See also: The Holocaust and Responsibility for the Holocaust. This is a list of major perpetrators of the Holocaust.
Name | Photograph | Date of birth | Date of death | Age at death | Role | Fate | |
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Leader of the Nazi Party during the Third ReichChancellor of Germany Führer | Committed suicide by gunshot[1] [2] | ||||||
Reichsführer-SS Chief of German Police Reich Minister of the Interior | Arrested
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Commander-in-Chief of the Luftwaffe President of the Reichstag Reichsminister of Aviation Established the Final Solution as official policy in July 1941. | Sentenced to death by hanging; committed suicide by cyanide poisoning hours before his execution | ||||||
Chief of the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA) Deputy Reich-Protector of Bohemia and Moravia (acting Protector) | Died of sepsis caused by injuries sustained in an assassination attempt (Operation Anthropoid) | ||||||
Head of the Gestapo Office of Jewish Affairs (RSHA Sub-Department IV-B4). Charged by Reinhard Heydrich with facilitating and managing the mass deportations of Jews to ghettos and extermination camps in Eastern Europe. | Evaded arrest and escaped to Argentina in 1950. Discovered and kidnapped by Israeli agents in May 1960; subsequently brought to Israel, tried and executed by hanging in 1962. | ||||||
Unknown, but evidence points to May 1945 | Unknown | SS-Gruppenführer und Generalleutnant der Polizei, Chief of the Gestapo 1939–45 | Disappeared; possibly killed in Berlin in May 1945 (unconfirmed) | ||||
Reich Minister of Armaments and War Production denied any involvement of knowledge of the holocaust, letters found after his death proved he was aware amongst other crimes | Sentenced to 20 years of prison at the Nuremberg trials. It is believed he lied to get a softer sentence. Was later released and died from natural causes in England | ||||||
SS and Police Leader in the General Government Head of Operation Reinhard | Committed suicide by cyanide poisoning | ||||||
A major figure in the creation of the Nazi concentration camps First commander of SS Division Totenkopf, which became notorious for its war crimes. | Killed in action | ||||||
Head of Concentration Camp Operations (Amt D: Konzentrationslagerwesen) in the SS Main Economic and Administrative Department (SS-Wirtschafts-Verwaltungshauptamt) | Committed suicide by cyanide poisoning | ||||||
Chief of the Reich Security Main Office after Heydrich was assassinated | Executed by hanging | ||||||
Governor-General of the General Government | Executed by hanging | ||||||
Reichskommissar of the NetherlandsDeputy Governor-General of the General Government, (October 12, 1939 – May 18, 1940) | Executed by hanging | ||||||
February 16, 1904 | August 22, 1948 | State Secretary and deputy to Hans Frank, (May 18, 1940 – January 19, 1945) | Executed by hanging | ||||
Chief of the Ordnungspolizei Deputy Reich-Protector of Bohemia and Moravia (acting Protector) | Executed by hanging | ||||||
Chief of the SS-Wirtschafts-Verwaltungshauptamt (SS Main Economic and Administrative Department), the central SS financial office responsible for overall administration of the concentration camps.Directed the construction of Auschwitz, Majdanek, and Stutthof | Executed by hanging | ||||||
December 2001[3] or December 2010[4] | 89 or 98 | Deputy to Adolf Eichmann; organised the deportations of at least 140,000 Jews from France, Greece, Slovakia and Austria. Commandant of the Drancy internment camp. | Escaped to Egypt around 1954, then fled to Syria. Served as a consultant to the al-Assad regime on torture techniques; died in Syria of natural causes in December 2001 | ||||
Deputy to Adolf Eichmann; Head of the SD Hauptamt – Judenreferat (SD Head Office – Jewish Affairs Department) for Paris: September 1940 – July 1942 In charge of the Final Solution in Bulgaria, the Balkans and Hungary (from 1943) | Arrested by the U.S. military; committed suicide | ||||||
Head of the Nazi Party ChancelleryPrivate Secretary to Adolf Hitler | Sentenced to death by hanging in absentia; believed to have committed suicide to avoid capture in Berlin; the buried body was not found until 1972; the remains were conclusively identified in 1998.[5] [6] | ||||||
Minister of War and chief of the Supreme Command of the Armed Forces | Executed by hanging. See War crimes of the Wehrmacht. | ||||||
Chief of the Kommandostab Reichsführer-SS under Himmler. Coordinated Waffen-SS operations during the Pripyat Marshes massacres | Sentenced to two years imprisonment in 1949; died in 1952. | ||||||
Active in Operation Reinhard; helped oversee Grossaktion Warsaw and the liquidation of several ghettos, including the Białystok Ghetto | Sentenced to 12 years in prison in 1974 but released in 1979 | ||||||
Coordinator of Operation Reinhard | Arrested; committed suicide by hanging | ||||||
Leader of the Independent State of Croatia | Escaped to Argentina in 1948 via the ratlines. Died from wounds sustained from an assassination attempt in 1957. | ||||||
August 14, 1890 | May 16, 1946 | Sold Zyklon B to the SS, knowing that it would be used to exterminate concentration camp prisoners | Executed by hanging | ||||
June 23, 1898 | May 16, 1946 | Sold Zyklon B to the SS, knowing that it would be used to exterminate concentration camp prisoners | Executed by hanging | ||||
Organizer for Aktion T4Extensively involved in the process of establishment of extermination camps for Operation Reinhard | Executed by hanging | ||||||
Head of gas chamber construction during Operation Reinhard | Served four years in prison after on trial, acquitted after a second trial on separate charges | ||||||
Inspector of Aktion T4 and Operation Reinhard;Commandant of Bełżec, end of | Assassinated | ||||||
Commandant of Auschwitz,, | Executed by hanging | ||||||
Commandant of Auschwitz, Commandant of Majdanek, | Executed by hanging | ||||||
Richard Baer | September 9, 1911 | June 17, 1963 | Commandant of Auschwitz, May 1944February 1945Commandant of Mittelbau-Dora, February 1945April 1945 | Arrested in 1960; died in prison while awaiting trial in 1963 | |||
Commandant of Auschwitz-Birkenau (1944)Commandant of Bergen-Belsen (1944–1945) | Executed by hanging | ||||||
Commandant of Dachau, Commandant of Dachau, Commandant of Neuengamme, Commandant of Majdanek, | Executed by hanging | ||||||
Commandant of Dachau, February 1940 – September 1942 | Executed by hanging | ||||||
Commandant of Mittelbau-Dora, October 1944 – January 1945 | Executed by hanging | ||||||
June 1, 1907 | October 8, 1946 | Commandant of Stutthof, September 1939 – August 1942Commandant of Neuengamme, September 1942 – May 1945 | Executed by hanging | ||||
June 14, 1906 | March 20, 1947 | Commandant of Monowitz,Commandant of Natzweiler-Struthof, February 1945 – April 1945 | Executed by firing squad | ||||
Commandant of Buchenwald, August 1, 1937 – September 1941Commandant of Majdanek, September 1941 – August 24, 1942 | Executed by Nazi Germany for multiple "unauthorized murders" and embezzlement | ||||||
February 21, 1885 | September 28, 1948 | Commandant of Buchenwald, August 1, 1937 – September 1941 | Died awaiting execution | ||||
Commandant of Treblinka, | Arrested; committed suicide by hanging | ||||||
Commandant of Chelmno, | Arrested by the British Army; committed suicide by hanging | ||||||
Commandant of Chelmno, | Killed in action during the Battle of Berlin | ||||||
Commandant of Sobibor, ;Commandant of Treblinka, | Arrested on ; sentenced to life imprisonment on ; died in prison | ||||||
Commandant of Treblinka, | Arrested on ; sentenced to life imprisonment in 1965; released on health grounds in 1993 | ||||||
October 23, 1903 | May 12, 1945 | In charge of construction for the Operation Reinhard death camps: Bełżec, Sobibor and Treblinka | Extrajudicially executed by the NKVD | ||||
Commandant of Sobibor, | Killed in action | ||||||
Commandant of Bełżec, end of | Died of mysterious health complications | ||||||
Executed by hanging | |||||||
Commandant of Theresienstadt, Leading member of the Sondereinsatzkommando Eichmann, which organized the mass deportations of approximately 437,000 Hungarian Jews, hundreds of thousands of whom were sent to Auschwitz and gassed | Executed by hanging | ||||||
April 2, 1907 | April 30, 1947 | 40 years, 28 days | Commandant of Theresienstadt, January 1944 May 1945 | Executed by hanging | |||
Commandant of Ravensbrück, Commandant of Majdanek, Commandant of Flossenbürg, | Committed suicide by hanging | ||||||
Commandant of Ravensbrück, August 1942April 1945 | Executed by firing squad | ||||||
Commandant of Mauthausen, - | Shot by American soldiers while trying to escape, died of his injuries the next day | ||||||
August 24, 1907 | September 6, 1960 | 53 years, 13 days | Commandant of Jägala | Committed suicide by hanging in Canada, allegedly to protect his relatives from potential reprisals | |||
August 20, 1906 | Commandant of Vaivara, August 1943November 1943Deputy commandant at Auschwitz | Executed by hanging | |||||
Higher SS and Police Leader (HSSPF) for the Netherlands | Executed by firing squad | ||||||
Close aide of Reinhard Heydrich. Group Leader II D of the RSHA (technical matters). Designed gas vans to poison Jews, and persons with disabilities. Einsatzkommando leader in North Africa (1942–43), SS and Gestapo commander in northwest Italy (1943–45). | Arrested in Italy in 1945; escaped in 1946, fled to Syria in 1948, to Ecuador in 1949, to Chile in 1958. Extradition request by Germany thrown out by Chile in 1963 on the grounds of expired statute of limitations. Most wanted Nazi fugitive in the 1970s and 1980s. Died of natural causes in Chile in 1984. | ||||||
Human medical experimentation, and formal responsibility of medical staff at Auschwitz | Arrested; committed suicide by hanging | ||||||
Human medical experimentation, particularly children, and selection of prisoners to be gassed at Auschwitz | Escaped to Brazil; evaded arrest and suffered a heart attack while swimming in 1979 | ||||||
SS and Police Leader of the District of Galicia Responsible for the establishment of the Lwów Ghetto, which had a population of 120,000 Polish Jews, only 823 surviving after the war. SS and Police Leader of Radom District In charge of the establishment of the Radom Ghetto, which enclosed about 33,000 Polish Jews, the majority of whom died. | Evaded arrest after the war and died in 1957 | ||||||
Director of Aktion T4 | Arrested; committed suicide by cyanide poisoning | ||||||
Co-director of Aktion T4Conducted human medical experimentation | Executed by hanging | ||||||
April 25, 1902 | February 13, 1964 | Senior medical expert for Aktion T4 | Arrested in 1945; escaped custody in 1947; turned himself in 1959; committed suicide while awaiting trial in 1964 | ||||
November 25, 1876 | March 25, 1948 | Senior medical expert for Aktion T4 | Executed by guillotine | ||||
Ernst-Robert Grawitz | June 8, 1899 | April 24, 1945 | Held administrative responsible for all human experimentation conducted at conentration camps | Committed suicide | |||
Oversaw human medical experimentation of concentration camp inmates at Ravensbrück and Auschwitz | Executed by hanging | ||||||
Commander of the Security Police (SiPo) and SD (Kraków, 1939–40; Netherlands, 1940–43; Italy, 1943–45). Responsible for the deaths of at least 104,000 Jews. | Arrested in 1945 and transferred to Dutch custody. Tried and sentenced to 12 years imprisonment in 1949; served six years; deported to West Germany in 1955. Arrested and tried in 1967. Sentenced to 15 years imprisonment, but sentence commuted and released in 1969. | ||||||
Commandant of Camp I (forced labor camp) at Sobibor | Arrested on ; sentenced to life imprisonment on ; released on health grounds in 1982 | ||||||
Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski | March 1, 1899 | March 8, 1972 | 73 years, 7 days | In charge of Nazi security warfare | Arrested in 1945; released in 1949; sentenced to 10 years imprisonment, which he served under house arrest; sentenced to 4.5 years imprisonment in 1958; sentenced to life imprisonment in 1961; died in prison in 1972 | ||
Herbert Backe | May 1, 1896 | April 6, 1947 | Responsible for the Hunger Plan | Arrested; committed suicide by hanging | |||
Responsible for the Pripyat Marshes massacres | Executed by Nazi Germany for desertion after trying to flee from Berlin | ||||||
September 26, 1895 | June 7, 1945 | Commander of the Dirlewanger Brigade | Arrested, then beaten to death by Polish guards while in custody | ||||
June 16, 1899 | August 28, 1944 | Commander of the Kaminski Brigade | Executed by Nazi Germany after being court-martialed for looting | ||||
Suppression and destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising | Executed by hanging | ||||||
SS and Police Leader of the Warsaw area from 1941–43 Responsible for the Grossaktion Warsaw, the single most deadly operation against the Jews in the course of the Holocaust in occupied Poland, which entailed sending between 254,000 and 265,000 men, women and children aboard overcrowded Holocaust trains to Treblinka Leading figure in the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising | Assassinated | ||||||
Higher SS and Police Leader (HSPPF) in occupied Poland | Committed suicide | ||||||
Higher SS and Police Leader in Russia-South; Russia-NorthResponsible for Rumbula, Babi Yar, and Kamianets-Podilskyi massacres | Executed by hanging | ||||||
April 22, 1903 | May 16, 1946 | 43 years, 24 days | Commanded multiple Einsatzgruppen units in PolandCommander of the BdS in the Netherlands (September 1944– May 1945) | Executed by hanging | |||
Military governor of German-occupied KyivResponsible for the Babi Yar massacre | Arrested; committed suicide | ||||||
October 8, 1884 | January 17, 1942 | Issued the Severity OrderResponsible for the Babi Yar and Bila Tserkva massacres | Died after having a stroke, then suffering injuries in a plane crash | ||||
Hans Krueger | July 1, 1909 | February 8, 1988 | Commandant of the Stanisławów GhettoResponsible for the Stanislawow Ghetto massacre | Arrested in 1945; released in 1948; re-arrested in 1962; sentenced to life imprisonment in 1968; released on health grounds in 1986; died in 1988 | |||
Supreme SS and Police Leader of UkraineHigher SS and Police Leader of Russia-North; Russia-South Oversaw the activities of the Einsatzgruppen detachments that perpetrated the Holocaust in the Baltic States and Ukraine | Committed suicide by cyanide poisoning while in Allied custody | ||||||
Trained the EinsatzgruppenCommander of Einsatzgruppe I in PolandSupp | Served 10 years in Soviet custody, but never tried; released on | ||||||
January 23, 1908 | November 10, 1986 | Commander of Einsatzkommando 1/I, PolandSuppression of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Suppression of the Warsaw Uprising | Arrested in 1960; released in 1961; briefly re-arrested in 1965 and 1966; arrested for the last time in 1972; sentenced to 12 years in prison in 1973; sentenced to life imprisonment in 1975; released on health grounds in 1983; died in 1986 | ||||
July 26, 1900 | December 7, 1980 | Commander of Einsatzkommando 4/I, Poland | Never prosecuted | ||||
April 20, 1900 | December 4, 1974 | Commander of Einsatzgruppe II, PolandCommander of the BdS in Serbia, (January 6, 1942 – December 1944) | Sentenced to 21 months in prison by a denazification court in 1951; released in 1953. Sentenced to a further 6.5 years in prison in June 1953; released in 1956. | ||||
May 6, 1902 | May 16, 1986 | 84 years, 10 days | Served 10 years in Soviet custody, but never tried; released in October 1955. Arrested and charged in West Germany in 1965; released on bail in 1967; charges dropped in 1971; died in 1986. | ||||
September 14, 1899 | March 7, 1947 | Commander of Einsatzgruppe IV, Poland Commander of the state police in Warsaw | Executed by hanging | ||||
October 30, 1882 | July 24, 1945 | Commander of Einsatzgruppe V, Poland | Died under unclear circumstances | ||||
October 18, 1909 | February 28, 1948 | Commander of Einsatzkommando 2/VI, Poland | Executed by firing squad | ||||
Commander of Einsatzgruppe A, Baltic states, – | Killed in action | ||||||
Commander of Einsatzgruppe A, Baltic states, – | Sentenced to life imprisonment in 1948; commuted to 10 years; released in December 1951; died in 1964 | ||||||
Commander of Einsatzgruppe A, Baltic states, – | Killed in air raid | ||||||
Arrested by the Soviets 1946, sentenced to 25 years in prison; released in 1955; re-arrested in 1959; committed suicide | |||||||
Commander of Einsatzgruppe A, Baltic states, – Commander of Einsatzkommando 3, – Commander of Einsatzgruppe E, Croatia, October 1944–November 1944 Commander of the BdS in Serbia, (1941 – January 1942) | Executed by hanging | ||||||
Commander of Einsatzkommando 2, Latvia, – Commander of Sonderkommando 1b, – Responsible for Rumbula massacre | Sentenced to death by hanging by an American military court in 1948, then transferred to Belgium, where he received another death sentence. Strauch was never executed and died in custody. | ||||||
Commander of Einsatzkommando 2, Latvia, – | Believed to have been killed in action | ||||||
Commander of Einsatzkommando 3, Lithuania, – | Discovered and arrested in 1959; committed suicide while awaiting trial | ||||||
deceased after 2002 | over 90 years | Commander of Einsatzgruppe B, Poland | Arrested in 1964; released due to insufficient evidence | ||||
Commander of Einsatzgruppe B, Belarus, – Chief of the Kripo President of Interpol | Executed by Nazi Germany for involvement in the failed 20 July 1944 attempt to kill Adolf Hitler | ||||||
Commander of Einsatzgruppe VI, PolandCommander of Einsatzgruppe B, Belarus, – Commander of the BdS in the Netherlands, September 1943–July 1944 | Executed by hanging | ||||||
Lidice Commander of Einsatzgruppe B, Belarus, –, and Commander of Einsatzgruppe C, north and central Ukraine, – | Presumed killed in action in Königsberg, East Prussia; officially declared dead in 1954 | ||||||
Commander of Einsatzgruppe B, Belarus, – ;Commander of Sonderkommando 1b, – | Arrested in ; sentenced to 12 years imprisonment | ||||||
Commander of Einsatzgruppe B, Belarus, – ;Commander of Einsatzkommando 10a, Moldova, south Ukraine, the Crimea, and north Caucasus, – | Arrested in September 1945; committed suicide by cyanide poisoning | ||||||
Commander of Einsatzkommando 8, Belarus, – | Arrested on ; sentenced to 13 years imprisonment in 1963; released in 1969; died in 1994 | ||||||
Commander of Einsatzgruppe C, north and central Ukraine, – Responsible for the Babi Yar massacre | Arrested; removed from trial on health grounds in February 1948; died in November 1948 | ||||||
Commander of Sonderkommando 4a, north and central Ukraine, June 1941–13 January 1942, commander of the Sonderaktion 1005 projectResponsible for the Babi Yar and Bila Tserkva massacres | Executed by hanging | ||||||
Commander of Einsatzgruppe D, Moldova, south Ukraine, the Crimea, and north Caucasus, – | Executed by hanging | ||||||
Commander of Einsatzgruppe D, Moldova, south Ukraine, the Crimea, and north Caucasus, – | Committed suicide | ||||||
September 13, 1905 | March 1, 1960 | Commander of Einsatzkommando 2/I, PolandCommander of Einsatzkommando 11b, south Ukraine and the Crimea, – | Sentenced to 20 years in prison for unrelated crimes in 1948; released in 1953; died in 1960 | ||||
Commander of Einsatzkommando 11b, south Ukraine and the Crimea, – | Executed by hanging | ||||||
Commander of Einsatzkommando 2 Oversaw Einsatzgruppen killings in the Baltic States | Arrested in 1961; committed suicide while awaiting trial | ||||||
[7] | Commander of Rollkommando Hamann, a small mobile unit established by him that murdered an estimated 60,000 Latvian Jews in massacres across occupied territory | Committed suicide | |||||
October 27, 1913 | March 24, 1945 | Commander of Kommando Bialystok, a small mobile unit which murdered at least 1,800 Polish Jews | Killed in action | ||||
January 2, 1886 | August 30, 1944 | Ordered the mass deportations of Jews in France as a reprisal policyCollaborated with the Einsatzgruppen for reprisals against Jews in Ukraine | Executed by Nazi Germany for involvement in the failed 20 July 1944 attempt to kill Adolf Hitler | ||||
September 14, 1886 | August 8, 1944 | Heavily collaborated with Einsatzgruppe ACarried out orders to summarily execute Communist officials under the Commissar Order | Executed by Nazi Germany for involvement in the failed 20 July 1944 attempt to kill Adolf Hitler | ||||
Hans Graf von Sponeck | February 12, 1888 | July 23, 1944 | Collaborated with Einsatzgruppe D | ||||
April 1, 1894 | July 23, 1944 | Drew up regulations that allowed German soldiers to take hostages from civilian population and execute them as response to resistanceDrew up the regulations with Reinhard Heydrich to ensure the Wehrmacht's cooperation with the Einsatzgruppen in the murders of Soviet Jews Created and implemented deliberate starvation policies against Soviet prisoners of war | Committed suicide in the aftermath of the failed 20 July 1944 attempt to kill Adolf Hitler | ||||
December 8, 1896 | February 6, 1949 | Responsible for the mass expulsions of non-Germans, as well as a directive ordering the mass abductions of children suspecting of being ethnic Germans | Died in prison | ||||
Commandant of female camp at Auschwitz | Executed by hanging | ||||||
Commandant of Auschwitz-Birkenau Commandant of Natzweiler-Struthof, May 9, 1944 – January 1945 | Died awaiting execution | ||||||
Commandant of men's camp at Auschwitz, and selection of prisoners to be gassed at Auschwitz | Executed by hanging | ||||||
September 30, 1984 | Commander of the Vilna Ghetto Commander of the Ypatingasis būrys killing squad, which was largely responsible for the Ponary massacre where approximately 100,000 people were shot, including 70,000 Jews. | Arrested in 1949; sentenced to life imprisonment in 1950; sentence suspended in 1971 and revoked in 1977; died in 1984 | |||||
Arrested in 1945 but released early; fled to Argentina and subsequently escaped prosecution; died in 1977 | |||||||
General Commissioner for Latvia for Nazi Germany's occupation regime (Reichskommissariat Ostland) Major figure in the establishment of the Riga Ghetto | Taken into British custody; committed suicide | ||||||
Responsible for the establishment of the Vilna Ghetto, which hosted a population of about 55,000 Jews, none of whom survived after the war Effectively ruled the ghetto until July 23, shortly before its liquidation | Arrested in 1947 and deported to the Soviet Union in January 1948; sentenced to 25 years in hard labor; released in 1955 due to the Austrian State Treaty. Arrested and prosecuted again in 1963 due to the intervention of the famous Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal; acquitted on all charges and died in 1994. | ||||||
Chief of the SiPo (Security Police) and the Gestapo for Vienna, the "Upper" and "Lower Danube" regions and formal chief of the Central Agency for Jewish Emigration in Vienna Responsible for the mass deportations of Austrian Jews from these regions | Died in 1975 without being suspected of any crimes | ||||||
Reich plenipotentiary to Hungary after the occupation of the country Helped establish the Ustaše-led Independent State of Croatia Assisted in the deportations of 300,000 Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz | Arrested in 1945; sentenced to 20 years imprisonment in 1949; sentence commuted to 10 years imprisonment in 1951; released December, 1951; died in 1977 | ||||||
Executed by hanging | |||||||
Head of the Hlinka Guard, one of the leading forces in the extermination of 68,000–71,000 Slovak Jews during the Holocaust in Slovakia | Sentenced to 30 years imprisonment; released in 1968; died in 1980 | ||||||
Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Slovak State Leading figure in the mass deportations of Slovak Jews to Nazi concentration camps | Executed by hanging | ||||||
Governor of the Warsaw District Responsible for the establishment of the Warsaw Ghetto, the largest ghetto ever built by the Nazis | Executed by hanging | ||||||
September 16, 1902 | December 6, 1952 | Oversaw and implemented Operation Harvest Festival | Executed by hanging | ||||
July 26, 1902 | February 28, 1952 | Reichsstatthalter and Gauleiter of Reichsgau Danzig-West PrussiaIncited the massacres in Piaśnica | Executed by hanging | ||||
Executed by hanging | |||||||
Died because of ill health | |||||||
Ferdinand aus der Fünten | December 17, 1909 | April 19, 1989 | Head of the Central Office for Jewish Emigration in Amsterdam | Sentenced to death in 1950, which was commuted to life in imprisonment in 1951; released on health grounds in 1989; died later that year | |||
Gauleiter of East Prussia Chief of Civil Administration (Chef der Zivilverwaltung) of Bezirk Bialystok Reich Commissioner for Ukraine (Reichskommissariat Ukraine) | Arrested by the British in 1949, and extradited to Poland in 1950. Sentenced to death in 1959, which was commuted to life imprisonment in 1960; died in prison in 1986. | ||||||
78 years | Leader of the Arajs Kommando, which murdered half of Latvia's Jewish population | Held in a British internment camp until 1949; evaded prosecution until 1979 when convicted for his involvement in the Rumbula massacre and sentenced to life imprisonment; died in prison in 1988. | |||||
August 6, 1898 | October 22, 1948 | Commander of SS police in LiepājaResponsible for Liepāja massacres | Executed by hanging | ||||
Jonas Noreika | October 8, 1910 | February 26, 1947 | Responsible for Plungė massacre | Executed by shooting | |||
Leader of Romania during WW2 Responsible for the Odessa massacre, deportations to Transnistria, and the Iași pogrom | Executed by firing squad | ||||||
June 28, 1883 | October 15, 1945 | Prime Minister of Vichy France | Executed by firing squad | ||||
Philippe Pétain | April 24, 1856 | July 23, 1951 | Chief of Vichy France | Sentenced to death in 1945, but had his sentence commuted to life imprisonment due to his World War I service and old age; died in custody in 1951 | |||
Benito Mussolini | July 29, 1883 | April 28, 1945 | Prime Minister of Fascist Italy Duce of the Italian Social Republic | Executed by firing squad | |||
Vidkun Quisling | July 18, 1887 | October 24, 1945 | Prime Minister of German-occupied Norway | Executed by firing squad | |||
Josef Terboven | May 23, 1898 | May 8, 1945 | Reichkommissar of German-occupied Norway | Committed suicide | |||
Gustav Simon | August 2, 1900 | December 18, 1945 | Chief of German-occupied Luxembourg | Arrested; committed suicide by hanging | |||
March 6, 1914 | April 20, 1969 | Murdered in exile | |||||
Chief of Department 1 of the Gestapo; initiated a registry of all Jews in Germany Deputy to Reinhard Heydrich | Sentenced to death in 1948, later to 12 years imprisonment; released in 1951; held in detention in 1958 and charged again of war crimes in 1972; died in 1989 without serving time in prison a second time | ||||||
Chief of the Gestapo and commander of the SiPo and the SD in Paris Responsible of the single largest mass deportation of French Jews in Occupied France | Sentenced in 1980 to ten years imprisonment; released early on health grounds and died in 1989 | ||||||
Chief medical officer of all SS concentration camps. Involved in human experimentation | Committed suicide | ||||||
Leader of the Hungarian Government of National Unity from 1944-1945. Deported tens of thousands of Jews to Nazi concentration camps | Executed by hanging |