The trials were held<span> in the city of </span>Nuremberg<span>, Bavaria, Germany, in </span>1945-1946<span>, at the Palace of Justice. The first and best known of these </span>trials<span> was the </span>Trial<span> of the Major War Criminals before the International Military Tribunal, which tried 25 of the most important captured leaders of the Third Reich.</span>
It held for the purpose of bringing Nazi war criminals to justice, the Nuremberg trials were a series of 13 trials carried out in Nuremberg, Germany, between 1945 to 1946