Nazi Defendants at the Nuremburg Trials

War crime trials began during World War II. The first trial of perpetrators of crimes against civilian populations was conducted in the liberated territories of the Soviet Union. The specific question of war crimes and crimes against Jews, defined then as “crimes against humanity” was considered only after the war ended.

Reference

Notable Nazi Hunters

Major Trials

Auschwitz Trials (1947-1968)
Belzec Trial (1963-1964)
Bergen-Belsen Trial (1945)
- Second Bergen-Belsen Trial (1946)
Concentration Camp Trial (1947)
Dachau Trials (1945-1948)
Hadamar Trial (1945)
Majdanek Trial (1944)
- Third Majdanek Trial (1975-1981)
Nuremberg Trials (1945-1946)
Sobibor Trial (1965-1966)
Treblinka Trial (1964-1965)

Trials Against Groups

The Medical Case, November 21, 1946–August 20, 1947
The Milch Case, December 20, 1946–April 17, 1947
The Justice Case, February 17–December 4, 1947
The Pohl Case, March 10–November 3, 1947
The Flick Case, April 19–December 22, 1947
The I.G. Farben Case, August 14, 1947–July 30, 1948
The Hostage Case, July 8, 1947–February 19, 1948
The RUSHA Case, October 10, 1947–March 10, 1948
The Einsatzgruppen Case, July 3, 1947–April 10, 1948
The Krupp Case, September 17, 1947–April 10, 1948
The Ministry Case, November 15, 1947–April 14, 1949
The High Command Case, December 30, 1947–October 28, 19

Crimes for Specific Massacres

The Katyn Massacre (April 1940)
The Ardeatine Massacre (March 1944)
The “Russelheim Massacre” (August 1944)
The Sant’Anna di Stazzema Massacre (August 1944)
The Malmédy Massacre (December 1944)
Massacre at Gardelegen (April 1945)

Other Concentration Camp Trials

Single Defendant Cases

Klaus Barbie (1987)
Anton Dostler (1945)
Adolf Eichmann (1961)
John Demjanuk (2011)
Ex-SS officer Viel Sentenced to 12 Years (4/3/01)
Former Nazi Accused of Massacre in Slovakia (11/2005)
Former SS Men Sentenced in Rome (6/27/09)
Rudolf Höss (1947)
Albert Kesselring (1947)
Josias Kumpf (2009)
Josias Kumpf Deportation (3/22/2009)
Samuel Kunz (2010)
Samuel Kunz Indicted for Role at Belzec Death Camp (7/28/10)
Kurt Meyer (1945)
Ladislav Niznansky (2005)
Josef Scheungraber (2009)
Josef Scheungraber Sentenced to Life in Prison (8/11/09)
Slovak Court Clears Accused Nazi War Criminal (12/19/05)
Franz Stangl (1970)
Julies Viel (2001)

Other War Crimes Trials

Almelo Trial (1945)
Alsace Trial (1946)
Collaborators Trial (1947)
Dalag Luft Trial (1945)
Dreierwalde Trial (1946)
Elten Lynching Trial (1946)
Essen Lynching Trial (1945)
Flick Trial (1947)
Kharkov Trial (1943)
Krasnodar Trial (1943)
La Grande Fosse Trial (1946)
Moscow Show Trial (1946)
Riga Trial (1946)
Stalag Luft III Trial (1947)
Tilburg Lynching Trial (1946)
Trial Of Carl Bauer, Ernst Schrameck, and Herbert Falten for Murder of French POWs (1947)
Trial of Franz Holstein and 23 Others for Murder of French Civilians (1947)
Velpke Trial (1946)
Wilhelmstrasse Trial (1948-1949)

Primary Source Materials

Nazi War Crimes & Trials