Editing Arthur Seyss-Inquart (section)

== Nuremberg trials ==
At the Nuremberg trials,
<nowiki> </nowiki>Seyss-Inquart was defended by Gustav Steinbauer and faced four charges:
<nowiki> </nowiki>conspiracy to commit crimes against peace; planning, initiating and 
waging wars of aggression; war crimes; and crimes against humanity. 
During the trial, Gustave Gilbert,
<nowiki> </nowiki>an American army psychologist, was allowed to examine the Nazi leaders 
who were tried at Nuremberg for war crimes. Among other tests, a German 
version of the Wechsler-Bellevue IQ test was administered. Arthur Seyss-Inquart scored 141, the second highest among the defendants, behind [[Hjalmar Schacht]].

Seyss-Inquart was acquitted of conspiracy, but convicted on all other
<nowiki> </nowiki>counts and sentenced to death by hanging. The final judgment against 
him cited his involvement in harsh suppression of Nazi opponents and 
atrocities against the Jews during all his billets, but particularly 
stressed his reign of terror in the Netherlands. It was these atrocities
<nowiki> </nowiki>that sent him to the gallows.

Upon hearing of his death sentence,
<nowiki> </nowiki>Seyss-Inquart was fatalistic: "Death by hanging... well, in view of the
<nowiki> </nowiki>whole situation, I never expected anything different. It's all right."<sup>[6]</sup>
<nowiki> </nowiki>He was hanged on 16 October 1946, at the age of 54, together with nine 
other Nuremberg defendants. He was the last to mount the scaffold, and 
his last words were the following: "I hope that this execution is the 
last act of the tragedy of the Second World War and that the lesson 
taken from this world war will be that peace and understanding should 
exist between peoples. I believe in Germany."

Before his execution, Seyss-Inquart returned to the Roman Catholic church,<sup>[''citation needed'']</sup> receiving absolution in the sacrament of confession from prison chaplain Father Bruno Spitzl. His body, with those of the other nine executed men and that of [[Hermann Göring]], was cremated at the Ostfriedhof in Munich, and their ashes were scattered into the river Isar.
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