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List of Axis personnel indicted for war crimes

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 judgement. 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.

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 two 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. died 1950
  • 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

Doctors' Trial

Milch Trial

  • Erhard Milch – Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment, commuted to 15 years (released in 1954)

Judges' Trial

Pohl trial

  • Hans Heinrich Baier – Guilty, sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment (released in 1951)
  • Hans Bobermin – Guilty, sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment, commuted to 15 years (released in 1951)
  • Franz Eirenschmalz – Guilty, sentenced to death, commuted to nine years' imprisonment
  • Heinz Karl Fanslau – Guilty, sentenced to 25 years' imprisonment, commuted to 15 years
  • August Frank – Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment, commuted to 15 years
  • Hans Hohberg – Guilty, sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment (released in 1951)
  • Max Kiefer – Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment, commuted to 20 years (released in 1951)
  • Horst Klein – Acquitted
  • Georg Lörner – Guilty, sentenced to death, commuted to 15 years
  • Hans Lörner – Guilty, sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment (released in 1951)
  • Karl Mummenthey – Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment, commuted to 20 years
  • Oswald Pohl – Guilty, sentenced to death
  • Hermann Pook – Guilty, sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment (released in 1951)
  • Rudolf Scheide – Acquitted
  • Karl Sommer – Guilty, sentenced to death, commuted to 20 years' imprisonment
  • Erwin Tschentscher – Guilty, sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment (released in 1951)
  • Josef Vogt – Acquitted
  • Leo Volk – Guilty, sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment, commuted to 8 years

Flick trial

IG Farben Trial

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 (released December 1951)
  • Hermann Foertsch – Acquitted
  • Kurt von Geitner – 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
  • Wilhelm Speidel – Guilty, sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment (released on in 1951)
  • Maximilian von Weichs – Ruled unfit to stand trial

RuSHA trial

  • Heinz Brückner – 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
  • Richard Hildebrandt – Guilty, sentenced to 25 years' imprisonment, then turned over to the Polish authorities and sentenced to death
  • 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
  • Fritz Schwalm – Guilty, sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment
  • Otto Schwarzenberger – Guilty, released after the judgment due to time already served
  • Max Sollmann – Guilty, released after the judgment due to time already served
  • Günther Tesch – Guilty, released after the judgment due to time already served
  • Inge Viermetz – Acquitted

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
  • Lothar Fendler – Guilty, sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment, commuted to eight years
  • Walter Hänsch – 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
  • Otto Ohlendorf – Guilty, sentenced to death
  • Adolf Ott – Guilty, sentenced to death, commuted to life imprisonment
  • Waldemar von Radetzky – Guilty, sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment (released in 1951)
  • Otto Rasch – Ruled unfit to stand trial
  • Felix Rühl – 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
  • Willy Seibert – 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
  • Edward Strauch – Guilty, sentenced to death, died in a hospital while suffering from an epileptic attack

Krupp trial

Ministries Trial

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)

Auschwitz trial

Frankfurt Auschwitz trials

  • Stefan Baretzki – Guilty, sentenced to life plus eight years' imprisonment
  • Emil Bednarek – 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
  • Willi Frank – Guilty, sentenced to seven years' imprisonment
  • Emil Hantl – Guilty, sentenced to three-and-one-half years' imprisonment
  • Karl-Friedrich Höcker – Guilty, sentenced to seven years' imprisonment
  • Franz-Johann Hoffmann – 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
  • Willi Sawatzki – Acquitted
  • Willi Schatz – Acquitted
  • Herbert Scherpe – Guilty, sentenced to four-and-one-half years' imprisonment
  • Bruno Schlange – Guilty, sentenced to six years' imprisonment
  • Friedrich Schlüter – Guilty, sentenced to four-and-one-half years' imprisonment
  • Johann Schobert – Acquitted
  • Willi Stark – Guilty, sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment
  • Kurt Uhlenbroock – Charges dropped due to lack of evidence.

Dachau trials

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

Mauthausen

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
  • Cornelius Schwanner – 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
  • Erich Mußfeldt – 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-Nordhausen

Belsen trials

Neuengamme Trials

  • Max Pauly – Guilty, sentenced to death
  • Bruno Kitt – Guilty, sentenced to death
  • Anton Thumann – Guilty, sentenced to death
  • Johann Reese – Guilty, sentenced to death
  • – Guilty, sentenced to death
  • Alfred Trzebinski – Guilty, sentenced to death
  • Heinrich Ruge – Guilty, sentenced to death
  • – Guilty, sentenced to death
  • Andreas Brems – Guilty, sentenced to death
  • – 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

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.

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

  • 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

Latvian

  • Edgars Laipenieks - [B.June 25, 1913] Former Olympic athlete (1936 Summer Games 5000m run). Worked for the Latvian Political Police as an administrator of Riga Central Prison for political prisoners during Nazi occupation. "Witnesses who testified in 1982 at a deportation hearing in San Diego said Laipenieks was responsible for ordering the execution there of at least 200 prisoners from 1941 to 1943." Recruited by the CIA in 1960. Moved to the US in 1960 and worked under the name Edgar Laipenieks as a sports coach. In 1985 he moved to La Jolla, California and died March 29, 1998 age 84
  • Konrāds Kalējs – A member of the Arajs Kommando.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.
  • Boļeslavs Makovskis –[b.21 January 1904] Fled from the United States to West Germany in 1987; put on trial in 1990; his trial was quashed.Died 19 April 1996
  • Elmārs SproÄ£is – [b.November 26, 1914] SproÄ£is was charged with concealing his role as assistant police chief in Nazi-occupied Latvia when he applied for U.S. citizenship in 1950. A witness "said Sprogis ordered him to deliver valuables taken from Jews scheduled to be executed." In 1984, a federal judge ruled the government had failed to prove SproÄ£is "had helped the Nazis kill Jews in Latvia during World War II." In 1985 his residence was firebombed; he died New York 10 July 1991

Lithuanian

  • Aleksandras Lileikis - Chief of Lithuania's secret police during Nazi occupation. Recruited by the CIA in Munich in 1952. Entered the United States in 1955 and settled in central Massachusetts. Deported to Lithuania in 1996. Died 26 September 2000
  • Juozas Kisielaitis - Member of Lithuanian 12th Lithuanian Auxiliary Police Schutzmannschaft, responsible for the murder of thousands of Jews. Fled the US, where he was residing under the name "Joseph" or "Joe" Kisielaitis, for Canada in 1984.
  • Kazys Gimzauskas - Second-in-command to Aleksandras Lileikis in the Lithuanian secret police during Nazi occupation. In charge of "interrogating" Jews. Recruited by the CIA. Moved to St. Petersburg, Florida, in 1955. Convicted of genocide but spared prison for health reasons.
  • Vladas Zajanckauskas – In 2005 at the age 89, his U.S. citizenship was ordered revoked in 2007. He was ordered to be deported.
  • Antanas Mineikis, [died November 1997] age 80. After the war, Mineikis fled Lithuania and settled in the United States. He was deported to Lithuania after he was stripped of his U.S. citizenship in 1992 for concealing his wartime service in a Nazi-led execution squad.
  • July 11, 2001 US Department of Justice deportrtion of Algimantas Dailide 80 [Update Jan 14, 2004 — Algimantas Dailide, 82, a retired real estate agent living in Gulfport, Florida, has permanently departed the United States for Germany]

Polish

  • Dmytro Sawchuk - Guard at Trawniki and Poniatowa slave-labor camps, and at Belzec death camp. Became a naturalized US citizen in 1957. Sawchuk fled the United States in 1999 and renounced his citizenship.

Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic

Ukrainian

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