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 such as Hague Conferences of 1899 and 1907, the Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928, and the Geneva Conventions of 1929 and 1949.

See also: List of war crimes

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[edit] A

• Heinrich Otto Abetz (1903-1958), German ambassador to France
• Jean-Marie Charles Abrial (1879-1962), French admiral
• Jean Akayesu (b. 1953), Rwandan Mouvement Démocratique Républicain politician and mayor (bourgmestre) of Taba commune
• Muto Akira (1883-1948), Japanese army commander and member of the General High Staff
• Josef Altsotter, German Justice Ministry official
• Otto Ambros, German government official
• Ion Antonescu (1882-1946), Romanian marshal; found guilty by the Romanian People's Tribunals; executed;
• Mihai Antonescu (1907-1946) , Romanian government official; found guilty by the Romanian People's Tribunals; executed;
• Andrija Artuković (1899 - 1988), Croatian minister of Justice and Internal Affairs, Ustasha

[edit] B

• Milan Babić (1956-2006), Croatian Serb and prime minister of Republic of Serb Krajina
• Erich von dem Bach (1899-1972), German official and SS officer
• Herbert Backe (1896-1947), German Acting Food Minister
• Richard Baer (1911-1963), first commander of Auschwitz concentration camp
• Hans Baier, German WVHA official
• Lazlo Baky, (d. 1946), Hungarian Interior Ministry official
• Klaus Barbie (1913-1991), German Gestapo officer
• Laszlo Bardossy (1890-1946), Hungarian Prime Minister
• Franz Anton Basch (1901-1946), German Nazi leader in Hungary
• Adolf Heinz Beckerle, German ambassador to Bulgaria and Police President of Frankfurt
• Friedrich Berger, German Gestapo intelligence officer
• Gottlob Berger (1897-1975), German SS official
• Robert H. Best, American collaborator and propaganda broadcaster.
• Werner Best (1903-1989), German Plenipotentiary of Denmark
• Ernst Biberstein, German Einsatzgruppe C official
• Hans Biebow (1902-1947), chief of German Administration of the Łódź Ghetto
• Johannes Blaskowitz (1883-1948), German field marshal accused of murdering civilians and prisoners of war in Poland
• Paul Blobel (1894-1951), German Einsatzgruppe C official
• Kurt Blome, German Party Main Office official
• Walter Blume, German Einsatzgruppe B official
• Hans Bobermin, German WVHA official
• Wilhelm Bolger (b. 1907), German Auschwitz intelligence officer
• Franz Bohme (1885-1947), German military commander in Serbia
• Martin Ludwig Bormann (1900-c. 1945), German Party Chancellor
• Herbert Bottcher (d. 1950), German SS and Police Leader in Radom, Poland
• Philipp Bouhler (1899-1945), German Fuhrer Chancellory official
• Viktor Brack (1904-1948), German Fuhrer Chancellory official
• Otto Bradfisch (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
• Karl Brandt (1904-1948), German Plenipotentiary for Health official
• Rudolf Brandt (1909-1948), secretary of Heinrich Himmler
• Heinrich Alfred Hermann Walter von Brauchitsch (1881-1948), German Commander-in-Chief of the Army
• Werner Braune (d. 1951), German Einsatzgruppe D official
• Hermine Braunsteiner-Ryan, German Majdanek Prison guard
• Fernand de Brinion (d. 1947), French collaborator and member of the Vichy government
• Alouis Brunner (d. 1951), German SS deportation expert in France, Salonika and Slovakia
• Karl Bruno (b. 1911), Yugoslavian collaborator and Belgrade merchant of Croatian origin who accepted the store of a deported Jewish owner
• Yuri Budanov, Russian officer convicted of war crimes against civilian population in Chechnya
• Joseph Buhler (d. 1948), German Generalgouvernement official
• Heinrich Bunke, German doctor involved in the euthanasia of handicapped in 1940-1941
• Heinrich Butefisch (b. 1907), German I.G. Farben official

[edit] C

• William Calley (b. 1943), United States officer responsible for the My Lai Massacre
• Corneliu Calotescu, Romanian Governor of Bukovina
• Pierto Caruso (d. 1944), Italian police chief of Rome
• Josef Catlos, Slovakian war minister
• Paul Chack (1876-1945), French collaborator
• Dmitri Christov, Bulgarian interor minister
• Carl Clauberg (1898-1957), medical doctor present at Auschwitz concentration camp
• Karl Clodius, German economist
• Granville Cubage, American POW serviceman

[edit] D

• Kurt Daluege (1897-1946), German ORPO and Protektorat official
• Theodor Dannecker (1913-1945), German SS deportation expert in France and Bulgaria
• Joseph Darnand (1897-1945), Vichy French chief of police
• Denice Delfau (d. 1945), French collaborator
• John Demjanjuk (Ivan Denjanjuk) (1921-), officier in Treblinka concentration camp
• Albert Deutscher (d. 1981), member of a Nazi paramilitary group
• Joseph Dietrich, (Sepp Dietrich) (b. 1893) personal bodyguard to Adolf Hitler and commander of Nazi security
• Otto Dietrich (1898-1957), personal Press Secretary to Adolf Hitler
• Doihara Kenji (d. 1948), Japanese general
• Karl Dönitz, German minister of war and successor to Adolf Hitler
• Anton Dostler (d. 1945), German General
• Walter Durrfeld, official in Auschwitz concentration camp.

[edit] E

• Adolf Eichmann (1906-1962), German SS official
• August Eigruber (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
• Lynndie England (b. 1982), United States soldier convicted in the Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse scandal
• Leonard Ennis, American POW serviceman
• Franz von Epp (1882-1946), Bavarian politician
• Hans Eppinger (1879–1946), Austrian physician who performed medical experiments on prisoners in the Dachau concentration camp

[edit] F

• Miroslav Filipović (1915-1946), Croatian Ustashi and administrator of the Jasenovac concentration camp

[edit] G

• Jean-Baptiste Gatete (b. 1953), Rwandan politician responsible for the Rwandan Genocide
• Karl Gephardt (d. 1948), German SS chief clinician
• Karl Genzken (1895-1957), German SS medical officer
• Richard Glucks (1889-1945), German WVHA official
• Josef Goebbels [Gobbels] (1897-1945), German Minister of Propaganda
• Hermann Goring (1893-1946), Commander of the German Luftwaffe
• Peter Grabowsky, Bulgarian Minister of the Interior
• Charles Graner (b. 1968), United States soldier convicted in the Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse scandal
• Ernst Grawitz (d. 1945), German SS Reich physician
• Ulrich Greifelt (d. 1949), German Main Office official
• Artur Greiser (d. 1946), German Gauleiter of Wartheland
• Irma Grese (1923-1945), German administrator of the Auschwitz consentration camp
• Rolf Gunther, German RSHA official

[edit] H

• Emil Hacha (1872-1945), German jurist and president of Czechoslovakia
• Walter Haensch, German Einsatzegruppe C official
• Franz Halder (1884-1972), German general and chief of Army General Staff
• Siefred Handloser, German Armed Forces Medical Service chief
• Fritz Hartjenstein (1905-1954), German Auschwitz concentration camp administrator
• Emil Haussmann (d. 1948), German major
• August Heissmeyer (1897-1979), German SS officer
• Konrad Henlein (1898–1945), German Gauleiter of Sudetenland
• Rudolf Hess (1884–1987), German deputy Führer (leader) of Nazi Germany
• Reinhardt Tristan Eugene Heydrich (1904-1942), German RSHA official and Reichprotektor
• Friedrich Hildebrandt (1898-1948), German RuSHA chief and Higher SS and Police Leader of Danzig
• Richard Hildebrandt (1895-1945), German NSDAP Gauleiter of Franconia and SA Gruppenführer
• Heinrich Himmler (1900–1945), commander of the German SS and Gestapo
• Oskar von Hindenburg (1883-1960), German commander of prisoner of war camps in East Prussia
• Hirota Koki (1878-1948), Japanese premier from 1936-1937
• August Hirt (d. 1945), German medical officer who ran the Struthof-Nazweiler laboratory
• Franz Hofer (1902-1975), German Gauleiter of the Tyrol and Vorarlberg
• Heinrich Hoffman, photographer of Adolf Hitler
• Hans Hofle, German SS and Police Leader in Lublin
• Hermann Hofle (1911-1962), German Higher SS and Police Leader in Slovakia
• Otto Hofmann (1896-1982) , German RuSHA official
• Hans Hohberg (1898-1948), German WVHA official
• Karl Holz (1895-1945), German NSDAP Gauleiter of Franconia and SA Gruppenführer
• Homma Masaharu (1887-1946), Japanese general involved in the Bataan Death March
• Erich Hoppner (d. 1944), German commander of 4th Panzer Army and Army Group North
• Rudolf Francis Ferdinand Hoss (1900-1947), German Auschwitz concentration camp commander and deputy inspector of Nazi concentration camps
• Franz Hossler (d. 1945), German Auschwitz concentration camp administrator
• Hermann Hoth (1885-1971), German commander of Panzer Group 3, Army Group Center, 17th Group Army and Army Group South
• Eduard Houdremont, German Krupp Essen official
• Waldemar Hoven (1903-1948), German Buchenwald concentration camp doctor
• Otto Hunsche, German RSHA official

[edit] I

• Max Otto Ihn, German Krupp personnel officer
• Max Ilgner (1895-1957), German I.G. Farben official
• Bela Imredy (1891-1946), Hungarian Prime Minister
• Modest Isopescu, Romanian Transnsitrian(?) official
• Seishiro Itagaki (1885-1948), Japanese War Minister

[edit] J

• Andor Jarosz (d. 1946), Hungarian interior minister
• Freidrich Jeckeln (d. 1946), German SS officer and Police Leader of Ostland
• Goran Jelisić (b. 1968), Serbian army officer
• Alfred Jodl (1890-1946), German commander of operations personnel
• Miodrag Jokić (b. 1935), Serb commander in Siege of Dubrovnik
• Heinz Jost (d. 1946), German Einsatzgruppe commander
• Hans Jüttner (1894-1965) commander of German SS's Main Leadership Office and Obergruppenführer.
• Kurt Janovsky (1791-1846) Commander of private militai.

[edit] K

• Jean Kambanda (b. 1955), Rwandan prime minister and participant in the Rwandan Genocide
• Clément Kayishema (b. 1954), Rwandan politician and participant in the Rwandan Genocide
• Dietrich Klagges (b. 1891-d.1971), German politician and premier (Ministerpräsident) of Braunschweig
• Ilse Koch (1906–1967), German female officer at Buchenwald and Sachsenhausen concentration camps
• Johnny Paul Koromah (b. 1960), Sierra Leone Army officer and participant in the attempted 1996 coup against President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah government.
• Momčilo Krajišnik, Bosnian Serb politician and participant of war crimes against civilian population of former Yugoslavia
• Alfred Krupp {1907-1967} German Steel/Arms maker; Involved in slave labor
• Franz Kutschera (1904-1944), German SS general and Gauleiter of Carinthia.

[edit] L

• Hartmann Lauterbacher (1909-1988) German Gauleiter of the Gau of South Hanover-Braunschweig, SS Gruppenführer Leader and high area leader (Obergebietsführer) of the Hitler Youth.
• Hinrich Lohse (1896-1964), German politician
• Werner Lorenz (1891-1974), German head of Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle (Repatriation Office for Ethnic Germans) and an SS Obergruppenführer.
• Maks Luburić (1911-1969), Croatian Ustashi and commander of the Jasenovac concentration camp

[edit] M

• Harry 'Breaker' Harbord Morant (1864– 27 February 1902) convicted and executed for illegal summary executions of Boer and other Prisoners during the Second Boer War.
• Milan Martić (b. 1954), President and defence minister of Croatian Serbs during Croatian War of Independance
• Dragomir Milošević (b. 1942), commander of the Sarajevo-Romanija Corps of the Bosnian Serb Army who committed atrocities against the local population of Sarajevo during War in Bosnia
• Slobodan Milošević (1941-2006), former President of Yugoslavia, was on trial for war crimes at the time of his death.
• Milan Milutinović (b. 1942), Serbian president and supporter of Slobodan Milošević
• Salomon Morel (b. 1919), Polish collaborator and commandant of the Soviet Zgoda labor camp
• Mile Mrkšić (b. 1947), Croatian Serb army officer
• Alfred Musema (b. 1949), Rwandan businessman who participated in the Rwandan Genocide

[edit] N

• Erich Naumann (d. 1951), German Einsatzgruppe B commander
• Samuel Ndashyikirwa, Rwandan businessman and a participant in the Rwandan genocide
• Hermann Neubacher (d. 1960), German supported mayor of Vienna and Southeast Economic Plenipotentiary
• Konstantin von Neurath (1873-1956), German Foreign Minister and Reichsprotektor
• Mirko Norac (b. 1967), Croatian Army general and commander of forces involved during the Gospic massacre
• Gustav Noske (1868-1946), German defence minister
• Frank Novak, German RSHA official
• Étienne Nzabonimana (b. 1950), Rwandan businessman and participant in the Rwandan genocide

[edit] O

• Karl Albrecht Oberg, German SS officer and Police Leader in Galacia and France
• Otto Ohlendorff (d. 1951), German Einsatzgruppe D commander
• Shunei Okawa, Japanese railroad agent in Manchuria
• Hiroshi Oshima (1886-1975), Japanese ambassador to Germany
• Adolf Ott, German Einsatzegruppe B official

[edit] P

• [Friedrich Panzinger] (d. 1959), German RSHA official
• Franz von Papen (1879-1969), German diplomat and deputy chancellor
• Cemal Pasha Ottoman Minister of the Interior 'Referance Needed'
• Enver Pasha Ottoman Minister of War 'Referance Needed
• Talat Pasha Ottoman Minister of Interior Affairs 'Referance Needed'
• Joachim Peiper (1915-1976) SS-Standartenführer, 1st SS Panzer Division, Leibstandarte-SS Adolf Hitler, held responsible for the Malmedy massacre during the Malmedy massacre trial
• Henri Philippe Petain (1856-1951), Marshal of France and head of the collaborative Vichy France
• Biljana Plavšić (b. 1930), is a Serbian politician and former president of the Republika Srpska
• Paul Pleiger (1899-1985), German state adviser and corporate general director
• Pol Pot (1925-1998) Prime minister of Cambodia and of the Khmer Rouge from 1975-1979.
• Oswald Pohl (d. 1951), German WVHA official
• Adolf Pokorny, German sterilization plan author
• Hermann Pook, German WVHA official
• Hans-Adolf Prützmann (1901-1945) German (Superior) SS officer, SS Obergruppenführer and Police Leader
• Emil Puhl, German Reichsbank official

[edit] R

• Karl Rademacher , German Foreign Office official
• Waldemar von Radetzky , German Einsatzgruppe B official
• Erich Raeder (1876-1960), German grand admiral
• Friedrich Rainer (1903-1947?), German Gauleiter and an Austrian Landeshauptmann of Salzburg and Carinthia
• Otto Rasch , German Einsatzgruppe commander
• Karl Rasche, German Dresdner Bank official
• Sigmund Racher, German medical officer involved in medical experiments in the Dachau concentration camp
• Hans Albin Rauter (d. 1949), German Higher SS and Police Leader in Holland
• Željko Ražnatović "Arkan" (1952-2000), Serbian leader of paramility units during the Yugoslav Wars
• Hermann Reinecke (1888-1973), German OKW official
• Hans Reinhardt, German commander of Panzer Group 3, Army Group Center and 3rd Panzer Army
• Hans Reiter (1881-1969), German SS officer and involved in medical experiments at the Buchenwald concentration camp
• Lothar Rendulic (1887-1971), German commander of 52nd Infantry Division
• Joachim von Ribbentrop (1893-1946), German foreign minister
• Karl Ritter, German foreign office official
• Mario Roatta, Italian chief of staff and head of the secret police
• Henrick Rogstad (d. 1945), Norwegian collaborator and SS security police chief
• Karl von Roques (d. 1949), German Rear Area Army Group South commander
• Gerhard Rose, German official to the [[Robert Koch/Division of Tropical Medicine
• Wilhelm Rosenbaum, German SS officer
• Alfred Rosenberg (1893-1946), German east minister
• Oswald Rothaug, German judiciary official
• Curt Rothenburger, German justice ministry official
• Heinz Rothke, German SS deportation expert in France
• Felix Ruehl, German Einsatzgruppe D official
• Obed Ruzindana, Rwandan businessman involved in the Rwandan Genocide
• Risto Ryti (1889-1956), Finnish premier (1939-1940) and president (1940-1944), convicted for crimes against peace, 10 year hard labor, pardoned 1949

[edit] S

• Dinko Šakić, Croat government official of Independent State of Croatia (NDH) and former administrator of the Jasenovac concentration camp.
• Hans von Salmuth, German commander of the 30th Corps, 11th Army and Second Army, and Army Group Center
• Martin Sandburger, German Einsatzgruppe A official
• Fritz Sauckel (Fritz Saukel) (d. 1946), German Labor Plenipotentiary official
• Anthony Sawoniuk (1921-2005), Polish collaborator
• Hjalmar Schacht (1877-1970), German Reichbank official
• Emanuel Schafer, German BdS official in Serbia
• Gustav Adolf Scheel (1907-1979), German physician and Nazi deportation officer
• Rudolf Scheide, German WVHA official
• Walter Schellenberg (d. 1952), German RSHA official
• Conrad Heinrich Schellong, Sachsenburg and Dachau concentration camp official
• Baldur von Schirach (1907-1974), German Vienna Reichsstatthalter
• Franz Schlegelberger (1876-1970), German State Secretary in the Reich Ministry of Justice (RMJ) and later Justice Minister
• Paul Schmidt, German Foreign Office press official
• Hermann Schmitz, German I.G. Farben official
• Heinrich Schwarz (1906-1947), German administrator of the Auschwitz III Monowitz concentration camp
• Georg von Schnitzler, German director of I.G. Farben
• Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, German leader of German Women
• Karl Schongarth, German BdS Holland and BdS Generalgouverment official
• Oskar Schroder, German Air Force Medical Service official
• Heinz Hermann Schubert, German Einsatzgruppe C official
• Erwin Schulz, German Einsatzgruppe C official
• Willi Seibert, German Einsatzgruppe D official
• Siegfried Seidl (1911-1947), German administrator of the Theresienstadt concentration camp
• Vojislav Šešelj (b. 1954), leader of the Serbian Radical Party and founder of several paramilitary units during the Yugoslav Wars
• Artur Seyss-Inquart (1892-1946), Austrian government official, collaborator and High Commissioner of the Neatherlands
• Ariel Sharon (b. 1927), former Israeli Prime Minister, Defense Minister during the Sabra and Shatila massacre during the 1982 Lebanon War
• Mamoru Shigemitsu (1887-1957), Japanese foreign minister
• Wolfram Sievers (d. 1948), German Ahnenerbe official
• Gustav Simon, German chief of civil administration in Nazi occupied Luxembourg
• Franz Six, German Vorkommando Maskau official
• Vladimir Sokolov, Russian journalist and German collaborator who published a pro-Nazi newspaper in the Nazi occupied Soviet Union
• Max Sollmann, German Lebensborn official
• Karl Sommer, German WVHA official
• Albert Speer (1905-1981), German armorment and munitions minister
• Wilhelm Speidel, German commander in Nazi occupied Greece
• Jakob Sporrenberg, German SS and Police Leader in Lublin
• Franz Walter Stahlecker (d. 1942), German Foreign Office official
• Franz Stangl (1908–1971) German SS officer and administrator of the Sobibór and of the Treblinka concentration camps.
• Adolf Steengracht von Moyland, German foreign office official
• Eugen Steimele, German Einsatzgruppe B official
• Otto Steinbrinck (1888-1949), German industrialist and member of the SS
• Eduard Strauch, German Einsatzgruppe A official
• Julius Streicher (1885-1946), German journalist and editor of the Der Sturmer
• Arnold Strippel, Majdanek prison guard
• Jurgen Stroop (d. 1951), German SS and Police leader in Warsaw
• Pavle Strugar(b. 1933), Serb general in the Siege of Dubrovnik
• Wilhelm Stuckart (d. 1953), German Interior Ministry official
• Otto von Stulpnagel (d. 1948), German military commander of Nazi-occupied France
• Karol Swerczewski (General Walter), Generalmajor 2. Polish Army 1944/45, Katyn 1940
• Ferenc Szalasi (1897-1946), Hungarian head of state
• Dome Sztojay (d. 1946), Hungarian prime minister

[edit] T

• Takejiro Onishi, (d. c. 1945), Japanese vice admiral who created the Kamikaze suicide attacks
• Väinö Tanner (Alfred Tanner) (1881-1966), Finland finance minister
• Fritz Ter Meer, German I.G. Farben official
• Josef Terboven (1898-1945), German Nazi commissioner of Norway
• Eberhard von Thadden (1906-1947), German foreign office official
• Otto Thierack (1889-1946), German justice minister
• Max Thomas, German BdS official in Ukraine
• Fritz Thyssen (1873–1951), German inductrialist
• Tihomir Blaškić (b. 1960), Bosnian Croat army officer
• Jozef Tiso (1887-1947), Slovakian president
• Hideki Tojo, (1884-1948), Japanese prime minister
• Tokuda Hisakichi, Japanese Shingawa Prison medical officer
• Erwin Tschentscher, German WVHA official
• Vojtech Tuka (1880-1946), Slovakian prime minister
• Harald Turner, Serbian military governor official

[edit] U

• Siegfried Uiberreither (1908-1984?/1986?), German Gauleiter in Styria, Austria
• Aquilin Ulrich, German doctor involved in Nazi euthanasia of handicaped in 1940-1941

[edit] V

• Xaiver Vallat, French collaborator and anti-Jewish commissioner
• Leo Volk, German WVHA official

[edit] W

• Wada Shusuke, Japanese translator convicted of mistreating prisoners of war, of which 450 out of 1,690 survived, while onboard a Japanese troop ship
• Gerhard Wagner (1888-1939), German Reich Doctors' Leader (Reichsärzteführer)
• Horst Wagner, German Foreign Office official
• Robert Wagner (1895-1946), German Chief of Civil Administration in Alsace and Reichsstatthalter of Baden
• Edward Waiter (d. 1945), German administrator of the Dachau concentration camp
• Kurt Waldheim (b. 1918), Austrian army lieutenant and former United Nations Secretary General
• Fritz Walther (d. 1946), German railroad official
• Frank Walus, American soldier
• Walter Warlimont (1894-1976), German OKW official
• Maximilian von Weichs (1881-1954), German general
• Henry Wirz (1822-1865), Confederate administrator of the Andersonville Camp
• Fritz Weiedemann, German Council-General and Nazi spy
• Ernst von Weizsacker, German Foreign Office official
• Gustav Wilhaus, German officer in the Janovsky consentration camp
• Max Winkler (1875-1961), German Main Trusteeship Office East official
• Dieter Wiesliceny (d. 1948), German SS deportation expert in Greece, Slovakia and Hungary
• Otto Wohler, German 11th Army officer
• Karl Wolff (1900-1984), Heinrich Himmler Chief of Staff
• Ernst Wormann, German Foreign Office official
• Karl Wuster, German I.G. Farben official

[edit] Y

• Tomoyuki Yamashita (1885–1946), Japanese general

[edit] Z

• Walter Zirpins, German Police Leader of Lodz and later Hannover Polizedirecktor official

[edit] References

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