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Nuremberg: Tyrants on Trial: Part 1

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Introduction:
"This quiz takes a closer look at the men who stood in what many consider the most important trial of the 20th century."


1. Which defendant had been removed from his post as Gauleiter of Franconia, ostensibly for alleging that Hermann Goering's daughter Edda had been conceived by artificial insemination?
    Alfred Rosenberg
    Julius Streicher
    Wilhelm Frick
    Constantin von Neurath


2. How many of the accused never set foot in the courthouse?
    Everyone who was to be tried was present.
    6
    1
    3


3. Who became known as "The Man Without a Signature" after claiming no knowledge of any atrocities, even when presented with documents personally signed by him that ordered the very things he was denying?
    Alfred Rosenberg
    Ernst Kaltenbrunner
    Alfred Jodl
    Artur Seyss-Inquart


4. Who was the only defendant convicted on all four counts of the indictment who didn't receive the death penalty?
    Erich Raeder
    Fritz Sauckel
    Rudolf Hess
    Constantin von Neurath


5. How many of the condemned men asked to be shot rather than hanged?
    1
    5
    3
    2


6. Which defendant was married to the daughter of Hitler's private photographer, Heinrich Hoffmann?
    Martin Bormann
    Albert Speer
    Baldur von Schirach
    Hans Frank


7. What small mishap occurred during the trial that caused the defendants to hoot with laughter?
    The atrocity film introduced by the Russians was started upside down.
    Lord Justice Lawrence lost his temper with Goering
    The defendants' headphones accidentally began picking up signals from the World Series in 1946.
    The Soviet atrocity film was accidentally shown at higher speed.


8. Which defendant continually protested his indictment, and was the only one who had been imprisoned by the Nazis in a concentration camp towards the end of the war?
    Hans Fritzsche
    Hjalmar Schacht
    Franz von Papen
    Albert Speer


9. The son of which defendant became a Roman Catholic priest?
    Hans Frank
    Wilhelm Keitel
    Martin Bormann
    Wilhelm Frick


10. Which defendant was involved with the "Laconia Incident" in a way that assisted his defence, despite the subsequent "Laconia Order"?
    Walther Funk
    Baldur von Schirach
    Erich Raeder
    Karl Doenitz


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