1946 Execution of war criminals in Nuremberg
70 years ago, on October 16, 1946, the main Nazi war criminals - Joachim von Ribbentrop, Wilhelm Keitel, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Alfred Rosenberg, Hans Frank, Wilhelm Frick, Julius Streicher, Fritz Sauckel, Arthur Seyss-Inquart and Alfred Jodl. Hermann Goering, who was to be hanged first, committed suicide two hours before the execution by biting into an ampoule of potassium cyanide.