<Li> 1 September 1946: The court adjourns . </Li> <Li> 30 September--1 October 1946: The sentencing occurs, taking two days, with the individual sentences read out on the afternoon of 1 October . </Li> <P> The accusers were successful in unveiling the background of developments leading to the outbreak of World War II, which cost at least 40 million lives in Europe alone, as well as the extent of the atrocities committed in the name of the Hitler regime . Twelve of the accused were sentenced to death, seven received prison sentences (ranging from 10 years to life in prison), three were acquitted, and two were not charged . </P> <P> The death sentences were carried out on 16 October 1946 by hanging using the standard drop method instead of long drop . The U.S. army denied claims that the drop length was too short which caused the condemned to die slowly from strangulation instead of quickly from a broken neck, but evidence remains that some of the condemned men died agonizingly slowly, struggling for 14 to 28 minutes before finally choking to death . The executioner was John C. Woods . Woods had hanged 34 U.S. soldiers during the war, botching several of them . The executions took place in the gymnasium of the court building (demolished in 1983). </P>

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