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The former German Supreme Commander of the Navy Karl Doenitz, pictured in his cell in Nuremberg, Germany, December 8, 1945. In Hitler's last will he had been made Third Reich President and Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces. At the end of World War II he was tried at the so-called Nuremberg Trials and convicted to ten years in prison. He died on December 24, 1980 in Aumuehle near Hamburg. 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) === , ===