Q 01/05

How many Allied powers jointly conducted the International Military Tribunal?

A) Two

B) Three

C) Five

D) Four

Answer · why

D) Four

France, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom and the United States each appointed prosecutors and judges.

Q 02/05

In which occupied German city was the main trial held?

A) Berlin

B) Nuremberg

C) Munich

D) Potsdam

Answer · why

B) Nuremberg

The tribunal's formal seat was Berlin, but the trial sat in the Palace of Justice, in the American zone.

Q 03/05

How many individual defendants did the IMT actually try?

A) 24

B) 26

C) 22

D) 30

Answer · why

C) 22

Twenty-four men were indicted, but one was too ill, one had died, and one was tried in absentia.

Q 04/05

On what date did the main trial open?

A) 20 November 1945

B) 8 May 1945

C) 1 October 1946

D) 16 October 1946

Answer · why

A) 20 November 1945

It ran until 1 October 1946, when the verdicts were read.

Q 05/05

How many German organisations were indicted alongside the individual defendants?

A) Two

B) Four

C) Six

D) Fourteen

Answer · why

C) Six

The Americans had originally planned to try fourteen.