The Law of the Nuremberg Trial | American Journal of International Law | Cambridge Core Search --- Institution Login Search Hostname: page-component-75d7c8f48-zbnhx Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2026-03-16T04:11:31.184Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false - Français - English # The Law of the Nuremberg Trial Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 April 2017 Quincy Wright Show author details --- --- Article contents - References - Extract Get access Share Cite Rights & Permissions --- ## Extract On the afternoon of October 1, 1946, the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg sentenced twelve of the twenty-two Nazi defendants to death by hanging and seven to imprisonment for terms ranging from ten years to life. Three were acquitted. Three of the six accused organizations were found to be criminal. The reading of these sentences was preceded by the reading, through the whole of September 30, of the general opinion of the Tribunal on the four counts of the indictment and, on the morning of October 1, of the opinion on the charges against each defendant.1 The Control Council for Germany considered applications for clemency for most of t