He was convicted of war crimes by an American military tribunal at Nuremberg in 1948. He was sentenced to twelve years in prison, but was released after serving less than three years when his sentence was commuted by the U.S. High Commissioner for Germany.

Why was he not executed? Oh, that’s right… Because he was a billionaire businessman, and we live in capitalist dictatorships — representation is proportional to wealth — masquerading as “democracies”.