There were about twenty-four officers and political figures being tried at Nuremberg. Here are a few of the worst:
Karl Doenitz
Karl Doenitz was an admiral in the German Army as well as the commander of the German Navy under Adolf Hitler. Hitler chose Doenitz personally as his successor as Fuhrer. After Hitler's suicide, Doenitz organized Germany's surrender.
Doenitz was rather surprised to be taken to Nuremberg. He had felt that he had not wronged anyone. By the end of the trials, he had fully convinced the prosectuion that he had no idea about what heinous crimes Hitler had committed during his rule. He also convinced the prosecution that he was just following orders under Hitler to do what his Fuhrer told him to.
He was found guilty on October 1st, 1946 of "planning aggressive war" and was sentenced to ten years in Spandau Prison in Berlin and later died in 1981.
Karl Doenitz from Encyclopedia of
World Biography. ©2005-2006 Thomson Gale, a part of the Thomson Corporation.
Doenitz was rather surprised to be taken to Nuremberg. He had felt that he had not wronged anyone. By the end of the trials, he had fully convinced the prosectuion that he had no idea about what heinous crimes Hitler had committed during his rule. He also convinced the prosecution that he was just following orders under Hitler to do what his Fuhrer told him to.
He was found guilty on October 1st, 1946 of "planning aggressive war" and was sentenced to ten years in Spandau Prison in Berlin and later died in 1981.
Karl Doenitz from Encyclopedia of
World Biography. ©2005-2006 Thomson Gale, a part of the Thomson Corporation.
Hans Frank
In 1929, Adolf Hitler appointed Frank as the director of the headquarters of the legal department of the Nazi Party. He later won an election and became the National Socialist Representative of the Reichstag.
Frank was hired by Hitler in 1930 to do research on his (Hitler's) family history to see if he was actually part Jewish, which he was. Frank found out that Hitler's grandmother, Fraulein Maria Anna Schicklgruber, had been a cook for a Jewish family, the Frankenbergers. Shicklgruber, forty-two at the time, had a child out of wedlock with the Frankenberger's nineteen year old son. The family supported the child until it was fourteen years old then cut them off. The family said they paid only to avoid a scandal.
Frank later was declared an SS officer under the rank of Obergruppenführer. He over saw the Jewish ghettos. He had full control of the SS in Poland and over saw everything they did.
Hans Frank was Hanged in Nuremberg on October 16th, 1946.
Rosenbaum, R, Explaining Hitler: The Search for the
Origins of his Evil, Macmillan, 1998.
Hans Frank, Lebensraum and the Final
Solution by Martyn Houden Palgrave Macmillan 2004
Frank was hired by Hitler in 1930 to do research on his (Hitler's) family history to see if he was actually part Jewish, which he was. Frank found out that Hitler's grandmother, Fraulein Maria Anna Schicklgruber, had been a cook for a Jewish family, the Frankenbergers. Shicklgruber, forty-two at the time, had a child out of wedlock with the Frankenberger's nineteen year old son. The family supported the child until it was fourteen years old then cut them off. The family said they paid only to avoid a scandal.
Frank later was declared an SS officer under the rank of Obergruppenführer. He over saw the Jewish ghettos. He had full control of the SS in Poland and over saw everything they did.
Hans Frank was Hanged in Nuremberg on October 16th, 1946.
Rosenbaum, R, Explaining Hitler: The Search for the
Origins of his Evil, Macmillan, 1998.
Hans Frank, Lebensraum and the Final
Solution by Martyn Houden Palgrave Macmillan 2004