Hostages Trial
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The United States of America v. Wilhelm List, et al., commonly known as the Hostages Trial, was the seventh of the twelve "Subsequent Nuremberg trials" for war crimes and crimes against humanity after
Defendants in the dock and their lawyers during the Hostages Trial
Wilhelm List is handed the indictment in the Hostages Trial. Standing beside him is Maximilian von Weichs.
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Maximillian von Weichs
Maximilian von Weichs
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Maximilian Maria Joseph Karl Gabriel Lamoral Reichsfreiherr von und zu Weichs an der Glonn was a German Generalfeldmarschall in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II.
Hostages Trial
…sentences ranging from seven years to life imprisonment, and four were acquitted of all charges. Franz Böhme committed suicide before the arraignment, and Maximilian von Weichs was severed from the trial for medical reasons. The judges in this case, heard before Military Tribunal V, were Charles F. Wennerstrum (presiding judge…
Generals Milch, Keitel, Brauchitsch, Admiral Raeder and Weichs at the 1938 Nuremberg Rally
Gerd von Rundstedt with Weichs in France, June 1940
Weichs (right) in Russia during Case Blue, September 1942