Following the Second World War, many concentration camps such as Bergen-Belsen and Auschwitz were liberated. Those men who liberated the camps of the Holocaust would discover the true horrors of the Nazi Regime and Adolf Hitler's Third Reich. After World War 2 was over in Europe, the Allies sought to hold those criminals responsible for their crimes against humanity. At the Nuremberg Trials, a number of defendants including Hermann Goring, Rudolf Hess and Joachim von Ribbentrop were placed on trial.
After the verdicts, 11 men including Goring were sentenced to death and were to be executed. The US Army would perform the Nuremberg executions inside the gymnasium of Nuremberg prison, and the execution would be John C Woods. Woods has attracted much criticism over the decades and the executions did not go as planned. Many of the executions took a long time to occur, for example Wilhelm Keitel's took almost 30 minutes. Another issue was that when the condemned fell, their heads were hit by the trapdoor causing further injury.
The executions of the Nuremberg Trial although botched were justice for many after the Second World War. Those remaining members of the Nazi hierarchy were placed on trial for their crimes and then met their fate at the hangman's noose. The condemned were; Hermann Goring (who would escape execution) Joachim von Ribbentrop, Wilhelm Keitel, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Alfred Rosenberg, Hans Frank, Wilhelm Frick, Julius Streicher, Fritz Sauckel, Alfred Jodl and Arthur Seyss-Inquart.
So join us today as we look at 'The BOTCHED Executions Of The Nuremberg Trials.'
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15 май 2021