The Major Nazi War Criminals
There were a total of 24 men indicted in the first trial. Two of them never stood trial. Robert Ley, the head of the Nazi labor movement, committed suicide before the trial began and the court ruled that Gustav Krupp, an industrialist, was mentally unstable to be tried. Many other top Nazi leaders, including Hitler and Goebbels, had killed themselves in the final days of the war. 21 out of 22 were present at trial.
- Martin Bormann: Secretary to Hitler, Head of the Nazi Party Chancellery
- Karl Doenitz: Commander-in-Chief of the German Navy
- Hans Frank: Governor-General of occupied Poland
- Wilhelm Frick: Minister of the Interior
- Hans Fritzsche: Head of the Wireless News Service (radio produced by the Reich)
- Walther Funk: Minister of Economics
- Hermann Goering: Second-in-command to Hitler, Luftwaffe (Air Force) Chief, President of Reichstag
- Rudolf Hess: Deputy to Hitler, Nazi Party Leader
- Alfred Jodl: Chief of Operations for the German High Command (Army)
- Ernst Kaltenbrunner: Chief of Security Police, Chief of RSHA (an organization containing, among other things, the Austrian branches of the SS and the Gestapo)
- Wilhelm Keitel: Chief of Staff of the German High Command
- Erich Raeder: Commander-in-Chief of the German Navy (before Doenitz)
- Alfred Rosenberg: Minister of the Eastern Occupied Territories, Chief Nazi Philosopher
- Fritz Sauckel: Head of Slave Labor Recruitment
- Hjalmar Schacht: Minister of Economics (pre-war), President of Reichsbank
- Arthur Seyss-Inquart: Chancellor of Austria, Reich Commissioner of the Netherlands
- Albert Speer: Minister of Armaments and Munitions, Hitler's architect and friend
- Julius Streicher: Editor of Der Sturmer (anti-Semitic publication)
- Konstantin von Neurath: Minister of Foreign Affairs, Reich Protector for Bohemia and Moravia
- Franz von Papen: Chancellor of Reich before Hitler, Vice Chancellor under Hitler, Ambassador to Turkey
- Joachim von Ribbentrop: Foreign Minister, Ambassador to Great Britain
- Baldur von Schirach: Head of the Hitler Youth