High Command Trial

The High Command Trial
The High Command Trial
	Walter Warlimont in the defendants' dock of the High Command Case at Nuremberg
Court	Nuremberg
Full case name	The United States of America vs. Wilhelm von Leeb, et al
Indictment	28 November 1947
Decided	28 October 1948, Nuremberg

The High Command Trial (officially, The United States of America vs. Wilhelm von Leeb, et al.), also known initially as Case No. 12 (the 13 Generals' Trial),^[1] and later as Case No. 72 (the German high command trial: Trial of Wilhelm von Leeb and thirteen others),^[2] was the last of the twelve trials for war crimes the U.S. authorities held in their occupation zone of Germany in Nuremberg after the end of World War II.^[3] These twelve trials were all held before U.S. military courts, not before the International Military Tribunal, but took place in the same rooms at the Palace of Justice. The twelve U.S. trials are collectively known as the "subsequent Nuremberg trials" or, more formally, as the "Trials of War Criminals before the Nuremberg Military Tribunals" (NMT).

^ Web Genocide Documentation Centre, Case No. 12 Archived 2012-04-01 at the Wayback Machine (the 13 Generals' trial); euRathlon, UWE Bristol.
^ Web Genocide Documentation Centre, Case No. 72 Archived 2005-02-21 at the Wayback Machine (The German high command trial: Trial of Wilhelm von Leeb and thirteen others), UWE Bristol.
^ There was also a "High Command Case" in the trial of the major war criminals before the International Military Tribunal. In that case, the German supreme command of the armed forces (OKW – Oberkommando Wehrmacht) was acquitted of the charge of having been a criminal organization.[1]

[no12-1] Web Genocide Documentation Centre, Case No. 12 Archived 2012-04-01 at the Wayback Machine (the 13 Generals' trial); euRathlon, UWE Bristol.

[no72-2] Web Genocide Documentation Centre, Case No. 72 Archived 2005-02-21 at the Wayback Machine (The German high command trial: Trial of Wilhelm von Leeb and thirteen others), UWE Bristol.

[3] There was also a "High Command Case" in the trial of the major war criminals before the International Military Tribunal. In that case, the German supreme command of the armed forces (OKW – Oberkommando Wehrmacht) was acquitted of the charge of having been a criminal organization.[1]

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