List of convicted war criminals

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This is a list of convicted war criminals as according to the conduct and rules of warfare as defined by the Nuremberg Trials following World War II as well as earlier agreements established by the Hague Conferences of 1899 and 1907, the Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928, and the Geneva Conventions of 1929 and 1949.

See also: List of war crimes, List of Axis war criminals and War crime

Contents

References

A

Heinrich Otto Abetz (1903–1958), German ambassador to France, sentenced to 20 years
Muto Akira (1883–1948), Japanese army commander and member of the General High Staff, sentenced to death
Zlatko Aleksovski (born 1960), Bosnian Croat commander of a prison facility, sentenced to 7 years^[1]
Ali Daeem Ali (born 1940), Iraqi Baathist official, sentenced to 15 years^[2]^[3]
Ion Antonescu (1882–1946), Romanian marshal; found guilty by the Romanian People's Tribunals; executed;
Mihai Antonescu (1907–1946), Romanian government official; found guilty by the Romanian People's Tribunals; executed;
Andrija Artuković (1899–1988), Croatian minister of Justice and Internal Affairs, Ustasha, sentenced to death, but died before execution
Tariq Aziz (born 1936), Iraqi foreign minister under Saddam Hussein, awaiting execution

B

Milan Babić (1956–2006), Croatian Serb and prime minister of Republic of Serb Krajina. Sentenced to 13 years following agreement^[4]
Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski (1899–1972), German official and SS officer
László Baky (1898–1946), Hungarian Interior Ministry official
Awad Hamed al-Bandar (1945–2007), Iraqi chief judge, sentenced to death
Klaus Barbie (1913–1991), German Gestapo officer
Laszlo Bardossy (1890–1946), Hungarian Prime Minister
Franz Anton Basch (1901–1946), German Nazi leader in Hungary
Gottlob Berger (1897–1975), German SS official
Werner Best (1903–1989), German Plenipotentiary of Denmark
Hans Biebow (1902–1947), chief of German Administration of the Łódź Ghetto
Tihomir Blaškić (born 1960), Bosnian Croat sentenced to 45 years, changed to 9 years following appeal^[5]
Paul Blobel (1894–1951), German Einsatzgruppe C official
Martin Ludwig Bormann (1900–c. 1945), German Party Chancellor, Tried at Nuremberg in absentia
Herbert Böttcher (1907–1950), German SS and Police Leader in Radom, Poland
Philipp Bouhler (1899–1945), German Führer Chancellory official
Viktor Brack (1904–1948), German Führer Chancellory official
Otto Bradfisch (1903–1994), member of the German SS Obersturmbannführer, Leader of Einsatzkommando 8 of Einsatzgruppe B of the Security Police (Sicherheitspolizei) and the SD, and Commander of the Security Police in Litzmannstadt (Łódź) and Potsdam
Miroslav Bralo (born 1967), Bosnian Croat member of the "Jokers" anti-terrorist platoon, sentenced to 20 years^[6]
Karl Brandt (1904–1948), German Plenipotentiary for Health official
Rudolf Brandt (1909–1948), secretary of Heinrich Himmler
Walther von Brauchitsch (1881–1948), German Commander-in-Chief of the Army
Werner Braune (1909–1951), German Einsatzgruppe D official
Radoslav Brdjanin (born 1948), Bosnian Serb sentenced to 32 years (30 following appeal)^[7]
Fernand de Brinon (1885–1947), French collaborator and member of the Vichy government
Josef Bühler (1904–1948), German Generalgouvernement official

C

Pietro Caruso (1899–1944), Italian police chief of Rome
Edith Cavell (1865–1915), abused the protection arising from medical status by helping PoWs escape, sentenced to death
Mario Čerkez (born 1959), Bosnian Croat sentenced to 6 years^[8]
Ranko Česić (born 1964), Bosnian Serb sentenced to 18 years for Brčko^[9]
Paul Chack (1876–1945), French collaborator
Carl Clauberg (1898–1957), medical doctor present at Auschwitz concentration camp

D

Kurt Daluege (1897–1946), German ORPO and Protektorat official
Theodor Dannecker (1913–1945), German SS deportation expert in France and Bulgaria
Joseph Darnand (1897–1945), Vichy French chief of police
Denice Delfau (died 1945), French collaborator
Hazim Delić (born 1964), Bosnian Muslim sentenced to 18 years for Čelebići prison camp^[10]
Albert Deutscher (died 1981), member of a Nazi paramilitary group
Joseph Dietrich (1892–1966), personal bodyguard to Adolf Hitler and commander of Nazi security
Otto Dietrich (1898–1957), personal Press Secretary to Adolf Hitler
Kenji Doihara (1883–1948), Japanese general
Karl Donitz (1891-1980), German naval commander and Hitler's appointed successor
Anton Dostler (1891–1945), German General
Damir Došen (born 1967), Bosnian Serb, sentenced to 5 years for Keraterm camp^[11]
Sekula Drljević (1884–1945), Montenegrin Nazi collaborator

E

Adolf Eichmann (1906–1962), German SS official
August Eigruber (1907–1947), German Gauleiter of Oberdonau (Upper Danube) and Landeshauptmann of Upper Austria
Franz Eirenschmalz (1879–1962), German WVHA official
László Endre (1895–1946), Hungarian Minister of the Interior
Franz von Epp (1882–1946), Bavarian politician
Hans Eppinger (1879–1946), Austrian physician who performed medical experiments on prisoners in the Dachau concentration camp
Dražen Erdemović (born 1972), Bosnian Croat who fought for Serb forces and was sentenced to 5 years for Pileca farm (part of Srebrenica massacre)^[12]

F

Miroslav Filipović (1915–1946), Croatian Ustashi and administrator of the Jasenovac concentration camp

G

Stanislav Galić, Bosnian Serb commander in Siege of Sarajevo. Sentenced to 20 years,^[13] appealed and had his sentence changed to life imprisonment^[14]
Karl Gebhardt (died 1948), German SS chief clinician
Karl Genzken (1895–1957), German SS medical officer
Richard Glücks (1889–1945), German WVHA official
Hermann Wilhelm Göring (1893–1946), Commander of the German Luftwaffe
Amon Göth (1908–1946), Commandant at Nazi concentration camp at Płaszów, Poland
Ulrich Greifelt (died 1949), German Main Office official
Arthur Greiser (died 1946), German Gauleiter of Wartheland
Irma Grese (1923–1945), German administrator of the Auschwitz concentration camp

H

Franz Halder (1884–1972), German general and chief of Army General Staff (research error- Halder was not tried let alone convicted)
Fritz Hartjenstein (1905–1954), German Auschwitz concentration camp administrator
Emil Haussmann (died 1948), German major
August Heissmeyer (1897–1979), German SS officer
Konrad Henlein (1898–1945), German Gauleiter of Sudetenland
Rudolf Hess (1894–1987), deputy Führer (leader) of Nazi Germany
Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich (1904–1942), chief of the SD, the Gestapo, the SIPO & the RSHA and Acting Reichprotektor of Bohemia and Moravia until his assassination in June 1942.
Friedrich Hildebrandt (1898–1948), German RuSHA chief and Higher SS and Police Leader of Danzig
Richard Hildebrandt (1895–1945), German NSDAP Gauleiter of Franconia and SA Gruppenführer
Oskar von Hindenburg (1883–1960), German commander of prisoner of war camps in East Prussia
Hirota Koki (1878–1948), Japanese premier from 1936 to 1937
August Hirt (1898–1945), German medical officer who ran the Struthof-Nazweiler laboratory
Franz Hofer (1902–1975), German Gauleiter of the Tyrol and Vorarlberg
Hermann Julius Höfle (1911–1962), German Higher SS and Police Leader in Slovakia
Otto Hofmann (1896–1982), German RuSHA official
Hans Hohberg (1898–1948), German WVHA official
Karl Holz (1895–1945), German NSDAP Gauleiter of Franconia and SA Gruppenführer
Homma Masaharu (1887–1946), Japanese general involved in the Bataan Death March
Erich Hoepner (died 1944), German commander of 4th Panzer Army (mistake- not convicted because of wartime execution- involved in 20 July plot)
Rudolf Hoess (1900–1947), German Auschwitz concentration camp commander and deputy inspector of Nazi concentration camps
Franz Hossler (died 1945), German Auschwitz concentration camp administrator
Hermann Hoth (1885–1971), German commander of Panzer Group 3, Army Group Center, 17th Group Army and Army Group South
Waldemar Hoven (1903–1948), German Buchenwald concentration camp doctor
Saddam Hussein (1937–2006), President of Iraq, 1979–2003

I

Sabawi Ibrahim, (died 2009) Iraqi Directorate of General Security
Max Ilgner (1895–1957), German I.G. Farben official
Béla Imrédy (1891–1946), Hungarian Prime Minister
Seishirō Itagaki (1885–1948), Japanese War Minister

J

Andor Jarosz (died 1946), Hungarian interior minister
Friedrich Jeckeln (died 1946), German SS officer and Police Leader of Ostland
Goran Jelisić (born 1969), Bosnian Serb sentenced to 40 years for murders in Brčko. Personally killed 13 civilians^[15]
Alfred Jodl (1890–1946), German commander of operations personnel
Drago Josipović (born 1955), Bosnian Croat sentenced to 15, changed to 12 years following appeal^[16]^[17]
Heinz Jost (1904-1964), German Einsatzgruppe commander
Hans Jüttner (1894–1965) commander of German SS's Main Leadership Office and Obergruppenführer.

K

Kang Kek Iew, Leader of the Khmer Rouge oversaw Tuol Sleng where thousands were murdered and tortured. Sentenced to 30 years imprisonment and then to life by the Cambodia Tribunal
Ernst Kaltenbrunner (1903–1946) Chief of the SD, the SiPo & the RSHA after Reinhard Heydrich's assassination. Highest-ranking Nazi official to stand trial at Nuremberg. Executed by hanging.
Omar Khadr, Canadian convicted for murder and supporting terrorism ^[18]
Ashrafuz Zaman Khan, sentenced to death by hanging for the murder of 18 people described as prominent intellectuals, during the 1971 liberation war of Bangladesh from Pakistan^[19]
Dietrich Klagges (1891–1971), German politician and premier (Ministerpräsident) of Braunschweig
Fritz Knoechlein (1911–1949), SS Obersturmbannführer, convicted and executed for war crimes (Le Paradis massacre)
Ilse Koch (1906–1967), German female officer at Buchenwald and Sachsenhausen concentration camps
Dragan Kolundžija (born 1959), Bosnian Serb, sentenced to 3 years for Keraterm camp^[11]
Dario Kordić (born 1960), Bosnian Croat, sentenced to 25 years^[8]
Milojica Kos, Bosnian Serb, sentenced to 6 years for Omarska camp^[20]
Radomir Kovač (born 1961), Bosnian Serb sentenced to 20 years^[21]
Momčilo Krajišnik, Bosnian Serb politician, sentenced to 27 years^[22]
Milorad Krnojelac, Bosnian Serb sentenced to 7,5 years for Foča massacres. Following appeal, his sentence was raised to 15 years^[23]
Radislav Krstić, Bosnian Serb sentenced to 46 years (35 following appeal) for his part in the Srebrenica massacre, also found guilty of being an accomplice to genocide,^[24] first such ruling at ICTY
Alfred Krupp {1907–1967} German Steel/Arms maker; Involved in slave labor
Dragoljub Kunarac (born 1960), Bosnian Serb sentenced to 28 years ^[21]
Franz Kutschera (1904–1944), German SS general and Gauleiter of Carinthia.
Miroslav Kvocka, Bosnian Serb, sentenced to 7 years for Omarska camp^[20]
Brandon Krouse (1906–1953), German SS officer and ordained minister.

L

Esad Landžo, Bosnian Muslim sentenced to 15 years for Čelebići prison camp^[10]
Hinrich Lohse (1896–1964), German politician
Werner Lorenz (1891–1974), German head of Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle (Repatriation Office for Ethnic Germans) and an SS Obergruppenführer.

M

Ali Hassan al-Majid, (1941–2010) Iraqi Baathist Defense Minister, executed for war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide
Abid Hamid Mahmud, (died 2010) Iraqi military officer
Milan Martić (born 1954), President and defence minister of Croatian Serbs during Croatian War of Independence, sentenced to 35 years^[25]
Vinko Martinović (born 1963), Bosnian Croat sentenced to 18 years^[26]
Abdul Quader Molla (born 1948), Convicted war criminal from Bangladesh, sentenced to death for mass murder in 1971^[27]
Harry 'Breaker' Harbord Morant (1864 – 27 February 1902) convicted and executed for illegal summary executions of Boer and other prisoners during the Second Boer War.
Mile Mrkšić (born 1947), Serb General convicted to 20 years for the Vukovar massacre^[28]
Zdravko Mucić, Bosnian Croat sentenced to 9 years for Čelebići prison camp^[10]
Chowdhury Mueen-Uddin, sentenced to death by hanging for the murder of 18 people described as prominent intellectuals, during 1971 liberation war of Bangladesh from Pakistan.^[19]
Mahinda Rajapaksa (born 1930), He was chosen by Sri Lanka Freedom Party and Governed from 19 November 2005 to 9 January 2015^[26]

N

Mladen Naletilić Tuta (born 1946), Bosnian Croat sentenced to 20 years^[26]
Erich Naumann (died 1951), German Einsatzgruppe B commander
Hermann Neubacher (died 1960), German supported mayor of Vienna and Southeast Economic Plenipotentiary
Konstantin von Neurath (1873–1956), German Foreign Minister and Reichsprotektor
Dragan Nikolić, Bosnian Serb sentenced to 23 years^[29]
Aziz Saleh Nuhmah, Iraqi governor of Kuwait during occupation

O

Otto Ohlendorf (died 1951), German Einsatzgruppe D commander
Hiroshi Ōshima (1886–1975), Japanese ambassador to Germany

P

Friedrich Panzinger (1903–1959), German RSHA official
Franz von Papen (1879–1969), German diplomat and deputy chancellor
Joachim Peiper (1915–1976) SS-Standartenführer, 1st SS Panzer Division, Leibstandarte-SS Adolf Hitler, held responsible for the Malmedy massacre during the Malmedy massacre trial
Philippe Pétain (1856–1951), Marshal of France and head of the collaborative Vichy France, sentenced to death first, then life imprisonment
Biljana Plavšić (born 1930), Bosnian Serb politician and former president of the Republika Srpska. Sentenced to 11 years^[30]
Paul Pleiger (1899–1985), German state adviser and corporate general director, sentenced to 15 years
Oswald Pohl (died 1951), German WVHA official
Dragoljub Pricac, Bosnian Serb, sentenced to 5 years for Omarska camp^[20]

R

Mlado Radić, Bosnian Serb, sentenced to 20 years for Omarska camp^[20]
Erich Raeder (1876–1960), German grand admiral, sentenced to life imprisonment, later released
Friedrich Rainer (1903–1947?), German Gauleiter and an Austrian Landeshauptmann of Salzburg and Carinthia, sentenced to death
Ivica Rajić (born 1958), Bosnian Croat sentenced to 12 years^[31]
Taha Yassin Ramadan (1938–2007), Iraqi Vice President, 1991–2003, sentenced to life imprisonment, appealed to death
Hanns Albin Rauter (died 1949), German Higher SS and Police Leader in the Netherlands, sentenced to death
Hermann Reinecke (1888–1973), German OKW official, sentenced to life imprisonment, later released
Hans Conrad Julius Reiter (1881–1969), German SS officer and involved in medical experiments at the Buchenwald concentration camp, sentenced
Lothar Rendulic (1887–1971), German commander of 52nd Infantry Division, sentenced to 20 years (later 10)
Joachim von Ribbentrop (1893–1946), German foreign minister, sentenced to death
Henrick Rogstad (died 1945), Norwegian collaborator and SS security police chief
Karl von Roques (died 1949), German Rear Area Army Group South commander
Alfred Ernst Rosenberg (1893–1946), German east minister, sentenced to death
Abdullah Kadhem Ruaid, (?) Iraqi Baathist official, sentenced to 15 years
Mizhar Abdullah Ruaid, (1949–present) Iraqi Baathist official, sentenced to 15 years

S

Dinko Šakić (1921–2008), a convicted Croatian war criminal and commander of the Jasenovac concentration camp during World War II.
Vladimir Šantić (born 1958), Bosnian Croat sentenced to 25, changed to 18 years following appeal^[16]^[17]
Fritz Sauckel (1894–1946), German Labor Plenipotentiary official
Anthony Sawoniuk (1921–2005), Belarusian collaborator
Gustav Adolf Scheel (1907–1979), German physician and Nazi deportation officer
Walter Schellenberg (died 1952), German RSHA official
Baldur von Schirach (1907–1974), German Vienna Reichsstatthalter
Franz Schlegelberger (1876–1970), German State Secretary in the Reich Ministry of Justice (RMJ) and later Justice Minister
Erwin Schulz (1900–1981), German Nazi SS general
Heinrich Schwarz (1906–1947), German administrator of the Auschwitz III Monowitz concentration camp
Siegfried Seidl (1911–1947), German administrator of the Theresienstadt concentration camp
Artur Seyss-Inquart (1892–1946), Austrian government official, collaborator and High Commissioner of the Netherlands
Mamoru Shigemitsu (1887–1957), Japanese foreign minister
Wolfram Sievers (died 1948), German Ahnenerbe official
Duško Sikirica (born 1964), Bosnian Serb, sentenced to 15 years for Keraterm camp^[11]
Blagoje Simić (born 1960), Bosnian Serb sentenced to 17 years for Bosanski Šamac^[32]
Milan Šimić (born 1960), Bosnian Serb sentenced to 5 years^[33]
Veselin Šljivančanin, Serb Colonel convicted to 5 years for the Vukovar massacre^[28]
Albert Speer (1905–1981), German armament and munitions minister
Franz Walter Stahlecker (died 1942), German Foreign Office official
Milomir Stakić (born 1962), Bosnian Serb sentenced to life imprisonment for war crimes in Prijedor and nearby concentration camps^[34]
Franz Stangl (1908–1971) German SS officer and administrator of the Sobibór and of the Treblinka concentration camps.
Otto Steinbrinck (1888–1949), German industrialist and member of the SS
Julius Streicher (1885–1946), German journalist and editor of the Der Stürmer
Jürgen Stroop (died 1951), German SS and Police leader in Warsaw
Pavle Strugar (born 1933), Serb general in the Siege of Dubrovnik. Sentenced to 8 years^[35]
Wilhelm Stuckart (died 1953), German Interior Ministry official
Otto von Stulpnagel (died 1948), German military commander of Nazi-occupied France
Ferenc Szálasi (1897–1946), Hungarian head of state
Dome Sztojay (died 1946), Hungarian prime minister

T

Duško Tadić, Bosnian Serb sentenced to 25 years^[36]
Miroslav Tadić (born 1937), Bosnian Serb sentenced to 8 years for Bosanski Šamac^[32]
Charles Taylor, 22nd President of Liberia, guilty on 11 counts of "aiding and abetting" war crimes and crimes against humanity
Josef Terboven (1898–1945), German Nazi commissioner of Norway
Eberhard von Thadden (1906–1947), German foreign office official
Otto Thierack (1889–1946), German justice minister
Fritz Thyssen (1873–1951), German industrialist
Stevan Todorović, Bosnian Serb sentenced to 10 years for Bosanski Šamac^[37]
Hideki Tōjō (1884–1948), Japanese prime minister
Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti (1951–2007), Iraqi head of Mukhabarat, sentenced to death
Watban Ibrahim al-Tikriti, (died 2009), Former Iraqi interior minister

V

Mitar Vasiljević, Bosnian Serb sentenced to 20 years, later lowered to 15 years for war crimes in Višegrad^[38]
Zoran Vuković (born 1955), Bosnian Serb sentenced to 12 years^[21]

W

Robert Wagner (1895–1946), German Chief of Civil Administration in Alsace and Reichsstatthalter of Baden
Edward Waiter (died 1945), German administrator of the Dachau concentration camp
Walter Warlimont (1894–1976), German OKW official
Maximilian von Weichs (1881–1954), German field marshal- your own article says not rried or sentenced due to illness
Henry Wirz (1822–1865), Confederate administrator of the Andersonville Camp
Dieter Wisliceny (died 1948), German SS deportation expert in Greece, Slovakia and Hungary
Karl Wolff (1900–1984), Heinrich Himmler Chief of Staff

Y

Tomoyuki Yamashita (1885–1946), Japanese general his conviction resulted in establishing a new doctrine regarding criminal culpability for the involvement of chain of command in war crimes: Yamashita standard.

Z

Simo Zarić (born 1948), Bosnian Serb sentenced to 6 years for Bosanski Šamac^[32]
Zoran Žigić, Bosnian Serb, sentenced to 25 years for Omarska camp^[20]

Notes

Yugoslav Wars

After the Yugoslav Wars, an international Court was formed to try war criminals (ICTY). However, ICTY tried only a selected number of high-ranking people (a total of 161), with local Courts (in Bosnia, Croatia and Serbia) starting trials mostly against individuals or soldiers who carried out orders of those high-ranking officers. Many of those have been convicted.

Croatia raised charges against 3666 people for war crimes, of which 1381 were dropped due to lack of evidence.^[39]

References

Glueck, Sheldon. War Criminals: Their Prosecution and Punishment. New York: Kraus Reprint Corporation, 1966.
Minear, Richard H. Victors' Justice: The Tokyo War Crimes Trial. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1971.
Taylor, Telford. Nuremberg and Vietnam: an American Tragedy. Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1970.