Knowing what we know today of the Nuremberg Trials what sentence would you pass down on the defendants?

Or so as a flash back what sentence would Robert Ley may had got if he did not commit suicide?

Too answer my second question I'm not to sure so I would say any where from 20 years to life.

I shall be back to post my findings on the others.

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Regards, Richard

I know time makes one feel somewhat less hard about things but still, these are the people who were part of the machine that created Holocaust etc. So I guess I would not really lower the sentences, actually if I had to decide again, I might wonder about Speer whether he would have deserved a death sentence.

I´m happy I don´t have to make the decisions again but I don´t feel that the death penalties should have been turned to life imprisonment sentencies, and we know those guys knew it as well when they were in court.

People like Göring and Himmler thought they would be part of the new government of Germany but once they were taken prisoner and taken to court they knew their game was over.

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I agree with you Kai about todays thinking, so I am going by the evidance against them and the greater knowledge we have today.

Here goes.

The following are unchanged -

Karl Donitz
Han Frank
Hans Fritzsche
Walter Emanuel Funk
Hermann Göring
Ernst Kaltenbrunner
Alfred Rosenberg
Fritz Sauckel
Arthur Seyss-Inquart
Julius Streicher
Alfred Jodl
Wilhelm Keitel
Franz von Papen
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Martin Bormann
Wilhelm Frick
Konstantin von Neurath

The following are changed -

Rudolf Hess - life imprisonment in a mental/psychiatric hospital
Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach - Guity on count 4 crimes against humanity sentance death
Erich Raeder - 30 years
Hjalmar Schacht - Guity on count 1 Participation in a common plan or conspiracy for the accomplishment of crime against peace
sentance 10 years
Baldur von Schirach - 30 years
Albert Speer - 50 years

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Man of the Year 1942

Regards, Richard

Very interseting

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Comparing Sauckel and Speer. How did Speer survive...

Nuremberg War Crime Trials

EXTRACT of the Judgment against Sauckel as it was pronounced.

"...Shortly after Sauckel had taken office, he had the governing authorities in the various occupied territories issue decrees, establishing compulsory labor service in Germany... That real voluntary recruiting was the exception rather than the rule is shown by Sauckel's statement on March 1, 1944 that 'out of 5 million workers who arrived in Germany, not even 200,000 came voluntarily.' ...His attitude was thus expressed in a regulation: 'All the men must be fed, sheltered, and treated in such a way as to exploit them to the highest possible extent at the lowest conceivable degree of expenditure.' The evidence shows that Sauckel was in charge of a program which involved deportation for slave labor of more than 5 million human beings, many of, them under terrible conditions of cruelty and suffering."

EXTRACT of the Judgment against Speer as it was pronounced.

"The evidence introduced against Speer under counts 3 and 4 relates entirely to his participation in the slave labor program... As Reich Minister for Armaments and Munitions and General Plenipotentiary for Armaments under the Four Year Plan, Speer had extensive authority over production... The practice was developed under which Speer transmitted to Sauckel an estimate of the total number of workers needed, Sauckel obtained the labor and allocated it to the various industries in accordance with instructions supplied by Speer. Speer knew when he made his demands on Sauckel that they would be supplied by foreign laborers serving under compulsion... Sauckel continually informed Speer and his representative that foreign laborers were being obtained by force... (However) It must be recognized that...in the closing stages of the war he was one of the few men who had the courage to tell Hitler that the war was lost and to take steps to prevent the senseless destruction of production facilities..."

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