List of convicted 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 established by the 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 and List of Axis war criminals
Contents
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
References 

[edit] A

  • Heinrich Otto Abetz (1903-1958), German ambassador to France, sentenced to 20 years
  • Jean-Marie Charles Abrial (1879-1962), French admiral, sentenced to 10 years
  • Jean Akayesu (b. 1953), Rwandan Mouvement Démocratique Républicain politician and mayor (bourgmestre) of Taba commune, sentenced to life imprisonment
  • Muto Akira (1883-1948), Japanese army commander and member of the General High Staff, sentenced to death
  • Zlatko Aleksovski (b. 1960), Bosnian Croat commander of a prison facility, sentenced to 7 years[1]
  • 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;
  • Jackie Arklöv (b. 1973) Swedish mercenary who fought on the Croatian side in the Bosnian war, sentenced to 8 years
  • Andrija Artuković (1899 - 1988), Croatian minister of Justice and Internal Affairs, Ustasha, sentenced to death, but died before execution

[edit] B

  • Milan Babić (1956-2006), Croatian Serb and prime minister of Republic of Serb Krajina. Sentenced to 13 years following agreement[2]
  • Erich von dem Bach (1899-1972), German official and SS officer
  • Hans Baier, German WVHA official
  • Lazlo Baky, (d. 1946), Hungarian Interior Ministry official
  • Haradin Bala (b. 1957), Kosovo-Albanian guard at the Lapušnik prison camp, sentenced to 13 years
  • Predrag Banović, Bosnian Serb, sentenced to 8 years for Keraterm camp
  • 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
  • Jacobus Petrus Besteman, Dutch Waffen-SS member.
  • Ernst Biberstein, German Einsatzgruppe C official
  • Hans Biebow (1902-1947), chief of German Administration of the Łódź Ghetto
  • Herbertus Bikker, Dutch war criminal
  • Tihomir Blaškić (b. 1960), Bosnian Croat sentenced to 45 years, changed to 9 years following appeal[3]
  • 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
  • Heinrich Boere, Dutch war criminal
  • Wilhelm Bolger (b. 1907), German Auschwitz intelligence officer
  • Sander Borgers, Dutch war criminal
  • 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
  • Miroslav Bralo (b. 1967), Bosnian Croat member of the "Jokers" anti-terrorist platoon, sentenced to 20 years[4]
  • 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
  • Radoslav Brdjanin, Bosnian Serb sentenced to 32 years (30 following appeal)[5]
  • Fernand de Brinion (d. 1947), French collaborator and member of the Vichy government
  • Siert Bruins, Dutch war criminal
  • Alois Brunner German SD deportation expert in France, Salonika & Slovakia, rumoured alive in Syria or S. America
  • 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), the only United States soldier officially held 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
  • Mario Čerkez (b. 1959), Bosnian Croat sentenced to 6 years[6]
  • Ranko Česić (b. 1964), Bosnian Serb sentenced to 18 years for Brčko[7]
  • 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
  • Sera de Croon, Dutch war criminal
  • Granville Cubage, American POW serviceman

[edit] D

[edit] E

[edit] F

[edit] G

[edit] H

[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. 1969), Bosnian Serb sentenced to 40 years for murders in Brčko. Personally killed 13 civilians[13]
  • Alfred Jodl (1890-1946), German commander of operations personnel
  • Miodrag Jokić (b. 1935), Serb commander in Siege of Dubrovnik
  • Drago Josipović (b. 1955), Bosnian Croat sentenced to 15, changed to 12 years following appeal[14][15]
  • Heinz Jost (d. 1946), German Einsatzgruppe commander
  • Hans Jüttner (1894-1965) commander of German SS's Main Leadership Office and Obergruppenführer.

[edit] K

[edit] L

  • Esad Landžo, Bosnian Muslim sentenced to 15 years for Čelebići prison camp[8]
  • 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.
  • Jacob Luitjens', Dutch war criminal

[edit] M

[edit] N

[edit] O

  • Karl Albrecht Oberg, German SS officer and Police Leader in Galicia and France
  • Otto Ohlendorf (d. 1951), German Einsatzgruppe D commander
  • Shunei Okawa, Japanese railroad agent in Manchuria
  • Martinus Johannes van Oort, Dutch war criminal
  • Tihomir Orešković, Croatian official, sentenced to 15 years for the Gospić massacre
  • Hiroshi Oshima (1886-1975), Japanese ambassador to Germany
  • Adolf Ott, German Einsatzegruppe B official

[edit] P

[edit] R

  • Karl Rademacher , German Foreign Office official
  • Waldemar von Radetzky , German Einsatzgruppe B official
  • Mlado Radić, Bosnian Serb, sentenced to 20 years for Omarska camp[16]
  • Erich Raeder (1876-1960), German grand admiral, sentenced to life imprisonment, later released
  • Friedrich Rainer (1903-1947?), German Gauleiter and an Austrian Landeshauptmann of Salzburg and Carinthia, sentenced to death
  • Ivica Rajić (b. 1958), Bosnian Croat sentenced to 12 years[26]
  • Karl Rasche, German Dresdner Bank official
  • Sigmund Racher, German medical officer involved in medical experiments in the Dachau concentration camp
  • Hanns Albin Rauter (d. 1949), German Higher SS and Police Leader in Holland, sentenced to death
  • Hermann Reinecke (1888-1973), German OKW official, sentenced to life imprisonment, later released
  • 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, sentenced
  • Lothar Rendulic (1887-1971), German commander of 52nd Infantry Division, sentenced to 20 years (later 10)
  • Joachim von Ribbentrop (1893-1946), German foreign minister, sentenced to death
  • 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, sentenced to life, later 20 years
  • Wilhelm Rosenbaum, German SS officer
  • Alfred Rosenberg (1893-1946), German east minister, sentenced to death
  • 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, sentenced to 25 years
  • 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

[edit] T

  • Duško Tadić, Bosnian Serb sentenced to 25 years[31]
  • Miroslav Tadić (b. 1937), Bosnian Serb sentenced to 8 years for Bosanski Šamac[27]
  • 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 industrialist
  • Stevan Todorović, Bosnian Serb sentenced to 10 years for Bosanski Šamac[32]
  • Hideki Tojo, (1884-1948), Japanese prime minister
  • Tokuda Hisakichi, Japanese Shingawa Prison medical officer
  • Antoine Touseul, Dutch war criminal
  • Erwin Tschentscher, German WVHA official
  • 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
  • Mitar Vasiljević, Bosnian Serb sentenced to 20 years, later lowered to 15 years for war crimes in Višegrad[33]
  • Leo Volk, German WVHA official
  • Zoran Vuković (b. 1955), Bosnian Serb sentenced to 12 years[17]

[edit] W

  • Anton van der Waals, Dutch war criminal
  • 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 (1918-2007), Austrian army lieutenant and former United Nations Secretary General
  • Fritz Walther (d. 1946), German railroad official
  • Frank Walus, Accused Nazi collaborator while living in native Poland
  • 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 concentration 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

[edit] Z

[edit] Notes

[edit] World War II

American military tribunal at Dachau in 1946, tried 75 people for the Malmedy massacre. 73 of these were convicted.[1]

[edit] Yugoslav Wars

After the Yugoslav Wars, an international Court was formed to try war criminals (ICTY). However, ICTY tried only a selected number of high-ranking people (a total of 161), with local Courts (in Bosnia, Croatia and Serbia) starting trials mostly against inidividuals or soldiers who carried out orders of those high-ranking officers. Many of those have been convicted.

Croatia raised charges against 3666 people for war crimes, of which 1381 were dropped due to lack of evidence.[34]

[edit] References

  1. ^ ICTY: Aleksovski Judgement
  2. ^ ICTY: Babić Judgement
  3. ^ ICTY: Blaškić appeal Judgement
  4. ^ ICTY: Bralo Judgement
  5. ^ ICTY: Brdjanin appeal Judgement
  6. ^ a b ICTY: Kordić and Čerkez Judgement
  7. ^ ICTY: Česić Judgement
  8. ^ a b c ICTY: Mucic and others Judgement
  9. ^ a b c ICTY Judgment document
  10. ^ ICTY: Erdemovic Judgement
  11. ^ ICTY: Galić Judgement
  12. ^ ICTY: Galić appeal Judgement
  13. ^ ICTY: Jelisić Judgement
  14. ^ a b ICTY: Kupreskic and others Judgment
  15. ^ a b ICTY: Kupreskic and others Appeal Judgement
  16. ^ a b c d e BBC: Bosnia concentration camp guards jailed
  17. ^ a b c ICTY: Kunarec and others Appeal Judgement
  18. ^ Krajišnik Judgement summary
  19. ^ ICTY: Krnojelac Appeal Judgement
  20. ^ ICTY: Krstic appeal Judgement
  21. ^ ICTY: Martić sentence summary
  22. ^ a b ICTY: Naletilic and Martinovic Judgement
  23. ^ a b ICTY: Judgement in Mrkšić, Šljivančanin and Radić case
  24. ^ ICTY: Dragan Nikolić Judgement
  25. ^ ICTY: Plavsic Judgement
  26. ^ ICTY: Rajić Judgement
  27. ^ a b c ICTY: Simic and others Judgment
  28. ^ ICTY: Šimić Judgment
  29. ^ ICTY: Stakić Judgment
  30. ^ ICTY: Strugar Judgment
  31. ^ ICTY: Duško Tadić Judgement
  32. ^ ICTY: Todorović Judgement
  33. ^ ICTY: Vasiljevic appeal Judgement
  34. ^ (Croatian) Jutarnji List: State Attorney says 3666 war crime cases since 1991
  • Glueck, Sheldon. War Criminals: Their Prosecution and Punishment. New York: Kraus Reprint Corporation, 1966.
  • Minear, Richard H. Victors' Justice: The Tokyo War Crimes Trial. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1971.
  • Taylor, Telford. Nuremberg and Vietnam: an American Tragedy. Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1970.
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