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• Date: Hitler becomes Fuhrer

  August 2, 1934

• 1) Martin Bormann (Abstentia) - Charges, Acquittals, Conviction, and Sentence

  • Charges: 1, 3, 4
    
  • Acquittal: 1
  • Convictions: 3 + 4
  • Sentence: Hanging 

• 2) Grand Admiral Karl Doenitz (September 16, 1891 - December 24, 1980) - Bio

  Commander-in-Chief of the German Navy from 1943-45. Named in Hitler's will as the President and Supreme Commander in the Reich,  Doenitz served as the German President for the three weeks between Hitler's suicide and German surrender.
  

  • September 1939 - January 30, 1943: At the start of WWII, Doenitz was a senior submarine officer in the German Navy. ("Kriegsmarine"
  • Commander-in-Chief of German Navy (January 30, 1943 to May 1, 1945).
  • President of Germany (April 30 to May 23, 1945). 

  
  
  In high naval office from January 1943 to May 1945

• 2) Karl Doenitz - Charges, Acquittal, Convictions, Sentence

  • Charges: 1, 2, and 3
    
  • Acquittal: 1
  • Conviction: 2 + 3. 
  • Sentence: 10 years (released in September 1956)

• 3) Hans Frank (May 23, 1900 - October 16, 1946):  Bio

  
  
  

  • Became a member of the SA in September 1923, joined the Nazi party in October 1923. 
  • In the 1920s, and 30s, he was a lawyer for the Nazi party. Eventually, he rose to become Hitler's personal legal adviser. 
  • Civilian Governor-General of Poland: October 26, 1939 to January 1945. (Chief Nazi jurist in occupied Poland) 

  
  
  In power from 1934-1945

• 3) Hans Frank - Charges, Acquittal, Convictions, and Sentence

  • Charges: 1, 3, and 4.
    
  • Acquittal: 1. 
  • Convictions: 3 + 4. 
  • Sentence: Hanging

• 4) Wilhelm Frick: Charges, Acquittal, Conviction, and Sentence

  • Counts 1, 2, 3, 4 
    
  • Acquittal: 1
  • Convictions: 2, 3, 4 
  • Sentence: Hanging 

• Reichstag Fire Decree (1933): Defined

  • Issued by GermanPresidentPaul von Hindenburg on the advice of ChancellorAdolf Hitler in direct response to the Reichstag fire of 27 February 1933. 
  • The decree nullified many of the key civil liberties of German citizens. With Nazis in powerful positions in the German government, the decree was used as the legal basis for the imprisonment of anyone considered to be opponents of the Nazis, and to suppress publications not considered "friendly" to the Nazi cause. 
  • The decree is considered by historians to be one of the key steps in the establishment of a one-partyNazi state in Germany.
    

• 5) Hans Fritzsche - Charges and Acquittals

  • Charges: 1, 3, 4 
  • Acquittals: 1, 3, 4 (The IMT acquitted Fritzsche on all charges). 

• 6) Walter Funk (August 18, 1890 - May 31, 1960): BIO.

  Funk was an economist and prominent Nazi. He succeeded Schacht as head of the Reichsbank and (with a brief intervention by Goering) Minister of Economics in 1938 and 1939, respectively.
  

  • Minister of Economics: February 6 1938 to May 1, 1945. 
  • Head of the Reichsbank:  January 9, 1939 to May 8, 1945.