Number of the day
Percent of Soviet prisoners of war and civilians held in German camps who were killed or died due to unbearable conditions
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Streit, C. "Soviet Prisoners of War in the Hands of the Wehrmacht"

When the World Learned About Gas Chambers
Burning people alive, killing newborns, showers with "cyclone" – testimonies first heard in Nuremberg

Mauthausen Report: Stolen Tape as Evidence of Genocide
Prisoners recount the killings in Europe's biggest concentration camp and that everyone knew about it

Drown in Sorrow
An exhibition titled “No measure, no name, no comparison” has opened at the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Centre in Moscow.

Five Minutes to Paulus
A sudden appearance by the captured German field marshal caused an uproar in the courtroom. The Tribunal heard first-hand about the preparations for the attack on the Soviet Union that was to be carried out in the autumn of 1940.

Gloves, Ushanka and File
Possessions of Field Marshal Paulus can be viewed at Victory Museum

Execution under Jeckeln System
Yuriyus Traksyalis, Head of the Lithuanian Military Heritage Institute (Vilnius, Lithuania), talks about the crimes of the occupants in the Baltic Republics and provides details about the Riga Trial.

Forgetful and Unforgiven: Rudolf Hess' 'Retrograde Amnesia' Show
A large, ascetic wall clock placed above the defendant's bench showed exactly 4 p.m. The working day on 30 November was coming to an end. The President of the International War Crimes Tribunal, Sir Geoffrey Lawrence, ordered the quarter guard to withdraw all the defendants except Rudolf Hess. They obediently headed for the doors.

Beginning of the Holocaust in Occupied Territories of USSR
A map from a secret report on the mass murder of Jews by Einsatzgruppe A in the Occupied Eastern Territories dated 15 October 1941 - 31 January 1942. Presented at the Nuremberg Trials on 20 December 1945.

American Military Tribunal Sentences 36 Dachau Guards to Death
The Dachau concentration camp was liberated by American troops on 29 April 1945. When the soldiers saw the condition of the prisoners, they immediately executed more than a hundred of the camp's guards. On 30 October, the US Army Joint Chiefs of Staff issued an order for a tribunal to be held over the employees of the Dachau concentration camp. On 13 December, the tribunal handed down its judgments.

'Hitler's Shadow' Martin Bormann Was Sought by CIA, Found by Dentist
For over 30 years, Martin Bormann, head of the Nazi Party Chancellery, was considered one of the most wanted international criminals. With no verifiable evidence of his fate at hand at the time, the International Military Tribunal tried him in absentia.

How Hitler Stole Germany
On the afternoon of 22 November, US Major Frank B. Wallis, the American prosecutor at the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, described “legitimate” steps taken by the NSDAP to seize power.