The Trials

Numerous close associates of both Trump and Hitler were convicted of crimes by special prosecutors.

Trump:

The Special Counsel investigation was a United States law enforcement and counterintelligence investigation of the Russian government's efforts to interfere in United States politics and any possible involvement by members of the 2016 Trump presidential campaign.

The Special Counsel investigation was led by Robert Mueller (former combat decorated Marine Corps officer, assistant United States attorney, a United States attorney, United States assistant attorney general for the Criminal Division, a homicide prosecutor in Washington, D.C., acting United States deputy attorney general and Director of the FBI) by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein (a Trump political appointee).

The following people were convicted by the Special Counsel investigation or by Federal prosecutors (who were referred by the Special Counsel):

• George Papadopoulos (Trump's Foreign Policy Advisor) - convicted of 17 counts of tax evasion, embezzlement, fraud, witness tampering - Pardoned by Trump

• Rick Gates (Trump's Deputy Campaign Manager) - convicted of conspiracy against the United States and false statements (45 days)

• Paul Manafort (Trump's Campaign Manager) - convicted of conspiracy against the United States, tax fraud, and bank fraud (10 years) - Pardoned by Trump

• Michael Flynn (Trump's National Security Advisor) - Plead guilty to lying to the FBI - Pardoned by Trump

• Michael Cohen (Trump's personal lawyer) - convicted of lying to a Senate committee, campaign finance violations, tax fraud, and bank fraud (3 years)

• Roger Stone (Trump's political advisor) - convicted of witness tampering, obstruction, and making false statements (40 months) - Pardoned by Trump

• George Nader (Advisor to Trump's presidential transition team) - convicted on possession of child pornography and transportation of a minor (10 years)

• Natalia Veselnitskaya (met with Donald Trump Jr, Jared Kushner & Manafort) - indicted for obstruction. Currently in Russia

• Paul Erickson (Advisor to Trump's presidential transition team) - convicted of wire fraud and money laundering (7 years) - Pardoned by Trump

• Maria Butina (Erickson' girlfriend) - convicted of being an unregistered foreign agent of the Russian state (18 months) - Deported to Russia

Hitler:

The International Military Tribunal (IMT) was the trial of 24 major Nazi officials (who were all members of Hitler's Inner Circle) and seven Nazi organizations by a tribunal established by the Allies (U.S., United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, and France). The indictments were for crimes against peace, waging wars of aggression, war crimes, crimes against humanity. The trial took place in Nuremberg, Germany, lasted almost 11 months, and resulted in the conviction of 19 of the defendants, 11 executions, and two suicides.

• Martin Bormann (Nazi Party Secretary) - convicted in absentia (Sentenced to death)

• Karl Dönitz (Commander of the Germany Navy, Hitler's successor as President of Germany) - convicted (20 years)

• Hans Frank (Governor-General of occupied Poland) - convicted (executed)

• Wilhelm Frick (Minister of the Interior and Reich Protector of Bohemia and Moravia) - convicted (executed)

• Hans Fritzsche (radio commentator; head of the news division of the Nazi Propaganda Ministry) - acquitted

• Walther Funk (Minister of Economics) - convicted (life imprisonment)

• Hermann Göring (Reichsmarschall, Commander of the Luftwaffe 1935–45) - convicted (executed)

• Rudolf Hess (Deputy Fuhrer) - convicted (life imprisonment)

• Alfred Jodl (General, Chief of the Operations Staff of the German Armed Forces High Command) - convicted (executed)

• Ernst Kaltenbrunner (Chief of the Gestapo) - convicted (executed)

• Wilhelm Keitel (Field Marshall, Chief of the German Armed Forces High Command) - convicted (executed)

• Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach (Major industrialist. C.E.O. of Friedrich Krupp AG 1912–45) Medically unfit for trial

• Robert Ley (Head of DAF, German Labour Front). Committed suicide on 25 October 1945

• Baron Konstantin von Neurath (Minister of Foreign Affairs 1932–38, Reich Protector of Bohemia & Moravia 1939–43) - convicted (15 years)

• Franz von Papen (Vice-Chancellor of Germany in 1932-34 - under Hitler, Ambassador to Turkey 1939–44) - acquitted

• Erich Raeder (Commander In Chief of the Kriegsmarine from 1928 until his retirement in 1943) - convicted (life imprisonment)

• Joachim von Ribbentrop (Minister of Foreign Affairs 1938–45) - convicted (executed)

• Alfred Rosenberg (Racial theory ideologist. Later, Minister of the Eastern Occupied Territories 1941–45) - convicted (executed)

• Fritz Sauckel (Gauleiter of Thuringia 1927–45. Plenipotentiary of the Nazi slave labor program 1942–45 ) - convicted (executed)

• Hjalmar Schacht (Pre-war president of the Reichsbank 1923–30 & 1933–38 and Economics Minister 1934–37) - acquitted

• Baldur von Schirach (Head of the Hitlerjugend from 1933–40, Gauleiter of Vienna 1940–45) - convictd (20 years)

• Arthur Seyss-Inquart (Reichskommissar of the occupied Netherlands 1940–45.) - convicted (executed)

• Albert Speer (Minister of Armaments from 1942 until the end of the war) -convicted (20 years)

• Julius Streicher (Publisher of the anti-Semitic weekly newspaper Der Stürmer) - convicted (executed)

The subsequent Nuremberg Military Tribunal (NMT) consisted of 12 separate U.S. trials of former Nazi leaders for war crimes (including the German military High Command, judges, doctors, business leaders, death squad leaders, etc.). The Nuremberg process initiated 3,887 cases of which about 3,400 were dropped. 489 cases went to trial, involving 1,672 defendants. 1,416 of them were found guilty; less than 200 were executed, and another 279 defendants were sentenced to life in prison.

"Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy"

- Captain G. M. Gilbert, the Army psychologist assigned to the Nuremberg trials¹