Three of the senior defendants at the Nuremberg trials – Nuremberg, Germany, 1945/6

Right to left: Joachim Von Ribbentrop – Foreign Minister in the Reich government, sentenced to death; Rudolf Hess – Hitler’s deputy, sentenced to life imprisonment; Reichmarshall Hermann Göring, Commander of the German Air Force and one of the heads of the Nazi regime, sentenced to death by the court, but committed suicide by swallowing poison in his cell before his sentence could be carried out