participating in the planning and waging of wars of aggression and wars in violation of international treaties; Crimes against humanity by participating in the plundering, devastation, and exploitation of occupied countries; Crimes against humanity by participating in the murder, extermination, enslavement, deportation, imprisonment, torture, and use for slave labor of civilians who came under German control, German nationals, and prisoners of war; Participating in a common plan or conspiracy to commit crimes against peace. All defendants were charged under counts 1, 3, and 4; count 2 excluded the defendants Lehmann and Kupke. Counts 1 and 4 were soon dropped due to lack of evidence. Defendants All eleven defendants found guilty were convicted on the forced labor charge (count 3), and of the ten charged on count 2 (economic spoliation), six were convicted. On January 31, 1951, two and a half years after the sentences, ten (all except Löser) were released from prison. Since no buyer for the Krupp Holding had been found, Alfried Krupp resumed control of the firm in 1953. See also Flick Trial References Trial proceedings (partial). Description of the trial from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. Transcript of a German radio broadcast from 1999 on the Krupp trial and the IG Farben Trial (in German, with English quotations). United States Nuremberg Military Tribunals 1947 in Germany 1948 in Germany