Q 01/05

Which country joined the United States, Britain and the Soviet Union in running the Nuremberg trials?

A) Poland

B) France

C) China

D) Canada

Answer · why

B) France

France took the fourth seat on the bench, although it had spent most of the war under German occupation. Each of the four powers supplied a judge, an ...

Q 02/05

Nuremberg was chosen for the trials partly as a symbol, because the city was famous for which Nazi events?

A) The party rallies

B) The 1936 Olympics

C) The Reichstag fire

D) The Beer Hall Putsch

Answer · why

A) The party rallies

The party rallies had packed Nuremberg with marching crowds year after year, and the Allies wanted the same city to witness the regime's end.

Q 03/05

Which of these leading Nazis was still alive to face the judges when the Nuremberg trials began?

A) Himmler

B) Goebbels

C) Hitler

D) Ribbentrop

Answer · why

D) Ribbentrop

Ribbentrop, the foreign minister, sat in the dock. Hitler, Goebbels and Himmler had all killed themselves in the spring of 1945, so the dictator and t...

Q 04/05

How did every Nazi leader in the dock plead when the Nuremberg trial opened in November 1945?

A) Guilty

B) Not guilty

C) Guilty in part

D) No plea at all

Answer · why

B) Not guilty

Not guilty, every one of them. One defendant answered with a bare 'No', which the presiding judge entered as a plea of not guilty while the courtroom ...

Q 05/05

Besides the men in the dock, what else did the Nuremberg prosecutors put on trial?

A) The German state itself

B) Germany's arms companies

C) Whole Nazi organisations

D) Germany's wartime allies

Answer · why

C) Whole Nazi organisations

Whole Nazi organisations stood accused. Once the judges branded a group criminal, its knowing, willing members could be tried later for belonging, tho...