From 20 November 1945 until 1 October 1946 a series of military tribunals, called the Trial of the Major War Criminals, was held by the Allied forces in the German city of Nuremberg.
There were 12 additional Nazi war crimes trials at Nuremberg from 1946 to 1949. These lesser-known Nuremberg trials were also concerned with various war crimes and crimes against humanity and focused on the prosecution of industrial figures (slave labour), doctors (human experimentation), those involved with ‘racial cleansing' as well as military figures (executions, hostage taking, imprisonment, torture, deployment of mobile death squads) and government ministers.
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