Die Nürnberger Prozesse in Zahlen
Das Protokoll umfasst vier Millionen Wörter in 22 Bänden mit insgesamt 15.000 Seiten. Innerhalb von elf Monaten wurden 236 Zeugen gehört. Rund 300.000 eidesstattliche Erklärungen und 5330 Dokumente wurden zu den Akten genommen.
Zu den Beweismitteln zählen 7300 Meter Film und 2000 Meter Bildnegative. Den Angeklagten standen 27 von ihnen frei gewählte Hauptverteidiger und 54 Assistenten zur Verfügung. Bis zu 350 Journalisten und Autoren berichteten aus der Verhandlung.
Zur Vorbereitung des Prozesses wurde eine eigene Behörde mit 1000 Mitarbeitern aufgebaut. Während des Prozesses übersetzten jeweils zwölf Dolmetscher simultan in die Sprachen Englisch, Französisch, Russisch und Deutsch. Ein Heer von Sekretärinnen war mit der Prozessdokumentation befasst und versank - wie historische Fotos zeigen - zeitweise bis zu den Füßen in Papier.
Joachim von Ribbentrop and Wilhelm Keitel in the front row.
The city of Nuremberg has marked the 60th anniversary of the opening of the trials against Nazi war criminals.

At a ceremony in the Palace of Justice, where the tribunal was located, participants of the trials gathered and remembered. Whitney R. Harris, a member of the U.S. prosecution team, emphazised the importance of Nuremberg for contemporary international law claiming that "the principles of the Nuremberg case have been followed in recent years and the fact that we conducted Nuremberg has given impetus to the establishment of these more recent tribunals". But the president of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Philippe Kirsch, is frustrated that there is still opposition against modern international tribunals like his court: "The spectre of politically motivated prosecution which is a running theme against the ICC is so unfounded that it is to me intellectually difficult to understand".

On November 20, 1945 the trials began in the courtroom 600 of the Palace of Justice. A total of 24  defendants were tried, among them Hermann Göring and Rudolf Heß. With Geoffrey Lawrence being chair of the court, the trial took 218 days and ended with 12 death sentences, 7 jail terms and 3 acquittals. One defendant killed himself during the trial, another one was declared unfit to stand trial. 

Some controversy does exist as to whether the Nuremberg Principles have been adhered to in the years following the trials.  Noted intellectual author, Noam Chomsky, has claimed that all US presidents since the end of the war would be judged to be war criminals according to these principles.