In the end, the international tribunal found all but three of the defendants guilty Twelve were sentenced to death, one in absentia, and the rest were given prison sentences ranging from 10 years to life behind bars Ten of the condemned were executed by hanging on Oct

Why did the allies hold war crime trials for Axis leaders? To hold the Axis leaders accountable for their wartime actions League of Nations was a International organization founded in 1919 to promote world peace and cooperation but greatly weakened by the refusal of the United States to join

Three of the defendants were acquitted: Hjalmar Schacht, Franz von Papen, and Hans Fritzsche Four were sentenced to terms of imprisonment ranging from 10 to 20 years: Karl Dönitz, Baldur von Schirach, Albert Speer, and Konstantin von Neurath

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Walter Richard Rudolf Hess

Heinrich Himmler

Organization of the High Command The German high command consisted of Adolf Hitler, the War Ministry—after February 1938, the Armed Forces High Command (Oberkommando der Wehrmacht, OKW)—and the high commands of the three services: the air force (Luftwaffe), the navy (Kriegsmarine), and the army (Heer)

Karel Curda

A year after Heydrich’s assassination, the Gestapo burst into their farmhouse, arresting everyone inside Mr Denemarek’s brother and the parachutist were executed His parents died in concentration camps

It tells the story of Operation Anthropoid, the World War II assassination of Reinhard Heydrich by exile Czechoslovak soldiers on May 27, 1942 It was released August 12, 2016 in the United States and September 9, 2016 in the United Kingdom

Execution After the war, Čurda was tracked down and arrested When asked in court how he could betray his comrades, Čurda supposedly answered, “I think you would have done the same for 1 million marks” This comment has been disputed Čurda was found guilty of treason and hanged on 29 April 1947

The operation was given the codename Anthropoid, Greek for “having the form of a human”, a term usually used in zoology Preparation began on 20 October 1941 Moravec had personally selected two dozen of the most promising personnel from among the exiled Czechoslovak soldiers based in Britain

From 1939 tor Chateau was the residence of the Reichsprotektor of Bohemia and Moravia In the chateau complex lived both Konstantin von Neurath and fromty (Stellvertretender Reichsprotektor), the SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich, with their families

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In December 1941, two Czech soldiers (Cillian Murphy, Jamie Dornan) parachute into their occupied homeland to assassinate Nazi officer Reinhard Heydrich (Detlef Bothe)

Primates have traditionally been divided into two major groups, called prosimians and anthropoids (or simians) Prosimians include lemurs (like the one pictured above), lorises, and tarsiers Anthropoids include monkeys, apes, and humans

Humans and monkeys are both primates But humans are not descended from monkeys or any other primate living today But humans and chimpanzees evolved differently from that same ancestor All apes and monkeys share a more distant relative, which lived about 25 million years ago

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