Adolf Hitler was tried at the Nuremberg trials.

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False. Adolf Hitler was never tried at Nuremberg because he died by suicide on April 30, 1945, in his Berlin bunker, months before the International Military Tribunal convened in November 1945. The Nuremberg Trials prosecuted surviving top Nazi leaders—such as Hermann Göring, Rudolf Hess, and Joachim von Ribbentrop—on charges including conspiracy, crimes against peace, war crimes, and crimes against humanity.

These trials established key principles of international law: leaders can be held personally responsible for state crimes, and “just following orders” is not a defense. Memory tip: “Dead in ’45; trials ’45–’46 for the living.” Hitler’s