  The 20th century's most famous and probably most significant war crime trials were held in Nuremberg, Germany after the end of World War  II.[7]  Between 1945–1949 the United States and its allies held a series of 13 trials.  The first, and most famous of these, involved the prosecution of senior surviving Nazi officials including Hermann Göring, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Julius Streicher, Rudolf Hess and Albert Speer. Defendants in the other 12 trials, which took place between 1946–1949, included doctors, jurists, industrialists, and other key stake holders in the Nazi state.