Three of the defendants sentenced to death at the Nuremberg Trials– Nuremberg, Germany, 1945/6

Left to right: Wilhelm Keitel – Head of General Staff of the Armed Forces (OKW), participant in Hitler’s military strategy, responsible for shooting of hostages and massacres of POWs and civilians in German occupied territories, sentenced to death; Ernst Kaltenbrunner – Head of the Security Police and Security Services (RSHA), and one of the initiators of Aktion Reinhard, sentenced to death; Alfred Rosenberg – Nazi ideologist and head of Nazi Party Foreign Affairs Department, sentenced to death