Nuremberg trials

Beginning in November 1946, Nazi leaders stood trial before an International Military Tribunal (IMT) in Nuremberg, Germany. Suspected Nazi criminals were investigated for charges of crimes against peace, war crimes, and crimes against humanity and tried before a panel of judges representing the Allied nations of the United States, Great Britain, France, and the Soviet Union. Of the 21 high-ranking Nazi officials who appeared before the IMT, 19 were convicted and twelve were sentenced to death.

The IMT also declared several Nazi party organizations to be criminal, including the Gestapo, the SS and the SD.

The IMT trials are the most widely-known war crimes trials held after World War II, but hundreds of subsequent trials were held in Germany and other countries. Close to 200 Germans were tried by American military tribunals in Nuremberg between December 1946 and April 1948 in what are collectively known as the "Subsequent Nuremberg Proceedings."