• The Nuremberg executions took place on 16 October 1946, shortly after the conclusion of the Nuremberg trials. Ten prominent members of the political and...
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  • John C. Woods (category Nuremberg trials)
    out the Nuremberg executions of ten former top leaders of the Third Reich on October 16, 1946, after they were sentenced to death at the Nuremberg trials...
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  • Nuremberg is a 2000 Canadian-American television docudrama in 2 parts, based on the book Nuremberg: Infamy on Trial by Joseph E. Persico, that tells the...
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    1946), prior to his execution by hanging for war crimes and crimes against humanity (Nuremberg executions) "I hope that this execution is the last act of...
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  • A botched execution is defined by political science professor Austin Sarat as: Botched executions occur when there is a breakdown in, or departure from...
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  • Joseph Malta (category Nuremberg trials)
    the Nuremberg executions of ten former top leaders of the Third Reich on October 16, 1946, after they were sentenced to death during the Nuremberg Trials...
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    Judgment at Nuremberg is a 1961 American epic legal drama film directed and produced by Stanley Kramer, and written by Abby Mann. It features Spencer...
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    The Nuremberg trials were held by the Allies against representatives of the defeated Nazi Germany for plotting and carrying out invasions of other countries...
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  • Malta (1918–1999), United States Army hangman who carried out the Nuremberg executions Order of Malta, a Catholic religious order and sovereign entity primarily...
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    the Nuremberg Trials, the Commando Order was found to be a direct breach of the laws of war, and German officers who carried out illegal executions under...
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    Superior orders, also known as the Nuremberg defense or just following orders, is a plea in a court of law that a person, whether a member of the military...
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    design was that of Nuremberg, first displayed possibly as far back as 1802. The original was lost in the Allied bombing of Nuremberg in 1945. A copy "from...
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    Einsatzgruppen trial (category United States Nuremberg Military Tribunals)
    battlefield. List of Einsatzgruppen with all known Einsatzgruppen Nuremberg executions Benjamin Ferencz: Opening Statement of the Prosecution, vorgetragen...
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    The Nuremberg principles are a set of guidelines for determining what constitutes a war crime. The document was created by the International Law Commission...
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    lengthy process, death by boiling is an extremely painful method of execution. Executions of this type were often carried out using a large vessel such as...
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    the end of 1617 he was the executioner of Nuremberg. He left a diary in which he detailed the 361 executions he performed during his 45-year career. Franz...
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  • present-day Benin). Frazer also provides a number of other examples of executions of royals such that blood would not be shed, for example by means of strangling...
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  • Göring, German Nazi Reichsmarschall (suicide) (b. 1893) October 16 Nuremberg executions Hans Frank, German Nazi Governor General of Poland (b. 1900) Wilhelm...
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  • 1946, the International Military Tribunal (IMT), better known as the Nuremberg trials, tried 24 of the most important political and military leaders...
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    Rudolf Höss (category Witnesses to the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg)
    4th Nuremberg Military Tribunal, known as the Pohl Trial for principal defendant Oswald Pohl. Affidavits that Höss made while imprisoned in Nuremberg were...
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  • Henry F. Gerecke (category Nuremberg trials)
    marshal) all also took communion with Gerecke before their executions. A fortnight after the executions of the convicted war criminals who had been hanged at...
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    Arthur Seyss-Inquart (category People executed by the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg)
    Seyss-Inquart authorized about 800 executions, although some reports put the total at over 1,500. These included executions under the so-called "Hostage Law"...
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    Anton Dostler (category Filmed executions)
    the end of the war in Europe; at Nuremberg, he mounted a defense on the grounds that he had ordered the executions only because he himself was obeying...
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  • criminals to execution. Under Xuanzong capital punishment was relatively infrequent, with only 24 executions in the year 730 and 58 executions in the year...
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    IMTFE was modeled after the International Military Tribunal (IMT) at Nuremberg, Germany, which prosecuted the leaders of Nazi Germany for their war crimes...
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  • criminals convicted in the Nuremberg trials, assisted by Joseph Malta. Reichhart assisted the U.S. military with the executions of Nazi war criminals at...
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    Hanging (redirect from Execution by hanging)
    British. All executions in India since independence have been carried out by hanging, although the law provides for military executions to be carried...
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    De Nuremberg à Nuremberg (fr: "From Nuremberg to Nuremberg") is a French documentary film about the Third Reich by Frédéric Rossif, with text written...
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    Wilhelm Keitel (category People executed by the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg)
    the war, Keitel was indicted by the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg as one of the "major war criminals". He was found guilty on all counts...
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    Alfred Jodl (category People executed by the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg)
    aggression, war crimes, and crimes against humanity at the Allied-organized Nuremberg trials. The principal charges against him related to his signature of...
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