List of war criminals
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This is a list of formally charged and convicted war criminals as according to the conduct and rules of warfare as defined by the Nuremberg Trials
following World War II as well as earlier agreements established by the Hague Conferences of 1899 and 1907
, the Kellogg-Briand Pact
of 1928, and the Geneva Conventions of 1929 and 1949.
at Dachau
in 1946, tried 75 people for the Malmedy massacre
. 73 of these were convicted.http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/malmedy1.html
, an international Court was formed to try war criminals (ICTY). However, ICTY tried only a selected number of high-ranking people (a total of 161), with local Courts (in Bosnia
, Croatia
and Serbia
) starting trials mostly against inidividuals or soldiers who carried out orders of those high-ranking officers. Many of those have been convicted.
Croatia raised charges against 3666 people for war crimes, of which 1381 were dropped due to lack of evidence.
Nuremberg Trials
The Nuremberg Trials were a series of military tribunals, held by the victorious Allied forces of World War II, most notable for the prosecution of prominent members of the political, military, and economic leadership of the defeated Nazi Germany....
following World War II as well as earlier agreements established by the Hague Conferences of 1899 and 1907
Hague Conventions (1899 and 1907)
The Hague Conventions were two international treaties negotiated at international peace conferences at The Hague in the Netherlands: The First Hague Conference in 1899 and the Second Hague Conference in 1907...
, the Kellogg-Briand Pact
Kellogg-Briand Pact
The Kellogg–Briand Pact was an agreement signed on August 27, 1928, by the United States, France, the United Kingdom, Italy, Japan, Weimar Germany and a number of other countries.The pact renounced war , prohibiting the use of war...
of 1928, and the Geneva Conventions of 1929 and 1949.
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- Heinrich Otto Abetz (1903–1958), German ambassador to France, sentenced to 20 years
- Muto Akira (1883–1948), Japanese army commander and member of the General High Staff, sentenced to death
- Zlatko Aleksovski (b. 1960), Bosnian Croat commander of a prison facility, sentenced to 7 years
- Antonio de Padua María Severino López de Santa Anna y Pérez de Lebrón, Mexican President and General in Texas War, found guilty of abuse and torture of David Crocket, executed.
- Ion AntonescuIon AntonescuIon Victor Antonescu was a Romanian soldier, authoritarian politician and convicted war criminal. The Prime Minister and Conducător during most of World War II, he presided over two successive wartime dictatorships...
(1882–1946), Romanian marshal; found guilty by the Romanian People's TribunalsRomanian People's TribunalsThe two Romanian People's Tribunals , the Bucharest People's Tribunal and the Northern Transylvania People's Tribunal were set up by the post-World War II government of Romania, overseen by the Allied Control Commission to try suspected war criminals, in line with Article 14 of the Armistice...
; executed; - Mihai AntonescuMihai AntonescuMihai Antonescu was a Romanian politician who served as Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister during World War II.-Early career:...
(1907–1946), Romanian government official; found guilty by the Romanian People's TribunalsRomanian People's TribunalsThe two Romanian People's Tribunals , the Bucharest People's Tribunal and the Northern Transylvania People's Tribunal were set up by the post-World War II government of Romania, overseen by the Allied Control Commission to try suspected war criminals, in line with Article 14 of the Armistice...
; executed; - Andrija ArtukovićAndrija ArtukovicAndrija Artuković was a Croatian politician and a member of the Ustaše movement. Artuković was convicted of war crimes committed against minorities in the Independent State of Croatia during World War II...
(1899–1988), Croatian minister of Justice and Internal Affairs, Ustasha, sentenced to death, but died before execution - Steven F. Austin, Texas Commander, wrote a letter to Santa Anna and was guilty for treason, sentenced 5 years in jail.
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- Milan BabićMilan BabicMilan Babić was from 1991 to 1995 the first President of the Republic of Serbian Krajina, a Croatian region at the time of the war largely populated by a Serbs of Croatia that wished to break away from Croatia.He was indicted for war crimes by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former...
(1956–2006), Croatian Serb and prime minister of Republic of Serb Krajina. Sentenced to 13 years following agreement - Erich von dem BachErich von dem BachErich Julius Eberhard von Zelewski or Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski , was a Nazi official and a member of the SS, in which he reached the rank of SS-Obergruppenführer .- Slavic origin :...
(1899–1972), German official and SS officer - Lazlo Baky, (d. 1946), Hungarian Interior Ministry official
- Klaus BarbieKlaus BarbieNikolaus 'Klaus' Barbie was an SS-Hauptsturmführer , Gestapo member and war criminal. He was known as the Butcher of Lyon.- Early life :...
(1913–1991), German Gestapo officer - Laszlo BardossyLászló BárdossyDr. László Bárdossy de Bárdos was a Hungarian diplomat and politician who served as Prime Minister of Hungary from 1941 to 1942.-Biography:...
(1890–1946), Hungarian Prime Minister - Franz Anton BaschFranz Anton BaschDr. Franz Anton Basch was a German Nazi politician, the chairman of Volksbund and the leader of Germans in Hungary....
(1901–1946), German Nazi leader in Hungary - Gottlob BergerGottlob BergerGottlob Berger was a German Nazi who held the rank of Obergruppenführer during World War II and was later convicted of war crimes.In 1939, he was Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler's main recruiting officer...
(1897–1975), German SS official - Werner BestWerner BestDr. Werner Best was a German Nazi, jurist, police chief, SS-Obergruppenführer and Nazi Party leader from Darmstadt, Hesse. He studied law and in 1927 obtained his doctorate degree at Heidelberg...
(1903–1989), German Plenipotentiary of Denmark - Hans BiebowHans BiebowHans Biebow was the chief of German Naziadministration of the Łódź Ghetto in occupied Poland.Biebow's early life is summarized by the following curriculum vitae which he submitted to the German Ghetto Administration on 10 May 1940:After working as a coffee importer in his hometown of Bremen,...
(1902–1947), chief of German Administration of the Łódź Ghetto - Tihomir BlaškićTihomir BlaškicTihomir Blaškić is a Bosnian Croat army officer who was sentenced in 2000 to 45 years imprisonment at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia for war crimes as part of the Lašva valley ethnic cleansing...
(b. 1960), Bosnian Croat sentenced to 45 years, changed to 9 years following appeal - Paul BlobelPaul BlobelPaul Blobel was a German Nazi war criminal, an SS-Standartenführer and a member of the SD. Born in the city of Potsdam, he participated in the First World War, where by all accounts he served well and was decorated with the Iron Cross first class...
(1894–1951), German Einsatzgruppe C official - Martin Ludwig BormannMartin BormannMartin Ludwig Bormann was a prominent Nazi official. He became head of the Party Chancellery and private secretary to Adolf Hitler...
(1900-c. 1945), German Party Chancellor - Herbert Bottcher (d. 1950), German SS and Police Leader in Radom, Poland
- Philipp BouhlerPhilipp BouhlerPhilipp Bouhler was a senior Nazi Party official who was both a Reichsleiter and Chief of the Chancellery of the Führer of the NSDAP...
(1899–1945), German Führer Chancellory official - Viktor BrackViktor BrackViktor Brack , was a Nazi war criminal, the organiser of the Euthanasia Programme, Action T4, where the Nazi state systematically murdered disabled German people...
(1904–1948), German Führer Chancellory official - Otto BradfischOtto BradfischOtto Bradfisch was an economist, a jurist, an SS Obersturmbannführer , Leader of Einsatzkommando 8 of Einsatzgruppe B of the Security Police and the SD, and Commander of the Security Police in Litzmannstadt and Potsdam.- School and training :Dr...
(1903–1994), member of the German SS Obersturmbannführer, Leader of Einsatzkommando 8 of Einsatzgruppe B of the Security Police (Sicherheitspolizei) and the SD, and Commander of the Security Police in Litzmannstadt (Łódź) and Potsdam - Miroslav Bralo (b. 1967), Bosnian Croat member of the "Jokers" anti-terrorist platoon, sentenced to 20 years
- Karl Brandt (1904–1948), German Plenipotentiary for Health official
- Rudolf BrandtRudolf BrandtRudolf Brandt was a German SS officer during 1933-1945 and a civil servant.A lawyer by profession, Brandt was Personal Administrative Officer to the Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler, and a defendant at the Doctors' Trial at Nuremberg for his part in securing the 86 victims of the Jewish skeleton...
(1909–1948), secretary of Heinrich HimmlerHeinrich HimmlerHeinrich Luitpold Himmler was Reichsführer of the SS, a military commander, and a leading member of the Nazi Party. As Chief of the German Police and the Minister of the Interior from 1943, Himmler oversaw all internal and external police and security forces, including the Gestapo... - Heinrich Alfred Hermann Walther von Brauchitsch (1881–1948), German Commander-in-Chief of the Army
- Werner BrauneWerner BrauneKarl Rudolf Werner Braune was a German member of the Nazi police and military organization known as the Schutzstaffel, or, more commonly, by its German initials, SS. He held the rank of Obersturmbannführer...
(d. 1951), German Einsatzgruppe D official - Radoslav Brdjanin, Bosnian Serb sentenced to 32 years (30 following appeal)
- Fernand de Brinion (d. 1947), French collaborator and member of the Vichy government
- Joseph Buhler (d. 1948), German Generalgouvernement official
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- Pietro CarusoPietro CarusoPietro Caruso was an Italian Fascist and head of the Italian police during the final part of World War II....
(d. 1944), Italian police chief of Rome - Mario Čerkez (b. 1959), Bosnian Croat sentenced to 6 years
- Ranko Česić (b. 1964), Bosnian Serb sentenced to 18 years for BrčkoBrcko (city)Brčko is a city in northern Bosnia and Herzegovina, administrative seat of the Brčko District. It lies on the country's border along the Sava river across from Gunja, Croatia...
- Paul Chack (1876–1945), French collaborator
- Carl ClaubergCarl ClaubergCarl Clauberg was a German medical doctor who conducted medical experiments on human beings in Nazi concentration camps during World War II...
(1898–1957), medical doctor present at Auschwitz concentration camp
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- Kurt DaluegeKurt DaluegeKurt Daluege was a German Nazi SS-Oberstgruppenführer and Generaloberst der Polizei as chief of the Ordnungspolizei and ruled the Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia as Deputy Protector after Reinhard Heydrich's assassination.-Early life and career:Kurt Daluege, a son of a Prussian state official,...
(1897–1946), German ORPO and Protektorat official - Theodor DanneckerTheodor DanneckerTheodor Dannecker was an SS Hauptsturmführer and one of Adolf Eichmann's associates....
(1913–1945), German SS deportation expert in France and Bulgaria - Joseph DarnandJoseph DarnandJoseph Darnand was a French soldier and later a leader of the Vichy French collaborators with Nazi Germany....
(1897–1945), Vichy French chief of police - Denice Delfau (d. 1945), French collaborator
- Hazim DelićHazim DelicHazim Delić was the Bosniak Deputy Commander of the Čelebići prison camp, a Konjic defence forces run prison camp. He was sentenced to 18 years by the ICTY Appeals Chamber on April 8 2003 for murder and cruel treatment of the prisoners....
, Bosnian Muslim sentenced to 18 years for Čelebići prison camp - Albert Deutscher (d. 1981), member of a Nazi paramilitary group
- Joseph Dietrich (1892–1966), personal bodyguard to Adolf Hitler and commander of Nazi security
- Otto DietrichOtto DietrichDr. Otto Dietrich was an SS-Obergruppenführer, the Third Reich's Press Chief, and a confidant of Adolf Hitler.-Biography:...
(1898–1957), personal Press Secretary to Adolf Hitler - Doihara Kenji (d. 1948), Japanese general
- Anton DostlerAnton DostlerAnton Dostler was a General of the Infantry in the regular German army during World War II. In the first allied war trial after the war, Dostler was tried and found guilty of war crimes and sentenced to death by firing squad.-Military career:Anton Dostler joined the German Army in 1910 and served...
(d. 1945), German General - Damir Došen (b. 1967), Bosnian Serb, sentenced to 5 years for Keraterm campKeraterm campKeraterm camp was a concentration camp near the town of Prijedor in northern Bosnia and Herzegovina during the Bosnian War and genocide from 1992 to 1995. The camp was founded by the authorities of Republika Srpska and was used to collect and confine civilians of Bosniak and Bosnian Croat...
- Sekula DrljevićSekula DrljevicSekula Drljević, also transcribed as Sekule Drljević , was a WWII Montenegrin Nazi-fascist collaborator....
(1884–1945), Montenegrin Nazi collaborator
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- Adolf EichmannAdolf EichmannAdolf Otto Eichmann was a German Nazi and SS-Obersturmbannführer and one of the major organizers of the Holocaust...
(1906–1962), German SS official - August EigruberAugust EigruberAugust Eigruber was an Austrian-born Nazi Gauleiter of Oberdonau and Landeshauptmann of Upper Austria, later hanged by the Allies.-Early life and Nazi career:...
(1907–1947), German Gauleiter of Oberdonau (Upper Danube) and Landeshauptmann of Upper Austria - Franz Eirenschmalz (1879–1962), German WVHA official
- Lazlo Endre (d. 1946), Hungarian Minister of the Interior
- Franz von Epp (1882–1946), Bavarian politician
- Hans EppingerHans EppingerHans Eppinger Jr. was an Austrian physician who gained an infamous reputation due to experiments on prisoners.-Early Years:...
(1879–1946), Austrian physician who performed medical experiments on prisoners in the Dachau concentration camp - Dražen ErdemovićDražen ErdemovicDražen Erdemović is an ethnic Bosnian Croat who fought during the Bosnian War for the Army of Republika Srpska and who was later sentenced for his enforced participation in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre.-Background:Erdemović fought in the Croatian Army during the Siege of Vukovar before returning...
(b. 1972), Bosnian Croat who fought for Serb forces and was sentenced to 5 years for Pileca farm (part of Srebrenica massacreSrebrenica massacreThe Srebrenica massacre, also known as the Srebrenica genocide, refers to the July 1995 killing, during the Bosnian War, of more than 8,000 Bosniaks , mainly men and boys, in and around the town of Srebrenica in Bosnia and Herzegovina, by units of the Army of Republika Srpska under the command of...
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- Miroslav FilipovićMiroslav FilipovicMiroslav Filipović was a Croatian Ustaše and Roman Catholic friar who was convicted of war crimes by both a German military court and a Yugoslav civil court and hanged in Belgrade.-Early life:Filipović's date of birth was 5 June 1915, but little else about his early years has been...
(1915–1946), Croatian Ustashi and administrator of the Jasenovac concentration campJasenovac concentration campJasenovac concentration camp was the largest extermination camp in the Independent State of Croatia and occupied Yugoslavia during World War II...
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- Stanislav GalićStanislav GalicStanislav Galić is a Bosnian Serb soldier and former commander of the Sarajevo-Romanija Corps of the Army of Republika Srpska during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. He was convicted of war crimes....
, Bosnian Serb commander in Siege of SarajevoSiege of SarajevoThe Siege of Sarajevo is the longest siege of a capital city in the history of modern warfare. Serb forces of the Republika Srpska and the Yugoslav People's Army besieged Sarajevo, the capital city of Bosnia and Herzegovina, from 5 April 1992 to 29 February 1996 during the Bosnian War.After Bosnia...
. Sentenced to 20 years, appealed and had his sentence changed to life imprisonmentLife imprisonmentLife imprisonment is a sentence of imprisonment for a serious crime under which the convicted person is to remain in jail for the rest of his or her life... - Karl Gephardt (d. 1948), German SS chief clinician
- Karl GenzkenKarl GenzkenKarl August Genzken , a physician, he conducted human experiments on prisoners of several concentration camps. He was a Major General of the Waffen-SS and the Chief of the Medical Office of the Waffen-SS...
(1895–1957), German SS medical officer - Richard GlücksRichard GlücksRichard Glücks was a high-ranking Nazi official. He attained the rank of a SS-Gruppenführer and a Generalleutnant of the Waffen-SS and from 1939 until the end of World War II was the head of Amt D: Konzentrationslagerwesen of the WVHA; the highest-ranking Concentration Camps Inspector in Nazi...
(1889–1945), German WVHA official - Joseph GoebbelsJoseph GoebbelsPaul Joseph Goebbels was a German politician and Reich Minister of Propaganda in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945. As one of Adolf Hitler's closest associates and most devout followers, he was known for his zealous oratory and anti-Semitism...
[Gobbels] (1897–1945), German Minister of Propaganda - Hermann GöringHermann GöringHermann Wilhelm Göring, was a German politician, military leader, and a leading member of the Nazi Party. He was a veteran of World War I as an ace fighter pilot, and a recipient of the coveted Pour le Mérite, also known as "The Blue Max"...
(1893–1946), Commander of the German Luftwaffe - Amon GöthAmon GöthAmon Leopold Göth was an Austrian Nazi and the commandant of the Nazi concentration camp at Płaszów, General Government...
(1908–1946), Commandant at Nazi concentration camp at Płaszów, Poland - Ernst Grawitz (d. 1945), German SS Reich physician
- Ulrich GreifeltUlrich GreifeltUlrich Heinrich Emil Richard Greifelt was an officer of the Schutzstaffel during the Nazi regime in Germany. He was found guilty of war crimes at Nuremberg and died in Landsberg Prison.-Biography:Greifelt was born in Berlin in 1896, the son of a pharmacist...
(d. 1949), German Main Office official - Artur Greiser (d. 1946), German Gauleiter of Wartheland
- Irma GreseIrma GreseIrma Ida Ilse Grese was employed at the Nazi concentration camps of Ravensbrück and Auschwitz, and was a warden of the women's section of Bergen-Belsen....
(1923–1945), German administrator of the Auschwitz concentration camp
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- Franz HalderFranz HalderFranz Halder was a German General and the head of the Army General Staff from 1938 until September, 1942, when he was dismissed after frequent disagreements with Adolf Hitler.-Early life:...
(1884–1972), German general and chief of Army General Staff - Fritz HartjensteinFritz HartjensteinFriedrich "Fritz" Hartjenstein was an SS-Obersturmbannführer in the SS-Totenkopfverbände...
(1905–1954), German Auschwitz concentration campAuschwitz concentration campConcentration camp Auschwitz was a network of Nazi concentration and extermination camps built and operated by the Third Reich in Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany during World War II...
administrator - Emil HaussmannEmil HaussmannEmil Haussmann served as an SS Sturmbannführer ; an officer in Einsatzkommando 12 of Einsatzgruppe D.One of 24 officers indicted during the Einsatzgruppen Trial, Haussmann committed suicide before the arraignment on July 31, 1947 - the only defendant who thus escaped being sentenced....
(d. 1948), German major - August HeissmeyerAugust HeissmeyerAugust Heißmeyer was a leading member of the SS. After the World War II, he was sentenced to a prison term as a war criminal. His nephew, Kurt Heissmeyer, an SS physician, was as well.-Life:After finishing school, Heißmeyer joined the Prussian military...
(1897–1979), German SS officer - Konrad HenleinKonrad HenleinKonrad Ernst Eduard Henlein was a leading pro-Nazi ethnic German politician in Czechoslovakia and leader of Sudeten German separatists...
(1898–1945), German Gauleiter of Sudetenland - Rudolf HessRudolf HessRudolf Walter Richard Hess was a prominent Nazi politician who was Adolf Hitler's deputy in the Nazi Party during the 1930s and early 1940s...
(1894–1987), deputy Führer (leader) of Nazi Germany - Reinhard Tristan Eugen HeydrichReinhard HeydrichReinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich , also known as The Hangman, was a high-ranking German Nazi official.He was SS-Obergruppenführer and General der Polizei, chief of the Reich Main Security Office and Stellvertretender Reichsprotektor of Bohemia and Moravia...
(1904–1942), chief of the SD, the Gestapo, the SIPO & the RSHA and Acting Reichprotektor of Bohemia and Moravia until his assassination in June 1942. - Friedrich HildebrandtFriedrich HildebrandtFriedrich Hildebrandt was an SS Obergruppenführer, a Gauleiter and judged for war crimes in the time of the Third Reich....
(1898–1948), German RuSHA chief and Higher SS and Police Leader of Danzig - Richard HildebrandtRichard HildebrandtRichard Hermann Hildebrandt was a politician in Nazi Germany and member of the Reichstag, and an SS-Obergruppenführer. From 1943 until his capture in 1945, he led the SS-Rasse und Siedlungshauptamt , the Office of Race and Settlement of the SS...
(1895–1945), German NSDAP Gauleiter of Franconia and SA Gruppenführer - Heinrich HimmlerHeinrich HimmlerHeinrich Luitpold Himmler was Reichsführer of the SS, a military commander, and a leading member of the Nazi Party. As Chief of the German Police and the Minister of the Interior from 1943, Himmler oversaw all internal and external police and security forces, including the Gestapo...
(1900–1945), commander of the SS, Chief of the German Police (including overseeing the Gestapo) and Minister of the Interior from 1943, forward - Oskar von HindenburgOskar von HindenburgGeneralleutnant Oskar von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg was the politically powerful son and aide-de-camp to Field Marshal and President of Germany Paul von Hindenburg....
(1883–1960), German commander of prisoner of war camps in East Prussia - Hirota Koki (1878–1948), Japanese premier from 1936–1937
- August HirtAugust HirtAugust Hirt , an SS-Hauptsturmführer , served as a chairman at the Reich University in Strasbourg during World War II....
(1898–1945), German medical officer who ran the Struthof-Nazweiler laboratory - Adolf HitlerAdolf HitlerAdolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party , commonly referred to as the Nazi Party). He was Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, and head of state from 1934 to 1945...
(1889–1945), Führer (leader) of Nazi Germany; convicted at Nuremberg in absentia as he was not then known to be dead - Franz HoferFranz HoferFranz Hofer was, in the time of the Third Reich, the Nazi Gauleiter of the Tyrol and Vorarlberg....
(1902–1975), German Gauleiter of the Tyrol and Vorarlberg - Hermann Julius HöfleHermann HöfleHermann Julius "Hans" Höfle was an Austrian-born SS-Sturmbannführer . He was deputy to Odilo Globocnik in the Aktion Reinhard program, serving as his main deportation and extermination expert...
(1911–1962), German Higher SS and Police Leader in Slovakia - Otto HofmannOtto HofmannOtto Hofmann was an Austrian SS-Gruppenführer and an official of Nazi Germany's "Race and Settlement Main Office".-Early life:Hofmann was born in Innsbruck, Tyrol. He served as a military pilot in World War I...
(1896–1982), German RuSHA official - Hans Hohberg (1898–1948), German WVHA official
- Karl HolzKarl Holz (Gauleiter)Karl Holz was the NSDAP Gauleiter of Gau Franconia and an SA Gruppenführer.He was the fifth child born to a heliographer also named Karl Holz and finished Volksschule and an apprenticeship as a salesman, working thereafter as a clerk.Between 1915 and 1918 he served at the front in the First World...
(1895–1945), German NSDAP Gauleiter of Franconia and SA Gruppenführer - Homma Masaharu (1887–1946), Japanese general involved in the Bataan Death MarchBataan Death MarchThe Bataan Death March was the forcible transfer, by the Imperial Japanese Army, of 75,000 American and Filipino prisoners of war after the three-month Battle of Bataan in the Philippines during World War II, which resulted in the deaths of thousands of prisoners.The march was characterized by...
- Erich Hoppner (d. 1944), German commander of 4th Panzer Army and Army Group North
- Rudolf Francis Ferdinand Hoss (1900–1947), German Auschwitz concentration campAuschwitz concentration campConcentration camp Auschwitz was a network of Nazi concentration and extermination camps built and operated by the Third Reich in Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany during World War II...
commander and deputy inspector of Nazi concentration camps - Franz Hossler (d. 1945), German Auschwitz concentration campAuschwitz concentration campConcentration camp Auschwitz was a network of Nazi concentration and extermination camps built and operated by the Third Reich in Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany during World War II...
administrator - Hermann HothHermann HothHermann "Papa" Hoth was an officer in the German military from 1903 to 1945. He attained the rank of Generaloberst during World War II. He fought in France, but is most noted for his later exploits as a panzer commander on the Eastern Front...
(1885–1971), German commander of Panzer Group 3, Army Group Center, 17th Group Army and Army Group South - Waldemar HovenWaldemar HovenWaldemar Hoven was a Nazi and a physician at Buchenwald concentration camp.Hoven was born in Freiburg, Germany. Between the years 1919 and 1933, he visited Denmark, Sweden, the United States, and France, returning in 1933 to Freiburg, where he completed his high school studies. He then attended...
(1903–1948), German Buchenwald concentration campBuchenwald concentration campBuchenwald concentration camp was a German Nazi concentration camp established on the Ettersberg near Weimar, Germany, in July 1937, one of the first and the largest of the concentration camps on German soil.Camp prisoners from all over Europe and Russia—Jews, non-Jewish Poles and Slovenes,...
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- Max IlgnerMax IlgnerMax Ilgner was a German industrialist. He was a member of the board of IG Farben and a Wehrwirtschaftsführer or war economy leader under the Nazi regime.-Early life:...
(1895–1957), German I.G. Farben official - Béla ImrédyBéla ImrédyBéla vitéz Imrédy de Ómoravicza was Prime Minister of Hungary from 1938 to 1939....
(1891–1946), Hungarian Prime Minister - Seishirō Itagaki (1885–1948), Japanese War Minister
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- Andor Jarosz (d. 1946), Hungarian interior minister
- Friedrich JeckelnFriedrich JeckelnFriedrich Jeckeln was an SS-Obergruppenführer who served as an SS and Police Leader in the occupied Soviet Union during World War II...
(d. 1946), German SS officer and Police Leader of Ostland - Goran JelisićGoran JelisicGoran Jelisić is a Bosnian Serb who was charged with genocide, crimes against humanity and with violating the customs of war by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia .He moved to Brčko after completing high school, to work as a machinery technician...
(b. 1969), Bosnian Serb sentenced to 40 years for murders in BrčkoBrcko (city)Brčko is a city in northern Bosnia and Herzegovina, administrative seat of the Brčko District. It lies on the country's border along the Sava river across from Gunja, Croatia...
. Personally killed 13 civilians - Alfred JodlAlfred JodlAlfred Josef Ferdinand Jodl was a German military commander, attaining the position of Chief of the Operations Staff of the Armed Forces High Command during World War II, acting as deputy to Wilhelm Keitel...
(1890–1946), German commander of operations personnel - Drago Josipović (b. 1955), Bosnian Croat sentenced to 15, changed to 12 years following appeal
- Heinz JostHeinz JostHeinz Jost was an SS Brigadeführer and a Generalmajor of Police...
(d. 1946), German Einsatzgruppe commander - Hans JüttnerHans JüttnerHans Jüttner was head of the SS's Main Leadership Office and also an SS Obergruppenführer.-Early life and career:...
(1894–1965) commander of German SS's Main Leadership Office and Obergruppenführer.
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- Ernst KaltenbrunnerErnst KaltenbrunnerErnst Kaltenbrunner was an Austrian-born senior official of Nazi Germany during World War II. Between January 1943 and May 1945, he held the offices of Chief of the Reichssicherheitshauptamt , President of Interpol and, as a Obergruppenführer und General der Polizei und Waffen-SS, he was the...
(1903–1946) Chief of the SD, the SiPo & the RSHA after Reinhard Heydrich's assassination. Highest ranking Nazi official to stand trial at Nuremberg. Executed by hanging. - Omar KhadrOmar KhadrOmar Ahmed Khadr is a Canadian child soldier and one of the juveniles held at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp. He was convicted of five charges under the United States Military Commissions Act of 2009 including murder in violation of the law of war and providing material support for terrorism,...
, Pakistani-Canadian convicted for murder and supporting terrorism - Dietrich KlaggesDietrich KlaggesDietrich Klagges was a Nazi politician and from 1933 to 1945 the appointed premier of the now abolished state of Braunschweig....
(b. 1891-d.1971), German politician and premier (Ministerpräsident) of Braunschweig - Fritz KnoechleinFritz KnoechleinFritz Knöchlein was an SS-Obersturmbannführer during the Second World War who was subsequently convicted and executed for war crimes.-Biography:Fritz Knöchlein joined the SS in 1934...
(1911–1949), SS Obersturmbannführer, convicted and executed for war crimes (Le Paradis massacreLe Paradis massacreThe Le Paradis massacre was a war crime committed by members of the 14th Company, SS Division Totenkopf, under the command of Hauptsturmführer Fritz Knöchlein...
) - Ilse KochIlse KochIlse Koch, née Köhler , was the wife of Karl-Otto Koch, commandant of the Nazi concentration camps Buchenwald from 1937 to 1941, and Majdanek from 1941 to 1943...
(1906–1967), German female officer at Buchenwald and Sachsenhausen concentration campSachsenhausen concentration campSachsenhausen or Sachsenhausen-Oranienburg was a Nazi concentration camp in Oranienburg, Germany, used primarily for political prisoners from 1936 to the end of the Third Reich in May, 1945. After World War II, when Oranienburg was in the Soviet Occupation Zone, the structure was used as an NKVD...
s - Dragan Kolundžija (b. 1959), Bosnian Serb, sentenced to 3 years for Keraterm campKeraterm campKeraterm camp was a concentration camp near the town of Prijedor in northern Bosnia and Herzegovina during the Bosnian War and genocide from 1992 to 1995. The camp was founded by the authorities of Republika Srpska and was used to collect and confine civilians of Bosniak and Bosnian Croat...
- Dario KordićDario KordicDario Kordić is a former Bosnian Croat politician, military commander of the HVO forces between 1992 and 1994, and vice president of the Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia...
(b. 1960), Bosnian Croat, sentenced to 25 years - Milojica Kos, Bosnian Serb, sentenced to 6 years for Omarska campOmarska campOmarska camp was a concentration camp run by Bosnian Serb forces, in Omarska, a mining town near Prijedor in northern Bosnia and Herzegovina, set up during the Prijedor massacre for Bosniak and Croat men and women. Functioning in the first months of the Bosnian War in 1992, it was one of 677...
- Radomir Kovač (b. 1961), Bosnian Serb sentenced to 20 years
- Momčilo KrajišnikMomcilo KrajišnikMomčilo Krajišnik is a Bosnian Serb former politician convicted of murder and other crimes against humanity during the Bosnian war .He co-founded the Bosnian Serb nationalist Serbian Democratic Party with Radovan...
, Bosnian Serb politician, sentenced to 27 years - Milorad Krnojelac, Bosnian Serb sentenced to 7,5 years for Foča massacresFoca massacresThe Foča massacres, also known as the Foča genocide, were a series of killings committed by Serb military, police and paramilitary forces on Bosniak civilians in the Foča region of Bosnia and Herzegovina from April 7, 1992 to January 1994...
. Following appeal, his sentence was raised to 15 years - Radislav KrstićRadislav KrsticRadislav Krstić was the Deputy Commander and later Chief of Staff of the Drina Corps of the Army of Republika Srpska from October 1994 until 12 July 1995...
, Bosnian Serb sentenced to 46 years (35 following appeal) for his part in the Srebrenica massacreSrebrenica massacreThe Srebrenica massacre, also known as the Srebrenica genocide, refers to the July 1995 killing, during the Bosnian War, of more than 8,000 Bosniaks , mainly men and boys, in and around the town of Srebrenica in Bosnia and Herzegovina, by units of the Army of Republika Srpska under the command of...
, also found guilty of being an accomplice to genocideGenocideGenocide is defined as "the deliberate and systematic destruction, in whole or in part, of an ethnic, racial, religious, or national group", though what constitutes enough of a "part" to qualify as genocide has been subject to much debate by legal scholars...
, first such ruling at ICTY - Alfred Krupp {1907-1967} German Steel/Arms maker; Involved in slave labor
- Dragoljub Kunarac (b. 1960), Bosnian Serb sentenced to 28 years
- Franz KutscheraFranz KutscheraFranz Kutschera was an SS General and Gauleiter of Carinthia...
(1904–1944), German SS general and Gauleiter of Carinthia. - Miroslav Kvocka, Bosnian Serb, sentenced to 7 years for Omarska campOmarska campOmarska camp was a concentration camp run by Bosnian Serb forces, in Omarska, a mining town near Prijedor in northern Bosnia and Herzegovina, set up during the Prijedor massacre for Bosniak and Croat men and women. Functioning in the first months of the Bosnian War in 1992, it was one of 677...
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- Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden, Afgainastan Muslim sentenced to death in Pakastan for the crime of Terrorism in U.S.A.
- Esad Landžo, Bosnian Muslim sentenced to 15 years for Čelebići prison camp
- Hartmann LauterbacherHartmann LauterbacherHartmann Lauterbacher was a high area leader of the Hitler Youth, as well as Nazi Gauleiter of the Gau of South Hanover-Braunschweig and an SS Gruppenführer....
(1909–1988) German Gauleiter of the Gau of South Hanover-Braunschweig, SS Gruppenführer Leader and high area leader (Obergebietsführer) of the Hitler Youth. - Hinrich LohseHinrich LohseHinrich Lohse was a Nazi German politician, best known for his World War II rule of the Baltic states.-Early life:...
(1896–1964), German politician - Werner LorenzWerner LorenzWerner Lorenz was SS head of the Hauptamt Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle an organization charged with settling ethnic Germans in the German Reich from other parts of Europe.-Early life:...
(1891–1974), German head of Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle (Repatriation Office for Ethnic Germans) and an SS Obergruppenführer.
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- Harry 'Breaker' Harbord MorantBreaker MorantHarry 'Breaker' Harbord Morant was an Anglo-Australian drover, horseman, poet, soldier and convicted war criminal whose skill with horses earned him the nickname "The Breaker"...
(1864– 27 February 1902) convicted and executed for illegal summary executions of Boer and other Prisoners during the Second Boer WarSecond Boer WarThe Second Boer War was fought from 11 October 1899 until 31 May 1902 between the British Empire and the Afrikaans-speaking Dutch settlers of two independent Boer republics, the South African Republic and the Orange Free State...
. - Milan MartićMilan MarticMilan Martić is a Serbian politician, former president of the Republic of Serbian Krajina...
(b. 1954), President and defence minister of Croatian Serbs during Croatian War of IndependenceCroatian War of IndependenceThe Croatian War of Independence was fought from 1991 to 1995 between forces loyal to the government of Croatia—which had declared independence from the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia —and the Serb-controlled Yugoslav People's Army and local Serb forces, with the JNA ending its combat...
, sentenced to 35 years - Vinko Martinović (b. 1963), Bosnian Croat sentenced to 18 years
- Josef MengeleJosef MengeleJosef Rudolf Mengele , also known as the Angel of Death was a German SS officer and a physician in the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. He earned doctorates in anthropology from Munich University and in medicine from Frankfurt University...
(1911-19??) SS Officer and Camp doctor at the Auschwitz Death camp, notorious for his medical experiments; called "the angel of death". - Mile MrkšićMile MrkšicMile Mrkšić is a former Serb Colonel of the Yugoslav People's Army in charge of the unit involved in the Battle of Vukovar during the Croatian War of Independence in 1991...
(b. 1947), Serb General convicted to 20 years for the Vukovar massacreVukovar massacreThe Vukovar massacre, also known as Vukovar hospital massacre or simply Ovčara, was a war crime that took place between November 20 and November 21, 1991 near the city of Vukovar, a mixed Croat/Serb community in northeastern Croatia... - Zdravko Mucić, Bosnian Croat sentenced to 9 years for Čelebići prison camp
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- Mladen Naletilić Tuta (b. 1946), Bosnian Croat sentenced to 20 years
- Erich NaumannErich NaumannErich Naumann was an SS-Brigadeführer, member of the SD. Naumann was responsible for genocide in eastern Europe as commander of Einsatzgruppe B and considered a war criminal.-Early life and career:...
(d. 1951), German Einsatzgruppe B commander - Hermann NeubacherHermann NeubacherHermann Neubacher was an Austrian Nazi politician who held a number of diplomatic posts in the Third Reich. During the Second World War, he was appointed as the leading German official for the Balkans.-Austrian activism:...
(d. 1960), German supported mayor of Vienna and Southeast Economic Plenipotentiary - Konstantin von NeurathKonstantin von NeurathKonstantin Freiherr von Neurath was a German diplomat remembered mostly for having served as Foreign minister of Germany between 1932 and 1938...
(1873–1956), German Foreign Minister and Reichsprotektor - Dragan Nikolić, Bosnian Serb sentenced to 23 years
- Gustav NoskeGustav NoskeGustav Noske was a German politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany . He served as the first Minister of Defence of Germany between 1919 and 1920.-Biography:...
(1868–1946), German defence minister
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- Otto OhlendorfOtto OhlendorfOtto Ohlendorf was a German SS-Gruppenführer and head of the Inland-SD , a section of the SD. Ohlendorf was the commanding officer of Einsatzgruppe D, which conducted mass murder in Moldova, south Ukraine, the Crimea, and, during 1942, the north Caucasus...
(d. 1951), German Einsatzgruppe D commander - Hiroshi ŌshimaHiroshi ŌshimaBaron was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army, Japanese ambassador to Nazi Germany before and during World War II — and unknowingly a major source of communications intelligence for the Allies. His role was perhaps best summed up by General George C...
(1886–1975), Japanese ambassador to Germany
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- Friedrich Panzinger (d. 1959), German RSHA official
- Franz von PapenFranz von PapenLieutenant-Colonel Franz Joseph Hermann Michael Maria von Papen zu Köningen was a German nobleman, Roman Catholic monarchist politician, General Staff officer, and diplomat, who served as Chancellor of Germany in 1932 and as Vice-Chancellor under Adolf Hitler in 1933–1934...
(1879–1969), German diplomat and deputy chancellor - Joachim PeiperJoachim PeiperJoachim Peiper , more often known as Jochen Peiper, was a field officer in the Waffen-SS during World War II, convicted of war crimes in Belgium and accused of war crimes in Italy. He was Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler's personal adjutant . In 1945, he was an SS-Standartenführer, the Waffen-SS's...
(1915–1976) SS-Standartenführer, 1st SS Panzer Division, Leibstandarte-SS Adolf Hitler, held responsible for the Malmedy massacreMalmedy massacreThe Malmedy massacre was a war crime in which 84 American prisoners of war were murdered by their German captors during World War II. The massacre was committed on December 17, 1944, by members of Kampfgruppe Peiper , a German combat unit, during the Battle of the Bulge.The massacre, as well as...
during the Malmedy massacre trialMalmedy massacre trialThe Malmedy massacre trial was held in May–July 1946 in the Dachau concentration camp to try the German Waffen-SS soldiers accused of the Malmedy massacre of December 17, 1944. The highest-ranking defendant was the former SS general, Sepp Dietrich... - Philippe PétainPhilippe PétainHenri Philippe Benoni Omer Joseph Pétain , generally known as Philippe Pétain or Marshal Pétain , was a French general who reached the distinction of Marshal of France, and was later Chief of State of Vichy France , from 1940 to 1944...
(1856–1951), Marshal of France and head of the collaborative Vichy FranceVichy FranceVichy France, Vichy Regime, or Vichy Government, are common terms used to describe the government of France that collaborated with the Axis powers from July 1940 to August 1944. This government succeeded the Third Republic and preceded the Provisional Government of the French Republic...
, sentenced to death first, then life imprisonment - Biljana PlavšićBiljana PlavšicBiljana Plavšić is a former president of Republika Srpska and war criminal. She is the highest ranking Bosnian Serb politician to be sentenced. She was indicted in 2001 by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia for war crimes committed during the Bosnian war...
(b. 1930), Bosnian Serb politician and former president of the Republika SrpskaRepublika SrpskaRepublika Srpska is one of two main political entities of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the other being the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina...
. Sentenced to 11 years - Paul PleigerPaul PleigerPaul Pleiger was a German state adviser and corporate general director....
(1899–1985), German state adviser and corporate general director, sentenced to 15 years - Oswald PohlOswald PohlOswald Pohl was a Nazi official and member of the SS , involved in the mass murders of Jews in concentration camps, the so-called Final Solution.-Early years:...
(d. 1951), German WVHA official - Dragoljub Pricac, Bosnian Serb, sentenced to 5 years for Omarska campOmarska campOmarska camp was a concentration camp run by Bosnian Serb forces, in Omarska, a mining town near Prijedor in northern Bosnia and Herzegovina, set up during the Prijedor massacre for Bosniak and Croat men and women. Functioning in the first months of the Bosnian War in 1992, it was one of 677...
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- Mlado Radić, Bosnian Serb, sentenced to 20 years for Omarska campOmarska campOmarska camp was a concentration camp run by Bosnian Serb forces, in Omarska, a mining town near Prijedor in northern Bosnia and Herzegovina, set up during the Prijedor massacre for Bosniak and Croat men and women. Functioning in the first months of the Bosnian War in 1992, it was one of 677...
- Erich RaederErich RaederErich Johann Albert Raeder was a naval leader in Germany before and during World War II. Raeder attained the highest possible naval rank—that of Großadmiral — in 1939, becoming the first person to hold that rank since Alfred von Tirpitz...
(1876–1960), German grand admiral, sentenced to life imprisonment, later released - Friedrich RainerFriedrich RainerFriedrich W. Rainer was a leader in the Nazi Party, as well as an Austrian State governor of Salzburg and Carinthia. He is the only Austrian governor who has ever held the same office in two separate states...
(1903-1947?), German Gauleiter and an Austrian Landeshauptmann of Salzburg and Carinthia, sentenced to death - Ivica RajićIvica RajicIvica Rajić was a commander in the Croatian Defence Council during the 1992-1995 war in Bosnia and Herzegovina....
(b. 1958), Bosnian Croat sentenced to 12 years - Hanns Albin RauterHanns Albin RauterJohann Baptist Albin Rauter was a high-ranking Austrian Nazi war criminal. He was the highest SS and Police Leader in the occupied Netherlands and therefore the leading security and police officer there during the period of 1940-1945...
(d. 1949), German Higher SS and Police Leader in Holland, sentenced to death - Hermann ReineckeHermann ReineckeHermann Reinecke was a General der Infanterie of Nazi Germany's Wehrmacht during World War II.He was a former Lieutenant General and the head of the General Office of the Armed Forces at OKW ...
(1888–1973), German OKW official, sentenced to life imprisonment, later released - Hans Conrad Julius Reiter (1881–1969), German SS officer and involved in medical experiments at the Buchenwald concentration camp, sentenced
- Lothar RendulicLothar RendulicGeneraloberst Lothar Rendulic was an Austro-Hungarian and Austrian Army officer of Croatian origin who served as a German general during World War II. He commanded the 14. Infanterie-Division, 52. Infanterie-Division, XXXV Armeekorps, 2. Panzer-Armee, 20...
(1887–1971), German commander of 52nd Infantry Division, sentenced to 20 years (later 10) - Joachim von RibbentropJoachim von RibbentropUlrich Friedrich Wilhelm Joachim von Ribbentrop was Foreign Minister of Germany from 1938 until 1945. He was later hanged for war crimes after the Nuremberg Trials.-Early life:...
(1893–1946), German foreign minister, sentenced to death - Henrick Rogstad (d. 1945), Norwegian collaborator and SS security police chief
- Karl von Roques (d. 1949), German Rear Area Army Group South commander
- Alfred RosenbergAlfred Rosenberg' was an early and intellectually influential member of the Nazi Party. Rosenberg was first introduced to Adolf Hitler by Dietrich Eckart; he later held several important posts in the Nazi government...
(1893–1946), German east minister, sentenced to death
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- Vladimir Šantić (b. 1958), Bosnian Croat sentenced to 25, changed to 18 years following appeal
- Fritz SauckelFritz SauckelErnst Friedrich Christoph "Fritz" Sauckel was a Nazi war criminal, who organized the systematic enslavement of millions from lands occupied by Nazi Germany...
(1894–1946), German Labor Plenipotentiary official - Anthony SawoniukAnthony SawoniukAnthony Sawoniuk, formerly Andrei Andreeovich Sawoniuk was a Belorussian Nazi collaborator from the town of Domaczewo in pre-war Poland . After taking part in the murder of Jews in his home town, he served in the SS and later with the Polish II Corps...
(1921–2005), Belarusian collaborator - Hjalmar SchachtHjalmar SchachtDr. Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht was a German economist, banker, liberal politician, and co-founder of the German Democratic Party. He served as the Currency Commissioner and President of the Reichsbank under the Weimar Republic...
(1877–1970), German Reichsbank official - Gustav Adolf ScheelGustav Adolf ScheelGustav Adolf Scheel was a German physician and "multifunctionary" in the time of the Third Reich...
(1907–1979), German physician and Nazi deportation officer - Walter SchellenbergWalter SchellenbergWalther Friedrich Schellenberg was a German SS-Brigadeführer who rose through the ranks of the SS to become the head of foreign intelligence following the abolition of the Abwehr in 1944.-Biography:...
(d. 1952), German RSHA official - Baldur von SchirachBaldur von SchirachBaldur Benedikt von Schirach was a Nazi youth leader later convicted of being a war criminal. Schirach was the head of the Hitler-Jugend and Gauleiter and Reichsstatthalter of Vienna....
(1907–1974), German Vienna Reichsstatthalter - Franz SchlegelbergerFranz SchlegelbergerLouis Rudolph Franz Schlegelberger was State Secretary in the German Reich Ministry of Justice and served awhile as Justice Minister during the Third Reich. He was the highest-ranking defendant at the Judges' Trial in Nuremberg.- Early life :Schlegelberger was born into a Protestant salesman's...
(1876–1970), German State Secretary in the Reich Ministry of Justice (RMJ) and later Justice Minister - Heinrich SchwarzHeinrich SchwarzHeinrich Schwarz was camp commandant of Auschwitz III in Nazi-occupied Poland....
(1906–1947), German administrator of the Auschwitz III Monowitz concentration camp - Siegfried SeidlSiegfried SeidlDr. Siegfried Seidl was a World War II Commandant of the Theresienstadt concentration camp located in the present-day Czech Republic. He was later a convicted war criminal.Siegfried Seidl interrupted his law studies after a few semesters and took on various odd jobs...
(1911–1947), German administrator of the Theresienstadt concentration campTheresienstadt concentration campTheresienstadt concentration camp was a Nazi German ghetto during World War II. It was established by the Gestapo in the fortress and garrison city of Terezín , located in what is now the Czech Republic.-History:The fortress of Terezín was constructed between the years 1780 and 1790 by the orders... - Artur Seyss-Inquart (1892–1946), Austrian government official, collaborator and High Commissioner of the Netherlands
- Mamoru ShigemitsuMamoru Shigemitsuwas a Japanese diplomat and politician in the Empire of Japan, who served as the Japanese Minister of Foreign Affairs at the end of World War II.-Biography:...
(1887–1957), Japanese foreign minister - Wolfram SieversWolfram SieversWolfram Sievers was Reichsgeschäftsführer, or managing director, of the Ahnenerbe from 1935 to 1945.-Early life:...
(d. 1948), German Ahnenerbe official - Duško SikiricaDuško SikiricaDuško Sikirica is a Bosnian Serb who was charged with genocide, crimes against humanity, and violations of the customs of war by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia for his actions as the commander of the Keraterm camp.He was transferred to the ICTY on June 25, 2000...
(b. 1964), Bosnian Serb, sentenced to 15 years for Keraterm campKeraterm campKeraterm camp was a concentration camp near the town of Prijedor in northern Bosnia and Herzegovina during the Bosnian War and genocide from 1992 to 1995. The camp was founded by the authorities of Republika Srpska and was used to collect and confine civilians of Bosniak and Bosnian Croat... - Blagoje SimićBlagoje SimicBlagoje Simić is a Serbian war criminal who is sentenced by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia for his crimes during the Bosnia war...
(b. 1960), Bosnian Serb sentenced to 17 years for Bosanski Šamac - Milan Šimić (b. 1960), Bosnian Serb sentenced to 5 years
- Veselin ŠljivančaninVeselin ŠljivancaninVeselin Šljivančanin is a former Montenegrin officer in the Yugoslav People's Army who participated in the Battle of Vukovar and was subsequently convicted on a war crimes indictment by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia for his role in the Vukovar massacre...
, Serb Colonel convicted to 5 years for the Vukovar massacreVukovar massacreThe Vukovar massacre, also known as Vukovar hospital massacre or simply Ovčara, was a war crime that took place between November 20 and November 21, 1991 near the city of Vukovar, a mixed Croat/Serb community in northeastern Croatia... - Albert SpeerAlbert SpeerAlbert Speer, born Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer, was a German architect who was, for a part of World War II, Minister of Armaments and War Production for the Third Reich. Speer was Adolf Hitler's chief architect before assuming ministerial office...
(1905–1981), German armament and munitions minister - Franz Walter StahleckerFranz Walter StahleckerFranz Walter Stahlecker was Commander of the Sicherheitspolizei and the Sicherheitsdienst for the Reichskommissariat Ostland in 1941/42...
(d. 1942), German Foreign Office official - Milomir StakićMilomir StakicMilomir Stakić is a Bosnian Serb who was charged with genocide, complicity in genocide, violations of the customs of war and crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia for his actions in the Prijedor region during the Bosnian War.In the 1991 elections...
(b. 1962), Bosnian Serb sentenced to life imprisonmentLife imprisonmentLife imprisonment is a sentence of imprisonment for a serious crime under which the convicted person is to remain in jail for the rest of his or her life...
for war crimes in PrijedorPrijedorPrijedor is a city and municipality in the north-western part of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is situated in the Bosanska Krajina region....
and nearby concentration camps - Franz StanglFranz StanglFranz Paul Stangl was an Austrian-born SS commandant of the Sobibor and Treblinka extermination camps during the Operation Reinhard phase of the Holocaust. He was arrested in Brazil in 1967, extradited and tried in West Germany for the mass murder of 900,000 people, and in 1970 was found guilty...
(1908–1971) German SS officer and administrator of the SobibórSobibór extermination campSobibor was a Nazi German extermination camp located on the outskirts of the town of Sobibór, Lublin Voivodeship of occupied Poland as part of Operation Reinhard; the official German name was SS-Sonderkommando Sobibor...
and of the Treblinka concentration camps. - Otto SteinbrinckOtto SteinbrinckBrigadier General Otto Steinbrinck was a German industrialist and an accused in the Nuremberg Flick Trial....
(1888–1949), German industrialist and member of the SS - Julius StreicherJulius StreicherJulius Streicher was a prominent Nazi prior to World War II. He was the founder and publisher of Der Stürmer newspaper, which became a central element of the Nazi propaganda machine...
(1885–1946), German journalist and editor of the Der StürmerDer StürmerDer Stürmer was a weekly tabloid-format Nazi newspaper published by Julius Streicher from 1923 to the end of World War II in 1945, with brief suspensions in publication due to legal difficulties. It was a significant part of the Nazi propaganda machinery and was vehemently anti-Semitic... - Jürgen StroopJürgen StroopJürgen Stroop, , was a high-ranking Nazi Party and Gestapo official during World War II. In 1952, he was extradited to Poland, convicted of war crimes, and hanged.-Early life:Jürgen Stroop was born in Detmold, in the Principality of Lippe, German Empire, the son of a police officer...
(d. 1951), German SS and Police leader in Warsaw - Pavle StrugarPavle StrugarPavle Strugar is a retired Montenegrin general in the Yugoslav People's Army who was found guilty of war crimes for his role in the siege of Dubrovnik....
(b. 1933), Serb general in the Siege of DubrovnikSiege of DubrovnikThe Siege of Dubrovnik is a term marking the battle and siege of the city of Dubrovnik and the surrounding area in Croatia as part of the Croatian War of Independence. Yugoslav People's Army invaded the Dubrovnik area in October 1991 from Montenegro, Bosnia and even parts of Croatia, surrounding...
. Sentenced to 8 years - Wilhelm StuckartWilhelm StuckartWilhelm Stuckart was a Nazi Party lawyer and official, a state secretary in the German Interior Ministry and later, a convicted war criminal.-Early life:...
(d. 1953), German Interior Ministry official - Otto von StulpnagelOtto von StülpnagelOtto von Stülpnagel was the German military commander of France during the Second World War. Born 16 June 1878 in Berlin, Otto von Stülpnagel pursued a military career in keeping with his family’s long tradition of military service...
(d. 1948), German military commander of Nazi-occupied France - Ferenc SzálasiFerenc SzálasiFerenc Szálasi was the leader of the National Socialist Arrow Cross Party – Hungarist Movement, the "Leader of the Nation" , being both Head of State and Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Hungary's "Government of National Unity" for the final three months of Hungary's participation in World War II...
(1897–1946), Hungarian head of state - Dome SztojayDöme SztójayDöme Sztójay born Demeter Sztojakovich was a Hungarian soldier and diplomat of Serb origin, who served as Prime Minister of Hungary during World War II.- Biography :...
(d. 1946), Hungarian prime minister
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- Duško TadićDuško TadicDuško Tadić is a Bosnian Serb war criminal, former SDS leader in Kozarac and a former member of the paramilitary forces supporting the attack on the district of Prijedor...
, Bosnian Serb sentenced to 25 years - Miroslav Tadić (b. 1937), Bosnian Serb sentenced to 8 years for Bosanski Šamac
- Takejiro Onishi, (d. c. 1945), Japanese vice admiral who created the KamikazeKamikazeThe were suicide attacks by military aviators from the Empire of Japan against Allied naval vessels in the closing stages of the Pacific campaign of World War II, designed to destroy as many warships as possible....
suicide attacks - Josef TerbovenJosef TerbovenJosef Antonius Heinrich Terboven was a Nazi leader, best known as the Reichskommissar during the German occupation of Norway.-Early life:...
(1898–1945), German Nazi commissioner of Norway - Eberhard von Thadden (1906–1947), German foreign office official
- Otto Thierack (1889–1946), German justice minister
- Fritz ThyssenFritz ThyssenFriedrich "Fritz" Thyssen was a German businessman born into one of Germany's leading industrial families.-Youth:Thyssen was born in Mülheim in the Ruhr area...
(1873–1951), German industrialist - Stevan Todorović, Bosnian Serb sentenced to 10 years for Bosanski Šamac
- Hideki TōjōHideki TōjōHideki Tōjō was a general of the Imperial Japanese Army , the leader of the Taisei Yokusankai, and the 40th Prime Minister of Japan during most of World War II, from 17 October 1941 to 22 July 1944...
(1884–1948), Japanese prime minister
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- Mitar VasiljevićMitar VasiljevicMitar Vasiljević is a Bosnian Serb war criminal convicted of crimes against humanity and violation of the customs of war by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia for his actions in the Višegrad region during the Bosnian War...
, Bosnian Serb sentenced to 20 years, later lowered to 15 years for war crimes in VišegradVišegradVišegrad is a town and municipality in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is part of the Republika Srpska entity. It is on the river Drina, located on the road from Goražde and Ustiprača towards Užice, Serbia.-History:... - Zoran VukovićZoran VukovicZoran Vuković is a Bosnian Serb who was charged with crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia for his actions in the city of Foča during the Bosnian War...
(b. 1955), Bosnian Serb sentenced to 12 years
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- Gerhard Wagner (1888–1939), German Reich Doctors' Leader (Reichsärzteführer)
- Robert WagnerRobert Heinrich WagnerRobert Heinrich Wagner was Gauleiter of Baden and Head of the Civil Government of Alsace during the German occupation of France in World War II....
(1895–1946), German Chief of Civil Administration in Alsace and Reichsstatthalter of Baden - Edward Waiter (d. 1945), German administrator of the Dachau concentration camp
- Fritz Walther (d. 1946), German railroad official
- Walter WarlimontWalter WarlimontWalter Warlimont was a German officer known for his role in the OKW inner circle .-World War I:...
(1894–1976), German OKW official - Maximilian von WeichsMaximilian von WeichsMaximilian Maria Joseph Karl Gabriel Lamoral Reichsfreiherr von Weichs zu Glon was a German Generalfeldmarschall during World War II. He was also a recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves...
(1881–1954), German general - Henry WirzHenry WirzHeinrich Hartmann Wirz better known as Henry Wirz was a Confederate officer in the American Civil War...
(1822–1865), Confederate administrator of the Andersonville Camp - Max WinklerMax WinklerMax Winkler was Mayor of Graudenz , Reich Trustee and Reich Commissioner for German Cinema....
(1875–1961), German Main Trusteeship Office East official - Dieter Wiesliceny (d. 1948), German SS deportation expert in Greece, Slovakia and Hungary
- Karl WolffKarl WolffKarl Friedrich Otto Wolff was a high-ranking member of the Nazi Schutzstaffel , ultimately holding the rank of SS-Obergruppenführer and General of the Waffen-SS. He became Chief of Personal Staff to the Reichsführer and SS Liaison Officer to Hitler until his replacement in 1943...
(1900–1984), Heinrich HimmlerHeinrich HimmlerHeinrich Luitpold Himmler was Reichsführer of the SS, a military commander, and a leading member of the Nazi Party. As Chief of the German Police and the Minister of the Interior from 1943, Himmler oversaw all internal and external police and security forces, including the Gestapo...
Chief of Staff
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- Tomoyuki YamashitaTomoyuki YamashitaGeneral was a general of the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II. He was most famous for conquering the British colonies of Malaya and Singapore, earning the nickname "The Tiger of Malaya".- Biography :...
(1885–1946), Japanese general his conviction resulted in establishing a new doctrine regarding criminal culpability for the involvement of chain of commandChain of CommandChain of Command may refer to:* Chain of command, in a military context, the line of authority and responsibility along which orders are passed* "Chain of Command" , the fifth episode of the first season of Beast Wars...
in war crimes: Yamashita standard.
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- Simo Zarić (b. 1948), Bosnian Serb sentenced to 6 years for Bosanski Šamac
- Zoran ŽigićZoran ŽigicZoran Žigić is a Bosnian Serb who was charged with violation of the customs of war and crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia for his actions in the Prijedor region including crimes at the Omarska, Trnopolje and Keraterm camps during the Bosnian...
, Bosnian Serb, sentenced to 25 years for Omarska campOmarska campOmarska camp was a concentration camp run by Bosnian Serb forces, in Omarska, a mining town near Prijedor in northern Bosnia and Herzegovina, set up during the Prijedor massacre for Bosniak and Croat men and women. Functioning in the first months of the Bosnian War in 1992, it was one of 677...
World War II
American military tribunalMalmedy massacre trial
The Malmedy massacre trial was held in May–July 1946 in the Dachau concentration camp to try the German Waffen-SS soldiers accused of the Malmedy massacre of December 17, 1944. The highest-ranking defendant was the former SS general, Sepp Dietrich...
at Dachau
Dachau
Dachau is a town in Upper Bavaria, in the southern part of Germany. It is a major district town—a Große Kreisstadt—of the administrative region of Upper Bavaria, about 20 km north-west of Munich. It is now a popular residential area for people working in Munich with roughly 40,000 inhabitants...
in 1946, tried 75 people for the Malmedy massacre
Malmedy massacre
The Malmedy massacre was a war crime in which 84 American prisoners of war were murdered by their German captors during World War II. The massacre was committed on December 17, 1944, by members of Kampfgruppe Peiper , a German combat unit, during the Battle of the Bulge.The massacre, as well as...
. 73 of these were convicted.http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/malmedy1.html
Yugoslav Wars
After the Yugoslav WarsYugoslav wars
The Yugoslav Wars were a series of wars, fought throughout the former Yugoslavia between 1991 and 1995. The wars were complex: characterized by bitter ethnic conflicts among the peoples of the former Yugoslavia, mostly between Serbs on the one side and Croats and Bosniaks on the other; but also...
, an international Court was formed to try war criminals (ICTY). However, ICTY tried only a selected number of high-ranking people (a total of 161), with local Courts (in Bosnia
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bosnia and Herzegovina , sometimes called Bosnia-Herzegovina or simply Bosnia, is a country in Southern Europe, on the Balkan Peninsula. Bordered by Croatia to the north, west and south, Serbia to the east, and Montenegro to the southeast, Bosnia and Herzegovina is almost landlocked, except for the...
, Croatia
Croatia
Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a unitary democratic parliamentary republic in Europe at the crossroads of the Mitteleuropa, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean. Its capital and largest city is Zagreb. The country is divided into 20 counties and the city of Zagreb. Croatia covers ...
and Serbia
Serbia
Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans...
) starting trials mostly against inidividuals or soldiers who carried out orders of those high-ranking officers. Many of those have been convicted.
Croatia raised charges against 3666 people for war crimes, of which 1381 were dropped due to lack of evidence.