Editing Subsequent Nuremberg trials (section)

==Result==
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The Nuremberg process initiated 3,887 cases of which about 3,400 were dropped. 489 cases went to trial, involving 1,672 defendants. A total of 1,416 of them were found guilty; fewer than 200 were executed, and another 279 defendants were sentenced to life in prison. By the 1950s almost all of them had been released.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Nelson|first1=Anne|title=Red Orchestra: The Story of the Berlin Underground and the Circle of Friends Who Resisted Hitler|date=April 2009|publisher=Random House|pages=[https://archive.org/details/redorchestrastor00anne/page/305 305]–6|url=https://archive.org/details/redorchestrastor00anne|url-access=registration|quote=subsequent nuremberg trials 200 nazi.|isbn=9781588367990}}</ref>

Many of the longer prison sentences were reduced substantially by an amnesty under the decree of high commissioner [[John J. McCloy]] in 1951, after intense political pressure. Ten outstanding death sentences from the ''Einsatzgruppen'' Trial were converted to prison terms. Many others who had received prison sentences were released outright.