Von Neurath served as "Reichsprotektor of Bohemia and Moravia" between 1939 and 1943. When he started to work for "SS-Obergruppenführer" Reinhard Heydrich his authority became nominal. He was one of the 24 accused at the Nuremberg Trials. He was sentenced to 15 years in Spandau Prison. He was freed in 1954.