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Who's Who

The major participants in the Nuremberg war crimes trial.

John Harlan Amen
U.S. colonel, associate trial counsel, head of interrogations.

William Baldwin
Assistant U.S. prosecutor.

Murray Bernays
War Department lawyer who drafted the initial proposal for prosecuting international war criminals.

Francis Biddle
Former U.S. Attorney General, American justice on the court.

Sir Norman Birkett
Alternate British justice on the court.

Martin Bormann
Secretary to Hitler, tried in abstentia.

Rudolf Dix
Defense counsel for Hjalmar Schacht.

Thomas J. Dodd
Associate and later deputy U.S. prosecutor.

Karl Donitz
Supreme Commander of the German Navy.

Henri de Vabres Donnedieu
French justice on the court.

Franz Exner
Defense counsel for Alfred Jodl.

Robert Falco
Alternate French justice on the court.

Hans Flachsner
Defense counsel for Albert Speer.

Hans Frank
Governor-General of occupied Poland.

Wilhelm Frick
Nazi Minister of the Interior.

Hans Fritzche
Ministerial Director and head of the radio division in the Nazi Propaganda Ministry.

Walther Funk
President of the Reichsbank.

Hermann Goering
Reichsmarschall, Chief of the Air Force.

Whitney Harris
Assistant U.S. prosecutor.

Rudolf Hess
Deputy to Hitler.

Heinrich Himmler
Reichsfuher, head of the SS.

Rudolf Hoess
Commandant of Auschwitz.

Martin Horn
Second defense counsel for Joachim von Ribbentrop.

Robert Jackson
Chief U.S. prosecutor.

Alred Jodl
Operations chief of the German armed forces.

Ernst Kaltenbrunner
Head of the Nazi security apparatus, second to Himmler in the SS.

Kurt Kauffmann
Defense counsel for Ernst Kaltenbrunner.

Wilhelm Keitel
Field marshal, chief of staff of the German armed forces.

Daniel Kiley
Office of Strategic Services officer, architect who restored the Palace of Justice.

Otto Kranzbuehler
German Navy judge, defense counsel for Karl Donitz.

Thomas Lambert
Assistant U.S. prosecutor.

Sir Geoffrey Lawrence
British justice and president of the court.

Robert Ley
Head of the German Labor Front.

Daniel Margolies
Assistant U.S. prosecutor.

Otto Nelte
Defense counsel for Wilhelm Keitel.

Konstantin von Neurath
Germany's foreign minister before Joachim von Ribbentrop, protector of Bohemia and Moravia.

Ion Timofeevich Nikitchenko
Major general of jurisprudence, Soviet justice on the court.

Otto Ohlendorf
SS general.

Franz von Papen
German chancellor before Hitler, vice chancellor under Hitler.

John Parker
Alternate U.S. justice on the court.

V.Y. Pokrovsky
Deputy Soviet prosecutor.

Erich Raeder
Commander in chief of the German Navy.

Joachim von Ribbentrop
Nazi foreign minister.

Gunther von Rohrscheidt
First defense counsel for Rudolf Hess.

Alfred Rosenberg
Nazi minister for the Occupied Eastern Territories.

James Rowe
Legal advisor to Francis Biddle.

Roman Rudenko
Chief Soviet prosecutor.

Fritz Sauckel
German labor leader

Fritz Sauter
First defense counsel for Joachim von Ribbentrop, also counsel for Walther Funk and Baldur von Schirach.

Hjalmar Schacht
President of the Reischsbank prior to Walther Funk.

Baldur von Schirach
Head of the Hitler Youth.

Alfred Seidl
Second defense counsel for Rudolf Hess, also defense counsel for Hans Frank.

Arthur Seyss-Inquart
Nazi commissar of occupied Holland.

Sir Hartley Shawcross
British prosecutor.

Albert Speer
Minister of Armaments and War Production

Drexel Sprecher
Assistant U.S. prosecutor, later prosecutor at subsequent war crimes trials.

Otto Stahmer
Defense counsel for Hermann Goering.

Robert Stewart
U.S. major, legal advisor to alternate justice John Parker.

Robert Storey
U.S. colonel, head of the U.S. prosecution team under Robert Jackson.

Julius Streicher
Editor of the newspaper Der Sturmer.

Telford Taylor
U.S. general, prosecutor of the High Command case, later chief prosecutor at subsequent trials.

Alexander Volchkov
Alternate Soviet justice.

Herbet Wechsler
Chief legal advisor to American justice Francis Biddle.


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