From Judgement Remembered By David Rising, Associated Press, 19 November 2005

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On Nov. 20, 1945, with the war just over, Hermann Goering, Rudolf Hess, Joachim von Ribbentrop and 18 other high-ranking Nazis sat in the dock facing a panel of judges that represented the victorious allies the United States, Soviet Union, Britain and France.

On Oct. 1, 1946, Goering, Hitler's air force chief and right-hand man, was sentenced to death along with 11 others, including Martin Bormann, Hitler's vanished deputy, who was tried in absentia. Seven drew long prison sentences and three were acquitted.

Fifteen days later, the condemned men were hanged in the courthouse's adjacent prison. Goering committed suicide by swallowing a poison pill in his cell the night before.

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