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5 days ago · The court convicted him of crimes against peace and of conspiracy with other German leaders to commit crimes. He served a life sentence in Spandau Prison; the Soviet Union blocked repeated attempts by family members and prominent politicians to procure his early release.
3 days ago · Verdun is an ancient citadel in north-east France that was the scene of the longest and bloodiest battle of the war. A French friend inherited an old family house there, which I used as a base to ...
Oct 11, 2024 · Four were sentenced to terms of imprisonment ranging from 10 to 20 years: Karl Dönitz, Baldur von Schirach, Albert Speer, and Konstantin von Neurath. Three were sentenced to life imprisonment: Rudolf Hess, Walther Funk, and Erich Raeder. Twelve of the defendants were sentenced to death by hanging.
- The Nürnberg trials were a series of trials held in Nürnberg, Germany, in 1945 and 1946 following the end of World War II. Former Nazi leaders were...
- The Nürnberg trials began on November 20, 1945. All sessions of the tribunal were held in Nürnberg, Germany, under the presidency of Lord Justice G...
- On October 1, 1946, the verdicts on 22 of the original 24 defendants were handed down for the Nürnberg trials. Three of the defendants were acquitt...
3 days ago · Spandau’s seven war criminals included Albert Speer, Hitler’s architect, Grand Admiral Donitz, and the Fuhrer’s Deputy, Rudolf Hess, and Tim remembered them as fractious and dysfunctional. Thomas Gimlette was born on 7 January 1927 in Wiesbaden, Germany, where his father, also a physician, was serving with the Army of Occupation.
4 days ago · Deputy Führer to Hitler, also ranked SS-Obergruppenführer, and also SS-Reichsleiter, Rudolf Hesse was number 16. Hesse and Hitler, like Göring, held a shared belief in the stab-in-the-back myth, that Germany's loss in WWI was caused by a conspiracy of Jews and Bolsheviks rather than a military defeat. [14] [15]
2 days ago · Several Nazi chieftains, among them Göring, Joseph Goebbels, Rudolf Hess, and Himmler, began a concerted campaign to convince Hitler to take action against Röhm. [21] Both the SD and Gestapo released information concerning an imminent putsch by the SA. [ 22 ]
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Oct 12, 2024 · Von 1947 bis 1987 war Hess im Kriegsverbrechergefängnis Spandau inhaftiert, welches von den vier Alliierten gemeinsam verwaltet wurde. Gefangen waren neben Hess nur sechs weitere NS-Kriegsverbrecher.
