List of Axis personnel indicted for war crimes explained

The following is a list of people who were formally indicted for committing war crimes or crimes against humanity 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

See main article: Nuremberg trials.

Subsequent Nuremberg trials

See main article: Subsequent Nuremberg trials.

The Doctors' Trial

See main article: Doctors' Trial.

The Milch Trial

See main article: Milch Trial.

The Judges' Trial

See main article: Judges' Trial.

The Pohl Trial

See main article: Pohl Trial.

The Flick Trial

See main article: Flick Trial.

The IG Farben Trial

See main article: IG Farben Trial.

The Hostages Trial

See main article: Hostages Trial.

The RuSHA trial

See main article: RuSHA trial.

The Einsatzgruppen Trial

See main article: Einsatzgruppen trial.

The Krupp Trial

See main article: Krupp Trial.

The Ministries Trial

See main article: Ministries Trial.

The High Command Trial

See main article: High Command Trial.

The Auschwitz trial

See main article: Auschwitz trial.

The Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials

See main article: Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials.

The Dachau Trial

See main article: Dachau Trials.

Dachau

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

Buchenwald

Mauthausen

See main article: Mauthausen-Gusen camp trials.

Flossenbürg

Mühldorf

Dora-Nordhausen

See main article: Dora Trial.

The Belsen Trial

See main article: Belsen Trial.

The Neuengamme Trials

Bucharest People’s Tribunal

See main article: Romanian People's Tribunals.

See also: Rehabilitation of war criminals in post-Communist Romania.

International Military Tribunal for the Far East

See main article: International Military Tribunal for the Far East. (trials held in Tokyo)

Other trials were held at various locations in the Far East by the United States in the Philippines, Australia, China, the United Kingdom, and other Allied countries. In all, a total of 920 Japanese military personnel and civilians were executed following World War II.[1]

Khabarovsk War Crime Trials

See main article: Khabarovsk War Crime Trials.

By Nationality

Austrian

Franz Stangl, commandant at Treblinka and Sobibor

Croatian

Danish

Dutch

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.

Estonian

French

German

Hungarian

Italian

Japanese

Latvian

Lithuanian

Polish

Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic

Ukrainian

See also

References

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  27. News: Reuters . Russia charges Ukrainian war veteran mistakenly honoured by Canada with genocide . 2023-10-20 . Kevin . Liffey.

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