The crimes committed by the Germans during and before World War II were some of the worst crimes against humans that the world has seen. The Nuremberg Trials of November 1945 to October 1946 were documentations of the crimes the Nazis had committed such as the Holocaust. They were also the first war crimes trials conducted by the winners of a war. There were a total of twenty-one defendants. Included in these was Hermann Goering (Shaver, 1). This following is a study of his trial.