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German war crimes. The governments of the German Empire and Nazi Germany (under Adolf Hitler) ordered, organized, and condoned a substantial number of war crimes, first in the Herero and Namaqua genocide and then in the First and Second World Wars. The most notable of these is the Holocaust, in which millions of European Jewish, Polish, and ...
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; References
This is a list of the last surviving people suspected of participation in Nazi war crimes, based on wanted lists published by Efraim Zuroff of the Simon Wiesenthal Center. Beginning in 2002, Zuroff produced an Annual Status Report on the Worldwide Investigation and Prosecution of Nazi war criminals which from 2004 to 2018 included a list of the ...
Oskar Dirlewanger (1895-1945), German Oberführer who committed one of the most notorious war crimes in WWII. Karl Dönitz (1891–1980), German naval commander and Hitler 's appointed successor. Wilhelm Dörr (1921–1945), guard at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, sentenced to death at the Belsen trials.
Werner Best. Otto Bickenbach. Hans Biebow. Herbertus Bikker. Václav Binovec. Wilhelm Bittrich. Walter Blume (SS officer) Heinrich Boere. Friedrich Boßhammer.
Most of the defendants had surrendered to the United States Army, but the Soviet Union held a few high-ranking Nazis who were extradited for trial at Nuremberg. [1] The defendants included some of the most famous Nazis, including Hermann Göring, Rudolf Hess, Joachim von Ribbentrop, and Wilhelm Keitel.
The following is a list of war crimes trials and tribunals brought against the Axis powers following the conclusion of World War II.. Nazi Germany. Nuremberg Trials of the 24 most important leaders of the Third Reich; 1945–1946, held by the United Kingdom, the United States, the Soviet Union, and France.
The Nuremberg executions took place on 16 October 1946, shortly after the conclusion of the Nuremberg trials.Ten prominent members of the political and military leadership of Nazi Germany were executed by hanging: Hans Frank, Wilhelm Frick, Alfred Jodl, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Wilhelm Keitel, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Alfred Rosenberg, Fritz Sauckel, Arthur Seyss-Inquart, and Julius Streicher.