National Content: Germany

The sources show how the plan to establish a court to prove the responsibilities of the Nazi-leaders and punish them was put into effect. The trials started in 1945 in Nuernberg, the former city of the "Reichsparteitag" (party convention) of the Nazi-Party. The Trials cleared up the public in Germany and in the whole world. The result of the Trials was that some of the Nazi leaders were punished with death by hanging. Others committed suicide or were sentenced to life imprisonment. Adolf Eichmann lived since 1950 in Argentina. He was intercepted by the Israeli secret services in 1960 and carried to Israel. His trial took place in Jerusalem and the court decided death by hanging which was realised 1962.