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The accused of the "Wilhelmstrasse" are in the dock during the Nuremberg Trials in the court in Nuremberg, Germany, December 20, 1947. From left to right: Ernst von Weizsaecker, Gustav Adolf von Steengracht von Moyland, Wilhelm Keppler and Ernst Wilhelm Bohle. Second row from left to right: Otto Dietrich, Gottlob Berger, Walter Schellenberg and Lutz Schwerin von Krosigk. On December 20, 1947 the trial against 21 former diplomats and economy leaders of the "Wilhelmstrasse" started. At the end of World War II, the International Military Tribunal was established by the USA, Britain, France, and the Soviet Union to indict and try former Nazi Party leaders as war criminals. The individual defendants were charged not only with the systematic murder of millions of people, but also with planning and carrying out the war in Europe. (KEYSTONE/DPA/Str)