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.
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