60 Years Marking the Beginning of the Nuremberg Trials

 
 

 

Arthur Seyss-Inquart, one of the trial defendants – Nuremberg, Germany, 1945/6

Arthur Seyss-Inquart, one of the trial defendants – Nuremberg, Germany, 1945/6

 

Arthur Seyss-Inquart was governor for the Reich in Austria, and afterwards in Holland, Minister without Portfolio, and deputy to Hans Frank, Governor of the Generalgouvernment. He led the anti-Jewish policy and the implementation of the “Final Solution” in Holland. Seyss-Inquart was found guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity, sentenced to death and hanged on 16 October 1946.

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