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Wehrmacht Reichskriegsflagge, the war flag and naval ensign of the Wehrmacht (1938–1945 version) Emblem of the Wehrmacht, the Balkenkreuz, a stylized version of the Iron Cross seen in varying proportions Motto Gott mit uns Founded 16 March 1935 ; 89 years ago (16 March 1935) Disbanded 20 September 1945 ; 78 years ago (20 September 1945) [a] Service branches Heer (German Army) Kriegsmarine ...
Erwin Rommel. Johannes Erwin Eugen Rommel ( pronounced [ˈɛʁviːn ˈʁɔməl] ⓘ; 15 November 1891 – 14 October 1944) was a German Generalfeldmarschall ( field marshal) during World War II. Popularly known as the Desert Fox ( German: Wüstenfuchs, pronounced [ˈvyːstn̩ˌfʊks] ⓘ ), he served in the Wehrmacht (armed forces) of Nazi ...
The Central Office of the State Justice Administrations for the Investigation of National Socialist Crimes (German: Zentrale Stelle der Landesjustizverwaltungen zur Aufklärung nationalsozialistischer Verbrechen; in short Zentrale Stelle or Z Commission) is Germany's main agency responsible for investigating war crimes during Nazi rule. The ...
James J. Weingartner identifies what he views as a disparity in treatment between American and German war crimes in the court martial of American soldiers and the post-war trials of Germans, arguing that United States war crimes were judged "by a more indulgent standard" than comparable German atrocities, particularly in regard to the principle ...
The Frankfurt Auschwitz trials, known in German as Der Auschwitz-Prozess, or Der zweite Auschwitz-Prozess, (the "second Auschwitz trial") was a series of trials running from 20 December 1963 to 19 August 1965, charging 22 defendants under German criminal law for their roles in the Holocaust as mid- to lower-level officials in the Auschwitz-Birkenau death and concentration camp complex.
Minsk. Decided. 29 January 1946. The Minsk Trial was a war crimes trial held in front of a Soviet military tribunal in 1946 in Minsk, the capital of Soviet Belarus. Defendants included German military, police, and SS officials who were responsible for implementing the occupational policies in Belarus during the German–Soviet War of 1941–45 .
Irma Grese. Irmgard Ilse Ida Grese (7 October 1923 – 13 December 1945) was a Nazi concentration camp guard at Ravensbrück and Auschwitz, and served as warden of the women's section of Bergen-Belsen. [1] She was a volunteer member of the SS . Grese was convicted of crimes involving the ill-treatment and murder of Jewish prisoners committed at ...
This category has the following 46 subcategories, out of 46 total. Criminals from Baden-Württemberg (14 P) Criminals from Bavaria (18 P) Criminals from Berlin (6 P) Criminals from Brandenburg (5 P) Criminals from Bremen (state) (2 P) Criminals from Hamburg (10 P) Criminals from Hesse (13 P)