Any of a series of trials of former Nazi leaders for alleged war crimes, presided over by an International Military Tribunal representing the victorious Allied Powers and held in Nuremberg in 1945–6; usually in plural.
Origin
1940s; earliest use found in The Daily Mail.
Definition of Nuremberg trial in US English:
Nuremberg trial
noun
Any of a series of trials of former Nazi leaders for alleged war crimes, presided over by an International Military Tribunal representing the victorious Allied Powers and held in Nuremberg in 1945–6; usually in plural.