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Summary of Nuremberg Verdicts

Karl Doenitz
Supreme Commander of the Navy; in Hitler's last will and testament he was made Third Reich President and Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces
Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison

Hans Frank
Governor-General of occupied Poland
Sentenced to Hang

Wilhelm Frick
Minister of the Interior
Sentenced to Hang

Hans Fritzsche
Ministerial Director and head of the radio division in the Propaganda Ministry
Acquitted

Walter Funk
President of the Reichsbank
Sentenced to Life in Prison

Hermann Goering
Reichsmarschall, Chief of the Air Force
Sentenced to Hang

Rudolf Hess
Deputy to Hitler
Sentenced to Life in Prison

Alfred Jodl
Chief of Army Operations
Sentenced to Hang

Ernst Kaltenbrunner
Chief of Reich Main Security Office whose departments included the Gestapo and SS
Sentenced to Hang

Wilhelm Keitel
Chief of Staff of the High Command of the Armed Forces
Sentenced to Hang

Erich Raeder
Grand Admiral of the Navy
Sentenced to Life in Prison

Alfred Rosenberg
Minister of the Occupied Eastern Territories
Sentenced to Hang

Fritz Sauckel
Labor leader
Sentenced to Hang

Hjalmar Schacht
Minister of the Economics
Acquitted

Artur Seyss-Inquart
Commisar of the Netherlands
Sentenced to Hang

Albert Speer
Minister of Armaments and War Production
Sentenced to 20 Years in Prison

Julius Streicher
Editor of the newspaper Der Sturmer, Director of the Central Committee for the Defence against Jewish Atrocity and Boycott Propaganda
Sentenced to Hang

Constantin Von Neurath
Protector of Bohemia and Moravia
Sentenced to 15 Years in Prison

Franz Von Papen
One-time Chancellor of Germany
Acquitted

Joachim von Ribbentrop
Minister of Foreign Affairs
Sentenced to Hang

Baldur Von Schirach
Reich Youth leader
Sentenced to 20 Years in Prison

One other defendant, Martin Bormann, was believed dead