Editing Wilhelm Frick (section)

==Trial and execution==
[[File:Nuremberg Trials defendant Wilhelm Frick in his cell 1945.jpeg|thumb|left|Frick in his cell, November 1945]]

Frick was arrested, and was arraigned at the [[Nuremberg trials]], where he was the only defendant besides [[Rudolf Hess]] who refused to testify on his own behalf.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://avalon.law.yale.edu/imt/08-31-46.asp|title=The trial of German major war criminals : proceedings of the International Military Tribunal sitting at Nuremberg Germany|website=avalon.law.yale.edu}}</ref> Frick was convicted of planning, initiating and waging wars of aggression, [[war crimes]] and [[crimes against humanity]], and for his role, as Minister of the Interior, in formulating the [[Enabling Act of 1933|Enabling Act]] and the [[Nuremberg Laws]]—laws under which people were deported to [[Nazi concentration camp|concentration camps]], many of them being murdered there. Frick was also accused of being one of the most senior people responsible for the existence of the concentration camps.<ref name="Wilhelm Frick 1877-1946">{{cite web |title=Nuremberg Trial Defendants: Wilhelm Frick |url=https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/Frick.html |website=www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org}}</ref>

[[File:Dead wilhelmfrick.jpg|thumb|The corpse of Frick after his execution at Nuremberg, October 1946. Injuries were caused from hitting his head on the trap door.]]
[[Nuremberg executions|Frick was sentenced to death on 1 October 1946]], and was [[hanging|hanged]] at Nuremberg Prison on 16 October. Of his execution, journalist Joseph Kingsbury-Smith wrote:{{Quotation|The sixth man to leave his prison cell and walk with handcuffed wrists to the death house was 69-year-old Wilhelm Frick. He entered the execution chamber at 2.05&nbsp;am, six minutes after [[Alfred Rosenberg|Rosenberg]] had been pronounced dead. He seemed the least steady of any so far and stumbled on the thirteenth step of the gallows. His only words were, "Long live eternal Germany", before he was hooded and dropped through the trap.<ref>[http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/GERfrick.htm Joseph Kingsbury-Smith, who witnessed the execution of Wilhelm Frick and nine other leaders of the Nazi Party on 1st October 1946] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081024060214/http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/GERfrick.htm |date=24 October 2008 }}</ref>}}

His body, along with those of the other nine executed men and the corpse of [[Hermann Göring]], was cremated at the [[Ostfriedhof (Munich)|Ostfriedhof Cemetery]] in [[Munich]], and the ashes were scattered in the river [[Isar]].<ref>{{citation |title=Ein Glücksfall der Geschichte |url=http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-39916258.html |author=Thomas Darnstädt |work=[[Der Spiegel]] |year=2005 |issue=14 |series=13 September |pages=128}}</ref>{{sfn|Manvell|2011|p=393}}{{sfn|Overy|2001|p=205}}