On the early morning of October 16, 1946, shortly after the conclusion of the Nuremberg trials, ten prominent members of the political and military leadership of Nazi Germany were executed by hanging:
The body of Hermann Göring who had committed suicide pre-empting execution
The body of Joachim von Ribbentrop
The body of Wilhelm Keitel, showing injuries as he hit his head on the trapdoor.
The body of Ernst Kaltenbrunner
Ernst Friedrich Christoph Sauckel was a German Nazi politician and convicted war criminal. As General Plenipotentiary for Labour Deployment from March 1942 until the end of the Second World War, he ov
Sauckel at the Nuremberg trials
Sauckel in his Gauleiter uniform, 1937
Identity document issued to a Polish forced labourer in 1942, together with a letter "P" patch that Poles were required to wear.
Street roundup of random civilians in Warsaw's Żoliborz district, 1941