In the winter of 1942, the governments of the Allied powers announced their intent to punish Nazi war criminals. In October 1943, US president Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet leader Josef Stalin signed the Moscow Declaration. The declaration stated that at the time of an armistice, persons deemed responsible for war crimes would be sent back to those countries in which the crimes had been committed and would be judged according to the laws of the nation concerned.The book analyses the trials held by the Allies against representatives of the defeated Nazi Germany, for plotting and carrying out invasions of other nations. In this book, the author resumes and analyzes the trial opened in Nuremberg on November 14, 1945, against the main political and military leaders of the Third Reich.