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 or any of the Axis Powers during World War II. It does not include people from Allied countries who were suspected of treason.
[edit] The Nuremberg Trials
- Martin Bormann — Guilty, sentenced to death in absentia
- Karl Dönitz — Guilty, sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment
- Hans Frank — Guilty, sentenced to death
- Wilhelm Frick — Guilty, sentenced to death
- Hans Fritzsche — Acquitted
- Walther Funk — Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment (released 1957 on grounds of ill health)
- Hermann Göring — Guilty, sentenced to death, committed suicide before execution.
- Rudolf Hess — Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment
- Alfred Jodl — Guilty, sentenced to death
- Ernst Kaltenbrunner — Guilty, sentenced to death
- Wilhelm Keitel — Guilty, sentenced to death
- Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach — Medically unfit for trial
- Robert Ley — Committed suicide before his trial began
- Konstantin von Neurath — Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment {released 1954 on grounds of ill health)
- Franz von Papen — Acquitted
- Erich Raeder — Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment (released 1955 on grounds of ill health)
- Joachim von Ribbentrop — Guilty, sentenced to death
- Alfred Rosenberg — Guilty, sentenced to death
- Fritz Sauckel — Guilty, sentenced to death
- Hjalmar Schacht — Acquitted
- Baldur von Schirach — Guilty, sentenced to 20 years in prison
- Albert Speer — Guilty, sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment
- Julius Streicher — Guilty, sentenced to death
[edit] Subsequent Nuremberg Trials
[edit] The Doctors’ Trial
- Hermann Becker-Freyseng — Guilty, sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment, commuted to 10 years
- Wilhelm Beiglböck — Guilty, sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment, commuted to 10 years
- Kurt Blome — Acquitted
- Viktor Brack — Guilty, sentenced to death
- Karl Brandt — Guilty, sentenced to death
- Rudolf Brand — Guilty, sentenced to death
- Fritz Fischer — Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment, commuted to 15 years
- Karl Gebhardt — Guilty, sentenced to death
- Karl Genzken — Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment, commuted to 20 years
- Siegfried Handloser — Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment, commuted to 20 years
- Waldemar Hoven — Guilty, sentenced to death
- Joachim Mrugowsky — Guilty, sentenced to death
- Herta Oberheuser — Guilty, sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment, commuted to 10 years
- Adolf Pokorny — Acquitted
- Helmut Poppendick — Guilty, sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment (released in 1951)
- Hans Wolfgang Romberg — Acquitted
- Gerhard Rose — Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment, commuted to 20 years
- Paul Rostock — Acquitted
- Siegfried Ruff — Acquitted
- Konrad Schäfer — Acquitted
- Oskar Schröder — Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment, commuted to 15 years
- Wolfram Sievers — Guilty, sentenced to death
- Georg August Weltz — Acquitted
[edit] The Milch Trial
- Erhard Milch — Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment, commuted to 15 years (released in 1954)
[edit] The Judges’ Trial
- Josef Altstötter — Guilty, sentenced to 5 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 — Guilty, sentenced to 7 years’ imprisonment
- Franz Schlegelberger — Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment
- Carl Westphal — Committed suicide after the indictment, but before the beginning of the trial
[edit] 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 9 years’ imprisonment
- Heinz Karl Fanslau — Guilty, sentenced to 25 years’ imprisonment, commuted to 15 years
- August Frank — 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 — 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 — 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
[edit] The Flick Trial
- Odilo Burkart — Acquitted
- Friedrich Flick — Guilty, sentenced to 7 years’ imprisonment—released by John J. McCloy after 3 years
- Konrad Kaletsch — Acquitted
- Otto Steinbrinck — Guilty, sentenced to 5 years’ imprisonment—died 1949 in prison
- Hermann Terberger — Acquitted
- Bernhard Weiss — Guilty, sentenced to 2½ years
[edit] The IG Farben Trial
- Otto Ambros — Guilty, sentenced to 8 years
- Max Brüggemann — Unfit to stand trial
- Ernst Bürgin — Guilty, sentenced to 2 years
- Heinrich Bütefisch — Guilty, sentenced to 6 years
- Walter Dürrfeld — Guilty, sentenced to 8 years
- Fritz Gajewski — Acquitted
- Heinrich Gattineau — Acquitted
- Paul Häfliger — Guilty, sentenced to 2 years
- Erich von der Heyde — Acquitted
- Heinrich Hörlein — Acquitted
- Max Ilgner — Guilty, sentenced to 3 years
- Friedrich Jähne — Guilty, sentenced to 1½ years
- August von Knierim — Acquitted
- Carl Krauch — Guilty, sentenced to 6 years
- Hans Kugler — Guilty, sentenced to 1½ years
- Hans Kühne — Acquitted
- Carl Lautenschläger — Acquitted
- Wilhelm Mann — Acquitted
- Heinrich Oster — Guilty, sentenced to 2 years
- Hermann Schmitz — Guilty, sentenced to 4 years
- Christian Schneider — Acquitted
- Georg von Scnitzler — Guilty, sentenced to 2½ years
- Fritz ter Meer — Guilty, sentenced to 7 years
- Karl Wurster — Acquitted
[edit] The Hostages Trial
- Franz Böhme — Committed suicide
- Ernst Dehner — Guilty, sentenced to 17 years’ imprisonment (released on in 1951)
- Helmuth Felmy — Guilty, sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment, commuted to 10 years
- Hermann Foertsch — Acquitted
- Kurt von Geitner — Acquitted
- Walter Kuntze — Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment
- Hubert Lanz — 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 — Guilty, sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment (released on in 1951)
- Lothar Rendulic — 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 — Unfit to stand trial
[edit] The Russia 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 — Guilty, sentenced to lifetime imprisonment
- Richard Hildenbrandt — Guilty, sentenced to 25 years’ imprisonment
- Otto Hofmann — Guilty, sentenced to 25 years’ imprisonment
- Herbert Hübner — Guilty, sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment
- Werner Lorenz — Guilty, sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment
- Konrad Meyer-Hetling — Guilty, released after the judgement due to time already served
- 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
[edit] The Einsatzgruppen Trial
- Ernst Biberstein — Guilty, sentenced to death, commuted to life imprisonment
- Paul Blobel — Guilty, sentenced to death
- Walter Blume — Guilty, sentenced to death, commuted to 25 years’ imprisonment
- Werner Braune — Guilty, sentenced to death
- Erich Ehrlinger Escaped justice, arrested in 1958, sentenced 1963 in Frankfurt to 12 years, released August 1965
- Lothar Fendler — Guilty, sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment, commuted to 8 years
- Waldemar Klingelhöfer — 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 — Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment, commuted to 10 years
- Waldemar Klingelhöfer — Guilty, sentenced to death, commuted to life imprisonment
- Erich Naumann — Guilty, sentenced to death
- Gustav Nosske — Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment, commuted to 10 years
- Otto Ohlendorf — 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 — Unfit to stand trial
- Felix Rühl — Guilty, sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment (released in 1951)
- Martin Sandberger — 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 — 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 hospital after suffering an epileptic attack
[edit] The Krupp Trial
- Friedrich von Bülow — Guilty, sentenced to 12 years’ imprisonment
- Karl Adolf Ferdinand Eberhardt — Guilty, sentenced to 9 years’ imprisonment
- Eduard Houdremont — Guilty, sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment
- Max Otto Ihn — Guilty, sentenced to 9 years’ imprisonment
- Friedrich Wilhelm Janssen — Guilty, sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment
- Heinrich Leo Korschan — Guilty, sentenced to 6 years’ imprisonment
- Alfried Krupp — Guilty, sentenced to 12 years’ imprisonment plus forfeiture of property-released by John J. McCloy 1951 and property returned to him
- Hans Albert Gustav Kupke — Guilty, sentenced to 2 years, 10 months’ imprisonment
- Werner Wilhelm Heinrich Lehmann — Guilty, sentenced to 6 years’ imprisonment
- Ewald Oskar Ludwig Löser — Guilty, sentenced to 7 years’ imprisonment
- Erich Müller — Guilty, sentenced to 12 years’ imprisonment
- Karl Heinrich Pfirsch — Acquitted
[edit] The Ministries Trial
- Gottlob Berger — Guilty, sentenced to 25 years’ imprisonment (released in 1951)
- Ernst Wilhelm Bohle — Guilty, sentenced to 5 years’ imprisonment
- Richard Walther Darré — Guilty, sentenced to 7 years’ imprisonment (released in 1950)
- Otto Dietrich — Guilty, sentenced to 7 years’ imprisonment (released in 1950)
- Otto von Erdmannsdorf — Acquitted
- Hans Kehrl — Guilty, sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment (released in 1951)
- Wilhelm Keppler — 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
- Gustav Adolf Steengracht von Moyland — Guilty, sentenced to 7 years’ imprisonment (released in 1950)
- Paul Pleiger — Guilty, sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment (released in 1951)
- Emil Johann Puhl — Guilty, sentenced to 5 years’ imprisonment
- Karl Raschke — Guilty, sentenced to 7 years’ imprisonment
- Karl Ritter — Guilty, released after the judgement due to time already served
- Walter Schellenberg — Guilty, sentenced to 6 years’ imprisonment
- Wilhelm Stuckart — Guilty, released after the judgement due to time already served
- Edmund Veesenmayer — Guilty, sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment (released in 1951)
- Ernst von Weizsäcker — Guilty, sentenced to 7 years’ imprisonment (released in 1950 by John J. McCloy)
- Ernst Wörmann — Guilty, sentenced to 7 years’ imprisonment (released in 1951)
[edit] The High Command Trial
- Johannes Blaskowitz — Committed suicide
- Karl-Adolf Hollidt — Guilty, sentenced to 5 years’ imprisonment (released in 1949)
- Hermann Hoth — Guilty, sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment (released in 1954)
- Georg von Küchler — 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 7 years’ imprisonment
- Hermann Reinecke — Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment (released in 1954)
- Georg-Hans Reinhardt — Guilty, sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment (released in 1952)
- Karl von Roques — Guilty, sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment, died in 1949 in jail
- Hans von Salmuth — Guilty, sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment, commuted to 12 years
- Otto Schniewind — Acquitted
- Hugo Sperrle — Acquitted
- Walter Warlimont — Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment (released in 1954)
- Otto Wöhler — Guilty, sentenced to 8 years’ imprisonment (released in 1951)
[edit] The Auschwitz Trial
- Hans Aumeier — Guilty, sentenced to death
- August Bogusch — Guilty, sentenced to death
- Therese Brandl — Guilty, sentenced to death
- Arthur Breitwiser — Guilty, sentenced to death, commuted to life imprisonment
- Alexander Bulow — Guilty, sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment
- Fritz Buntrock — Guilty, sentenced to death
- Luise Danz — Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment
- Erich Dinges — Guilty, sentenced to 5 years’ imprisonment
- Wilhelm Gehring — Guilty, sentenced to death
- Paul Gotze — Guilty, sentenced to death
- Maximilian Grabner — Guilty, sentenced to death
- Hans Hofmann — Guilty, sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment
- Rudolf Höß — Guilty, sentenced to death
- Karl Jeschke — Guilty, sentenced to 3 years’ imprisonment
- Heinrich Josten — Guilty, sentenced to death
- Oswald Kaduk — Guilty, sentenced to 25 years’ imprisonment
- Hermann Kirschner — Guilty, sentenced to death
- Hans Koch — Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment
- Josef Kollmer — Guilty, sentenced to death
- Johann Kremer — Guilty, sentenced to death, commuted to life imprisonment
- Hildegard Lächert — Guilty, sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment
- Arthur Liebehenschel — Guilty, sentenced to death
- Anton Lechner — Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment
- Eduard Lorenz — Guilty, sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment
- Herbert Ludwig — Guilty, sentenced to death
- Maria Mandel — Guilty, sentenced to death
- Adolf Medefind — Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment
- Karl Mockel — Guilty, sentenced to death
- Kurt Mueller — Guilty, sentenced to death
- Erich Muehsfeldt — Guilty, sentenced to death
- Hans Münch — Acquitted
- Detlef Nebbe — Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment
- Alice Orlowski — Guilty, sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment
- Ludwig Plagge — Guilty, sentenced to death
- Franz Romeikat — Guilty, sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment
- Richard Schroeder — 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
- Harvey Taunt — Guilty, sentenced to death
- Johannes Weber — Guilty, sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment
[edit] The Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials
- Stefan Baretzki — Guilty, sentenced to Life plus 8 years’ imprisonment
- Emil Bednarek — Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment
- Wilhelm Boger — Guilty, sentenced to Life & 15 years’ imprisonment
- Perry Broad — Guilty, sentenced to 4 years’ imprisonment
- Klaus Dylewski — Guilty, sentenced to 5 years’ imprisonment
- Willi Frank — Guilty, sentenced to 7 years’ imprisonment
- Emil Hantl — Guilty, sentenced to 3½ years’ imprisonment
- Karl-Friedrich Höcker — Guilty, sentenced to 7 years’ imprisonment
- Franz-Johann Hoffmann — Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment
- Oswald Kaduk — Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment
- Josef Klehr — Guilty, sentenced to life & 15 years’ imprisonment
- Dr. Franz Lucas — Guilty, sentenced to 3 years, 3 months’ imprisonment
- Robert Mulka — Guilty, sentenced to 14 years’ imprisonment
- Willi Sawatzki — Acquitted
- Willi Schatz — Acquitted
- Herbert Scherpe — Guilty, sentenced to 4½ years’ imprisonment
- Bruno Schlange — Guilty, sentenced to 6 years’ imprisonment
- Friedrich Schlüter — Guilty, sentenced to 4½ years’ imprisonment
- Johann Schobert — Acquitted
- Willi Stark — Guilty, sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment
- Kurt Uhlenbroock — Acquitted
[edit] 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 — Guilty, sentenced to death
- Hans Merbach — Guilty, sentenced to death
- Hans Theodor Schmidt — Guilty, sentenced to death
- Hermann Pister — 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 — Guilty, sentenced to death, commuted to life imprisonment
- Hermann Hackmann — 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 — Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment, 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 5 years
- Dr. August Bender — Guilty, sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment, commuted to 3 years
[edit] War-responsibility trials in Finland
- Toivo Mikael Kivimäki — Guilty, sentenced to 5 years’ imprisonment
- Antti Kukkonen — Guilty, sentenced to 2 years’ imprisonment
- Edwin Linkomies — Guilty, sentenced to 5½ years’ imprisonment
- Johan Wilhelm Rangell — Guilty, sentenced to 6 years’ imprisonment
- Henrik Ramsay — Guilty, sentenced to 2½ years’ imprisonment
- Tyko Reinikka — Guilty, sentenced to 2 years’ imprisonment
- Risto Ryti — Guilty, sentenced to 10 years’ hard labour
- Väinö Tanner — Guilty, sentenced to 5½ years’ imprisonment
[edit] Bucharest People’s Tribunal
- Gheoghe Alexianu — Guilty, sentenced to death
- Ion Antonescu — Guilty, sentenced to death
- Mihai Antonescu — Guilty, sentenced to death
- Constantin Vasiliu — Guilty, sentenced to death
[edit] International Military Tribunal for the Far East
- Muto Akira — Guilty, sentenced to death
- Kimura Heitaro — Guilty, sentenced to death
- Tojo Hideki — Guilty, sentenced to death
- Oshima Hiroshi — Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment (released 1955)
- Matsui Iwane — Guilty, sentenced to death
- Minami Jiro — Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment (released 1955)
- Doihara Kenji — Guilty, sentenced to death
- Sato Kenryo — Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment (released 1955)
- Hiranuma Kiichiro — Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment (released 1955)
- Hashimoto Kingoro — Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment (released 1955)
- Kido Kōichi — Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment (released 1955)
- Hirota Koki — Guilty, sentenced to death
- Koiso Kuniaki — Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment (died in prison 1950)
- Shigemitsu Mamoru — Guilty, sentenced to 7 years’ imprisonment (released 1950)
- Hoshino Naoki — Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment (released 1955)
- Kaya Okinori — Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment (released 1955)
- Nagano Osami — died of natural causes during trial period
- Araki Sadao — Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment (released 1955)
- Itagaki Seishiro — Guilty, sentenced to death
- Togo Shigenori — Guilty, sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment, died in prison 1949
- Shimada Shigetaro — Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment (released 1955)
- Okawa Shumei — unfit to stand trial after suffering nervous breakdown
- Hata Shunroku — Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment (released 1955)
- Oka Takasumi — Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment (released 1955)
- Suzuki Teiichi — Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment (released 1955)
- Shiratori Toshio — Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment (died in prison 1949)
- Umezu Yoshijiro — Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment (released 1955)
- Matsuoka Yosuke — died of natural causes during trial period
[edit] Khabarovsk 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 2 years’ imprisonment
- Yamada Otsuzo — Guilty, sentenced to 25 years’ imprisonment
- Kajitsuka Ryuji — Guilty, sentenced to 25 years’ imprisonment
- Sato Shunji — 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 3 years’ imprisonment
- Hirazakura Zensaku — Guilty, sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment
[edit] Others
[edit] Austrian
- Hermine Braunsteiner 16 July 1919–19 April 1999 — extradited from US to West Germany in 1973—released from prison 1996
- Amon Goeth — executed on 13 September 1946 for war crimes.
[edit] Circassian
- Tscherim Soobzokov 1924 – 6 September 1985 — 1980 trial dismissed—was a CIA agent in post-World-War-II Jordan
[edit] Danish
- Søren Kam, (born 1921) Member of the DNSAP, the Danish Nazi Party, who fled from Denmark to Germany after the war, and is now a German citizen. On September 21, 2006, Kam was detained in the German town of Kempten im Allgäu. He is wanted in Denmark for the assassination of Danish newspaper editor Carl Henrik Clemmensen in Copenhagen in August 1943.
[edit] German
- Further information: Ex-Nazi
- Otto Abetz — sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment in 1949, appealed in 1952, released in 1954
- Richard Baer (1911–1963). Sturmbannführer, commander of the Auschwitz I concentration camp. Lived under the pseudonym of Karl Neumann after the war, before being discovered in 1960 and arrested.
- Klaus Barbie — sentenced to life imprisonment in 1987, died after serving four years
- Heinz Barth — convicted in 1983 for his involvement in the Oradour-sur-Glane massacre, released in 1997, died in 2007
- Werner Blankenburg — also known as Bieleke—escaped—died 1957. See [1]
- Alois Brunner — escaped, worked for the Gehlen Organization
- Anton Dostler — executed by firing squad on 1st December 1945
- Luise Danz, (born 1917) Aufseherin at various camps, including Plaszów, Majdanek, Auschwitz-Birkenau, and Malchow. Was brought to trial in 1996 but was dismissed due to her age.
- Adolf Eichmann — executed on 1st June 1962
- Karl Frenzel, (born 1911) Oberscharführer who served at Sobibór extermination camp. Frenzel aided in the implementation of the Final Solution, taking part in the industrial-scale extermination of thousands of inmates as part of Operation Reinhard. Sentenced to life imprisonment in 1966 but released in 1982 due to ill health.
- Joseph Goebbels — committed suicide 1945
- Paul Henss — See [2]
- Heinrich Himmler — committed suicide 1945
- Adolf Hitler — committed suicide 1945
- Herbert Kappler — sentenced by Italy to life imprisonment in 1947. Escaped 1977; died 1978
- Fritz Knochlein — born 1911, hanged 1949, responsible for Le Paradis massacre 1940.
- Josef Mengele — fled to Argentina, died in Brazil in 1979
- Heinrich Müller — disappeared in 1945
- Arthur Rudolph —gave up US Citizenship 1984; died 1996
- Emanuel Schäfer — sentenced to 6½ years’ imprisonment—died 1974
- Werner Von Braun — died in USA in 1977
[edit] Italian
- Pietro Badoglio — used mustard gas in Second Italo–Abyssinian War; never tried—died 1956.
- Rodolfo Graziani — sentenced to 19 years’ imprisonment, released after a few months—died 1955
- Benito Mussolini — killed at the hands of partisans on 28th April 1945
[edit] Japanese
- Masaharu Homma — executed on 3rd April 1946
[edit] Latvian
- Konrad Kalejs 26 June 1913 — 8 November 2001—immigrated to Australia in 1950; came to US in 1959; deported from US in 1994 to Australia; fled from Australia to Canada 1995; deported from Canada 1997; moved to England; died in Australia. Member of Arajas Kommando.
- Boleslavs Maikovskis 21 January 1904 – 19 April 1996. Fled to West Germany from US 1987; tried 1990 but trial quashed
- Elmars Sporgis 26 November 1914 – 10 July 1991 New York—exoneratred 1984
[edit] Lithuania
- Vladas Zajanckauskas in 2005, at age 89, US Citizenship ordered revoked—in 2007 ordered deported
[edit] Palestinian
- Mohammad Amin al-Husayni — escaped, died 1974
