp commandants who ordered the extermination of their prisoners, and judges who upheld Nazi practices.
On October 1, 1946, the International Military Tribunal handed down its verdicts in the trials of 21 Nazi leaders - eleven were given the death penalty, three were acquitted, three were given life imprisonment and four were given imprisonment ranging from 10 to 20 years.