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War Crimes and Criminals

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Noteworthy Criminals of the Second World War

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I.  The Major German War Criminals (Nuremberg Trial)

II. Gauleiters, Governors, Protectors and Leading Officials.

III. Generals and Senior Officers.

IV. Industrialists and Financiers.

V. SS and Gestapo Officials.

VI. Medical War Criminals.

VII. Commandants of Concentration Camps ; and Concentration Camp Trials.

FAR EAST

I. Major War Criminals (Tokyo Trial still in progress)

II. Higher Japanese Officers convicted

Trial of Ulrich Greifelt and Others. Part I  Part II  Part III Part IV Part V United Nations War Crimes Commission.

Trial of Generaloberst Nickolaus von Falkenhorst. United Nations War Crimes Commission.

The Dachau Concentration Camp Trial. United Nations War Crimes Commission.

Trial of Franz Schonfeld and Nine Others. United Nations War Crimes Commission.

Trial of Hans Renoth and Three Others. United Nations War Crimes Commission.

Trial of Albert Wagner. United Nations War Crimes Commission.

Trial of General Tanaka Hisakasu and Five Others. United Nations War Crimes Commission

Trial of Gerhard Friedrich Enrst Flesch, SS OBE Sturmbannführer, Oberregierungsrat. United Nations War Crimes Commission.

Trial of Hauptsturmführer Oscar Hans. United Nations War Crimes Commission.

Trial of Lieutenant General Harukei Isayama and Seven Others. United War Crimes Commission

Trial of Yamamoto Chusaburo. United Nations War Crimes Commission

Trial of Karl Student. United Nations War Crimes Commission.

Trial of Tomoyuki Yamashita. UNWCC, 1948. Foreword, Part I  Part II  Part III  Part IV  Part V  Part VI

Trial of Erich Killinger and four others. United Nations War Crimes Commission

Trial of Anton Schosser, and of Josef Goldbrunner and Alfons Jacob Wilm. United Nations War Crimes Commission

Trial of Albert Bury and Wilhelm Hafner. United Nations War Crimes Commission

Trial of Gunther Thiele and Georg Steinert. United Nations War Crimes Commission. 

Trial of Peter Back. United Nations War Crimes Commission 

Trial of Otto Skorzeny and Others.  United Nations War Crimes Commission.

Trial of Hans Szabados.  United Nations War Crimes Commission.

Trial of Takashi Sakai.  United Nations War Crimes Commission.

Trial of Wilhelm List and Others. The Hostages Trial. United Nations War Crimes Commission, 1949. Part I  Part II  Part III  Part IV  Part V  Part VI

Trial of Franz Holstein and Twenty-Three Others. United Nations War Crimes Commission, 1949. Part I Part II

SS-Brigadeführer, SS-Gruppenführer, SS-Obergruppenführer, SS-Oberst-Gruppenführer. 1933-1945

The German High Command Trial. Part I. United Nations War Crimes Commission, 1949

The German High Command Trial. Part II. United Nations War Crimes Commission, 1949

The German High Command Trial. Part III. United Nations War Crimes Commission, 1949

The German High Command Trial. Part IV. United Nations War Crimes Commission, 1949

The German High Command Trial. Part V. United Nations War Crimes Commission. 1949

The German High Command Trial. Part VI. United Nations War Crimes Commission.

The German High Command Trial. Part VII. United Nations War Crimes Commission.

The German High Command Trial. Part VIII. United Nations War Crimes Commission.

Foreword to the Belsen Trial. Trial of Joseph Kramer and 44 Others. Law-Reports of Trials of War Criminals. United Nations War Crimes Commission, 1947.

The Belsen Trial. Trial of Joseph Kramer and 44 Others. Part I. Law-Reports of Trials of War Criminals. United Nations War Crimes Commission, 1947.

The Belsen Trial. Trial of Joseph Kramer and 44 Others. Part II. Law-Reports of Trials of War Criminals. United Nations War Crimes Commission, 1947.

The Belsen Trial. Trial of Joseph Kramer and 44 Others. Part III. Law-Reports of Trials of War Criminals. United Nations War Crimes Commission, 1947.

The Belsen Trial. Trial of Joseph Kramer and 44 Others. Part IV. Law-Reports of Trials of War Criminals. United Nations War Crimes Commission, 1947.

The Belsen Trial. Trial of Joseph Kramer and 44 Others. Part V. Law-Reports of Trials of War Criminals. United Nations War Crimes Commission, 1947.

The Belsen Trial. Trial of Joseph Kramer and 44 Others. Part VI. Law-Reports of Trials of War Criminals. United Nations War Crimes Commission, 1947.

The Belsen Trial. Trial of Joseph Kramer and 44 Others. Part VII. Law-Reports of Trials of War Criminals. United Nations War Crimes Commission, 1947.

The Belsen Trial. Trial of Joseph Kramer and 44 Others. Part VIII. Law-Reports of Trials of War Criminals. United Nations War Crimes Commission, 1947.

The Belsen Trial. Trial of Joseph Kramer and 44 Others. Part IX. Law-Reports of Trials of War Criminals. United Nations War Crimes Commission, 1947.

The Belsen Trial. Trial of Joseph Kramer and 44 Others. Part X. Law-Reports of Trials of War Criminals. United Nations War Crimes Commission, 1947.

The Belsen Trial. Trial of Joseph Kramer and 44 Others. Part XI. Law-Reports of Trials of War Criminals. United Nations War Crimes Commission, 1947.

Trial of Robert Wagner Gauleiter and Head of the Civil Government of Alsace during the Occupation, and six others. Part III. Law-Reports of Trials of War Criminals. United Nations War Crimes Commission, 1948.

Trial of Robert Wagner Gauleiter and Head of the Civil Government of Alsace during the Occupation, and six others. Part II. Law-Reports of Trials of War Criminals. United Nations War Crimes Commission, 1948.

Trial of Robert Wagner Gauleiter and Head of the Civil Government of Alsace during the Occupation, and six others Part I.  Law-Reports of Trials of War Criminals. United Nations War Crimes Commission, 1948.

Trial of Max Wielen and 17 Others: The Stalag Luft III Case. Part I. Law-Reports of Trials of War Criminals. United Nations War Crimes Commission, 1949

Trial of Max Wielen and 17 Others: The Stalag Luft III Case. Part II. Law-Reports of Trials of War Criminals. United Nations War Crimes Commission, 1949

Trial of Kriminalsekretär Richard Wilhelm Hermann Bruns and two others. Law-Reports of the Trials of War Criminals. United Nations War Crimes Commission, 1948.

Foreword to Volume III. Law Reports of Trials of War Criminals. United Nations War Crimes Commission, 1948

Trial of Kriminalassistent Karl-Hans Hermann Klinge. Law Reports of Trials of War Criminals. United Nations War Crimes Commission, 1948

Canadian Law Concerning Trials of War Criminals by Military Courts.  United Nations War Crimes Commission, 1948

The Abbaye Ardenne Case: Trial of SS Brigadefuhrer Kurt Meyer. United Nations War Crimes Commission, 1948

Trial of Major Karl Rauer and Six Others.  United Nations War Crimes Commission, 1948

Trial of Heinrich Gerike and Seven Others. The Velpke Children's Home Case. United Nations War Crimes Commission, 1948.]

Trial of Karl Buck and Ten Others. United Nations War Crimes Commission, 1949

Trial of Sergeant-Major Shigeru Ohashi and Six Others. United Nations War Crimes Commission, 1949

Trial of Captain Eitaro Shinohara and Two Others. United Nations War Crimes Commission, 1949

Trial of Captain Eikichi Kato. United Nations War Crimes Commission, 1949

The Almelo Trial. Trial of Otto Sandrock and Three Others. United Nations War Crimes Commission, 1949

The Dostler Case: Trial of General Anton Dostler. United Nations War Crimes Commission, 1949

Trial of Karl Adam Golkel and Thirteen Others. United Nations War Crimes Commission, 1948

Trial of Dr Joseph Buhler. Part I. United Nations War Crimes Commission. 1949

Trial of Dr Joseph Buhler. Part II. United Nations War Crimes Commission. 1949

Trial of Carl Bauer, Ernst Schrameck, Herbert Falten. United Nations War Crimes Commission. 1949

Trial of Albert Kesserling. United Nations War Crimes Commission. 1949

Trial of General Von Mackensen and General Maelzer. United Nations War Crimes Commission, 1949

Trial of Amon Leopold Goeth. United Nations War Crimes Commission. 1948

Trial of Rudolf Franz Ferdinand Hoess. Part I. United Nations War Crimes Commission. 1948

Trial of Rudolf Franz Ferdinand Hoess. Part II. United Nations War Crimes Commission. 1948

The Hadamar Trial. Trial of Alfons Klein and Six Others. United Nations War Crimes Commission, 1947

The Jaluit Atoll Case. Trial of Rear-Admiral Nisuke Masuda and Four Others of the Imperial Japanese Navy. United Nations War Crimes Commission, 1947

The Dreierwalde Case. Trial of Karl Amberger. United Nations War Crimes Commission, 1947

Fuhrer Decree on Disciplining of German Troops and Handling of Resistance in District Area "Barbarossa", 13 May 1941

Heydrich Directives Concerning Handling of USSR Prisoners of War, 28 June 1941/July 1941

Secret Field Marshal v.Reichenau Order Concerning Conduct of Troops in the Eastern Territories. Dated 10 October, 1941    

Molotov's Note on German Atrocities in Occupied Soviet Territory, 7 January 1942

Rosenberg Letter to Keitel Concerning Maltreatment of USSR Prisoners of War, 28 February 1942

Report by Einsatzgruppe A on Liquidation Activities Carried out in the Baltic States, 1942

Combatting Single Parachutists, Keitel Order, 4 August 1942

Fuehrer Order Concerning Handling of Commandos, 18 October 1942

Letter from Jodl to Senior Officers Concerning Fuehrer Commando Decree of 18 October 1942, enclosing Supplementary Order of the Fuehrer, dated 19 October 1942

Memorandum by Brautigam Concerning Conditions in Occupied Areas of the USSR 25 October 1942

Affidavit Relating to Execution of British Crew of Torpedo Boat No.345 in Norway, July 1943

Kugel Erlass ("Bullet Decree"), 4 March 1944

Decree stipulating that escaped POWs are to be handed over to the SD for handling. They were then sent to Mauthausen Concentration Camp where they were executed.

Jodl Memorandum Concerning Downed Anglo-American Air Crews, 22 May 1944

Conference Notes Concerning Handling of Enemy "Terror-Aviators" 4 June 1944

Minutes of Meeting Concerning Handling of "Terror Aviators" 6 June 1944

Keitel Note  Concerning Handling of Enemy "Terror-Aviators"14 June 1944

Draft Inquiry to Foreign Office Concerning "Terror-Aviators", 15 June 1944

Letter from Feske to Keitel Concerning Handling of Enemy "Terror-Aviators", 19 June 1944

Foreign Office Memorandum Concerning Policy Toward Enemy "Terror-Aviators" 20 June 1944

OKW Memorandum Concerning Enemy Commando (Parachute) Troops 23 June 1944

Telegram from WFSt [Operational Staff of Armed Forces], 24 June 1944, Concerning Treatment of Commandos

Message of Telephone Response to Feske Inquiry Concerning "Terror-Aviators", 26 June 1944

Treatment of Commandos Keitel Order, 26 June 1944

Letter from Warlimont Concerning Handling of "Terror-Aviators" 30 June 1944

Directive Concerning Handling of "Terror Aviators", 5 July 1944

Report of British War Crimes Section of Allied Force Headquarters on German Reprisals for Partisan Activities in Italy

Potsdam Declaration: Extracts 2 August 1945

Germany
War Criminals

A Short Historical Consideration of German War Guilt, by Alfred Jodl, 6 September 1945

Affidavit of Otto Ohlendorf, 20 November 1945

Ohlendorf was a senior officer in the RSHA, an early Nazi Party member (1925) and, most importantly, the commander of Einsatzgruppe D, which was one of four special purpose Action Groups charged with the extermination of Jews, Commissars, Partisans and other "undesirable" segments of the USSR populace.

Political Way by Otto Ohlendorf, 20 November 1945

Otto Ohlendorf, commander of Einsatzgruppe D, expounds his views on Fascism and National Socialism:

"These principles advocated, as the foremost goal of National Socialism, to develop the best characteristics of the people and to form them into a community of equality and to furnish the best possible spiritual and moral existence for the individuals of the people."

Affidavit of Fritz Ernst Fischer, 21 November 1945

Fischer, a doctor of medicine, was assigned in 1942 to the SS Hospital at Hohenlychen, where he was an assistant to Professor Gebhardt, who was a Gruppenfuehrer SS, supreme clinical physician on the staff of the Reichsarzt der SS and Polizei, and was director of the hospital. He was "ordered" to conduct experiments on patients to establish the curative parameters of sulfanilamide. Later, he participated in experiments on plastic surgery and the "free transplantation of bones." The information in the affidavit provides details of these experiments and on the medical professionals who directed and carried them out.

Affidavit of Dieter Wisliceny, 29 November 1945

Dieter Wisliceny was an SS "specialist on Jewish matters" for Slovakia, attached to AMT IV A4 of the RSHA, who worked closely with Adolf Eichmann. His expertise was also brought to bear on the Jewish communities of Hungary and Greece. His affidavit provides useful inside information on the policies implemented by the SS to achieve a "solution" to the "Jewish question."

Affidavit of Erwin Lahousen, 21 January 1946

Lahousen served in the Abwehr, the intelligence service of the OKW, between 1938 and 1943.  He was one of Canaris' section chiefs and represented him at various conferences with senior OKW officers.  His affidavit, provided to investigating officers for the Nuremberg Tribunal of the Major German War Criminals,  provides information concerning plans for the destruction of elites in Poland and the killings of Russian POWs, and the attitude of senior OKW officers to them, particularly Keitel and Reinecke.  Only those portions of the affidavit relating to policies pursued respecting the populations of occupied countries and war crimes are reproduced here.

Affidavit of Walter Schellenberg, 23 January 1946

Walter Schellenberg joined the SD in 1934, served with the Gestapo in counter espionage until June 1941 when he joined AMT VI of the SD, then dealing with foreign intelligence, becoming its chief a year later. In 1944 this bureau covered all intelligence operations in Germany, as well as foreign and military intelligence. The affidavit provides information on the operations and structure of the SD, sections II and IV, the relations between the Einsatzgruppen and the Wehrmacht, section III,  and on negotations between the former president of Switzerland, Musy, and Himmler, late in 1944, on the bartering of monies and goods for Jews, section V, .

Definition of War Crimes in The Einsatzgruppen Case (Military Tribunal II, Case No.9)

The "Einsatzgruppen Case" Military Tribunal II, Case No. 9

Notes by Keitel Concerning Actions of German Armed Forces During the War and in Occupied Territory 19 October 1945

These notes were prepared by Wilhelm Keitel, Chief of the High Command of the German Armed Forces, OKW, for the Chief of Investigation before the Nurnberg Tribunal, Mr. Dodd.  They are noteworthy for the accounts advanced to justify those policies classified by the Allied powers as war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Affidavit of Generaloberst Franz Halder 22 November, 1945

This affidavit is of interest in connection with the decisions relating to the Anschluss, the invasions of Czechoslovakia,Poland and France, the approach of the OKW to the neutrality of Belgium and Holland, the reasons for the attack on the USSR, and details concerning the Commissar Order and the handling of USSR POWs.

Testimony of Erwin Lahousen before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg, 30 November 1945

Affidavit of Leopold Buerkner 22 January1946

Buerkner, a Vice-Admiral,  was in charge of the Bureau of Foreign Affairs in the Abwehr, the intelligence service of the OKW, working under Admiral Canaris. This bureau was frequently asked to provide opinions in connection with proposed policy directives and orders.  In this affidavit Buerkner provides information relating to the Commissar Order, the handling of Russian POWs, the taking of hostages, handling of those taking part in British Commando raids, and similar, all policies which he states that his bureau and the Abwehr counseled against.

'The German Army and Genocide': Bitterness Stalks an Exhibition. New York Times/Internet Edition, November 6, 1999

German Crimes Against Soviet Prisoners-of-War in Poland. Central Commission for the Investigation of German Crimes in Poland. 1946

Trial of the Major War Criminals, Nuremberg 1945/1946

Minutes of the Opening Session of the Trial of the Major War Criminals, at Berlin 18 October 1945

Indictment of the International Military Tribunal in the case of the Trial of the Major War Criminals, 1945 Part I, Part II, Part III

Charges

Hans Frank (Governor-General of non-annexed occupied Poland)

Alfred Jodl

Wilhelm Keitel

Ernst Kaltenbrunner (Chief of the RSHA 1943-1945)

Alfred Rosenberg

Artur Seyss-Inquart Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV

Julius Streicher

The Concentration Camps Part I, Part II

The General Staff and High Command of the Armed Forces Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV  Part V

The SS, Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part V

The Geheime Staatspolizei (Gestapo) and Sicherheitsdienst (SD)   Part I, Part II, Part III, PartIV, Part V,  Part VI

Judgments

Frank,  Goering,  Jodl,  Kaltenbrunner,  Keitel,   Rosenberg,  Saukel, Streicher, Seyss-Inquart

Judgment of the District Court in Jerusalem in State of Israel v. Adolf Eichmann

Other Relevant Pages

Bioprofiles

Crimes, Trials and Laws

Documents Relating to the Holocaust, War Crimes and Genocide

Glossary (Third Reich)

The Jewish Holocaust 1933-1945

Principal Functionaries of the Third Reich

The Wehrmacht, the Holocaust and War Crimes

World War II Resources

Legislation: Conventions, Statutes etc.