- Herman Goring: Reichsmarschall (convicted, sentenced to death, committed suicide before sentence could be carried out)
- Joachim von Ribbentrop: Foreign Minister (convicted, sentenced to death)
- Wilhelm Keitel: Field Marshal, Chief of the German High Command (convicted, sentenced to death)
- Ernst Kaltenbrunner: Chief of the Security Service (convicted, sentenced to death)
- Alfred Rosenberg: Nazi ideologue (convicted, sentenced to death)
- Hans Frank: Governor-General of Poland (convicted, sentenced to death)
- Wilhelm Frick: Minister of the Interior (convicted, sentenced to death)
- Julius Streicher: Nazi propagandist (convicted, sentenced to death)
- Fritz Sauckel: Plenipotentiary General for Labour Mobilization (convicted, sentenced to death)
- Alfred Jodl: Chief of Operations Staff (convicted, sentenced to death)
- Arthur Seyss-Inquart: Reich Governor of Austria (convicted, sentenced to death)
- Albert Speer: Armaments Minister (convicted, sentenced to 20 years imprisonment)
- Konstantin von Neurath: Former Foreign Minister (convicted, sentenced to 15 years imprisonment)
- Hjalmar Schacht: Former Economic Minister (acquitted)
- Franz von Papen: Former Vice-Chancellor (acquitted)