On October 1, 1946, in Nuremberg, 12 of the original 24 defendants were condemned to death by hanging.
They were: Hermann Goring, Joachim Ribbentrop, Field Marshal General Wilhelm Keitel, Ernest Kaltenbrunner, Dr. Albert Rosenberg, Hans Frank, Wilhelm Frick, Julius Streicher, Fritz Sauckel, Colonel General Alfred Jodl, and Arthur Seyss-Inquart.
Martin Bormann, who succeeded Rudolf Hess as deputy fiihrer, was tried in absentia and also sentenced to death.