List of Axis personnel indicted for war crimes
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.
The Nuremberg Trials
- Martin Bormann — 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, Hugh Thomas and Reinhard Gehlen refused to accept this. Gehlen further argued Bormann was the secret Russian double agent 'Sasha'.
- Karl Dönitz — Guilty, sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment
- Hans Frank — Guilty, sentenced to death by hanging
- Wilhelm Frick — Guilty, sentenced to death by hanging
- Hans Fritzsche — Acquitted. Tried, convicted and sentenced to nine years imprisonment by a separate West German denazification court. Released September 1950.
- 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 by hanging, Henri Donnedieu de Vabres called the verdict a mistake in 1945. In 1953, the denazification courts reversed the decision and found Jodl not guilty. His property, confiscated in 1946, was returned to his widow.
- Ernst Kaltenbrunner — Guilty, sentenced to death by hanging
- Wilhelm Keitel — Guilty, sentenced to death by hanging
- Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach — Medically unfit for trial
- Robert Ley — Committed suicide before his trial began
- Konstantin von Neurath — Guilty, sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment (released 1954 on grounds of ill health)
- Franz von Papen — Acquitted. Tried, convicted and sentenced to eight years imprisonment by a separate West German denazification court. Released on appeal in 1949.
- Erich Raeder — Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment (released 1955 on grounds of ill health)
- Joachim von Ribbentrop — Guilty, sentenced to death by hanging
- Alfred Rosenberg — Guilty, sentenced to death by hanging
- Fritz Sauckel — Guilty, sentenced to death by hanging
- Hjalmar Schacht — Acquitted
- Baldur von Schirach — Guilty, sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment
- Arthur Seyss-Inquart - Guilty, sentenced to death by hanging
- Albert Speer — Guilty, sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment
- Julius Streicher — Guilty, sentenced to death by hanging
Subsequent Nuremberg Trials
The Doctors’ Trial
- Alois Brunner - Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment (in absentia). Rumored to have died in 1992, but was believed by some to still be alive in Syria.
- 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 (commuted to time served 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
The Milch Trial
- Erhard Milch — Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment, commuted to 15 years (released in 1954)
The Judges’ Trial
- Josef Altstötter — 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 — Guilty, sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment
- Franz Schlegelberger — 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 — 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
The Flick Trial
- Odilo Burkart — Acquitted
- Friedrich Flick — Guilty, sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment, but then released by John J. McCloy after three years
- Konrad Kaletsch — Acquitted
- Otto Steinbrinck — 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 — Guilty, sentenced to eight years' imprisonment
- Max Brüggemann — Ruled unfit to stand trial
- Ernst Bürgin — Guilty, sentenced to two years' imprisonment
- Heinrich Bütefisch — Guilty, sentenced to six years' imprisonment
- Walter Dürrfeld — Guilty, sentenced to eight years' imprisonment
- Fritz Gajewski — Acquitted
- Heinrich Gattineau — Acquitted
- Paul Häfliger — Guilty, sentenced to two years' imprisonment
- Erich von der Heyde — Acquitted
- Heinrich Hörlein — Acquitted
- Max Ilgner — Guilty, sentenced to three years' imprisonment
- Friedrich Jähne — Guilty, sentenced to one-and-one-half years' imprisonment
- August von Knierim — Acquitted
- Carl Krauch — Guilty, sentenced to six years imprisonment
- Hans Kugler — Guilty, sentenced to one-and-one-half years' imprisonment
- Hans Kühne — Acquitted
- Carl Lautenschläger — Acquitted
- Wilhelm Rudolf Mann — Acquitted
- Heinrich Oster — Guilty, sentenced to two years' imprisonment
- Hermann Schmitz — Guilty, sentenced to four years' imprisonment
- Christian Schneider — Acquitted
- Georg von Schnitzler — Guilty, sentenced to two-and-one-half years' imprisonment
- Fritz ter Meer — Guilty, sentenced to seven years' imprisonment
- Karl Wurster — Acquitted
The Hostages Trial
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Hostages Trial
- Franz Böhme — Committed suicide
- Ernst Dehner — Guilty, sentenced to 17 years’ imprisonment (released on in 1951)
- Hellmuth 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 (released on medical grounds in 1953)
- 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 medical grounds 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 — Ruled unfit to stand 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
- 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 — 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 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 — 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
- Heinrich Strasfluffel — Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment. (Escaped)
- 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 — Ruled 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 a hospital while suffering from an epileptic attack
- 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 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 — Guilty, sentenced to 25 years’ imprisonment (released in 1951)
- Ernst Wilhelm Bohle — Guilty, sentenced to five years’ imprisonment
- Richard Walther Darré — Guilty, sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment (released in 1950)
- Otto Dietrich — Guilty, sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment (released in 1950)
- Otto von Erdmannsdorff — 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, later committed suicide from reprocussions of being returned to Germany
- Gustav Adolf Steengracht von Moyland — Guilty, sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment (released in 1950)
- Paul Pleiger — Guilty, sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment (released in 1951)
- Emil Puhl — Guilty, sentenced to five years’ imprisonment
- Karl Rasche — Guilty, sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment
- Karl Ritter — Guilty, released after the judgement due to time already served
- Walter Schellenberg — Guilty, sentenced to six 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 seven years’ imprisonment (released in 1950 by John J. McCloy)
- Ernst Woermann — Guilty, sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment (released in 1951)
The High Command Trial
- Johannes Blaskowitz — Committed suicide
- Karl-Adolf Hollidt — Guilty, sentenced to five 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 seven 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 prison in 1949
- 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 eight years’ imprisonment (released in 1951)
- 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 Bülow — Guilty, sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment
- Fritz Buntrock — Guilty, sentenced to death
- Luise Danz — Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment
- Erich Dinges — Guilty, sentenced to five years’ imprisonment
- Wilhelm Gehring — Guilty, sentenced to death
- Paul Götze — 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 three years’ imprisonment
- Heinrich Josten — Guilty, sentenced to death
- Oswald Kaduk — Guilty, sentenced to 25 years’ imprisonment
- Hermann Kirschner — Guilty, sentenced to death
- 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 Möckel — 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
- Johannes Weber — Guilty, sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment
- Stefan Baretzki — Guilty, sentenced to life plus eight years’ imprisonment
- Emil Bednarek — Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment
- Wilhelm Boger — Guilty, sentenced to life plus five years’ imprisonment
- Perry Broad — Guilty, sentenced to four years’ imprisonment
- Viktor Capesius — Guilty, sentenced to nine years' imprisonment
- Klaus Dylewski — 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 — Guilty, sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment
- Franz-Johann Hoffmann — Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment
- Oswald Kaduk — Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment
- Josef Klehr — Guilty, sentenced to life plus 15 years’ imprisonment
- Dr. Franz Lucas — Guilty, sentenced to three years and three months’ imprisonment
- Robert Mulka — Guilty, sentenced to 14 years’ imprisonment
- Willi Sawatzki — Acquitted
- Willi Schatz — 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
- 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, 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
- 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— 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 Kümmel — Guilty, sentenced to 10 years imprisonment
War-responsibility trials in Finland
- Toivo Mikael Kivimäki — Guilty, sentenced to five years’ imprisonment
- Antti Kukkonen — Guilty, sentenced to two years’ imprisonment
- Edwin Linkomies — Guilty, sentenced to five-and-one-half years’ imprisonment
- Johan Wilhelm Rangell — Guilty, sentenced to six years’ imprisonment
- Henrik Ramsay — Guilty, sentenced to two-and-one-half years’ imprisonment
- Tyko Reinikka — Guilty, sentenced to two years’ imprisonment
- Risto Ryti — Guilty, sentenced to 10 years’ hard labour
- Väinö Tanner — Guilty, sentenced to five-and-one-half years’ imprisonment
- Gheoghe Alexianu — Guilty, sentenced to death
- Ion Antonescu — Guilty, sentenced to death
- Mihai Antonescu — Guilty, sentenced to death
- Constantin Vasiliu — Guilty, sentenced to death
International Military Tribunal for the Far East
(trials held in Tokyo)
- Sadao Araki — Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment (released in 1955)
- Kenji Doihara — Guilty, sentenced to death
- Kingorō Hashimoto — Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment (released in 1955)
- Shunroku Hata — Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment (released in 1955)
- Kiichirō Hiranuma — Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment (released in 1955)
- Kōki Hirota — Guilty, sentenced to death
- Naoki Hoshino — Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment (released in 1955)
- Seishirō Itagaki — Guilty, sentenced to death
- Okinori Kaya — Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment (released in 1955)
- Kōichi Kido — Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment (released in 1955)
- Heitarō Kimura — Guilty, sentenced to death
- Kuniaki Koiso — Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment (died in prison in 1950)
- Iwane Matsui — Guilty, sentenced to death
- Yosuke Matsuoka — Died of natural causes during the course of the trial
- Jirō Minami — Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment (released in 1955)
- Akira Mutō — 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
- Hiroshi Ōshima — Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment (released in 1955)
- Kenryō Satō — Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment (released in 1955)
- Mamoru Shigemitsu — Guilty, sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment (released in 1950)
- Shigetarō Shimada — Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment (released in 1955)
- Toshio Shiratori — Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment (died in prison in 1949)
- Teiichi Suzuki — Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment (released in 1955)
- Shigenori Tōgō — Guilty, sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment (died in prison in 1949)
- Hideki Tōjō — 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, Australia, China, the United Kingdom, and other Allied coutries. In all, a total of 920 Japanese military and naval personnel and civilians were executed following World War II.[1]
- 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 — 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
Others
- Søren Kam, (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. He is wanted in Denmark for the assassination of Danish newspaper editor Carl Henrik Clemmensen in Copenhagen in August 1943.
- Otto Abetz — sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment in 1949, appealed in 1952, released in 1954
- Richard Baer (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 — sentenced to life imprisonment in 1987, died after serving four years imprisonment
- Heinz Barth — convicted in 1983 for his involvement in the Oradour-sur-Glane massacre; released in 1997; died in 2007
- Alois Brunner — escaped, worked for the Gehlen Organization
- Anton Dostler — executed by an American firing squad in Italy on December 1, 1945
- Luise Danz, (born in 1917) Aufseherin at various camps, including Plaszów, Majdanek, Auschwitz-Birkenau, and Malchow. Danz was brought to trial in 1996, but the charges were dismissed due to her advanced age and unfitness to stand trial
- Adolf Eichmann — lived for years in Argentina, captured by Israeli agents in 1961, convicted of High Crimes against the Jewish nation and humanity, in Israel, and executed on June 1, 1962
- Karl Frenzel, (born in 1911) An 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 prisoners as part of Operation Reinhard. Sentenced to life imprisonment in 1966 but released in 1982 due to his ill health.
- Herbert Kappler — 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 in 1940, tried, convicted, and hanged by the forces of the United Kingdom in 1949.
- Emanuel Schäfer — 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.
- Rodolfo Graziani — sentenced to 19 years’ imprisonment for treason, released after just a few months. He died in 1955.
- Masaharu Homma — convicted of War Crimes, sentenced to death, then executed on April 3, 1946.
- Konrāds Kalējs (26 June 1913 through 8 November 2001) -- Immigrated to Australia in 1950; moved to the United States in 1959; deported from the United States to Australia in 1994; fled from Australia to Canada in 1995; deported from Canada 1997; moved to England; and then to Australia. Died in Australia in 2001. A member of the Arajs Kommando.
- Boļeslavs Makovskis 21 January 1904 – 19 April 1996. Fled to From the United States to West Germany in 1987; put on trial in 1990; but his trial was quashed before its end.
- Elmārs Sproģis (26 November 1914 through 10 July 1991) Exonerated in 1984.
- Vladas Zajanckauskas In 2005 at the age 89, his U.S. citizenship was ordered revoked in 2007. He was ordered to be deported.
References
- ^ Spackman, Chris; contributers (2002-2004). An Encyclopedia of Japanese History.
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