The trials were held in the city of Nuremberg between November 20, 1945 and October 1, 1946.

    One reason these people were persecuted was because they killed people by shooting the Jews when they were sick or hanging the people that tried to escape.  Another reason they were persecuted was because they enslaved the Jews by making them work and dig.

    There were 22 major Nazi criminals, 12 were sentenced to death, most admitted to the crime they were accused of doing.

 

     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_Trials

     http://www.ushmm.org/outreach/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007722

     http://org.law.rutgers.edu/publications/law-religion/publications/churches.pdf