List of Axis personnel indicted for war crimes

The following is a list of people who were formally indicted for committing war crimes on behalf of the Axis powers during World War II, including those who were acquitted or never received judgment. It does not include people who may have committed war crimes but were never formally indicted, or who were indicted only for other types of crimes.

The Nuremberg trials[]

Martin Bormann – Guilty, sentenced in absentia to death by hanging. Later proven he committed suicide to avoid capture at the end of World War II in Europe, and remains discovered in 1972 were 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 in 1957 due to poor health.
Hermann Göring – Guilty, sentenced to death by hanging but committed suicide by ingesting cyanide 2 hours before the sentence was to be carried out.
Rudolf Hess – Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment, committed suicide in prison in 1987.
Alfred Jodl – Guilty, sentenced to death by hanging. Henri Donnedieu de Vabres called the verdict a mistake in 1947. In 1953, the denazification courts reversed the decision and found Jodl not guilty. Within months, the decision of the denazification court was itself overturned. 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[]

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 Brandt – 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)
[de] – Acquitted
Gerhard Rose – Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment, commuted to 20 years
Paul Rostock – Acquitted
Siegfried Ruff – Acquitted
Konrad Schäfer – Acquitted
– Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment, commuted to 15 years
Wolfram Sievers – Guilty, sentenced to death
– 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
– Guilty, sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment
– Acquitted
– Acquitted
– Unfit to stand trial
– Guilty, sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment
– Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment
– Guilty, sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment
– Guilty, sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment
– Acquitted
– Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment
– Acquitted
Oswald Rothaug – Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment
Curt Rothenberger – Guilty, sentenced to seven years' imprisonment
Franz Schlegelberger – Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment
– Committed suicide after his indictment but before the beginning of his trial

The Pohl Trial[]

– Guilty, sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment (released in 1951)
– Guilty, sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment, commuted to 15 years (released in 1951)
– Guilty, sentenced to death, commuted to nine years' imprisonment
– Guilty, sentenced to 25 years' imprisonment, commuted to 15 years
August Frank – Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment, commuted to 15 years
– Guilty, sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment (released in 1951)
– Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment, commuted to 20 years (released in 1951)
– Acquitted
Georg Lörner – Guilty, sentenced to death, commuted to 15 years
– Guilty, sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment (released in 1951)
– Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment, commuted to 20 years
Oswald Pohl – Guilty, sentenced to death
– Guilty, sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment (released in 1951)
– Acquitted
– Guilty, sentenced to death, commuted to 20 years' imprisonment
– Guilty, sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment (released in 1951)
– Acquitted
– Guilty, sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment, commuted to 8 years

The Flick Trial[]

– Acquitted
Friedrich Flick – Guilty, sentenced to seven years' imprisonment, but then released by John J. McCloy after three years
– Acquitted
Otto Steinbrinck – Guilty, sentenced to five years' imprisonment, but died in prison in 1949
– Acquitted
– Guilty, sentenced to two-and-one-half years' imprisonment

The IG Farben Trial[]

Otto Ambros – Guilty, sentenced to eight years' imprisonment
– Ruled unfit to stand trial
– Guilty, sentenced to two years' imprisonment
Heinrich Bütefisch – Guilty, sentenced to six years' imprisonment
– Guilty, sentenced to eight years' imprisonment
Fritz Gajewski – Acquitted
Heinrich Gattineau – Acquitted
– Guilty, sentenced to two years' imprisonment
Erich von der Heyde – Acquitted
Heinrich Hörlein – Acquitted
Max Ilgner – Guilty, sentenced to three years' imprisonment
– Guilty, sentenced to one-and-one-half years' imprisonment
– Acquitted
Carl Krauch – Guilty, sentenced to six years' imprisonment
– 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
Carl Wurster – Acquitted

The Hostages Trial[]

Franz Böhme – Committed suicide
Ernst Dehner – Guilty, sentenced to 17 years' imprisonment (released in 1951)
Hellmuth Felmy – Guilty, sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment, commuted to 10 years
Hermann Foertsch – Acquitted
– 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
– Guilty, sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment (released on in 1951)
Maximilian von Weichs – Ruled unfit to stand trial

The RuSHA trial[]

– Guilty, sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment
Rudolf Creutz – Guilty, sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment
Gregor Ebner – Guilty, released after the judgment due to time already served
Ulrich Greifelt – Guilty, sentenced to lifetime imprisonment
– 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 judgment due to time already served
– Guilty, sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment
– Guilty, released after the judgment due to time already served
– Guilty, released after the judgment due to time already served
– Guilty, released after the judgment due to time already served
Inge Viermetz – 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
– 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
– Guilty, sentenced to death, commuted to 15 years' imprisonment
Emil Haussmann – 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 Adolf Nosske – Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment, commuted to 10 years
– Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment. (Escaped)
Otto Ohlendorf – Guilty, sentenced to death
– Guilty, sentenced to death, commuted to life imprisonment
– Guilty, sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment (released in 1951)
Otto Rasch – Ruled unfit to stand trial
– 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
Erwin Schulz – Guilty, sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment, commuted to 15 years
– 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
– Guilty, sentenced to death, died in a hospital while suffering from an epileptic attack

The Krupp Trial[]

– Guilty, sentenced to 12 years' imprisonment
– Guilty, sentenced to nine years' imprisonment
– Guilty, sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment
– Guilty, sentenced to nine years' imprisonment
– Guilty, sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment
– 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
– Guilty, sentenced to two years, 10 months’ imprisonment
– Guilty, sentenced to six years' imprisonment
– Guilty, sentenced to seven years' imprisonment
– Guilty, sentenced to 12 years' imprisonment
– 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
[de] – 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 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 judgment due to time already served
Walter Schellenberg – Guilty, sentenced to six years' imprisonment
Wilhelm Stuckart – Guilty, released after the judgment 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 Ritter von Leeb – Guilty, released after judgment 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)

The Auschwitz Trial[]

Hans Aumeier – Guilty, sentenced to death
August Bogusch �� Guilty, sentenced to death
Therese Brandl – Guilty, sentenced to death
– 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
– Guilty, sentenced to death
Paul Götze – Guilty, sentenced to death
Maximilian Grabner – Guilty, sentenced to death
– Guilty, sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment
Rudolf Höss – Guilty, sentenced to death
Karl Jeschke – Guilty, sentenced to three years' imprisonment
– Guilty, sentenced to death
Oswald Kaduk – Guilty, sentenced to 25 years' imprisonment
– 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
– Guilty, sentenced to death
Maria Mandl – Guilty, sentenced to death
– Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment
Karl Möckel – Guilty, sentenced to death
– Guilty, sentenced to death
– 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 Schröder – Guilty, sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment
– Guilty, sentenced to death
– Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment
– Guilty, sentenced to death
Johannes Weber – Guilty, sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment

The Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials[]

Stefan Baretzki – Guilty, sentenced to life plus eight years' imprisonment
– Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment.
Wilhelm Boger – Guilty, sentenced to life plus five years' imprisonment
Perry Broad – Guilty, sentenced to four years' imprisonment
Victor Capesius – Guilty, sentenced to nine years' imprisonment
Klaus Dylewski – Guilty, sentenced to five years' imprisonment
– Guilty, sentenced to seven years' imprisonment
– Guilty, sentenced to three-and-one-half years' imprisonment
Karl-Friedrich Höcker – Guilty, sentenced to seven years' imprisonment
– Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment
Oswald Kaduk – Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment
Josef Klehr – Guilty, sentenced to life plus 15 years' imprisonment
Franz Lucas – Guilty, sentenced to three years and three months’ imprisonment
Robert Mulka – Guilty, sentenced to 14 years' imprisonment
– Acquitted
Willi Schatz – Acquitted
– Guilty, sentenced to four-and-one-half years' imprisonment
– Guilty, sentenced to six years' imprisonment
– Guilty, sentenced to four-and-one-half years' imprisonment
– Acquitted
– Guilty, sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment
– Charges dropped due to lack of evidence.

The Dachau Trial[]

Dachau[]

Malmedy massacre trial (please note that these are the original sentences; many were altered later)

Bersin, Valentin
Bode, Friedel
Braun, Willi
Briesemeister, Kurt
Christ, Friedrich – sentenced to death
Clotten, Roman
Coblenz, Manfred
Josef Diefenthal – sentenced to death
Josef Dietrich – sentenced to life imprisonment
Eckmann, Fritz
Fischer, Arndt
Georg Fleps – sentenced to death
Friedrichs, Heinz
Gebauer, Fritz
Godicke, Heinz
Goldschmidt, Ernst
Gruhle, Hans
Hammerer, Max
Hecht, Armin
Hendel, Willi – sentenced to death
Hennecke, Hans
Hillig, Hans
Hoffmann, Heinz
Hoffmann, Joachim – sentenced to death
Huber, Hubert
Jaekel, Siegfried
Junker, Benoni
Kies, Friedel – sentenced to death
Gustav Knittel – sentenced to life imprisonment
Kotzur, Georg
Fritz Krämer – sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment
Klingelhoefer, Oskar
Kuehn, Werner
Maute, Erich
Mikolaschek, Arnold
Motzheim, Anton
Meunkemer, Erich
Neve, Gustav
Ochmann, Paul Hermann
Joachim Peiper – sentenced to death
Pletz, Hans
Preuss, Georg
Hermann Priess – sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment
Rau, Fritz
Rauh, Theo
Rehagel, Heinz
Reiser, Rolf
Richter, Wolfgang
Rieder, Max
Ritzer, Rolf
Rodenburg, Axel
Rumpf, Erich
Schaefer, Willi
Von Schamier, Willi
Schwambach, Rudolf
Claus Schilling – Dachau camp doctor, sentenced to death for conducting experiments for malaria treatment on prisoners.
Sickel, Kurt
Siegmund, Oswald
Sievers, Franz
Siptrott, Hans
Sprenger, Gustac
Sternebeck, Werner
Heinz Stickel – sentenced to death
Stock, Herbert
Erwin Szyperski – sentenced to life imprisonment
Tomczak, Edmund
Heinz Tomhardt – sentenced to death
Tonk, August
Trettin, Hans
Wassenberger, Johann
Weis, Guenther
Werner, Erich
Wichmann, Otto
Zwigart, Paul

Buchenwald[]

– Guilty, sentenced to death, commuted to five years imprisonment
– Guilty, sentenced to death
– Guilty, sentenced to death
– Guilty, sentenced to death
– Guilty, sentenced to death
– Guilty, sentenced to death
– Guilty, sentenced to death
– Guilty, sentenced to death
– Guilty, sentenced to death
– Guilty, sentenced to death
– Guilty, sentenced to death
Hermann Pister – Guilty, sentenced to death, died in prison
Dr. Hans Eisele – Guilty, sentenced to death, commuted to life imprisonment
– Guilty, sentenced to death, commuted to life imprisonment
– Guilty, sentenced to death, commuted to life imprisonment
– Guilty, sentenced to death, commuted to life imprisonment
Hermann Hackmann – Guilty, sentenced to death, commuted to life imprisonment
– Guilty, sentenced to death, commuted to life imprisonment
– Guilty, sentenced to death, commuted to life imprisonment
– Guilty, sentenced to death, commuted to life imprisonment
– Guilty, sentenced to death, commuted to life imprisonment
– Guilty, sentenced to death, commuted to 20 years
– Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment
Josias Erbprinz zu Waldeck und Pyrmont Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment, commuted to 20 years
Dr. – 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
– Guilty, sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment
Dr. Arthur Dietzsch – Guilty, sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment
– Guilty, sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment, commuted to five years
Dr. – Guilty, sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment, commuted to three years

Mauthausen[]

August Eigruber – death by hanging
– death by hanging
Friedrich Entress – death by hanging
– death by hanging
– death by hanging
(Gusen) – death by hanging
– death by hanging
– death by hanging
– death by hanging
(DEST-Wienergraben) – death by hanging
Adolf Zutter – death by hanging
Eduard Krebsbach – death by hanging
– death by hanging
– death by hanging
– death by hanging
– death by hanging
– death by hanging
– death by hanging
– death by hanging
(Gusen) – death by hanging
– death by hanging
– death by hanging
– death by hanging
– death by hanging
– death by hanging
– death by hanging
kapo – death by hanging
(DEST-Gusen) – death by hanging
– death by hanging
– death by hanging
– death by hanging
– death by hanging
– death by hanging
kapo (Gusen) – death by hanging
– death by hanging
Julius Ludolf – death by hanging
– death by hanging
– death by hanging
Erich Wasicky – death by hanging
– death by hanging
(Gusen II) – death by hanging
(Gusen II) – death by hanging
(DEST-Gusen) – death by hanging
– death by hanging
– death by hanging
– death by hanging
– death by hanging
– death by hanging
(Gusen) – death by hanging
(Gusen) – death by hanging (changed to life imprisonment)
– death by hanging (changed to life imprisonment)
(Gusen) – death by hanging (changed to life imprisonment)
(Gusen II) – death by hanging (changed to life imprisonment)
(Gusen II) – death by hanging (changed to life imprisonment)
(Gusen II) – death by hanging (changed to life imprisonment)
(Gusen) – death by hanging (changed to life imprisonment)
(Gusen) – death by hanging (changed to life imprisonment)
(Gusen) – death by hanging (changed to life imprisonment)
– life imprisonment
(Gusen) – life imprisonment
– life imprisonment

Flossenbürg[]

Konrad Blomberg – sentenced to death
Christian Mohr – sentenced to death
Ludwig Schwarz – sentenced to death
Bruno Skierka – sentenced to death
Albert Roller – sentenced to death
Erhard Wolf – sentenced to death
Josef Wurst – sentenced to death
– sentenced to death
Josef Hauser – sentenced to death
Christian Eisbusch – sentenced to death
Willi Olschewski – sentenced to death
August Ginschel – sentenced to death
Wilhelm Brusch – sentenced to death, commuted to life imprisonment
Karl Keiling – sentenced to death, commuted to life imprisonment
Alois Schubert – sentenced to death, commuted to life imprisonment
Ludwig Buddensieg – life imprisonment
Johann Geisberger – life imprisonment
Michael Gelhard – life imprisonment
– sentenced to death
Hermann Pachen – life imprisonment
Erich Penz – life imprisonment
Josef Pinter – life imprisonment
Alois Jakubith – life imprisonment
Karl Mathoi – life imprisonment
Georg Weilbach – life imprisonment
Raymond Maurer – 30 years' imprisonment
Gerhard Haubold – 20 years' imprisonment
Eduard Losch – 20 years' imprisonment
Walter Reupsch – 20 years' imprisonment
Kurt Erich Schreiber – 20 years' imprisonment
Hermann Sommerfeld – 15 years' imprisonment
August Fahrnbauer – 15 years' imprisonment
Peter Bongartz – 15 years' imprisonment
Walter Paul Adolf Neye – 15 years' imprisonment
Hans Johann Lipinski – 10 years' imprisonment
Gustav Matzke – 10 years' imprisonment
Karl Gräber – 10 years' imprisonment
Franz Berger – 3½ years' imprisonment
Joseph Becker – 1 year's imprisonment
Karl Buttner – Acquitted
Karl Friedrich Alois Gieselmann – Acquitted
Georg Hoinisch – Acquitted
Theodor Retzlaff – Acquitted
Peter Herz – Acquitted

Mühldorf[]

Franz Auer – sentenced to death
Erika Flocken – sentenced to death
Wilhelm Jergas – sentenced to death
Herbert Spaeth – sentenced to death
Otto Sperling – sentenced to death
Heinrich Engelhardt – life imprisonment
Hermann Giesler – life imprisonment
Karl Gickeleiter – 20 years' imprisonment
Wilhelm Griesinger – 20 years' imprisonment
Jakob Schmidberger – 20 years' imprisonment
Daniel Gottschling – 15 years' imprisonment
Wilhelm Bayha – 10 years' imprisonment
Karl Bachmann – Acquitted
Anton Ostermann – Acquitted

Dora-Nordhaussen[]

Hans Möser – Death by Hanging.
– life imprisonment
– life imprisonment
– life imprisonment
– life imprisonment
– life imprisonment
– life imprisonment
Wilhelm Simon – life imprisonment
– 25 years' imprisonment
– 20 years' imprisonment
– 20 years' imprisonment
– 20 years' imprisonment
– 7 years' imprisonment
– 5 years' imprisonment
– 5 years' imprisonment
– Acquitted
– Acquitted
Georg Rickhey – Acquitted
Heinrich Schmidt – Acquitted

The Belsen Trial[]

Josef Kramer – Guilty, sentenced to death
Irma Grese – Guilty, sentenced to death
Elisabeth Volkenrath – Guilty, sentenced to death
Juana Bormann – Guilty, sentenced to death
Fritz Klein – Guilty, sentenced to death
For information about nine other Germans who were executed for their war crimes at Belsen, see Belsen Trial.

The Neuengamme Trials[]

Max Pauly – Guilty, sentenced to death
SS Dr – 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

Bucharest People’s Tribunal[]

– Guilty, sentenced to death
Ion Antonescu – Guilty, sentenced to death. Carried out June 1, 1946
Mihai Antonescu – Guilty, sentenced to death. Carried out June 1, 1946
– 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
Kingoro 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
Yōsuke 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
– 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)
– 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 countries. In all, a total of 920 Japanese military and naval personnel and civilians were executed following World War II.^[1]

Khabarovsk War Crime Trials[]

– Guilty, sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment
– Guilty, sentenced to 25 years' imprisonment
– Guilty, sentenced to 12 years' imprisonment
– Guilty, sentenced to two years' imprisonment
Otozō Yamada – Guilty, sentenced to 25 years' imprisonment
– Guilty, sentenced to 25 years' imprisonment
Sato Shunji – Guilty, sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment
– Guilty, sentenced to 25 years' imprisonment
– Guilty, sentenced to 18 years' imprisonment
– Guilty, sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment
– Guilty, sentenced to three years' imprisonment
– Guilty, sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment

Others[]

Austrian[]

Hermine Braunsteiner (16 July 1919 – 19 April 1999) – extradited from the United States to West Germany in 1973. Released from prison in 1996
Amon Goeth – executed on 13 September 1946 for his war crimes.
Walter Reder – sentenced to life imprisonment in October 1951, paroled in January 1985.

Croatian[]

1986 trial of Andrija Artuković
1945 Trial of Mile Budak: Mile Budak and others
1998–1999 trial of Dinko Šakić

Danish[]

Søren Kam – (1921–2015) 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 was wanted in Denmark for the assassination of Danish newspaper editor Carl Henrik Clemmensen in Copenhagen in August 1943.

Dutch[]

Pieter Menten, sentenced to 10 years in prison and fined 100,000 guilders for war crimes in 1980, released in 1986, died 1987.

Important Dutch collaborators sentenced by the special tribunals in The Netherlands in connection with the Second World War. There have been 14,562 convictions pronounced by the special tribunals, and 49,920 sentences by courts. The special tribunals sentenced in more than 10,000 cases to prison sentences of 3 years or more, and in 152 cases condemned the guilty persons to death, many of which were commuted to life sentences or less. The other courts decided in 30,784 cases on internment of 1 up to 10 years and in 38,984 cases on forfeit of certain civil rights.

French[]

Philippe Pétain - Sentenced to life imprisonment in 1946, later Died in 1951
Pierre Laval - Sentenced to death in 1945

German[]

Otto Abetz – Sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment in 1949, appealed in 1952, released in 1954
Richard Baer – 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
Rudolf Batz – Lived for 15½ years after the war under assumed identity; captured at Bielefeld in November 1960; hanged himself in prison before trial
Alois Brunner – Escaped, worked for the Gehlen Organization
Friedrich Christiansen – Arrested, tried and convicted of war crimes and sentenced in 1948 to 12 years' imprisonment in Arnhem; Released prematurely in December 1951 on grounds of ill health; Died in Aukrug, Germany on December 3, 1972.
– SS-Obersturmbannführer and commander of Einsatzkommando 10a in Krasnodar, Russia; Arrested, tried and convicted under Article 6 of the IMT Statute (Crimes Against Humanity) and sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment on December 19, 1980; Died on April 4, 1987.^[2]
Anton Dostler – Executed by an American firing squad in Italy on December 1, 1945
Luise Danz – Female guard at various concentration 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 1960, convicted of high crimes against the Jewish nation and humanity, in Israel, and executed on June 1, 1962
Karl Frenzel – 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 in 1977, then died in 1978
Fritz Knochlein – 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-a-half years' imprisonment, but died 1974
Kurt Meyer – Sentenced to execution by a Canadian military court, was put on Death Row at New Brunswick's Dorchester Penitentiary, later reduced to 14 years' imprisonment, served 10 years.

Hungarian[]

László Bárdossy – Prime Minister of Hungary from April 1941 to March 1942. Sentenced to death.
Béla Imrédy – Prime Minister of Hungary 1938–1939. Sentenced to death.
Ferenc Szálasi – puppet Prime Minister of Hungary from October 1944 to February 1945. Sentenced to death.
Döme Sztójay – Prime Minister of Hungary from March to August 1944. Sentenced to death.

Italian[]

Nicola Bellomo – sentenced to death by firing squad and executed on 11 September 1945.
Pietro Caruso – sentenced to death by firing squad and executed on 22 September 1944.
Guido Buffarini Guidi – executed 10 July 1945.
Pietro Koch – sentenced to execution by firing squad, sentence carried out 4 June 1945.

Japanese[]

Masaharu Homma – convicted of war crimes, sentenced to death, then executed on April 3, 1946.
Hitoshi Imamura – sentenced to imprisonment for ten years.
Kiyotake Kawaguchi – imprisoned from 1946 to 1953.
Tomoyuki Yamashita – executed on February 23, 1946.

Latvian[]

Konrāds Kalējs – 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.
– Fled from the United States to West Germany in 1987; put on trial in 1990; his trial was quashed.
– Exonerated in 1984.

Lithuanian[]

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; contributors (2002–2004). An Encyclopedia of Japanese History. {{cite book}}: |author2= has generic name (help)
^ "Kurt Christmann". Archived from the original on 2015-01-25.

External links[]

Deported War Criminals

[1] Spackman, Chris; contributors (2002–2004). An Encyclopedia of Japanese History. {{cite book}}: |author2= has generic name (help)

[2] "Kurt Christmann". Archived from the original on 2015-01-25.

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