Nuremberg Military Tribunals

The Nuremberg Military Tribunals are the follow up trials of war criminals held by the United States of America in Nuremberg.

Indictment - "Internationaler Militärgerichtshof"

The trial of the 24 Major War Criminals held by the International Military Tribunal (IMT) in Nuremberg is at Nuremberg Trials

The IMT only held one trial before disagreements between the four wartime allies stopped the series of trials that were planned. The four countries occupying Germany carried on with trials of many people in their own zone of occupation. Twelve that were held by the United States are the most famous of these trials. They involved some of the most important people to be prosecuted after the 24 Major War Criminals.

Trials

The twelve US trials in front of the Nuremberg Military Tribunal took place from December 9, 1946 to April 13, 1949. The trials were:

Nuremberg Military Tribunals
Nr	Name	Opened	Closed	Notes
I	Doctors' Trial	9 December 1946	20 August 1947	20 of the 23 on trial were medical doctors. They were accused of war crimes because they did medical experiments on prisoners of war and civilians of occupied countries, and helped in the mass murder of concentration camp inmates. They were also accused of doing the same to Germans. This was called a crime against humanity.
II	Milch Trial	2 January 1947	14 April 1947	Luftwaffe Field Marshall Edward Milch was accused of using slave labour, and allowing medical experiments
III	Judges' Trial	5 March 1947	4 December 1947	War crimes and crimes against humanity by misuse of the court and prison systems.
IV	Pohl Trial	8 April 1947	3 November 1947	Oswald Pohl and 17 others from the SS Administration department, which was responsible for the Concentration camps and slave labour
V	Flick Trial	19 April 1947	22 December 1947	Freidrick Flick and 5 other directors of Flick Kommanditgesellschaft. The Flick KG used slave labour in its mines and factories, as well as taking over factories in France, Poland and Russia, and "Aryanisation of property" which means getting things once owned by Jews who were forced to sell cheaply.
VI	IG Farben Trial	27 August 1947	30 July 1948	24 leaders of the IG Farben company charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity because of the slave labour they used, as well as stealing or plundering from occupied countries, like the Flick and Krupp companies
VII	Hostages Trial	8 July 1947	19 February 1948	Wilhelm List and 11 other Generals in Greece and the Balkan countries were accused of keeping hostages mass murder and deportation and destroying towns
VIII	Einsatzgruppen Trial	29 September 1947	10 April 1948	24 leaders of the death squads charged with mass murders which were crimes against humanity and war crimes
IX	RuSHA Trial	20 October 1947	10 March 1948	14 leaders of the Reich Commissioner for the Strengthening of Germanism, the Repatriation Office for Ethnic Germans (Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle, VoMi), and the Lebensborn society, charged with racial cleansing and resettlement activities which included forced abortions
X	Krupp Trial	8 December 1947	31 July 1948	Directors of this company were charged with being involved in the plundering, devastation, and exploitation of occupied countries, as well as taking part in the murder, extermination, enslavement, deportation, imprisonment, torture, and use for slave labor of civilians who came under German control, German nationals, and prisoners of war;
XI	Ministries Trial	6 January 1948	13 April 1949	21 senior civil servants who were accused of planning or helping the war, the mass murders etc.
XII	High Command Trial	30 December 1947	28 October 1948	14 senior officers of the German Armed Forces . They were charged with War crimes by being responsible for murder, ill-treatment and other crimes against prisoners of war and enemy belligerents, and also crimes against humanity by taking part in or ordering the murder, torture, deportation, hostage-taking, etc. of civilians in occupied countries.