Hans Fritzsche
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August Franz Anton Hans Fritzsche was a German journalist and broadcaster who was the Ministerialdirektor at the Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda of Nazi Germany. He was the preem
Fritzsche in 1940
Nuremberg trials
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The Nuremberg trials were international criminal trials held by France, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States against leaders of defeated Nazi Germany for plotting and carrying o
Hans Fritzsche
…Berlin Führerbunker during the last days of Adolf Hitler. After Hitler's death, he surrendered to the Red Army. He was indicted for war crimes in the Nuremberg trials before the International Military Tribunal but was acquitted of all charges. In January 1947, a German denazification court sentenced him to nine years…
Judges' bench at the Palace of Justice, Nuremberg
Jews arriving at Auschwitz concentration camp, 1944. According to legal historian Kirsten Sellars, the extermination camps "formed the moral core of the Allies' case against the Nazi leaders".
Aron Trainin (center, with moustache) speaks at the London Conference.
Aerial view of the Palace of Justice in 1945, with the prison attached behind it