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Defendants in the dock, Nuremberg war crimes trial, Germany, 1945. Between 20 November 1945 and 1 October 1946 the 24 surviving most senior Nazi leaders were tried before the International Military Tribunal in the Palace of Justice in Nuremberg. The defendants pictured are as follows. Front row (left to right): Hermann Göring, Rudolf Hess, Joachim von Joachim von Ribbentrop (Foreign Minister), Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, Ernst Kaltenbrunner (head of the RSHA (Reich Main Security Office)). Back row: Admiral Karl Dönitz, Admiral Erich Raeder, Baldur von Schirach (leader of the Hitler Youth), Fritz Sauckel (head of the Nazi slave labour programme). Dönitz, Raeder, von Schirach and Hess received prison terms (the latter for life) and the remainder were sentenced to death, although Göring committed suicide before he could be executed. (KEYSTONE/HERITAGE IMAGES/Keystone Archives)