Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Holocaust in Latvia refers to the crimes against humanity committed by Nazi Germany and collaborators victimizing Jews during the occupation of Latvia. From 1941 to 1944, around 70,000 Jews were murdered, approximately three-quarters of the pre-war total of 93,000. [1] In addition, thousands of German and Austrian Jews were deported to the ...
In 1911, Italy went to war with the Ottoman Empire and invaded Ottoman Tripolitania.One of the most notorious incidents during this conflict was the October Tripoli massacre, wherein an estimated 4,000 inhabitants of the Mechiya oasis were killed as retribution for the execution and mutilation of Italian captives taken in an ambush at nearby Sciara Sciat.
The last State Secretary in the Reich Ministry of Justice (1944-1945) and the acting Reichsminister for Justice in the Flensburg government, he was sentenced to life imprisonment for war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Judges' Trial but was released in 1957. Hans Ulrich Klintzsch – Second head of the SA, from 1921 to 1923.
Two of the three major Axis powers of World War II—Nazi Germany and their Fascist Italian allies—committed war crimes in the Kingdom of Italy. Research funded by the German government and published in 2016 found the number of victims of Nazi war crimes in Italy to be 22,000, double the previously estimated figure.
After the war, the German Medical Association blamed Nazi atrocities on a small group of 350 criminal doctors. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] During the Doctors' trial , the defense argued that there was no international law to distinguish between legal and illegal human experimentation, [ 4 ] which led to the creation of the Nuremberg Code (1947).
Ilse Koch (22 September 1906 – 1 September 1967) was a German war criminal who committed atrocities while her husband Karl-Otto Koch was commandant at Buchenwald.Though Ilse Koch had no official position in the Nazi state, [1] she became one of the most infamous Nazi figures at war's end and was referred to as the "Kommandeuse of Buchenwald".
Herberts Albert Cukurs (17 May 1900 – 23 February 1965) was a Latvian aviator and Nazi collaborator.He served as the deputy commander of the Arajs Kommando, a collaborationist unit that carried out the largest mass murders of Latvian Jews during the Holocaust.
List of Most Wanted Nazi War Criminals according to the Simon Wiesenthal Center; The Ravensbrück trials of the camp officials from the Ravensbrück concentration camp. War-responsibility trials in Finland – a series of trials of the Finnish leadership, originally established for war crimes but held without war crime indictments