The
High Command Trial (or, officially,
The United States of America vs. Wilhelm von Leeb, et al.) was the last of the twelve trials for
war crimes the
U.S. authorities held in their occupation zone in
Germany in
Nuremberg after the end of
World War II. These twelve trials were all held before U.S. military courts, not before the
International Military Tribunal, but took place in the same rooms at the
Palace of Justice. The twelve U.S. trials are collectively known as the "
Subsequent Nuremberg Trials" or, more formally, as the "Trials of War Criminals before the Nuremberg Military Tribunals" (NMT). The accused in this trial were all high-ranking generals of the German
Wehrmacht (one was a former
Admiral); some of them had been members of the
High Command of
Nazi Germany's military forces. They were charged with having participated in or planned or facilitated the execution of the numerous atrocities committed in countries occupied by the German forces during the war.