Omgus military tribunal-Nurnberg, Germany. Flanked by two U.S.

Omgus military tribunal-Nurnberg, Germany. Flanked by two U.S. Army guards in a courtroom of the Palace of Justice, Nurnberg is (above) Ernst von Weizsäcker, Secretary of State of the German Foreign Office from 1936 to 1943 and German Ambassador to the Vatican from 1943 to 1945, who pleaded "not guilty" to the charges of indictment. Number one defendant of the Ministries Case, the prosecution charges that as a leading official of the German Foreign Office, he was fully aware of the plans of the Nazi aggression and participated in the series of diplomatic and political moves against Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, France, the United Kingdom, Russia, and the United States in preparation for the military occupation of those countries. (Below) Friedrich Flick, leading defendant in the first case to be concluded against German industrialists accused of supporting Hitler in his aggresive warfare. Flick was found guilty in using slave labour in his factories, seizing private properties (factories etc.) in territories occupied by Germany, an belonging to the "Circle of Friends", an organisation that participated in Hitler's rise to power and aggresive warfare. For his guilt in those crimes Flick was sentenced to 7 years imprisonment, 31 months to be taken off for time already spent in jail at Nurnberg.