List of Axis war crime trials

The following is a list of war crime trials and tribunals brought against the Axis powers following the conclusion of World War II.

• Nazi Germany
  • Nuremberg Trials of the 24 most important leaders of the Third Reich; 1945–1946, held by the United Kingdom, the United States, the Soviet Union, and France.
    • Subsequent Nuremberg Trials
  • Dachau Trials; Judge Advocate General's Corps, United States Army tribunal held within the walls of the former Dachau concentration camp, 1945–1948
  • Auschwitz Trial; held in Kraków, Poland in 1947 against 40 SS-staff of the Auschwitz concentration camp death factory
  • Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials; trial of 22 staff members from Auschwitz, first criminal trial of Holocaust perpetrators under German jurisdiction
  • Belzec Trial; before the 1st Munich District Court in the mid-1960s of the eight SS-men of the Belzec extermination camp command
  • Majdanek Trials; the overall longest Nazi war crimes trial in history spanning over 30 years
  • Sobibor Trial; held in Hagen, Germany in 1965, concerning the Sobibor extermination camp officials
  • Chełmno Trials of the Chełmno extermination camp personnel; held in Poland and in Germany. The cases were decided almost twenty years apart
  • Supreme National Tribunal for Trial of War Criminals; active in Poland from 1946 to 1948
• Empire of Japan
  • International Military Tribunal for the Far East (Allied tribunal held in Tokyo for leaders of the Empire of Japan)
  • Nanjing War Crimes Tribunal (Tribunal created by the Republic of China for crimes committed in the Chinese theatre)
  • Shenyang and Taiyuan Special Military Tribunal (created by People's Republic of China for crimes committed in the Chinese theatre)
  • French Permanent Military Tribunal in Saigon (French military tribunal which investigated war crimes committed in French Indochina after the Japanese coup d'état in French Indochina.)
  • (American military tribunal where were judged Tomoyuki Yamashita and Masaharu Homma)
  • Yokohama War Crimes Trials, tried by the US Military Commission at Yokohama 1945-1949^[1]
  • Khabarovsk War Crime Trials, tribunal of Kwantung Army officials for use of chemical and biological weapons
• Other
  • Hungarian People's Tribunals
  • Romanian People's Tribunals; held to try war criminals who had served under Ion Antonescu's fascist government in Romania
  • Bulgarian People's Tribunals;
  • Yugoslav People's Tribunals
  • War-responsibility trials in Finland

Notes[]

External links[]

• Axis History Factbook: War Crimes Trials

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