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Rudolf Hess, Deputy German Leader Life imprisonment
Joachim Von Ribbentrop, Foreign Minister Death
Wehrmacht Commander-in-Chief W. Keitel Death
Ernst Kaltenbrunner Death
Reichsleiter Alfred Rosenberg Death
Hans Frank, Head of German Law Death
Dr. Wilhelm Frick, Minister of the Interior Death
Walter Funk, Minister of Industries Life Imprisonment
Julius Streicher, farmer. (No government position) Death
Karl Doenitz, Grand Admiral 10 Years
Admiral Erich Raeder Life Imprisonment
Baldur Von Schirach. Head of Hitler Youth 20 Years
Ernst Sauckel, German Labour Program Death
Alfred Jodl, Colonel-General Death
Martin Bormann (in absentia) Death
Constantin Von Neurath, Reichsprotector 15 Years
Most of the executions took place in secrecy on the 15th October 1946 - which 'coincidentally'
happened to be the Jewish Feast Day Hoshana Raba.
The hangman, John C. Woods, a sergeant in the United States Army was Jewish. The executions
were deliberately bungled, the prisoners given a short drop so that their necks would not be
instantaneously broken and ensuring their slow strangulation amidst the utmost pain.
The official timing between the springing of the trap and death in the ten victims (Goering had
cheated the hangman by committing suicide) in minutes were 18, 24, 13, 10, 10, 12, 14, 14, 16 and
11-minutes.
Several of those executed also suffered face and head injuries, as the struck the edge of the trapdoor
frame, on their way down. Julius Streicher who had been a farmer throughout the war, and held no
political post, was the only victim to have fought physically with his tormentors. When he was finally
subdued he gave a Hitler salute before dying.
The official United States undertaker, who was present at the executions, stated that: "The Jewish-
American boy in charge of the execution (of Streicher) let him strangle, horribly for a long, long
minute."
"The war crimes trials were a reversion to the ancient practice of the savage extermination of a
defeated enemy and particularly its leaders."
Admiral Husband E. Kimmel, U.S.N. Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Fleet, 1941
LEON DEGRELLE
"Hitler was the greatest statesman Europe has ever known. History will prove that when whipped up
emotions have died down. He was more matter of fact, generally more unfolded than Napoleon.
Napoleon was more of a vanquishing, empire-founding Frenchman than a true European. Hitler, in
his being a man of his time, dreamed of an enduring, just, honest Europe, unified by the initiative of
the victor. A Europe however in which each ethnic group could develop according to their merits and
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