On 1 November 1943, Franklin D. Roosevelt, US President, Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister, and Joseph Stalin, Soviet leader, issue a joint declaration denouncing the war crimes perpetrated by the Nazis.

At the end of the Second World War, the Allies set up the International Military Tribunal in order to try the leaders and organisations of Nazi Germany accused of war crimes, crimes against peace and crimes against humanity.

On 18 October 1945 , the trial of the principal Nazi war criminals opens in Berlin. It continues in Nuremberg from 20 November the same year.

On 18 October 1945, the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg accuses 24 German political, military and economic leaders of conspiracy, crimes against peace, war crimes and crimes against humanity.

On 21 November 1945, in his opening address, the American Robert H. Jackson, Public Prosecutor at the Nuremberg trial, recalls the historic importance of the trial of Nazi war criminals and lists the charges in detail.

General view of the courtroom at the Nuremberg trial on 30 September 1946, on the eve of the verdict handed down by the International Military Tribunal. In the dock, in the first row, the photo shows (from left to right): Hermann Göring, Rudolf Heß, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Wilhelm Keitel, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Alfred Rosenberg, Hans Frank, Wilhelm Frick, Julius Streicher, Walter Funk and Hjalmar Schacht. In the second row: Erich Raeder, Baldur von Schirach, Fritz Sauckel, Alfred Jodl, Franz von Papen, Arthur Seyß-Inquart, Albert Speer, Konstantin von Neurath and Hans Fritsche.

On 1 October 1946, the International Military Tribunal, meeting in Nuremberg, delivers its verdict. Of the 22 leaders of Nazi Germany accused of conspiracy, crimes against peace, war crimes and crimes against humanity, 12 are sentenced to death, 7 receive prison sentences and 3 are acquitted.

On 1 October 1946, after the Nuremberg trials, the Dutch daily newspaper De Volkskrant considers the moral and legal consequences of the sentences handed down to the Nazi war criminals.

On 2 October 1946, the day before the Nuremberg verdict is announced, the French daily newspaper Le Figaro looks at the moral and historical aspect of the trial relating to war crimes, crimes against peace and crimes against humanity.

On 2 October 1946, the Italian daily newspaper Il nuovo Corriere della Sera recounts the events of 1 October 1946 when 12 former high-ranking Nazis were sentenced to death by the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg.

On 2 October 1945, the Soviet daily newspaper Pravda comments on the verdicts handed down by the International Military Tribunal which was set up in Nuremberg to try Nazi war criminals.

On 2 October 1946, the Dutch daily newspaper Het Parool comments on the verdict handed down by the International Tribunal in Nuremberg and strongly criticises the acquittal of some leading Nazis.

On 4 October 1946, the German daily newspaper Die Welt emphasises the historic nature of the verdict handed down by the International Tribunal in Nuremberg on some leading Nazi figures.

On 4 October 1946, the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung comments on the verdict of the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal, which has sentenced 12 Nazi leaders to death.

The trial of the major Nazi war criminals commences on 18 October 1945 in Berlin and continues in Nuremberg from 20 November. After 406 hearings, twelve death sentences are handed down.

Twenty-five years after sentences were handed down at the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal, the French newspaper Le Monde looks back on the unfolding of the trial at which the main leaders of the Nazi regime were judged.