List of Axis war criminals
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The following is a list of people suspected of committing war crimes on behalf of Nazi Germany
Nazi Germany
Nazi Germany , also known as the Third Reich , but officially called German Reich from 1933 to 1943 and Greater German Reich from 26 June 1943 onward, is the name commonly used to refer to the state of Germany from 1933 to 1945, when it was a totalitarian dictatorship ruled by...

 or any of the Axis Powers
Axis Powers
The Axis powers , also known as the Axis alliance, Axis nations, Axis countries, or just the Axis, was an alignment of great powers during the mid-20th century that fought World War II against the Allies. It began in 1936 with treaties of friendship between Germany and Italy and between Germany and...

 during World War II
World War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

. It does not include people from Allied countries who were suspected of treason.

The Nuremberg Trials

  • Martin Bormann
    Martin Bormann
    Martin Ludwig Bormann was a prominent Nazi official. He became head of the Party Chancellery and private secretary to Adolf Hitler...

     — Guilty, sentenced to death in absentia. Later proven he committed suicide to avoid capture at the end of World War II in Europe. Remains discovered in 1972 later conclusively proven to be Bormann by forensic tests on the skull in 1998. Nonetheless, Simon Wiesenthal
    Simon Wiesenthal
    Simon Wiesenthal KBE was an Austrian Holocaust survivor who became famous after World War II for his work as a Nazi hunter....

    , Hugh Thomas
    Hugh Thomas
    Hugh Thomas , is a British historian and life peer.Hugh Thomas may also refer to:* Hugh Thomas , American choral conductor, pianist and educator* Hugh Thomas , Australian rules football coach...

     and Reinhard Gehlen
    Reinhard Gehlen
    Reinhard Gehlen was a General in the German Army during World War II, who served as chief of intelligence-gathering on the Eastern Front. After the war, he was recruited by the United States military to set up a spy ring directed against the Soviet Union , and eventually became head of the West...

     refused to accept this. Gehlen further argued Bormann was the secret Russian double agent
    Double agent
    A double agent, commonly abbreviated referral of double secret agent, is a counterintelligence term used to designate an employee of a secret service or organization, whose primary aim is to spy on the target organization, but who in fact is a member of that same target organization oneself. They...

     'Sasha'.
  • Karl Dönitz
    Karl Dönitz
    Karl Dönitz was a German naval commander during World War II. He started his career in the German Navy during World War I. In 1918, while he was in command of , the submarine was sunk by British forces and Dönitz was taken prisoner...

     — Guilty, sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment
  • Hans Frank
    Hans Frank
    Hans Michael Frank was a German lawyer who worked for the Nazi party during the 1920s and 1930s and later became a high-ranking official in Nazi Germany...

     — Guilty, sentenced to death by hanging
  • Wilhelm Frick
    Wilhelm Frick
    Wilhelm Frick was a prominent German Nazi official serving as Minister of the Interior of the Third Reich. After the end of World War II, he was tried for war crimes at the Nuremberg Trials and executed...

     — Guilty, sentenced to death by hanging
  • Hans Fritzsche
    Hans Fritzsche
    Hans Georg Fritzsche was a senior German Nazi official, ending the war as Ministerialdirektor at the Propagandaministerium.- Career :...

     — Acquitted. Tried, convicted and sentenced to nine years imprisonment by a separate West German denazification court. Released September 1950.
  • Walther Funk
    Walther Funk
    Walther Funk was a prominent Nazi official. He served as Reich Minister for Economic Affairs in Nazi Germany from 1937 to 1945, tried as a major war criminal by the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg.-Early life:...

     — Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment (released 1957 on grounds of ill health)
  • Hermann Göring
    Hermann Göring
    Hermann Wilhelm Göring, was a German politician, military leader, and a leading member of the Nazi Party. He was a veteran of World War I as an ace fighter pilot, and a recipient of the coveted Pour le Mérite, also known as "The Blue Max"...

     — Guilty, sentenced to death, committed suicide before execution.
  • Rudolf Hess
    Rudolf Hess
    Rudolf Walter Richard Hess was a prominent Nazi politician who was Adolf Hitler's deputy in the Nazi Party during the 1930s and early 1940s...

     — Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment
  • Alfred Jodl
    Alfred Jodl
    Alfred Josef Ferdinand Jodl was a German military commander, attaining the position of Chief of the Operations Staff of the Armed Forces High Command during World War II, acting as deputy to Wilhelm Keitel...

     — Guilty, sentenced to death by hanging, Henri Donnedieu de Vabres
    Henri Donnedieu de Vabres
    Henri Donnedieu de Vabres was a French jurist who took part to during the Nuremberg trials after World War II. He was the primary French judge during the proceedings, with Robert Falco as his alternate.Donnedieu was born in Nîmes...

     called the verdict a mistake in 1945. In 1953, the denazification
    Denazification
    Denazification was an Allied initiative to rid German and Austrian society, culture, press, economy, judiciary, and politics of any remnants of the National Socialist ideology. It was carried out specifically by removing those involved from positions of influence and by disbanding or rendering...

     courts reversed the decision and found Jodl not guilty. His property, confiscated in 1946, was returned to his widow.
  • Ernst Kaltenbrunner
    Ernst Kaltenbrunner
    Ernst Kaltenbrunner was an Austrian-born senior official of Nazi Germany during World War II. Between January 1943 and May 1945, he held the offices of Chief of the Reichssicherheitshauptamt , President of Interpol and, as a Obergruppenführer und General der Polizei und Waffen-SS, he was the...

     — Guilty, sentenced to death by hanging
  • Wilhelm Keitel
    Wilhelm Keitel
    Wilhelm Bodewin Gustav Keitel was a German field marshal . As head of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht and de facto war minister, he was one of Germany's most senior military leaders during World War II...

     — Guilty, sentenced to death by hanging
  • Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach
    Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach
    Gustav Georg Friedrich Maria Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, "Taffi", ran the German Friedrich Krupp AG heavy industry conglomerate from 1909 until 1941...

     — Medically unfit for trial
  • Robert Ley
    Robert Ley
    Robert Ley was a Nazi politician and head of the German Labour Front from 1933 to 1945. He committed suicide while awaiting trial for war crimes.- Early life :...

     — Committed suicide before his trial began
  • Konstantin von Neurath
    Konstantin von Neurath
    Konstantin Freiherr von Neurath was a German diplomat remembered mostly for having served as Foreign minister of Germany between 1932 and 1938...

     — Guilty, sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment (released 1954 on grounds of ill health)
  • Franz von Papen
    Franz von Papen
    Lieutenant-Colonel Franz Joseph Hermann Michael Maria von Papen zu Köningen was a German nobleman, Roman Catholic monarchist politician, General Staff officer, and diplomat, who served as Chancellor of Germany in 1932 and as Vice-Chancellor under Adolf Hitler in 1933–1934...

     — Acquitted. Tried, convicted and sentenced to eight years imprisonment by a separate West German denazification court. Released on appeal in 1949.
  • Erich Raeder
    Erich Raeder
    Erich Johann Albert Raeder was a naval leader in Germany before and during World War II. Raeder attained the highest possible naval rank—that of Großadmiral — in 1939, becoming the first person to hold that rank since Alfred von Tirpitz...

     — Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment (released 1955 on grounds of ill health)
  • Joachim von Ribbentrop
    Joachim von Ribbentrop
    Ulrich Friedrich Wilhelm Joachim von Ribbentrop was Foreign Minister of Germany from 1938 until 1945. He was later hanged for war crimes after the Nuremberg Trials.-Early life:...

     — Guilty, sentenced to death by hanging
  • Alfred Rosenberg
    Alfred Rosenberg
    ' was an early and intellectually influential member of the Nazi Party. Rosenberg was first introduced to Adolf Hitler by Dietrich Eckart; he later held several important posts in the Nazi government...

     — Guilty, sentenced to death by hanging
  • Fritz Sauckel
    Fritz Sauckel
    Ernst Friedrich Christoph "Fritz" Sauckel was a Nazi war criminal, who organized the systematic enslavement of millions from lands occupied by Nazi Germany...

     — Guilty, sentenced to death by hanging
  • Hjalmar Schacht
    Hjalmar Schacht
    Dr. Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht was a German economist, banker, liberal politician, and co-founder of the German Democratic Party. He served as the Currency Commissioner and President of the Reichsbank under the Weimar Republic...

     — Acquitted
  • Baldur von Schirach
    Baldur von Schirach
    Baldur Benedikt von Schirach was a Nazi youth leader later convicted of being a war criminal. Schirach was the head of the Hitler-Jugend and Gauleiter and Reichsstatthalter of Vienna....

     — Guilty, sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment
  • Arthur Seyss-Inquart
    Arthur Seyss-Inquart
    Arthur Seyss-Inquart was a Chancellor of Austria, lawyer and later Nazi official in pre-Anschluss Austria, the Third Reich and for wartime Germany in Poland and the Netherlands...

     - Guilty, sentenced to death by hanging
  • Albert Speer
    Albert Speer
    Albert Speer, born Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer, was a German architect who was, for a part of World War II, Minister of Armaments and War Production for the Third Reich. Speer was Adolf Hitler's chief architect before assuming ministerial office...

     — Guilty, sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment
  • Julius Streicher
    Julius Streicher
    Julius Streicher was a prominent Nazi prior to World War II. He was the founder and publisher of Der Stürmer newspaper, which became a central element of the Nazi propaganda machine...

     — Guilty, sentenced to death by hanging

The Doctors’ Trial

  • Alois Brunner
    Alois Brunner
    Alois Brunner is an Austrian Nazi war criminal. Brunner was Adolf Eichmann's assistant, and Eichmann referred to Brunner as his "best man." As commander of the Drancy internment camp outside Paris from June 1943 to August 1944, Brunner is held responsible for sending some 140,000 European Jews to...

     - Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment (in absentia). Rumored to have died in 1992, but was believed by some to still be alive in Syria
    Syria
    Syria , officially the Syrian Arab Republic , is a country in Western Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the West, Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east, Jordan to the south, and Israel to the southwest....

    .
  • Hermann Becker-Freyseng
    Hermann Becker-Freyseng
    Hermann Becker-Freyseng was a German physician and consultant for aviation medicine with the Luftwaffe. He was recognised as a leading specialist in aviation medicine...

     — Guilty, sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment, commuted to 10 years
  • Wilhelm Beiglböck
    Wilhelm Beiglböck
    Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Beiglböck was an internist and held the title of Consulting Physician to the German Luftwaffe during World War II....

     — Guilty, sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment, commuted to 10 years
  • Kurt Blome
    Kurt Blome
    Kurt Blome was a high-ranking Nazi scientist before and during World War II. He was the Deputy Reich Health Leader and Plenipotentiary for Cancer Research in the Reich Research Council...

     — Acquitted
  • Viktor Brack
    Viktor Brack
    Viktor Brack , was a Nazi war criminal, the organiser of the Euthanasia Programme, Action T4, where the Nazi state systematically murdered disabled German people...

     — Guilty, sentenced to death
  • Karl Brandt
    Karl Brandt (Nazi physician)
    Karl Brandt was a German Nazi war criminal. He rose to the rank of SS-Gruppenführer in the Allgemeine-SS and SS-Brigadeführer in the Waffen-SS. Among other positions, Brandt headed the administration of the Nazi euthanasia program from 1939 onwards and was selected as Adolf Hitler's personal...

     — Guilty, sentenced to death
  • Rudolf Brand — Guilty,sentenced to death
  • Fritz Fischer
    Fritz Fischer (medical doctor)
    Fritz Fischer was a German medical doctor who, under the Nazi regime, participated in "medical experiments" conducted on inmates of the Ravensbrück concentration camp....

     — Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment, commuted to 15 years
  • Karl Gebhardt
    Karl Gebhardt
    Karl Gebhardt was a German medical doctor; personal physician of Heinrich Himmler; and one of the main coordinators and perpetrators of surgical experiments performed on inmates of the concentration camps at Ravensbrück and Auschwitz.-Career in the Third Reich:Gebhardt's Nazi career began with his...

     — Guilty, sentenced to death
  • Karl Genzken
    Karl Genzken
    Karl August Genzken , a physician, he conducted human experiments on prisoners of several concentration camps. He was a Major General of the Waffen-SS and the Chief of the Medical Office of the Waffen-SS...

     — Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment, commuted to 20 years
  • Siegfried Handloser
    Siegfried Handloser
    Siegfried Adolf Handloser was a Doctor, Prof. Dr. med., Colonel General of the German Armed Forces Medical Services, Chief of the German Armed Forces Medical Services...

     — Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment, commuted to 20 years
  • Waldemar Hoven
    Waldemar Hoven
    Waldemar Hoven was a Nazi and a physician at Buchenwald concentration camp.Hoven was born in Freiburg, Germany. Between the years 1919 and 1933, he visited Denmark, Sweden, the United States, and France, returning in 1933 to Freiburg, where he completed his high school studies. He then attended...

     — Guilty, sentenced to death
  • Joachim Mrugowsky
    Joachim Mrugowsky
    Joachim Mrugowsky Hygienist. Associate Professor, Medical Doctorate, Chief of Hygiene Institute of the Waffen-SS...

     — Guilty, sentenced to death
  • Herta Oberheuser
    Herta Oberheuser
    Herta Oberheuser was a physician at the Ravensbrück concentration camp from 1940 until 1943.-Medical experiments:She worked there under the supervision of Dr...

     — Guilty, sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment, commuted to 10 years
  • Adolf Pokorny
    Adolf Pokorny
    Adolf Pokorny was born on July 26, 1895 in Vienna, Austria. He was a dermatologist and Medical Doctorate. He was a defendant in the Doctors' Trial.Pokorny participated from March 1915 to September 1918 in the First World War...

     — Acquitted
  • Helmut Poppendick
    Helmut Poppendick
    Helmut Poppendick Internist. Medical Doctorate, Chief of the Personal Staff of the Reich Physician SS and Police. Defendant in the Doctors' Trial....

     — Guilty, sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment (commuted to time served in 1951)
  • Hans-Wolfgang Romberg — Acquitted
  • Gerhard Rose
    Gerhard Rose
    Gerhard Rose was a German expert on tropical medicine who was tried for war crimes at the end of World War II....

     — Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment, commuted to 20 years
  • Paul Rostock
    Paul Rostock
    Paul Rostock was a German official, surgeon, and university professor. He was Chief of the Office for Medical Science and Research under Third Reich Commissioner Karl Brandt and a Full Professor, Medical Doctorate, Medical Superintendent of the University of Berlin Surgical...

     — Acquitted
  • Siegfried Ruff — Acquitted
  • Konrad Schäfer — Acquitted
  • Oskar Schröder — Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment, commuted to 15 years
  • Wolfram Sievers
    Wolfram Sievers
    Wolfram Sievers was Reichsgeschäftsführer, or managing director, of the Ahnenerbe from 1935 to 1945.-Early life:...

     — Guilty, sentenced to death
  • Georg August Weltz — Acquitted

The Milch Trial

  • Erhard Milch
    Erhard Milch
    Erhard Milch was a German Field Marshal who oversaw the development of the Luftwaffe as part of the re-armament of Germany following World War I, and served as founding Director of Deutsche Luft Hansa...

     — Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment, commuted to 15 years (released in 1954)

The Judges’ Trial

  • Josef Altstötter
    Josef Altstötter
    Josef Altstötter was a high ranking official in the German Ministry of Justice under the Nazi Regime...

     — Guilty, sentenced to five years’ imprisonment
  • Wilhelm von Ammon — Guilty, sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment
  • Paul Barnickel — Acquitted
  • Hermann Cuhorst — Acquitted
  • Karl Engert — Unfit to stand trial
  • Günther Joel — Guilty, sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment
  • Herbert Klemm — Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment
  • Ernst Lautz — Guilty, sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment
  • Wolfgang Mettgenberg — Guilty, sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment
  • Günther Nebelung — Acquitted
  • Rudolf Oeschey — Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment
  • Hans Petersen — Acquitted
  • Oswald Rothaug — Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment
  • Curt Rothenberger
    Curt Rothenberger
    Curt Ferdinand Rothenberger was a German jurist and leading figure in the Nazi Party.-Hamburg:...

     — Guilty, sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment
  • Franz Schlegelberger
    Franz Schlegelberger
    Louis Rudolph Franz Schlegelberger was State Secretary in the German Reich Ministry of Justice and served awhile as Justice Minister during the Third Reich. He was the highest-ranking defendant at the Judges' Trial in Nuremberg.- Early life :Schlegelberger was born into a Protestant salesman's...

     — Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment
  • Carl Westphal — Committed suicide after his indictment but before the beginning of his trial

The Pohl Trial

  • Hans Heinrich Baier — Guilty, sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment (released in 1951)
  • Hans Bobermin — Guilty, sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment, commuted to 15 years (released in 1951)
  • Franz Eirenschmalz — Guilty, sentenced to death, commuted to nine years’ imprisonment
  • Heinz Karl Fanslau — Guilty, sentenced to 25 years’ imprisonment, commuted to 15 years
  • August Frank
    August Frank
    August Frank was an official of the Main Economic Administration Office of the Nazi SS generally known by its initials WVHA. WVHA was, among other things, responsible for the administration of the Nazi concentration camps...

     — Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment, commuted to 15 years
  • Hans Hohberg — Guilty, sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment (released in 1951)
  • Max Kiefer — Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment, commuted to 20 years (released in 1951)
  • Horst Klein — Acquitted
  • Georg Lörner
    Georg Lörner
    Georg Nikolaus Lörner was an SS-Gruppenführer and Generalleutnant of the Waffen-SS, and Deputy Chief under Oswald Pohl, of the Wirtschaftsunternehmen im SS-Wirtschafts-Verwaltungshauptamt , chief of Amtsgruppe B, of the WVHA, and deputy chief of Amtsgruppe W Georg Nikolaus Lörner (Feb. 18, 1918;...

     — Guilty, sentenced to death, commuted to 15 years
  • Hans Lörner — Guilty, sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment (released in 1951)
  • Karl Mummenthey — Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment, commuted to 20 years
  • Oswald Pohl
    Oswald Pohl
    Oswald Pohl was a Nazi official and member of the SS , involved in the mass murders of Jews in concentration camps, the so-called Final Solution.-Early years:...

     — Guilty, sentenced to death
  • Hermann Pook — Guilty, sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment (released in 1951)
  • Rudolf Scheide — Acquitted
  • Karl Sommer — Guilty, sentenced to death, commuted to 20 years’ imprisonment
  • Erwin Tschentscher — Guilty, sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment (released in 1951)
  • Josef Vogt — Acquitted
  • Leo Volk — Guilty, sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment, commuted to 8 years

The Flick Trial

  • Odilo Burkart — Acquitted
  • Friedrich Flick — Guilty, sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment, but then released by John J. McCloy
    John J. McCloy
    John Jay McCloy was a lawyer and banker who served as Assistant Secretary of War during World War II, president of the World Bank and U.S. High Commissioner for Germany...

     after three years
  • Konrad Kaletsch — Acquitted
  • Otto Steinbrinck
    Otto Steinbrinck
    Brigadier General Otto Steinbrinck was a German industrialist and an accused in the Nuremberg Flick Trial....

     — Guilty, sentenced to five years’ imprisonment, but died in prison in 1949
  • Hermann Terberger — Acquitted
  • Bernhard Weiss — Guilty, sentenced to two-and-one-half years imprisonment

The IG Farben Trial

  • Otto Ambros
    Otto Ambros
    Otto Ambros was a German chemist, notably involved with the research of chemical nerve agents.-Early life:He was the son of a university professor. He went to school and passed his Abitur exam in Munich. In 1920 he went to the University of Munich to study chemistry and agricultural science...

     — Guilty, sentenced to eight years' imprisonment
  • Max Brüggemann — Ruled unfit to stand trial
  • Ernst Bürgin — Guilty, sentenced to two years' imprisonment
  • Heinrich Bütefisch
    Heinrich Bütefisch
    Heinrich Bütefisch was a German chemist and manager of the IG Farben.As a leading figure in IG Farben, he joined the Freunde des Reichsführer-SS, an exclusive group close to Heinrich Himmler that allowed the prominent individuals in German society to effectively become SS officers without having...

     — Guilty, sentenced to six years' imprisonment
  • Walter Dürrfeld — Guilty, sentenced to eight years' imprisonment
  • Fritz Gajewski
    Fritz Gajewski
    Freidrich Gajewski was a German businessman with IG Farben and Wehrwirtschaftsführer during the Second World War.-Early years:...

     — Acquitted
  • Heinrich Gattineau — Acquitted
  • Paul Häfliger — Guilty, sentenced to two years' imprisonment
  • Erich von der Heyde — Acquitted
  • Heinrich Hörlein — Acquitted
  • Max Ilgner
    Max Ilgner
    Max Ilgner was a German industrialist. He was a member of the board of IG Farben and a Wehrwirtschaftsführer or war economy leader under the Nazi regime.-Early life:...

     — Guilty, sentenced to three years' imprisonment
  • Friedrich Jähne — Guilty, sentenced to one-and-one-half years' imprisonment
  • August von Knierim — Acquitted
  • Carl Krauch
    Carl Krauch
    Carl Krauch was a German chemist and industrialist. He was an executive at BASF ; during World War II, he was chairman of the supervisory board. He was a key implementer of the Reich’s Four-Year Plan to achieve national economic self-sufficiency and promote industrial production...

     — Guilty, sentenced to six years imprisonment
  • Hans Kugler — Guilty, sentenced to one-and-one-half years' imprisonment
  • Hans Kühne
    Hans Kühne
    Hans Kühne was a German chemist on the board of IG Farben and a defendant during the Nuremberg Trials.-Early years:...

     — Acquitted
  • Carl Lautenschläger
    Carl Lautenschläger
    Carl Ludwig Lautenschläger was a German chemist and physician.-Early life:Lautenschläger was the son of Ludwig Lautenschläger, an architect and his wife Paula Schober...

     — Acquitted
  • Wilhelm Rudolf Mann
    Wilhelm Rudolf Mann
    Wilhelm Rudolf Mann was a German factory manager for IG Farben and later with Bayer.-Early life:...

     — Acquitted
  • Heinrich Oster
    Heinrich Oster
    Heinrich Oster was a German chemist, executive at BASF and IG Farben and convicted war criminal.-Early years:...

     — Guilty, sentenced to two years' imprisonment
  • Hermann Schmitz
    Hermann Schmitz (industrialist)
    Hermann Schmitz was a German industrialist, and CEO of IG Farben from 1935 to 1945. He was sentenced to four years in the IG Farben Trial....

     — Guilty, sentenced to four years' imprisonment
  • Christian Schneider
    Christian Schneider (chemist)
    Christian Schneider was a German chemist, industrial manager and, in the Third Reich, a Wehrwirtschaftsführer .-Early years:...

     — Acquitted
  • Georg von Schnitzler
    Georg von Schnitzler
    Georg August Eduard Schnitzler, since 1913, von Schnitzler was a member of the board at IG Farben and a convicted war criminal.-Early years:...

     — Guilty, sentenced to two-and-one-half years' imprisonment
  • Fritz ter Meer
    Fritz ter Meer
    Fritz ter Meer was a German chemist and Nazi war criminal.The son of Edmund ter Meer , ter Meer founded the chemical company Teerfarbenfabrik Dr. E. ter Meer & Cie in Uerdingen that later became part of Bayer. His family tree can be traced back to the 15th Century.Fritz ter Meer also worked for...

     — Guilty, sentenced to seven years' imprisonment
  • Karl Wurster — Acquitted

The Hostages Trial

  • Franz Böhme
    Franz Böhme
    Franz Friedrich Böhme was an Austrian who later went on to become a military officer...

     — Committed suicide
  • Ernst Dehner
    Ernst Dehner
    Ernst Dehner was a highly decorated General der Infanterie in the Wehrmacht during World War II. He was also a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. The Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross was awarded to recognise extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership. Ernst...

     — Guilty, sentenced to 17 years’ imprisonment (released on in 1951)
  • Hellmuth Felmy
    Hellmuth Felmy
    Hellmuth Felmy was a Nazi war criminal, German military officer during World War I, the interwar period, and World War II.-Biography:On 28 May 1885, Helmuth Felmy was born in Berlin in what was then the German Empire...

     — Guilty, sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment, commuted to 10 years
  • Hermann Foertsch
    Hermann Foertsch
    Hermann Foertsch was a highly decorated General der Infanterie in the Wehrmacht during World War II who held commands at the divisional, corps and army levels. He was also a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. The Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross was awarded to recognise extreme...

     — Acquitted
  • Kurt von Geitner — Acquitted
  • Walter Kuntze
    Walter Kuntze
    Walter Kuntze was a highly decorated General der Pioniere in the Wehrmacht during World War II who commanded the 12. Armee. He was also a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross...

     — Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment (released on medical grounds in 1953)
  • Hubert Lanz
    Hubert Lanz
    Karl Hubert Lanz was a German Army officer who rose to the rank of General der Gebirgstruppe during the Second World War, in which he led units in the Eastern Front and in the Balkans. After the war, he was tried and convicted for several atrocities committed by units under his command in the...

     — Guilty, sentenced to 12 years’ imprisonment (released on in 1951)
  • Wilhelm List — Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment (released on medical grounds in 1952)
  • Ernst von Leyser
    Ernst von Leyser
    Ernst Ulrich Hans von Leyser was a German General der Infanterie during World War II who commanded various Army Corps and recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. The Knight's Cross was Nazi Germany's highest award for military gallantry and was awarded to recognise extreme battlefield...

     — Guilty, sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment (released on medical grounds in 1951)
  • Lothar Rendulic
    Lothar Rendulic
    Generaloberst Lothar Rendulic was an Austro-Hungarian and Austrian Army officer of Croatian origin who served as a German general during World War II. He commanded the 14. Infanterie-Division, 52. Infanterie-Division, XXXV Armeekorps, 2. Panzer-Armee, 20...

     — Guilty, sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment, commuted to 10 years
  • Wilhelm Speidel — Guilty, sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment (released on in 1951)
  • Maximilian von Weichs
    Maximilian von Weichs
    Maximilian Maria Joseph Karl Gabriel Lamoral Reichsfreiherr von Weichs zu Glon was a German Generalfeldmarschall during World War II. He was also a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves...

     — Ruled unfit to stand trial

The Russian
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

 Trial

  • Heinz Brückner — Guilty, sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment
  • Rudolf Creutz — Guilty, sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment
  • Gregor Ebner — Guilty, released after the judgement due to time already served
  • Ulrich Greifelt
    Ulrich Greifelt
    Ulrich Heinrich Emil Richard Greifelt was an officer of the Schutzstaffel during the Nazi regime in Germany. He was found guilty of war crimes at Nuremberg and died in Landsberg Prison.-Biography:Greifelt was born in Berlin in 1896, the son of a pharmacist...

     — Guilty, sentenced to lifetime imprisonment
  • Richard Hildenbrandt — Guilty, sentenced to 25 years’ imprisonment
  • Otto Hofmann
    Otto Hofmann
    Otto Hofmann was an Austrian SS-Gruppenführer and an official of Nazi Germany's "Race and Settlement Main Office".-Early life:Hofmann was born in Innsbruck, Tyrol. He served as a military pilot in World War I...

     — Guilty, sentenced to 25 years’ imprisonment
  • Herbert Hübner
    Herbert Hübner
    Herbert Hübner was a German film actor. He appeared in over 150 films between 1921 and 1966.He was born in Breslau, Germany and died in Munich, Germany.-Selected filmography:...

     — Guilty, sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment
  • Werner Lorenz
    Werner Lorenz
    Werner Lorenz was SS head of the Hauptamt Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle an organization charged with settling ethnic Germans in the German Reich from other parts of Europe.-Early life:...

     — Guilty, sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment
  • Konrad Meyer-Hetling — Guilty, released after the judgement due to time already served
  • Steigal Krups-Wichtenschneizalberg - Guilty of soliciting Jewess prisoners and poisoning Jewish prisoners at Auschwitz.
  • Fritz Schwalm — Guilty, sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment
  • Otto Schwarzenberger — Guilty, released after the judgement due to time already served
  • Max Sollmann — Guilty, released after the judgement due to time already served
  • Günther Tesch — Guilty, released after the judgement due to time already served
  • Inge Viermitz — Acquitted

The Einsatzgruppen Trial

  • Ernst Biberstein
    Ernst Biberstein
    Ernst Emil Heinrich Biberstein was an SS-Obersturmbannführer , member of the SD and...

     — Guilty, sentenced to death, commuted to life imprisonment
  • Paul Blobel
    Paul Blobel
    Paul Blobel was a German Nazi war criminal, an SS-Standartenführer and a member of the SD. Born in the city of Potsdam, he participated in the First World War, where by all accounts he served well and was decorated with the Iron Cross first class...

     — Guilty, sentenced to death
  • Walter Blume — Guilty, sentenced to death, commuted to 25 years’ imprisonment
  • Werner Braune
    Werner Braune
    Karl Rudolf Werner Braune was a German member of the Nazi police and military organization known as the Schutzstaffel, or, more commonly, by its German initials, SS. He held the rank of Obersturmbannführer...

     — Guilty, sentenced to death
  • Erich Ehrlinger
    Erich Ehrlinger
    Erich Ehrlinger was a member of the Nazi SS who, as commander of Special Detachment 1b, was responsible for mass murder in the Baltic states and Belarus.He was also the commander of the Security Police and the...

     Escaped justice, arrested in 1958, sentenced 1963 in Frankfurt to 12 years, released in August 1965
  • Fritz Gernalminester — Guilty, but because of insanity, was sentenced to a life term in a mental hospital. (later escaped and was never found again)
  • Lothar Fendler — Guilty, sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment, commuted to eight years
  • Waldemar Klingelhöfer
    Waldemar Klingelhöfer
    Waldemar Klingelhöfer ; died about 1980) was an SS-Sturmbannführer and convicted war criminal.-Early life:...

     — Guilty, released after judgement due to time already served
  • Walter Hänsch — Guilty, sentenced to death, commuted to 15 years’ imprisonment
  • Emil Haussman — Committed suicide
  • Heinz Jost
    Heinz Jost
    Heinz Jost was an SS Brigadeführer and a Generalmajor of Police...

     — Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment, commuted to 10 years
  • Waldemar Klingelhöfer
    Waldemar Klingelhöfer
    Waldemar Klingelhöfer ; died about 1980) was an SS-Sturmbannführer and convicted war criminal.-Early life:...

     — Guilty, sentenced to death, commuted to life imprisonment
  • Erich Naumann
    Erich Naumann
    Erich Naumann was an SS-Brigadeführer, member of the SD. Naumann was responsible for genocide in eastern Europe as commander of Einsatzgruppe B and considered a war criminal.-Early life and career:...

     — Guilty, sentenced to death
  • Gustav Nosske — Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment, commuted to 10 years
  • Heinrich Strasfluffel — Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment. (Escaped)
  • Otto Ohlendorf
    Otto Ohlendorf
    Otto Ohlendorf was a German SS-Gruppenführer and head of the Inland-SD , a section of the SD. Ohlendorf was the commanding officer of Einsatzgruppe D, which conducted mass murder in Moldova, south Ukraine, the Crimea, and, during 1942, the north Caucasus...

     — Guilty, sentenced to death
  • Adolf Ott — Guilty, sentenced to death, commuted to life imprisonment
  • Waldemar von Radetzky — Guilty, sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment (released in 1951)
  • Otto Rasch
    Otto Rasch
    SS-Brigadeführer Otto Rasch was a high-ranking Nazi official in the occupied Eastern territories, commanding Einsatzgruppe C until October 1941. As a commanding officer, he was a Holocaust perpetrator and mass murderer.-Biography:Rasch was born in Friedrichsruh, northern Germany...

     — Ruled unfit to stand trial
  • Felix Rühl — Guilty, sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment (released in 1951)
  • Martin Sandberger
    Martin Sandberger
    Martin Sandberger was an SS Standartenführer and commander of Sonderkommando 1a of the Einsatzgruppe, as well as commander of the Sicherheitspolizei and SD in Estonia. He played an important role in the mass murder of the Jews in the Baltic states...

     — Guilty, sentenced to death, commuted to life imprisonment
  • Heinz Schubert — Guilty, sentenced to death, commuted to 10 years’ imprisonment
  • Erwim Schulz — Guilty, sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment, commuted to 15 years
  • Willy Seibert — Guilty, sentenced to death, commuted to 15 years’ imprisonment
  • Franz Six
    Franz Six
    Dr. Franz Alfred Six was a Nazi official who rose to the rank of SS-Brigadeführer. He was appointed by Reinhard Heydrich to head department Amt VII, Written Records of the Reichssicherheitshauptamt...

     — Guilty, sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment, commuted to 15 years
  • Eugen Steimle — Guilty, sentenced to death, commuted to 20 years’ imprisonment
  • Edward Strauch — Guilty, sentenced to death, died in a hospital
    Hospital
    A hospital is a health care institution providing patient treatment by specialized staff and equipment. Hospitals often, but not always, provide for inpatient care or longer-term patient stays....

     while suffering from an epileptic attack

The Krupp
Krupp
The Krupp family , a prominent 400-year-old German dynasty from Essen, have become famous for their steel production and for their manufacture of ammunition and armaments. The family business, known as Friedrich Krupp AG Hoesch-Krupp, was the largest company in Europe at the beginning of the 20th...

 Trial

  • Friedrich von Bülow — Guilty, sentenced to 12 years’ imprisonment
  • Karl Adolf Ferdinand Eberhardt — Guilty, sentenced to nine years’ imprisonment
  • Eduard Houdremont — Guilty, sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment
  • Max Otto Ihn — Guilty, sentenced to nine years’ imprisonment
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Janssen — Guilty, sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment
  • Heinrich Leo Korschan — Guilty, sentenced to six years’ imprisonment
  • Alfried Krupp — Guilty, sentenced to 12 years’ imprisonment plus forfeiture of property. Was released by John J. McCloy
    John J. McCloy
    John Jay McCloy was a lawyer and banker who served as Assistant Secretary of War during World War II, president of the World Bank and U.S. High Commissioner for Germany...

     1951, and had his property returned to him
  • Hans Albert Gustav Kupke — Guilty, sentenced to two years, 10 months’ imprisonment
  • Werner Wilhelm Heinrich Lehmann — Guilty, sentenced to six years’ imprisonment
  • Ewald Oskar Ludwig Löser — Guilty, sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment
  • Erich Müller — Guilty, sentenced to 12 years’ imprisonment
  • Karl Heinrich Pfirsch — Acquitted

The Ministries Trial

  • Gottlob Berger
    Gottlob Berger
    Gottlob Berger was a German Nazi who held the rank of Obergruppenführer during World War II and was later convicted of war crimes.In 1939, he was Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler's main recruiting officer...

     — Guilty, sentenced to 25 years’ imprisonment (released in 1951)
  • Ernst Wilhelm Bohle
    Ernst Wilhelm Bohle
    Ernst Wilhelm Bohle was the leader of the Foreign Organization of the German Nazi Party from 1933 until 1945.-Early life:...

     — Guilty, sentenced to five years’ imprisonment
  • Richard Walther Darré — Guilty, sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment (released in 1950)
  • Otto Dietrich
    Otto Dietrich
    Dr. Otto Dietrich was an SS-Obergruppenführer, the Third Reich's Press Chief, and a confidant of Adolf Hitler.-Biography:...

     — Guilty, sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment (released in 1950)
  • Otto von Erdmannsdorff
    Otto von Erdmannsdorff
    Otto von Erdmannsdorff was a German diplomat who served as ambassador to Hungary under the Nazis from 1937 to 1941, and was later acquitted of war crimes in the Ministries Trial....

     — Acquitted
  • Hans Kehrl — Guilty, sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment (released in 1951)
  • Wilhelm Keppler
    Wilhelm Keppler
    Wilhelm Karl Keppler was a German businessman and one of Adolf Hitler's early financial backers. Introduced to Hitler by Heinrich Himmler, Keppler helped to finance the Nazi Party....

     — Guilty, sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment (released in 1951)
  • Paul Körner — Guilty, sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment (released in 1951)
  • Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk — Guilty, sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment (released in 1951)
  • Hans Heinrich Lammers — Guilty, sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment (released in 1951)
  • Otto Meissner — Acquitted, later committed suicide from reprocussions of being returned to Germany
  • Gustav Adolf Steengracht von Moyland
    Gustav Adolf Steengracht von Moyland
    Gustav Adolf Baron Steengracht von Moyland was a German diplomat and politician of Dutch descent, who served as Nazi Germany's Secretary of State at the Foreign Office from 1943 to 1945.-Early life:...

     — Guilty, sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment (released in 1950)
  • Paul Pleiger
    Paul Pleiger
    Paul Pleiger was a German state adviser and corporate general director....

     — Guilty, sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment (released in 1951)
  • Emil Puhl
    Emil Puhl
    Dr. Emil Puhl was a Nazi economist and banking official during World War II. He was director and vice-president of Germany's Reichsbank during World War II and also served as a director for the Bank for International Settlements at Basel . He was instrumental in moving Nazi gold during the war...

     — Guilty, sentenced to five years’ imprisonment
  • Karl Rasche
    Karl Rasche
    Karl Emil August Rasche was an SS-Obersturmbannführer and a Ph.D. in law as well as a Board member and banker, later spokesman, of the Dresdner Bank during the Third Reich...

     — Guilty, sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment
  • Karl Ritter
    Karl Ritter
    Karl Ritter was a German diplomat, ambassador to Brazil, a member of the Nazi Party, Special Envoy to the Munich Agreement, a senior official in the Foreign Office during World War II, and convicted war criminal in the Ministries Trial.-Life:Karl Ritter was a graduate in law, and was appointed to...

     — Guilty, released after the judgement due to time already served
  • Walter Schellenberg
    Walter Schellenberg
    Walther Friedrich Schellenberg was a German SS-Brigadeführer who rose through the ranks of the SS to become the head of foreign intelligence following the abolition of the Abwehr in 1944.-Biography:...

     — Guilty, sentenced to six years’ imprisonment
  • Wilhelm Stuckart
    Wilhelm Stuckart
    Wilhelm Stuckart was a Nazi Party lawyer and official, a state secretary in the German Interior Ministry and later, a convicted war criminal.-Early life:...

     — Guilty, released after the judgement due to time already served
  • Edmund Veesenmayer
    Edmund Veesenmayer
    Edmund Veesenmayer was a German politician, officer and war criminal. He significantly contributed to The Holocaust in Hungary and Croatia...

     — Guilty, sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment (released in 1951)
  • Ernst von Weizsäcker
    Ernst von Weizsäcker
    Ernst Freiherr von Weizsäcker was a German diplomat and politician. He served as State Secretary at the Foreign Office from 1938 to 1943, and as German Ambassador to the Holy See from 1943 to 1945...

     — Guilty, sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment (released in 1950 by John J. McCloy
    John J. McCloy
    John Jay McCloy was a lawyer and banker who served as Assistant Secretary of War during World War II, president of the World Bank and U.S. High Commissioner for Germany...

    )
  • Ernst Woermann — Guilty, sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment (released in 1951)

The High Command Trial

  • Johannes Blaskowitz
    Johannes Blaskowitz
    Johannes Albrecht Blaskowitz was a German general during World War II. He was also a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords...

     — Committed suicide
  • Karl-Adolf Hollidt
    Karl-Adolf Hollidt
    Karl-Adolf Hollidt was a German commander during the Second World War.-Early life:His father was a local secondary school teacher and he was educated in his hometown of Speyer...

     — Guilty, sentenced to five years’ imprisonment (released in 1949)
  • Hermann Hoth
    Hermann Hoth
    Hermann "Papa" Hoth was an officer in the German military from 1903 to 1945. He attained the rank of Generaloberst during World War II. He fought in France, but is most noted for his later exploits as a panzer commander on the Eastern Front...

     — Guilty, sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment (released in 1954)
  • Georg von Küchler
    Georg von Küchler
    Georg Karl Friedrich Wilhelm von Küchler was a German Field Marshal during the Second World War. He was also a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves...

     — Guilty, sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment, commuted to 12 years (released in 1953 on medical grounds)
  • Wilhelm von Leeb — Guilty, released after judgement due to time already served.
  • Rudolf Lehmann — Guilty, sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment
  • Hermann Reinecke
    Hermann Reinecke
    Hermann Reinecke was a General der Infanterie of Nazi Germany's Wehrmacht during World War II.He was a former Lieutenant General and the head of the General Office of the Armed Forces at OKW ...

     — Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment (released in 1954)
  • Georg-Hans Reinhardt
    Georg-Hans Reinhardt
    Georg-Hans Reinhardt was a German general of World War II. He commanded Third Panzer Army from 1941 to 1944, and Army Group Centre in 1944 and 1945. His highest rank was Generaloberst . He was also a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords...

     — Guilty, sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment (released in 1952)
  • Karl von Roques — Guilty, sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment, died in prison in 1949
  • Hans von Salmuth
    Hans von Salmuth
    Hans Eberhard Kurt von Salmuth was a German general during World War II. A lifelong professional soldier, he served his country as a junior officer in World War I, a staff officer in the inter-war period and early World War II, and an army level commander...

     — Guilty, sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment, commuted to 12 years
  • Otto Schniewind
    Otto Schniewind
    Otto Schniewind was a General Admiral with the Kriegsmarine during World War II and a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross . The Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross was awarded to recognise extreme battlefield bravery or successful military leadership.-Career:Schniewind entered the...

     — Acquitted
  • Hugo Sperrle
    Hugo Sperrle
    Hugo Sperrle was a German field marshal of the Luftwaffe during World War II. His forces were deployed solely on the Western Front and the Mediterranean throughout the war...

     — Acquitted
  • Walter Warlimont
    Walter Warlimont
    Walter Warlimont was a German officer known for his role in the OKW inner circle .-World War I:...

     — Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment (released in 1954)
  • Otto Wöhler
    Otto Wöhler
    Otto Wöhler was a German general of infantry, serving during World War I and World War II and recipient of the Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves...

     — Guilty, sentenced to eight years’ imprisonment (released in 1951)

The Auschwitz Trial

  • Hans Aumeier
    Hans Aumeier
    Hans Aumeier was a Nazi war criminal, an SS-Sturmbannführer and the deputy commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp.-Life before the War:...

     — Guilty, sentenced to death
  • August Bogusch
    August Bogusch
    August Raimond Bogusch was an SS-Scharführer and member of staff at Auschwitz concentration camp. He was prosecuted at the Auschwitz Trial.- Life :...

     — Guilty, sentenced to death
  • Therese Brandl
    Therese Brandl
    Therese Brandl was a Nazi concentration camp guard. She was convicted of crimes against humanity after the war and executed....

     — Guilty, sentenced to death
  • Arthur Breitwiser — Guilty, sentenced to death, commuted to life imprisonment
  • Alexander Bülow
    Alexander Bülow
    Alexander Bülow was an SS-Sturmmann and member of staff at Auschwitz concentration camp. He was prosecuted at the Auschwitz Trial....

     — Guilty, sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment
  • Fritz Buntrock
    Fritz Buntrock
    Fritz Buntrock [died January 28, 1948] was as SS-Unterscharfuher at Auschwitz. He was prosecuted at the Auschwitz Trial.Buntrock was tried by the Supreme National Tribunal in Krakow and sentenced to death. He was hanged in Montelupich Prison on January 28, 1948....

     — Guilty, sentenced to death
  • Luise Danz
    Luise Danz
    Luise Danz is a former concentration camp guard. She was born in Walldorf , Thuringia.-Camp work:On January 24, 1943 at the age of 26, Luise Danz was conscripted as an Aufseherin within the Nazi concentration camp system. She served as guard in several camps, such as Kraków-Płaszów, Majdanek,...

     — Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment
  • Erich Dinges
    Erich Dinges
    Erich Adam Oskar Dinges was an SS-Sturmmann and member of staff at Auschwitz concentration camp. He was prosecuted at the Auschwitz Trial....

     — Guilty, sentenced to five years’ imprisonment
  • Wilhelm Gehring — Guilty, sentenced to death
  • Paul Götze
    Paul Götze
    Paul Götze was an SS-Rottenführer at Auschwitz and Buchenwald concentration camps.Born in Halle, Götze was a painter by profession. He joined the Nazi party in 1937 and the SS in 1942. In July 1942 he was posted to Auschwitz, where he initially served as a guard and supervisor of work groups...

     — Guilty, sentenced to death
  • Maximilian Grabner
    Maximilian Grabner
    Maximilian Grabner was a Austrian Gestapo chief in Auschwitz. At Auschwitz, the infamous torture chamber Block 11 was Grabner's own empire.-Early Life:...

     — Guilty, sentenced to death
  • Hans Hofmann
    Hans Hofmann
    Hans Hofmann was a German-born American abstract expressionist painter.-Biography:Hofmann was born in Weißenburg, Bavaria on March 21, 1880, the son of Theodor and Franziska Hofmann. When he was six he moved with his family to Munich...

     — Guilty, sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment
  • Rudolf Höß
    Rudolf Höß
    Rudolf Franz Ferdinand Höss was an SS-Obersturmbannführer , and from 4 May 1940 to November 1943, the first commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp, where it is estimated that more than a million people were murdered...

     — Guilty, sentenced to death
  • Karl Jeschke
    Karl Jeschke
    Karl Hermann Jeschke was an SS-Oberscharführer and member of staff at Auschwitz concentration camp. He was prosecuted at the Auschwitz Trial....

     — Guilty, sentenced to three years’ imprisonment
  • Heinrich Josten — Guilty, sentenced to death
  • Oswald Kaduk
    Oswald Kaduk
    Oswald Kaduk was a German SS-Unterscharführer and Rapportführer at Auschwitz concentration camp.-Biography:...

     — Guilty, sentenced to 25 years’ imprisonment
  • Hermann Kirschner — Guilty, sentenced to death
  • Josef Kollmer
    Josef Kollmer
    Josef Kollmer was an SS-Obersturmführer at Auschwitz. He was prosecuted at the Auschwitz Trial.Born in Händlern, Bavaria, Kollmer was a farmer by trade. He became a member of the SS on January 1, 1935 after having previously spent several years in the German police force. He joined the Nazi party...

     — Guilty, sentenced to death
  • Johann Kremer
    Johann Kremer
    Dr Johann Paul Kremer served in the SS in the Auschwitz concentration camp as a physician during World War II, from 30 August 1942 to 18 November 1942....

     — Guilty, sentenced to death, commuted to life imprisonment
  • Hildegard Lächert
    Hildegard Lachert
    Hildegard Martha Lächert was a notorious female guard, Aufseherin, at several German World War II concentration camps. She became publicly known for her service at Ravensbrück, Majdanek and Auschwitz-Birkenau...

     — Guilty, sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment
  • Arthur Liebehenschel
    Arthur Liebehenschel
    Arthur Liebehenschel was a commandant at the Auschwitz and Majdanek death camps during World War II. He was convicted of war crimes after the war and executed.-Biography:...

     — Guilty, sentenced to death
  • Anton Lechner
    Anton Lechner
    Anton Lechner was an SS-Rottenführer and member of staff at Auschwitz concentration camp. He was prosecuted at the Auschwitz Trial....

     — Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment
  • Eduard Lorenz
    Eduard Lorenz
    Eduard Lorenz was an SS-Unterscharführer and member of staff at Auschwitz concentration camp. He was prosecuted at the Auschwitz Trial....

     — Guilty, sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment
  • Herbert Ludwig — Guilty, sentenced to death
  • Maria Mandel
    Maria Mandel
    Maria Mandel was an Austrian SS-Helferin infamous for her key role in The Holocaust as a top-ranking official at the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp where she is believed to have been directly responsible for the deaths of over 500,000 female prisoners.-Life:Mandel was born in Münzkirchen,...

     — Guilty, sentenced to death
  • Adolf Medefind — Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment
  • Karl Möckel
    Karl Möckel
    Karl Ernst Möckel was an SS-Obersturmbannführer and administrator at Auschwitz concentration camp. He was executed as a war criminal.- Life :...

     — Guilty, sentenced to death
  • Kurt Mueller — Guilty, sentenced to death
  • Erich Muehsfeldt — Guilty, sentenced to death
  • Hans Münch
    Hans Münch
    Hans-Wilhelm Münch was a German citizen and Nazi Party member who, during World War II, worked as a SS physician at the Auschwitz concentration camp in Nazi occupied Poland from 1943 to 1945. He was the only person acquitted of war crimes at the 1947 Auschwitz trials in Kraków...

     — Acquitted
  • Detlef Nebbe
    Detlef Nebbe
    Detlef Nebbe was an SS-Hauptscharführer and member of staff at Auschwitz concentration camp. He was prosecuted at the Auschwitz Trial....

     — Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment
  • Alice Orlowski
    Alice Orlowski
    Alice Orlowski was a high-ranking SS official at many of the Nazi German camps in occupied Poland during World War II....

     — Guilty, sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment
  • Ludwig Plagge
    Ludwig Plagge
    Ludwig Plagge was an SS-Oberscharführer and member of staff at Auschwitz, Buchenwald and Majdanek concentration camps. He was prosecuted at the Auschwitz Trial.- Life :...

     — Guilty, sentenced to death
  • Franz Romeikat
    Franz Romeikat
    Franz Romeikat was an SS-Unterscharführer and staff member at Auschwitz concentration camp. He was prosecuted in the Auschwitz Trial....

     — Guilty, sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment
  • Richard Schroeder
    Richard Schroeder
    Richard Alan "Rich" Schroeder is a two-time Olympic breaststroke swimmer from the United States. He competed at the 1984 and 1988 Olympics; and earned a gold medal at both Games for his legs on the USA's winning 4x100 Medley Relay .-References:...

     — Guilty, sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment
  • Hans Schumacher — Guilty, sentenced to death
  • Karl Seufert — Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment
  • Paul Szczurek — Guilty, sentenced to death
  • Johannes Weber
    Johannes Weber
    Johannes Weber was an SS-Sturmmann and member of staff at Auschwitz concentration camp. He was prosecuted at the Auschwitz Trial....

     — Guilty, sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment

The Frankfurt
Frankfurt
Frankfurt am Main , commonly known simply as Frankfurt, is the largest city in the German state of Hesse and the fifth-largest city in Germany, with a 2010 population of 688,249. The urban area had an estimated population of 2,300,000 in 2010...

 Auschwitz Trials

  • Stefan Baretzki — Guilty, sentenced to life plus eight years’ imprisonment
  • Emil Bednarek — Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment
  • Wilhelm Boger
    Wilhelm Boger
    Wilhelm Friedrich Boger known as “The Tiger of Auschwitz” was a German police commissioner and concentration camp overseer...

     — Guilty, sentenced to life plus five years’ imprisonment
  • Perry Broad
    Perry Broad
    Perry Broad, also Pery Broad was a Brazilian Non-commissioned officer SS-Unterscharführer, active at Auschwitz from April 1942 - 1945 as a translator and stenographer at the Auschwitz headquarters....

     — Guilty, sentenced to four years’ imprisonment
  • Viktor Capesius
    Viktor Capesius
    Viktor Capesius was a Nazi SS-Sturmbannführer as a KZ-Apotheker who served in Dachau from 1943-1944 and in Auschwitz from 1944-1945.-Early Life:Capesius, the son of a physician and pharmacist, began his academic studies in 1924 at the University of...

     — Guilty, sentenced to nine years' imprisonment
  • Klaus Dylewski
    Klaus Dylewski
    Klaus Hubert Hermann Dylewski was a German Volksdeutsche with Polish citizenship and SS-Oberscharführer who perpetrated acts of genocide at Auschwitz concentration camp.-Early life:...

     — Guilty, sentenced to five years’ imprisonment
  • Willi Frank — Guilty, sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment
  • Emil Hantl — Guilty, sentenced to three-and-one-half years’ imprisonment
  • Karl-Friedrich Höcker
    Karl-Friedrich Höcker
    Karl-Friedrich Höcker was a SS-Obersturmführer and the adjutant to Richard Baer, who was a commandant of Auschwitz I concentration camp from May 1944 to February 1945...

     — Guilty, sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment
  • Franz-Johann Hoffmann — Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment
  • Oswald Kaduk
    Oswald Kaduk
    Oswald Kaduk was a German SS-Unterscharführer and Rapportführer at Auschwitz concentration camp.-Biography:...

     — Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment
  • Josef Klehr
    Josef Klehr
    Josef Klehr was an SS-Oberscharführer, supervisor in several Nazi concentration camps and head of the SS disinfection commando at Auschwitz concentration camp.- Life :...

     — Guilty, sentenced to life plus 15 years’ imprisonment
  • Dr. Franz Lucas — Guilty, sentenced to three years and three months’ imprisonment
  • Robert Mulka
    Robert Mulka
    Robert Karl Ludwig Mulka was an SS-Obersturmführer. At Auschwitz concentration camp, he was adjutant to the camp commandant, SS-Obersturmbannführer Rudolf Höss.- Life :...

     — Guilty, sentenced to 14 years’ imprisonment
  • Willi Sawatzki — Acquitted
  • Willi Schatz
    Willi Schatz
    Willi Schatz was a Nazi SS-Obersturmführer as a SS-KZ Zahnarzt who served in Auschwitz and Neuengamme.-Early life:...

     — Acquitted
  • Herbert Scherpe — Guilty, sentenced to four-and-one-half years’ imprisonment
  • Bruno Schlange — Guilty, sentenced to six years’ imprisonment
  • Friedrich Schlüter — Guilty, sentenced to four-and-one-half years’ imprisonment
  • Johann Schobert — Acquitted
  • Willi Stark — Guilty, sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment
  • Kurt Uhlenbroock — Acquitted

The Buchenwald Trial

  • Max Schobert — Guilty, sentenced to death
  • Josef Kestel — Guilty, sentenced to death
  • Hermann Grossmann — Guilty, sentenced to death
  • Hermann Helbig — Guilty, sentenced to death
  • Hans Wolf — Guilty, sentenced to death
  • Hubert Krautwurst — Guilty, sentenced to death
  • Emil Pleissner — Guilty, sentenced to death
  • Richard Köhler — Guilty, sentenced to death
  • Friedrich Wilhelm
    Friedrich Wilhelm
    The German name Friedrich Wilhelm usually refers to several monarchs of the Hohenzollern dynasty:*Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg *Frederick William I , King in Prussia*Frederick William II , King of Prussia...

     — Guilty, sentenced to death
  • Hans Merbach — Guilty, sentenced to death
  • Hans Theodor Schmidt — Guilty, sentenced to death
  • Hermann Pister
    Hermann Pister
    Hermann Pister was an SS Oberführer and commandant of Buchenwald concentration camp from 21 January 1942 until April 1945....

     — Guilty, sentenced to death, died in prison
  • Dr. Hans Eisele — Guilty, sentenced to death, commuted to life imprisonment
  • Helmut Roscher — Guilty, sentenced to death, commuted to life imprisonment
  • Phillip Grimm — Guilty, sentenced to death, commuted to life imprisonment
  • Albert Schwartz
    Albert Schwartz
    Albert L. Schwartz was an American swimmer who competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics.In the 1932 Olympics he won a bronze medal in the 100 m freestyle event.-External links:**...

     — Guilty, sentenced to death, commuted to life imprisonment
  • Hermann Hackmann
    Hermann Hackmann
    SS-Hauptsturmführer Heinrich Hackmann served as the lead guard in charge of protective custody at Majdanek concentration camp in German-occupied Poland. Hackmann came from Osnabruck and held the post of roll call officer at Buchenwald before Majdanek, at the age of 26...

     — Guilty, sentenced to death, commuted to life imprisonment
  • Gustav Heigel — Guilty, sentenced to death, commuted to life imprisonment
  • Guido Reimer — Guilty, sentenced to death, commuted to life imprisonment
  • Anton Bergmeier — Guilty, sentenced to death, commuted to life imprisonment
  • Otto Barnewald — Guilty, sentenced to death, commuted to life imprisonment
  • Peter Merker — Guilty, sentenced to death, commuted to 20 years
  • Franz Zinecker — Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment
  • Josias Erbprinz zu Waldeck und Pyrmont Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment, commuted to 20 years
  • Dr. Werner Greunuss — Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment, commuted to 20 years
  • Dr. Edwin Katzenellenbogen — Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment
  • Ilse Koch
    Ilse Koch
    Ilse Koch, née Köhler , was the wife of Karl-Otto Koch, commandant of the Nazi concentration camps Buchenwald from 1937 to 1941, and Majdanek from 1941 to 1943...

     — Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment, but committed suicide in 1967
  • Wolfgang Otto — Guilty, sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment
  • Dr. Arthur Dietzsch — Guilty, sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment
  • Walter Wendt — Guilty, sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment, commuted to five years
  • Dr. August Bender — Guilty, sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment, commuted to three years

The Belsen Trial

  • Josef Kramer
    Josef Kramer
    Josef Kramer was the Commandant of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Dubbed "The Beast of Belsen" by camp inmates; he was a notorious Nazi war criminal, directly responsible for the deaths of thousands of people...

     — Guilty, sentenced to death
  • Irma Grese
    Irma Grese
    Irma Ida Ilse Grese was employed at the Nazi concentration camps of Ravensbrück and Auschwitz, and was a warden of the women's section of Bergen-Belsen....

     — Guilty, sentenced to death
  • Elisabeth Volkenrath
    Elisabeth Volkenrath
    Elisabeth Volkenrath was German supervisor at several Nazi concentration camps during World War II....

     — Guilty, sentenced to death
  • Juana Bormann
    Juana Bormann
    Juana Bormann was a prison guard at several Nazi concentration camps, and was executed as a war criminal at Hamelin after a trial in 1945...

     — Guilty, sentenced to death
  • Fritz Klein
    Fritz Klein (Nazi)
    Fritz Klein was a German Nazi physician hanged for his role in atrocities at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp during the Holocaust....

     — Guilty, sentenced to death
  • Plus nine other Germans who were executed for their War Crimes at Belsen. For more information see Belsen Trial
    Belsen Trial
    The Belsen Trial was one of several trials that the Allied occupation forces conducted against former officials and functionaries of Nazi Germany after the end of World War II...

    .

The Neuengamme
Neuengamme
The Neuengamme concentration camp, a Nazi concentration camp, was established in 1938 by the SS near the village of Neuengamme in Bergedorf district within the City of Hamburg, Germany. It was in operation from 1938 to 1945. By the end of the war, more than half of its estimated 106,000 prisoners...

 Trials

  • Max Pauly — Guilty, sentenced to death
  • SS Dr Bruno Kitt — Guilty, sentenced to death
  • Anton Thumann — Guilty, sentenced to death
  • Johann Reese — Guilty, sentenced to death
  • Willy Warnke — Guilty, sentenced to death
  • SS Dr Alfred Trzebinski
    Alfred Trzebinski
    Alfred Trzebinski was an SS-physician at the Auschwitz, Majdanek and Neuengamme concentration camps in Nazi Germany. He was sentenced to death and executed for his involvement in war crimes committed at the Neuengamme subcamps.-Life:Trzebinski was born in Jutroschin, Province of Posen...

    — Guilty, sentenced to death
  • Heinrich Ruge — Guilty, sentenced to death
  • Wilhem Bahr — Guilty, sentenced to death
  • Andreas Brems — Guilty, sentenced to death
  • Wilhelm Dreimann— Guilty, sentenced to death
  • Adolf Speck — Guilty, sentenced to death
  • Karl Totzauer — Guilty, sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment
  • Karl Wiedemann — Guilty, sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment
  • Walter Kummel — Guilty, sentenced to 10 years imprisonment

War-responsibility trials in Finland
Finland
Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...

  • Toivo Mikael Kivimäki
    Toivo Mikael Kivimäki
    Toivo Mikael Kivimäki , J.D., was head of the department of civil law at Helsinki University 1931–1956, Prime Minister of Finland 1932–1936, and Finland's ambassador to Berlin 1940–1944 ....

     — Guilty, sentenced to five years’ imprisonment
  • Antti Kukkonen
    Antti Kukkonen
    Antti Kukkonen was a Finnish Lutheran pastor and politician. He was a member of the Agrarian League...

     — Guilty, sentenced to two years’ imprisonment
  • Edwin Linkomies
    Edwin Linkomies
    Edwin Johannes Hildegard Linkomies was Prime Minister of Finland March 1943 to August 1944, and one of the seven politicians sentenced to 5½ years in prison as allegedly responsible for the Continuation War, on the demand of the Soviet Union...

     — Guilty, sentenced to five-and-one-half years’ imprisonment
  • Johan Wilhelm Rangell
    Johan Wilhelm Rangell
    Johan Wilhelm Rangell was the Prime Minister of Finland from 1941 to 1943 . Educated as a lawyer, he was a close acquintance of President Risto Ryti before the war, and made his initial career as a banker in the Bank of Finland...

     — Guilty, sentenced to six years’ imprisonment
  • Henrik Ramsay
    Henrik Ramsay
    Carl Henrik Wolter Ramsay was a Finnish politician and an economist from the Swedish People's Party. He belonged to a Scottish noble family emigrated to Finland and was one of the few in Finland entitled to use the title Sir, however, Ramsay did not use the title.Henrik Ramsay completed his Ph.D...

     — Guilty, sentenced to two-and-one-half years’ imprisonment
  • Tyko Reinikka — Guilty, sentenced to two years’ imprisonment
  • Risto Ryti
    Risto Ryti
    Risto Heikki Ryti was the fifth President of Finland, from 1940 to 1944. Ryti started his career as a politician in the field of economics and as a political background figure during the interwar period. He made a wide range of international contacts in the world of banking and within the...

     — Guilty, sentenced to 10 years’ hard labour
  • Väinö Tanner
    Väinö Tanner
    Väinö Tanner was a pioneer and leader in the cooperative movement in Finland, and Prime Minister of Finland from 1926 to 1927....

     — Guilty, sentenced to five-and-one-half years’ imprisonment

Bucharest
Bucharest
Bucharest is the capital municipality, cultural, industrial, and financial centre of Romania. It is the largest city in Romania, located in the southeast of the country, at , and lies on the banks of the Dâmbovița River....

 People’s Tribunal

  • Gheoghe Alexianu — Guilty, sentenced to death
  • Ion Antonescu
    Ion Antonescu
    Ion Victor Antonescu was a Romanian soldier, authoritarian politician and convicted war criminal. The Prime Minister and Conducător during most of World War II, he presided over two successive wartime dictatorships...

     — Guilty, sentenced to death
  • Mihai Antonescu
    Mihai Antonescu
    Mihai Antonescu was a Romanian politician who served as Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister during World War II.-Early career:...

     — Guilty, sentenced to death
  • Constantin Vasiliu — Guilty, sentenced to death

International Military Tribunal for the Far East

(trials held in Tokyo
Tokyo
, ; officially , is one of the 47 prefectures of Japan. Tokyo is the capital of Japan, the center of the Greater Tokyo Area, and the largest metropolitan area of Japan. It is the seat of the Japanese government and the Imperial Palace, and the home of the Japanese Imperial Family...

)
  • Sadao Araki
    Sadao Araki
    Baron was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army before World War II. A charismatic leader and one of the principal nationalist right-wing political theorists in the late Japanese Empire, he was regarded as the leader of the radical faction within the politicized Japanese Army and served as...

     — Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment (released in 1955)
  • Kenji Doihara
    Kenji Doihara
    was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army in World War II. He was instrumental in the Japanese invasion of Manchuria for which he earned fame taking the nickname 'Lawrence of Manchuria', a reference to the Lawrence of Arabia....

     — Guilty, sentenced to death
  • Kingorō Hashimoto
    Kingoro Hashimoto
    was a soldier in the Imperial Japanese Army and politician.-Early career:Hashimoto was born in Okayama City, and a graduate of the 23rd class of the Imperial Japanese Army Academy in 1911. He subsequently graduated from the Army Staff College in 1920. In April 1922, he was assigned to the Kwangtung...

     — Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment (released in 1955)
  • Shunroku Hata — Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment (released in 1955)
  • Kiichirō Hiranuma
    Kiichiro Hiranuma
    Baron was a prominent pre–World War II right-wing Japanese politician and the 35th Prime Minister of Japan from 5 January 1939 to 30 August 1939. The modern Japanese politician, Takeo Hiranuma, is his adopted son.- Early life :...

     — Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment (released in 1955)
  • Kōki Hirota
    Koki Hirota
    was a Japanese diplomat, politician and the 32nd Prime Minister of Japan from March 9, 1936 to February 2, 1937.-Early life:Hirota was born in what is now part of Chūō-ku, Fukuoka city, Fukuoka Prefecture. His father was a stonemason, and he was adopted into the Hirota family. After attending...

     — Guilty, sentenced to death
  • Naoki Hoshino
    Naoki Hoshino
    was a bureaucrat and politician who served in the Taishō and early Shōwa period Japanese government, and as an official in the Empire of Manchukuo.-Biography:Hoshino was born in Yokohama, where his father was involved in the textile industry...

     — Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment (released in 1955)
  • Seishirō Itagaki — Guilty, sentenced to death
  • Okinori Kaya
    Okinori Kaya
    was the Japanese finance minister between 1941-1944. In 1945, he was captured by the Allies, tried by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East and sentenced to 20 years imprisonment...

     — Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment (released in 1955)
  • Kōichi Kido
    Koichi Kido
    Marquis served as Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal from 1940 to 1945, and was the closest advisor to Emperor Showa throughout World War II.Kido was the grandson of Kido Takayoshi, one of the leaders of the Meiji Restoration...

     — Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment (released in 1955)
  • Heitarō Kimura — Guilty, sentenced to death
  • Kuniaki Koiso
    Kuniaki Koiso
    - Notes :...

     — Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment (died in prison in 1950)
  • Iwane Matsui
    Iwane Matsui
    was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army and the commander of the expeditionary forces sent to China in World War II. He was convicted of war crimes and sentenced to death by hanging by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East for responsibility over the Nanking Massacre.-Early life...

     — Guilty, sentenced to death
  • Yosuke Matsuoka
    Yosuke Matsuoka
    was a diplomat and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Empire of Japan during the early stages of World War II. He is best known for his defiant speech at the League of Nations in 1933, ending Japan’s participation in that organization...

     — Died of natural causes during the course of the trial
  • Jirō Minami
    Jiro Minami
    - Notes :...

     — Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment (released in 1955)
  • Akira Mutō
    Akira Muto
    - Notes :...

     — Guilty, sentenced to death
  • Osami Nagano — Died of natural causes during the course of the trial
  • Takazumi Oka — Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment (released in 1955)
  • Shūmei Ōkawa — Ruled unfit to stand trial after suffering from mental illness
    Mental illness
    A mental disorder or mental illness is a psychological or behavioral pattern generally associated with subjective distress or disability that occurs in an individual, and which is not a part of normal development or culture. Such a disorder may consist of a combination of affective, behavioural,...

  • Hiroshi Ōshima
    Hiroshi Ōshima
    Baron was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army, Japanese ambassador to Nazi Germany before and during World War II — and unknowingly a major source of communications intelligence for the Allies. His role was perhaps best summed up by General George C...

     — Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment (released in 1955)
  • Kenryō Satō — Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment (released in 1955)
  • Mamoru Shigemitsu
    Mamoru Shigemitsu
    was a Japanese diplomat and politician in the Empire of Japan, who served as the Japanese Minister of Foreign Affairs at the end of World War II.-Biography:...

     — Guilty, sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment (released in 1950)
  • Shigetarō Shimada
    Shigetaro Shimada
    was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. He also served as Navy Minister-Biography:A native of Tokyo, Shimada graduated from the 32nd class of the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy in 1904...

     — Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment (released in 1955)
  • Toshio Shiratori
    Toshio Shiratori
    was the Japanese ambassador to Italy from 1938 to 1940, advisor to the Japanese foreign minister in 1940, and one of the 14 Class-A war criminals enshrined at Yasukuni....

     — Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment (died in prison in 1949)
  • Teiichi Suzuki
    Teiichi Suzuki
    was a Japanese army general who helped plan Japan's economy in World War II and later was imprisoned as a war criminal, died of heart failure. He was 100 years old.Mr...

     — Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment (released in 1955)
  • Shigenori Tōgō
    Shigenori Togo
    was Minister of Foreign Affairs for the Empire of Japan at both the start and the end of the Japanese-American conflict during World War II...

     — Guilty, sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment (died in prison in 1949)
  • Hideki Tōjō
    Hideki Tōjō
    Hideki Tōjō was a general of the Imperial Japanese Army , the leader of the Taisei Yokusankai, and the 40th Prime Minister of Japan during most of World War II, from 17 October 1941 to 22 July 1944...

     — Guilty, sentenced to death
  • Yoshijirō Umezu — Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment (released in 1955)


Other trials were held at various locations in the Far East, by the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

, Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

, China
China
Chinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...

, the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

, and other Allied coutries. In all, a total of 920
920
Year 920 was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar.- Europe :* The Icelandic volcano Katla erupts.* The Saxons retake East Anglia from the Danes....

 Japanese military and naval personnel and civilians were executed following World War II
World War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...

.

Khabarovsk
Khabarovsk
Khabarovsk is the largest city and the administrative center of Khabarovsk Krai, Russia. It is located some from the Chinese border. It is the second largest city in the Russian Far East, after Vladivostok. The city became the administrative center of the Far Eastern Federal District of Russia...

 War Crime Trials

  • Mitomo Kazuo — Guilty, sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment
  • Kawashima Kiyoshi — Guilty, sentenced to 25 years’ imprisonment
  • Onoue Masao — Guilty, sentenced to 12 years’ imprisonment
  • Kikuchi Norimitsu — Guilty, sentenced to two years’ imprisonment
  • Otozō Yamada — Guilty, sentenced to 25 years’ imprisonment
  • Kajitsuka Ryuji — Guilty, sentenced to 25 years’ imprisonment
  • Sato Shunji
    Sato Shunji
    was a Japanese physician during the first half of the 20th century and a commander in the Imperial Japanese Army. From 1941 to 1943 he was chief of Unit 8604, a biological warfare unit that operated in Southern China...

     — Guilty, sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment
  • Takahashi Takaatsu — Guilty, sentenced to 25 years’ imprisonment
  • Karasawa Tomio — Guilty, sentenced to 18 years’ imprisonment
  • Nishi Toshihide — Guilty, sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment
  • Kurushima Yuji — Guilty, sentenced to three years’ imprisonment
  • Hirazakura Zensaku — Guilty, sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment

Austria
Austria
Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

n

  • Hermine Braunsteiner
    Hermine Braunsteiner
    Hermine Braunsteiner Ryan was a female camp guard and the first Nazi war criminal to be extradited from the United States.-Early life:...

     (16 July 1919 through 19 April 1999) — extradited from the United States
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     to West Germany
    West Germany
    West Germany is the common English, but not official, name for the Federal Republic of Germany or FRG in the period between its creation in May 1949 to German reunification on 3 October 1990....

     in 1973. Released from prison 1in 1996
  • Amon Goeth — executed on 13 September 1946 for his War Crimes.

Croatia
Croatia
Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a unitary democratic parliamentary republic in Europe at the crossroads of the Mitteleuropa, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean. Its capital and largest city is Zagreb. The country is divided into 20 counties and the city of Zagreb. Croatia covers ...

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  • Ante Pavelić
    Ante Pavelic
    Ante Pavelić was a Croatian fascist leader, revolutionary, and politician. He ruled as Poglavnik or head, of the Independent State of Croatia , a World War II puppet state of Nazi Germany in Axis-occupied Yugoslavia...

  • Andrija Artuković
    Andrija Artukovic
    Andrija Artuković was a Croatian politician and a member of the Ustaše movement. Artuković was convicted of war crimes committed against minorities in the Independent State of Croatia during World War II...

  • Mile Budak
    Mile Budak
    Mile Budak was a Croatian Ustaše and writer, best known as one of the chief ideologists of the Croatian clerofascist Ustaše movement, which ruled the Independent State of Croatia, or NDH, from 1941-45 and waged a genocidal campaign against its Serb, Roma and Jewish minorities, and against Croatian...

  • Vjekoslav Luburić

Danish
Denmark
Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark...

  • Søren Kam
    Søren Kam
    SS-Obersturmführer Søren Kam is a former Danish Waffen-SS officer, an SS-foreign volunteer, who served with the 5.SS-Panzergrenadier-Division Wiking during World War II rising to the rank of Obersturmfuhrer . Born in Copenhagen, he was a member of the DNSAP, the Danish Nazi Party...

    , (born 1921) Member of the Nazi Party of Denmark, who fled from Denmark to Germany after the war, and later became a German citizen. On September 21, 2006, Kam was detained in the German town of Kempten im Allgäu
    Kempten im Allgäu
    Kempten is the largest town in Allgäu, a region in the south-west of Bavaria, Germany. The population was ca 61,000 in 2006. The area was possibly settled originally by Celts, but was later overtaken by the Romans, who called the town Cambodunum...

    . He is wanted in Denmark for the assassination of Danish newspaper editor Carl Henrik Clemmensen in Copenhagen in August 1943.

German
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

  • Otto Abetz
    Otto Abetz
    Dr. Heinrich Otto Abetz was the German ambassador to Vichy France during World War II.-Early years:Abetz was born in Schwetzingen on May 26, 1903. He was the son of an estate manager, who died when Otto was only 13...

     — sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment in 1949, appealed in 1952, released in 1954
  • Richard Baer
    Richard Baer
    Richard Baer was a German Nazi official with the rank of SS-Sturmbannführer and commander of the Auschwitz I concentration camp from May 1944 to February 1945. He was a member of N.S.D.A.P...

     (1911 – 63). Sturmbannführer, commander of the Auschwitz I concentration camp. Lived under the pseudonym of Karl Neumann after the War. Then discovered in 1960 and arrested.
  • Klaus Barbie
    Klaus Barbie
    Nikolaus 'Klaus' Barbie was an SS-Hauptsturmführer , Gestapo member and war criminal. He was known as the Butcher of Lyon.- Early life :...

     — sentenced to life imprisonment in 1987, died after serving four years imprisonment
  • Heinz Barth
    Heinz Barth
    Heinz Barth was anObersturmführer in the Waffen-SS and war criminal....

     — convicted in 1983 for his involvement in the Oradour-sur-Glane massacre; released in 1997; died in 2007
  • Alois Brunner
    Alois Brunner
    Alois Brunner is an Austrian Nazi war criminal. Brunner was Adolf Eichmann's assistant, and Eichmann referred to Brunner as his "best man." As commander of the Drancy internment camp outside Paris from June 1943 to August 1944, Brunner is held responsible for sending some 140,000 European Jews to...

     — escaped, worked for the Gehlen Organization
  • Anton Dostler
    Anton Dostler
    Anton Dostler was a General of the Infantry in the regular German army during World War II. In the first allied war trial after the war, Dostler was tried and found guilty of war crimes and sentenced to death by firing squad.-Military career:Anton Dostler joined the German Army in 1910 and served...

     — executed by an American
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     firing squad in Italy
    Italy
    Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

     on December 1, 1945
  • Luise Danz
    Luise Danz
    Luise Danz is a former concentration camp guard. She was born in Walldorf , Thuringia.-Camp work:On January 24, 1943 at the age of 26, Luise Danz was conscripted as an Aufseherin within the Nazi concentration camp system. She served as guard in several camps, such as Kraków-Płaszów, Majdanek,...

    , (born in 1917) Aufseherin
    Female guards in Nazi concentration camps
    Of the 55,000 guards who served in Nazi concentration camps, about 3,700 were women. In 1942, the first female guards arrived at Auschwitz and Majdanek from Ravensbrück...

    at various camps, including Plaszów
    Kraków-Plaszów concentration camp
    The Płaszów or Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp was a Nazi German labour and concentration camp built by the SS in Płaszów, a southern suburb of Kraków , soon after the German invasion of Poland and the subsequent creation of the General Government.The Płaszów camp, originally intended as a...

    , Majdanek
    Majdanek
    Majdanek was a German Nazi concentration camp on the outskirts of Lublin, Poland, established during the German Nazi occupation of Poland. The camp operated from October 1, 1941 until July 22, 1944, when it was captured nearly intact by the advancing Soviet Red Army...

    , Auschwitz-Birkenau
    Auschwitz concentration camp
    Concentration camp Auschwitz was a network of Nazi concentration and extermination camps built and operated by the Third Reich in Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany during World War II...

    , and Malchow
    Malchow concentration camp
    Malchow concentration camp was one of the numerous sub-camps of Nazi concentration camp: Ravensbrück, located in Germany, which is believed to be first opened in the winter of 1943...

    . Danz was brought to trial in 1996, but the charges were dismissed due to her advanced age and unfitness to stand trial
  • Adolf Eichmann
    Adolf Eichmann
    Adolf Otto Eichmann was a German Nazi and SS-Obersturmbannführer and one of the major organizers of the Holocaust...

    — lived for years in Argentina
    Argentina
    Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...

    , captured by Israel
    Israel
    The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...

    i agents in 1961, convicted of High Crimes against the Jewish nation and humanity, in Israel, and executed on June 1, 1962
  • Karl Frenzel
    Karl Frenzel
    SS-Oberscharführer Karl August Wilhelm Frenzel was the commandant of Sobibor extermination camp's Lager I section, which was the section for the Sonderkommando forced-labor prisoner-workers, who also herded victims into the gas chambers...

    , (born in 1911) An Oberscharführer
    Oberscharführer
    Oberscharführer was a Nazi Party paramilitary rank that existed between the years of 1932 and 1945. Translated as “Senior Squad Leader”, Oberscharführer was first used as a rank of the Sturmabteilung and was created due to an expansion of the enlisted positions required by growing SA membership...

    who served at Sobibór extermination camp
    Sobibór extermination camp
    Sobibor was a Nazi German extermination camp located on the outskirts of the town of Sobibór, Lublin Voivodeship of occupied Poland as part of Operation Reinhard; the official German name was SS-Sonderkommando Sobibor...

    . Frenzel aided in the implementation of the Final Solution
    Final Solution
    The Final Solution was Nazi Germany's plan and execution of the systematic genocide of European Jews during World War II, resulting in the most deadly phase of the Holocaust...

    , taking part in the industrial-scale extermination of thousands of prisoners as part of Operation Reinhard
    Operation Reinhard
    Operation Reinhard was the code name given to the Nazi plan to murder Polish Jews in the General Government, and marked the most deadly phase of the Holocaust, the use of extermination camps...

    . Sentenced to life imprisonment in 1966 but released in 1982 due to his ill health.
  • Herbert Kappler
    Herbert Kappler
    Herbert Kappler , was the head of German police and security services in Rome during World War II...

     — sentenced by Italy to life imprisonment in 1947. Escaped from prison in1977, then died in 1978
  • Fritz Knochlein — (born in 1911) Responsible for Le Paradis massacre
    Le Paradis massacre
    The Le Paradis massacre was a war crime committed by members of the 14th Company, SS Division Totenkopf, under the command of Hauptsturmführer Fritz Knöchlein...

     in 1940, tried, convicted, and hanged by the forces of the United Kingdom
    United Kingdom
    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

     in 1949.
  • Emanuel Schäfer
    Emanuel Schäfer
    Emanuel Schäfer was an SS-Oberführer and a protégé of Reinhard Heydrich in Nazi Germany....

     — sentenced to six-and-one-half years’ imprisonment, but died 1974
  • Kurt Meyer -- Sentenced to execution, commuted to a life sentence, later reduced to 14 years' imprisonment, served for 10 years in prison.

Italian
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

  • Rodolfo Graziani
    Rodolfo Graziani
    Rodolfo Graziani, 1st Marquis of Neghelli , was an officer in the Italian Regio Esercito who led military expeditions in Africa before and during World War II.-Rise to prominence:...

     — sentenced to 19 years’ imprisonment for treason, released after just a few months. He died in 1955.

Japanese
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

  • Masaharu Homma
    Masaharu Homma
    was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army. He is noteworthy for his role in the invasion and occupation of the Philippines during World War II. Homma, who was an amateur painter and playwright, was also known as the Poet General.-Biography:...

     — convicted of War Crimes, sentenced to death, then executed on April 3, 1946.

Latvia
Latvia
Latvia , officially the Republic of Latvia , is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by Estonia , to the south by Lithuania , to the east by the Russian Federation , to the southeast by Belarus and shares maritime borders to the west with Sweden...

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  • Konrad Kalejs (26 June 1913 through 8 November 2001) -- Immigrated to Australia
    Australia
    Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

     in 1950; moved to the United States
    United States
    The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

     in 1959; deported from the United States to Australia in 1994; fled from Australia to Canada
    Canada
    Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

     in 1995; deported from Canada 1997; moved to England
    England
    England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

    ; and then to Australia. Died in Australia in 2001. A member of the Arajs Kommando.
  • Boleslavs Makovskis 21 January 1904 – 19 April 1996. Fled to From the United States to West Germany
    West Germany
    West Germany is the common English, but not official, name for the Federal Republic of Germany or FRG in the period between its creation in May 1949 to German reunification on 3 October 1990....

     in 1987; put on trial in 1990; but his trial was quashed before its end.
  • Elmars Sporgis (26 November 1914 through 10 July 1991) Exonerated in 1984.

Lithuania
Lithuania
Lithuania , officially the Republic of Lithuania is a country in Northern Europe, the biggest of the three Baltic states. It is situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea, whereby to the west lie Sweden and Denmark...

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  • Vladas Zajanckauskas
    Vladas Zajanckauskas
    Vladas Zajančkauskas is an alleged Nazi war criminal. He was born in Aukštadvaris, Lithuania. At age 95 he stands to become the oldest person ever deported as a result of an investigation by the U.S...

    In 2005 at the age 89, his U.S. citizenship was ordered revoked in 2007. He was ordered to be deported.

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