Nuremberg trials deliver verdicts
November 1946
In a Bavarian courthouse, surviving Nazi leaders were tried for crimes against humanity and war crimes in the first international tribunal of its kind. Hermann Goering cheated the hangman with a smuggled cyanide capsule. Ten others went to the gallows. A new body of law, fragile but real, had been written in response to industrial-scale murder.
In context
Also in 1946 (5 other events on record)
- ENIAC unveiled at Penn · North America · Technology
- Japan adopts postwar constitution · East Asia · Politics
- Iron Curtain speech · North America · Politics
- Philippine independence · Southeast Asia · Politics
- Vietnam War against France begins · Southeast Asia · War
Before and after in Europe
- Before: May 8, 1945: V-E Day
- After: April 3, 1948: Marshall Plan signed
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Modern Era (1901–2000), one of 590 events from that era on Saeculum.
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