I am looking for information on the defense strategies at the Nuremberg trials.?

Question

I am looking for information on the defense strategies at the Nuremberg trials for Albert Speer, Karl Donitz, and Rudolf Hess, secifically, the reasons why they weren’t sentenced to death. Thank you for your help. I am a college senior writing a paper on defense strategies at Nuremberg and am having trouble finding information on the topic.

Answer 1

I wonder if the reason you are having trouble finding information on the subject is because there was no defence strategy. The defence lawyers were mainly nonentities. The reason the three named weren't sentenced to death was because the Tribunal found that they had not conspired to wage offensive war nor had they taken part in the Final Solution. Hess, of course, was in Britain by the time this was put into practise.