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The Nuremberg executions took place on October 16, 1946, shortly after the conclusion of the Nuremberg trials.Ten prominent members of the political and military leadership of Nazi Germany were executed by hanging: Hans Frank, Wilhelm Frick, Alfred Jodl, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Wilhelm Keitel, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Alfred Rosenberg, Fritz Sauckel, Arthur Seyss-Inquart, and Julius Streicher.
When Joachim von Ribbentrop refused to give a copy of the German demands to the British Ambassador [Henderson] at midnight of 30–31 August 1939, the two almost came to blows. Ambassador Henderson, who had long advocated concessions to Germany, recognized that here was a deliberately conceived alibi the German government had prepared for a war ...
The defendants included some of the most famous Nazis, including Hermann Göring, Rudolf Hess, Joachim von Ribbentrop, and Wilhelm Keitel. Also represented were some leaders of the German economy, such as Gustav Krupp (of the conglomerate Krupp) and former Reichsbank president Hjalmar Schacht. [2]
Joachim von Ribbentrop – Guilty, sentenced to death by hanging. Alfred Rosenberg – Guilty, sentenced to death by hanging. Fritz Sauckel – Guilty, sentenced to death by hanging. Hjalmar Schacht – Acquitted; Baldur von Schirach – Guilty, sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment. Arthur Seyss-Inquart – Guilty, sentenced to death by hanging.
Execution of Lincoln assassination conspirators Mary Surratt, Lewis Powell, David Herold, and George Atzerodt Saddam Hussein, President of Iraq and war criminal Adolf Eichmann, German Nazi major organizer of the Holocaust and war criminal Wilhelm Keitel, German Nazi head of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht and war criminal Joachim von Ribbentrop, German Nazi foreign minister and war criminal ...
Joachim von Ribbentrop (1946) Alfred Rosenberg (1946) Fritz Sauckel (1946) ... Raymond Lisenba (1942) last execution by hanging in California; Clayton Lockett (2014)
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Wilhelm Bodewin Johann Gustav Keitel (German pronunciation: [ˈvɪlhɛlm ˈkaɪtl̩]; 22 September 1882 – 16 October 1946) was a German field marshal who held office as chief of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (OKW), the high command of Nazi Germany's armed forces, during World War II.