Editing Ministries Trial (section)

==Indictment==

[[File:Ministries Trial Opening.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.3|[[Telford Taylor]] delivers the prosecution's opening statement.]]
The defendants were all indicted on at least one of seven counts:

Count 1: [[Crime against peace]]

Count 2: Taking part in a common plan or conspiracy to commit the aforementioned crimes (later dropped by the NMT in all trials)

Count 3: [[War crimes]] against [[Prisoner of war|prisoners of war]]

Count 4: [[Crimes against humanity]] through atrocities against German nationals on political, racial, and religious grounds between 1933 and 1939 (count dropped)

Count 5: War crimes and crimes against humanity through atrocities against civilian population

Count 6: War crimes and crimes against humanity through the plundering and spoliation of the [[military occupation|occupied territories]]

Count 7: War crimes and crimes against humanity through the enslavement and deportation of concentration camp prisoners and civilians in the occupied countries for slave labor

Count 8: Membership in a criminal organization, the NSDAP and the SS