The Four Counts of the Nuremberg Indictment - 1945 [View all]

Count 1: Conspiracy to Wage Aggressive War
Indictment for participating in a "common plan" to commit the crimes listed in the other counts. It targeted leaders who planned, prepared, and initiated wars of aggression.

Count 2: Crimes Against Peace
Defined as the actual planning, preparation, initiation, or waging of a war of aggression, or a war in violation of international treaties.

Count 3: War Crimes
Violations of the traditional "laws or customs of war". This included the murder or ill-treatment of prisoners of war (POWs), the killing of hostages, and the plunder of public or private property.

Count 4: Crimes Against Humanity
Inhumane acts committed against any civilian population, such as murder, extermination, enslavement, and deportation. It also covered persecutions on political, racial, or religious grounds.