Ministries Trial
Weizsäcker was arrested on 25 July 1947 in Nuremberg and was put on trial in the Ministries Trial, also known as the Wilhelmstrasse Trial, after the location of the German Foreign Office in Berlin. The Ministries Trial was one of 12 trials conducted by Nuremberg Military Tribunals in the American occupation zone. The American military tribunals started before and finished during the Berlin blockade confrontation with the Soviets and proceeded without participation of the Soviet Union and were also much more lenient in conduct and outcome than the first series of war crimes trials in 1946. No European judges were involved in the trial.