Editing High Command Trial (section)

{{Short description|War crimes trial}}
{{Infobox court case
| name = {{noitalic|The High Command Trial}}
| court = [[Nuremberg]]
| image = File:Walter-Warlimont.jpg
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| caption = [[Walter Warlimont]] in the defendants' dock of the High Command Case at Nuremberg
| full name = The United States of America vs. Wilhelm von Leeb, et al
| indictment = 28 November 1947
| date decided = 28 October 1948, [[Nuremberg]]
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The '''High Command Trial''' (officially, '''''The United States of America vs. Wilhelm von Leeb, et al.'''''), also known initially as '''Case No. 12''' (the 13 Generals' Trial),<ref name="no12">Web Genocide Documentation Centre, [http://www.ess.uwe.ac.uk/WCC/warcrimgenrls.htm Case No. 12] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120401143013/http://www.ess.uwe.ac.uk/WCC/warcrimgenrls.htm |date=2012-04-01 }} (the 13 Generals' trial); euRathlon, UWE Bristol.</ref> and later as '''Case No. 72''' (the German high command trial: Trial of [[Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb|Wilhelm von Leeb]] and thirteen others),<ref name="no72">Web Genocide Documentation Centre, [http://www.ess.uwe.ac.uk/WCC/ghctrial1.htm Case No. 72] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050221092933/http://www.ess.uwe.ac.uk/WCC/ghctrial1.htm |date=2005-02-21 }} (The German high command trial: Trial of Wilhelm von Leeb and thirteen others), UWE Bristol.</ref> was the last of the twelve trials for [[war crime]]s the [[United States|U.S.]] authorities held in their occupation zone of [[Germany]] in [[Nuremberg]] after the end of [[World War II]].<ref>There was also a "High Command Case" in the [[Nuremberg Trials|trial of the major war criminals before the International Military Tribunal]]. In ''that'' case, the German supreme command of the armed forces ([[OKW]] – ''Oberkommando Wehrmacht'') was acquitted of the charge of having been a criminal organization.[http://avalon.law.yale.edu/imt/judorg.asp#staff]</ref> 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 (Nuremberg)|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).