What were the Nuremburg Trials?
The Nuremburg trials were a series of trials that took place in Nuremburg, Germany, after world war 2, and convicted many different military and political leaders of war crimes. The majority of the people that were on trial were Nazis On trial were 24 people, out of those 24, 12 of them were given the death sentence, 3 were aquitted of charges, 4 were given 10 to 15 years, and the rest were given life in prison.