The Nuremberg trials were a moment of bereavement and satisfaction after the end of World War 2. The Nazis lost the war, and the Allies were salient in their victory. The baby boom era was about to begin, and war torn Europe was being rebuilt. Crimes against humanity had been dealt, and war criminals were being tried. So much was going on at the time, that it was hard to keep up. The world had seen what a possible nuclear war could look like after the bombings in Japan, and at this point, everyone was trying to settle down. These are the 10 Nazis executed during the Nuremberg Trials.

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Between 1945 and 1946 the Nazi empire saw the last of them get executed or commit suicide. Twelve Nazis were planned to be executed that day on October 16th, 1946. The wannabe Aryan war machine had been halted and had seen better days. There were ten war criminals that ended up being executed by the International Military Tribunal, and many of the rest, including Hermann Göring, decided that cyanide was a better way. The twelfth, Martin Bormann, was tried in absentia and was later found out to have died back in May of 1945. I’m going to list here the top 10 Nazi criminals executed at the Nuremberg trials.

The 10 Nazis Executed During Nuremberg Trials

1. Joachim von Ribbentrop

Ribbentrop was a German diplomat and foreign minister born in Wesel, Germany in 1893. Ribbentrop was the chief negotiator of the treaties with which Nazi Germany entered World War 2. He served in World War 1 on the Eastern Front and later became a sparkling wine salesman after the war. Joachim later met Hitler in 1932 and joined the National Socialist Party later the same year, becoming the chief advisor of foreign affairs after the accession of power in 1933. in 1935, he negotiated the Anglo-German Naval Agreement, which authorized German naval rearmament. Ribbentrop later, in 1936, became the ambassador to Great Britain, becoming an Anglophobe.

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He continued to create pacts, including the Anti-Comintern pact with Japan in 1936, and the Pact of Steel with Italy in 1939, later becoming minister of foreign affairs. Having created an alliance between two fascist dictatorships, he later created a pact with the Soviets, the German-Soviet Nonaggression Pact, in 1939 as well. This cleared the way for Germany to attack Poland, creating the beginnings of the Second World War. His final pact was the Tripartite Pact between Italy, Germany and Japan in 1940. He later dropped in importance and got captured in Hamburg in June of 1945. He was later tried, found guilty, and convicted of four major counts, being hanged in Nuremberg for his crimes.

2. Wilhelm Keitel

Wilhelm Keitel was a German field marshal born in Helmscherode, Germany in 1882. Keitel was head of the German Armed Forces High Command during World War 2, became chief of the Fuhrer’s personal military staff, and helped direct most of the Third Reich’s campaigns in the Second World War. Keitel served in World War 1, like many of these guys, and held administrative posts under the Weimar Republic, later becoming chief of staff Armed Forces Office. He kept advancing, being a Nazi and all, and eventually made it to being the head of the Armed Forces High Command in 1938.

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Keitel was responsible for many egregious war crimes, including dictating the terms of the French surrender in 1940, and the directives to shoot to kill and detain any officers without due process. He was also injured during the infamous July Plot, an assassination attempt on Hitler’s life. He even directed the efforts to expel those responsible from the military and have them executed, being apart of the “court of honor.” Keitel was one of the few found severely guilty at the trials and was convicted on counts of crimes against humanity, waging a war of aggression, and war crimes. He requested a “man’s death of honor” to be killed by firing squad, but he was hanged in Nuremberg instead.

The 10 Nazis Executed During Nuremberg Trials

3. Ernst Kaltenbrunner

Kaltenbrunner was an Austrian Nazi SS leader born in Ried, Austria in 1903. He was leader of the SS forces in Austria and all of the police forces in Nazi Germany. Later joining the Austrian Nazi Party in 1932, Kaltenbrunner became leader of the elite guards in 1935. After the Austrian union with Germany, he became leader of the Austrian storm troopers, and later he became minister of state security in Austria. After a while, he became Germany’s Reich Security Central Office, picked by Heinrich Himmler in 1943. This position thus gave him control over the Gestapo and the concentration camps throughout Europe.

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Kaltenbrunner, like many silly Nazis, was a horrid anti-Semite, and he was fond of the gas chamber being the method of execution for the Jewish people. This silly Nazi also had control over the administrative apparatus that controlled the execution of the Jews. He was the one who was judge, jury and executioner over the Jewry of 1943-1945. Thankfully, later on, this douche-bag was tried and sentenced of war crimes and crimes against humanity at the Nuremberg trials, being sentenced to death. He was later hanged after the trials in Nuremberg.

4. Alfred Rosenberg

Alfred Rosenberg was a Nazi ideologist and writer born in Tallinn, Estonia in 1893. Rosenberg studied architecture and stayed in Moscow, Russia until the Revolution of 1917 before joining the Nazi Party in Berlin in 1919. He joined during the birth of the Nazi Party, and thus was close to Hitler and his compatriots, including Rudolph Hess and Ernst Rohm. His early antisemitism was made clear when he published anti-Semitic papers as a newspaper editor for the party, taking ideas from English racists like Houston Steward Chamberlain. Many of these clueless ideas had much to do with “Jewish world domination,” thereby making him sound insane.

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He was later put in charge of the Nazi Party after Hitler’s failed Munich Beer Hall Putsch in 1923. The reason for him being Hitler’s choice was because of his incompetence as an organizer, thus meaning he would do little to consolidate power. In 1927, Rosenberg urged the conquest of Poland and Russia, and in 1934, wrote an exposition of German racial purity. It was a long-winded rant about Nordic heritage and European domination, and his claims extended to their enemies being the Russians and the Jews. His antisemitism further exacerbated Hitler’s ideological views and prejudices. Rosenberg furthered his insanity with ideas of a coup in Norway and being in charge of paintings in Germany, later becoming minister for the eastern territories. His story ends with being adjudged a war criminal and being hanged after the trials.

The 10 Nazis Executed During Nuremberg Trials

5. Hans Frank

Hans Frank was a German politician and lawyer born in Karlsruhe, Germany in 1900. Frank is best known for serving as governor-general of Poland during World War 2. As a lawyer, he studied economics and jurisprudence in college and served in World War 1. Frank later joined the Nazi Party in 1921 and became the party’s chief legal counsel, becoming Hitler’s personal lawyer. After the Nazis came to power in 1933, he was given a plethora of different positions of power, including president of the Reichstag and the minister of justice for the Nazi government.

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After the invasion of Poland in 1939, he became governor-general of Poland, becoming the supreme chief of occupied Poland’s civil administration. Frank was a fun guy and staunch supporter of the Nazi Party, and thus he was responsible for the execution of hundreds of thousands of Poles, confiscation of Polish property, the enslavement of hundreds of thousands of Poles who were shipped to Nazi Germany, and the herding of most of Poland’s Jews into ghettos, leading to their extermination. He was stripped of his other posts but remained governor-general for the remainder of the war. Captured though, after the war, he was indicted and charged for war crimes and crimes against humanity and hung in October of 1946 after the trials.

6. Wilhelm Frick

Wilhelm Frick was a Nazi parliamentary leader born in Alsenz, Germany in 1877. Frick is known for his longtime supporting of the Nazi Party and being parliamentary leader of the Nazi Party and Hitler’s minister of the interior. This role gave him the power to control the measures against the Jews. Early on, along with Hilter, Frick participated in the Beer Hall Putsch in 1923 and was later committed of high treason, but he somehow avoided imprisonment. He was later elected to the Reichstag in 1924, leading the Nazis in this body in 1928. As minister of the interior in 1930, he was the first Nazi to hold any ministerial post in Germany, thus making him considered an expert in German domestic politics.

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Frick later became minister of the interior for Adolf Hitler in 1933, and he held this position until 1943. This position gave him the power to devise and obtain passage of legislation providing for government by decree and drafting measurements against the Jewish people, including the Nuremberg laws of 1935. In 1943, he was replaced by Heinrich Himmler because of the importance of the SS having increased over time, leaving Frick in a lesser position for the remainder of the war. This left him as defender of Bohemia and Moravia until his capture in 1945, being convicted for crimes against humanity and being executed by hanging.

The 10 Nazis Executed During Nuremberg Trials

7. Julius Streicher

Julius Streicher was a German demagogue and politician born in Fleinhausen, Germany in 1885. Streicher is infamously known for his advocacy of the persecution of the Jews during the 1930s. Though he first started out in World War 1 and was a teacher, he joined the Nazi Party, like many, in 1921. Becoming friends with Hitler, he became district leader of Franconia and founded a newspaper that spouted antisemitic views. His editor job for this newspaper helped him gain great power in Nazi Germany, and his strong views against the Jews gave Hitler an ire.

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Later on, in 1935, his strong views lead to the Nuremberg laws of 1935, something brought on by his newspaper. However, his debauchery later alienated him from his compatriots, being found out for sexual and sadistic excess and scandalous behavior in 1940. He was later found out, disguised as a painter, and captured at the end of the war, later being sent to the trials. He was then charged with crimes against humanity and sentenced to hang.

8. Fritz Sauckel

Fritz Sauckel was a German politician born in Hassfurt, Germany in 1894. Sauckel was the chief recruiter of slave labor for Hitler during World War 2. Early on, he served in World War 1 as a seaman but was captured by the British and spent the rest of his time in a prison in France. Later on, he joined the Nazi Party in 1923, becoming a leading propagandist in Lower Franconia. He went on to serve as minister of the interior and commissioner of the region the region.

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Sauckel, between 1942 and 1945, became chief commissioner for the utilization of manpower, meeting Hitler’s requests for greater industrial production by rounding up slave labor for use in German factories. He would travel throughout Nazi-occupied Europe and recruited labor by force, exploiting their capacity for work. He was in charge of a program involving the deportation for slave labor of over 5 million people under cruel and insufferable conditions. He was later convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity, later being sentenced to hang at the Nuremberg trials.

The 10 Nazis Executed During Nuremberg Trials

9. Alfred Jodl

Alfred Jodl was a German general born in Wurzburg, Germany in 1890. Jodl was head of the armed forces and helped plan and conduct many of the Nazi military campaigns during the Second World War. Again, like anyone who would be chosen by Hitler, he served in World War 1 like many Germans, and he later became head of the department of defense in 1935. Being a close buddy of Hitler, he was named the chief of operations of the Armed Forces High Command right before Poland was invaded in 1939.

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Except for the beginning of the Russia invasion, Jodl was in charge of all of Germany’s campaigns. On May 7, 1945, he signed the capitulation of the German armed forces to the Allies in Reims, France, thus helping end the war. Since this evil man was in charge of the orders to shoot many hostages and other disrespects to international law, he was tried for war crimes and executed by hanging after the Nuremberg trials.

10. Arthur Seyss-Inquart

Arthur Seyss-Inquart was an Austrian politician born in Iglau, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary in 1892. Seyss-Inquart was the chancellor of Austria during the annexation of Austria in 1938. Going back, he served in the Austro-Hungarian World War 1, getting seriously wounded. Afterwards, he became a lawyer in 1921, and further, he was an advocated for the union of Austria and Germany, cultivating close ties with the Austrian Nazi Party. He was a leader of the moderate “legal” faction of the Austrian Nazis and was later appointed federal council of state in 1937 in order to bring the Nazis into cooperation with the government. In response to German pressure, in 1938, he was named minister of the interior and security.

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This piece of work was later appointed governor of the new Austrian provincial administration until 1939, and later he was made the deputy-governor of Poland. After this, Inquart was appointed as commissioner of the occupied Netherlands. Here, he was far more sinister, being responsible for a system of terror, shooting of hostages, extortion, and the mass deportation of most of the Dutch Jews. Later on, as you guessed, this jackass was tried as a war criminal and later sentenced to hang after the trials.

The 10 Nazis Executed During Nuremberg Trials

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