List of Axis war crime trials explained

The following is a list of war crimes 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
  • Belsen trials; held in Lüneburg, Germany against former personnel at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, 1945–1948
  • Minsk Trial; Soviet military tribunal against eighteen defendants accused of committing crimes in occupied Belarus
  • Riga Trial; trial of eight German military officials in connection with the Nazi occupation of Latvia
  • Borkum Island war crimes trial; held at the Ludwigsburg Palace in 1946
  • Werner Rohde trial; trial of eight former staff members (and one prisoner) at the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp
  • 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
  • Eichmann trial; held in Jerusalem, Israel in 1961 against Adolf Eichmann, one of the chief organizers of the Holocaust
• 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.)
  • Philippine War Crimes Commission (American military tribunal in charge of the war crimes trials of 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
  • Post-World War II Romanian war crime trials
  • Bulgarian People's Tribunals;
  • Yugoslav People's Tribunals
  • War-responsibility trials in Finland
  • Czechoslovak People's Tribunals
  • Belgrade Process

Comparative table

Axis member	Total convicted	Executed
^[2]	5,025 (by the Western Allies) ~10,000 (by the Soviet Union)	486+
^[3]	>4,400	927
^[4]	2,618 (death sentences only)	1,576
^[5]	~27,000	189
^[6]	65 (death sentences only)	27
^[7]	Hundreds	4

External links

• Axis History Factbook: War Crimes Trials

Notes and References

1. Lee, Stella. "Yokohama War Crimes Trials." WWII Pacific Theater. U.C. Berkeley War Crimes Studies Center. 17 Nov. 2008
2. https://books.google.com/books?id=dZJxDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA79 James Larry Taulbee, ABC-CLIO, Jun 30, 2009, International Crime and Punishment, p. 79
3. https://books.google.com/books?id=XNXOCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA47 Ronald Eyerman, Jeffrey C. Alexander, Elizabeth Butler Breese, Routledge, Oct 23, 2015, Narrating Trauma: On the Impact of Collective Suffering, p. 47
4. https://books.google.com/books?id=wobiTHpAXbAC&pg=PA91 Benjamin Frommer, Cambridge University Press, 2005, National Cleansing: Retribution Against Nazi Collaborators in Postwar Czechoslovakia, p. 91
5. https://books.google.com/books?id=O8U3DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA22 Stefano Bottoni, Indiana University Press, Oct 19, 2017, Long Awaited West: Eastern Europe since 1944, pp. 22-23
6. https://books.google.com/books?id=wobiTHpAXbAC&pg=PA91 Benjamin Frommer, Cambridge University Press, 2005, National Cleansing: Retribution Against Nazi Collaborators in Postwar Czechoslovakia, p. 91
7. https://books.google.com/books?id=nPbr0XzlTzcC&pg=PA580 Baumel Judith Tydor Laqueur Walter, Walter Laqueur, Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz, Yale University Press, Jan 1, 2001, The Holocaust Encyclopedia, p. 580