List of witnesses in the Nuremberg trial of the main war criminals
This list includes all persons who gave testimony as witnesses in the Nuremberg trial of the main war criminals . In addition to these people, all of the defendants present, with the exception of Rudolf Hess , were heard as witnesses.
No. | image | Surname | nationality | Life dates | Time to testify | Loading | Remarks |
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1 | Erwin von Lahousen | Austria | 1897-1955 | November 30th – 1st Dec 1945 | American Prosecution | Lahousen had worked for the Abwehr during World War II and was a member of the military resistance | |
2 | Otto Ohlendorf | Germany | 1907-1951 | Jan. 3, 1946 | American Prosecution | Ohlendorf was the commander of Einsatzgruppe D and head of the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA). He was sentenced to death in the Einsatzgruppen trial in 1948 and executed in the Landsberg War Crimes Prison in 1951 | |
3 | Walter Schellenberg | Germany | 1910-1952 | Jan. 4, 1946 | American Prosecution | From 1939 on, Schellenberg held various management positions in the RSHA. In 1949 he was sentenced to six years in prison in the Wilhelmstrasse Trial , but released early in 1950 for health reasons | |
4th | Alois Höllriegl | Austria | 1909-1948 | Jan. 4, 1946 | American Prosecution | SS man was, and in the Mauthausen concentration camp and concentration camp Wiener Neudorf busy testified Ernst Kaltenbrunner and Baldur von Schirach had seen in Mauthausen. Höllriegel was sentenced to death in 1947 in a secondary trial to the main Mauthausen trial for the killing and mistreatment of prisoners and was executed in 1948. | |
5 | Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski | Germany | 1899-1972 | Jan. 7, 1946 | American Prosecution | Higher SS and Police Leader Russia, was involved in the Holocaust and other mass murders. Sentenced to life imprisonment in 1962 for the murder of a communist in 1933 and released in 1972 on health grounds | |
6th | František Bláha | Czechoslovakia | ? | 13-14 Jan. 1946 | American Prosecution | Prisoner and doctor in the Dachau concentration camp , where he witnessed human experiments. | |
7th | Peter Josef Heisig | Germany | ? | Jan. 14, 1946 | British Prosecution | First lieutenant at sea ; testified that Karl Dönitz had approved of the failure to rescue crews of enemy ships | |
8th | Karl-Heinz Moehle | Germany | 1910-1996 | Jan 15, 1946 | British Prosecution | Corvette captain ; stated that he had passed on the Laconia order , according to which the crews of sunk ships should be killed, and thereby incriminated Karl Dönitz. He was sentenced to five years' imprisonment for passing on the Laconia order and was released in 1949 | |
9 | Maurice lamp | France | 1900–? | Jan 25, 1946 | French prosecution | Prisoner in Mauthausen concentration camp | |
10 | Marie-Claude Vaillant Couturier | France | 1912-1996 | Jan. 28, 1946 | French prosecution | Member of the Resistance and prisoner in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp . She testified to the murder of the Jews in the gas chambers | |
11 | Jean Frédéric Veith | France | 1903–? | Jan. 28, 1946 | French prosecution | Prisoner in Mauthausen concentration camp | |
12 | Victor Dupont | France | 1909–? | Jan. 28, 1946 | French prosecution | Member of the Resistance and prisoner in Buchenwald concentration camp | |
13 | Francisco Boix | Spain | 1920-1951 | 28-29 Jan. 1946 | French prosecution | Fighters in the Spanish Civil War on the side of the Republicans; member of the Resistance in World War II and prisoner in Mauthausen concentration camp; died as a result of imprisonment in a concentration camp | |
14th | Hans Cappelen | Norway | 1903-1979 | Jan. 29, 1946 | French prosecution | Member of the resistance movement in Norway; was initially ill-treated in Gestapo custody in Norway and was later imprisoned in the Natzweiler-Struthof , Dachau , Neuengamme , Groß-Rosen and Dora concentration camps | |
15th | Paul Roser | France | 1903–? | Jan. 29, 1946 | French prosecution | French prisoner of war who was imprisoned in penal camps because of multiple attempts to escape | |
16 | Alfred Balachowsky | France | 1901-1983 | Jan. 29, 1946 | French prosecution | Member of the Resistance and prisoner and doctor in Buchenwald concentration camp | |
17th | Émile Reuter | Luxembourg | 1874-1973 | Feb. 1, 1946 | French prosecution | Luxembourg politician, Prime Minister from 1918 to 1925 and President of the Luxembourg Chamber of Deputies from 1926 to 1957 (with the interruption of the war years) | |
18th | Koos Vorrink | Netherlands | 1891-1955 | Feb. 2, 1946 | French prosecution | Dutch politician and resistance fighter, publisher of the underground newspaper Het Parool , prisoner in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp | |
19th | Leon van der Essen | Belgium | 1883-1963 | Feb. 4, 1946 | French prosecution | Professor at the University of Leuven , testified about German war crimes in Belgium, particularly about the destruction of the University of Leuven | |
20th | Friedrich Paulus | Germany | 1890-1957 | 11-12 Feb. 1946 | Soviet Prosecution | Field Marshal General, Commander in the Battle of Stalingrad ; testified about the preparations for the German Russian campaign and contradicted the preventive war thesis put forward by the defendants and the defense | |
21st | Erich Buschenhagen | Germany | 1895-1994 | Feb 12, 1946 | Soviet Prosecution | General of the Infantry; said of the Russian campaign and the commissar order from | |
22nd | Joseph Orbeli | Soviet Union | 1887-1961 | Feb 22, 1946 | Soviet Prosecution | Director of the Hermitage Art Museum ; said about the destruction of cultural and artistic monuments around Leningrad from | |
22nd | Yakov Grigoriev | Soviet Union | ? | Feb. 26, 1946 | Soviet Prosecution | Farmer and village soviet from near Leningrad | |
23 | Eugene Alexandrowitsch Kiwelischa | Soviet Union | ? | Feb. 26, 1946 | Soviet Prosecution | Doctor; testified, among other things, about the mistreatment of Soviet prisoners of war | |
24 | Abraham Sutzkever | Soviet Union | 1913-2010 | Feb. 27, 1946 | Soviet Prosecution | Jewish writer, prisoner in the Vilna ghetto | |
25th | Severina Schmaglewskaja | Poland | ? | Feb. 27, 1946 | Soviet Prosecution | Survivors of the Auschwitz concentration camp | |
26th | Samuel Rajzman | Poland | 1902-1979 | Feb. 27, 1946 | Soviet Prosecution | Jewish survivor in the Treblinka extermination camp | |
27 | Nikolai Ivanovich Lomakin | Soviet Union | ? | Feb. 27, 1946 | Soviet Prosecution | Orthodox clergyman and archdean of the churches in Leningrad; reported on the destruction of churches during the Leningrad blockade | |
28 | Karl Bodenschatz | Germany | 1890-1979 | March 8 1946 | Attorney Otto Stahmer for Hermann Göring | General of the Airmen ; Head of the Ministerial Office in the Reich Aviation Ministry and Göring's liaison officer to Hitler | |
29 | Erhard Milch | Germany | 1892-1972 | 8-11 March 1946 | Attorney Otto Stahmer for Hermann Göring | Field Marshal General, State Secretary in the Reich Ministry of Aviation and Inspector General of the Air Force; From 1941 to 1944 he was a general aviation master and was one of the main people in charge of arms production. Milch was sentenced to life imprisonment in the milk trial in 1947 , pardoned to 15 years imprisonment in 1951 and released in 1954 | |
30th | Bernd von Brauchitsch | Germany | 1911-1974 | March 12 1946 | Attorney Otto Stahmer for Hermann Göring | Colonel of the Air Force; Adjutant Hermann Görings; later, among other things, member of the board of directors of the Federation of German Employers' Associations | |
31 | Paul Koerner | Germany | 1893-1957 | March 12 1946 | Attorney Otto Stahmer for Hermann Göring | SS-Obergruppenführer ; represented Göring in many capacities as State Secretary of the Prussian State Ministry . Sentenced to fifteen years imprisonment in the Wilhelmstrasse Trial in 1949, released in 1951 | |
32 | Albert Kesselring | Germany | 1885-1960 | 12-13 March 1946 | Attorney Otto Stahmer for Hermann Göring | Field Marshal General; was involved in hostage shootings in Italy for which he was sentenced to death by a British military tribunal. However, he was pardoned to life imprisonment and released in 1951 on health grounds | |
33 | Birger Dahlerus | Sweden | 1891-1957 | 19 Mar 1946 | Attorney Otto Stahmer for Hermann Göring | Swedish industrialist; shortly before the start of the Second World War and shortly after the outbreak of war, he had acted as a middleman between Germany and the United Kingdom on behalf of Goering | |
34 | Ernst Wilhelm Bohle | Germany | 1903-1960 | 25th Mar 1946 | Alfred Seidl for Rudolf Hess | Head of the NSDAP / AO, the foreign organization of the NSDAP; active in the rank of State Secretary in the Foreign Office . Sentenced to five years imprisonment in the Wilhelmstrasse trial in 1949, but pardoned that same year | |
35 | Karl Strölin | Germany | 1890-1963 | 25th Mar 1946 | Alfred Seidl for Rudolf Hess | from 1933 to 1945 mayor of Stuttgart and chairman of the German Foreign Institute ; had contacts with the resistance and in 1945 surrendered Stuttgart to the Allies without a fight | |
36 | Gustav Adolf Steengracht of Moyland | Germany | 1902-1969 | 26th Mar 1946 | Martin Horn for Joachim von Ribbentrop | State Secretary in the Foreign Office; Sentenced to seven years imprisonment in the Wilhelmstrasse Trial in 1949 as a war criminal | |
37 | Margarete Blank | Germany | ? | 28 Mar 1946 | Martin Horn attorney for Joachim von Ribbentrop | Secretary of Ribbentrops | |
38 | Paul Schmidt | Germany | 1899-1970 | 28 Mar 1946 | Martin Horn attorney for Joachim von Ribbentrop | SS standard leader ; Chief interpreter in the Foreign Office, office manager Ribbentrops, from 1935 official interpreter for Adolf Hitler; Charged in 1965 for making a positive statement in June 1943 on preventing 5,000 Jewish children from leaving for Palestine; no verdict was passed because of his death | |
39 | Hans Heinrich Lammers | Germany | 1879-1962 | 8th-9th Apr. 1946 | Otto Nelte for Wilhelm Keitel | SS-Obergruppenführer, head of the Reich Chancellery from 1933 to 1945, minister from 1937, member of the Council of Ministers for Reich Defense from 1939 , sentenced to twenty years imprisonment in the Wilhelmstrasse Trial in 1949, released in 1951 | |
40 | Adolf Westhoff | Germany | 1899-1977 | Apr 10, 1946 | Court of justice | Major General of the Wehrmacht, Chief of the POW Department in the OKW and Inspector of POWs in the OKW | |
41 | Max Wielen | Germany | 1883–? | Apr 10, 1946 | Court of justice | SS-Obergruppenführer; testified about the murders of prisoners of war; later sentenced to life imprisonment, released in 1952 | |
42 | Rudolf Höss | Germany | 1901-1947 | Apr 15, 1946 | Attorney Kurt Kaufmann for Ernst Kaltenbrunner | SS-Sturmbannführer, commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp from 1940 to 1943, testified in detail about the murder of the Jews in Auschwitz; Sentenced to death in Poland in 1947 and executed in Auschwitz | |
43 | Hermann Neubacher | Austria | 1893-1960 | Apr 15, 1946 | Attorney Kurt Kaufmann for Ernst Kaltenbrunner | from the annexation of Austria 1938 to 1940 mayor of Vienna; then worked for the German Empire in Southeast Europe; Sentenced to 20 years in prison in 1951, but released shortly afterwards on account of illness | |
44 | Hans-Joachim Riecke | Germany | 1899-1986 | Apr 17, 1946 | Hans Thoma attorney for Alfred Rosenberg | Ministerial Director and State Secretary in the Reich Ministry of Food and Agriculture and Head of Department in the Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories ; as part of the four-year plan, head of the main group for food and agriculture in the East Economic Unit , which among other things drafted plans to starve Eastern Europe; was not brought to justice | |
45 | Rudolf Bilfinger | Germany | 1903-1996 | Apr 18, 1946 | Attorney Albert Seidl for Hans Frank | SS-Sturmbannführer and group leader in Office II A (organization and law) of the RSHA; after several follow-up meetings to the Wannsee Conference ; 1943 head of a SD-Einsatzkommando Toulouse France, for which he was sentenced to 8 years in prison in 1953 in France; released in the same year for crediting his previous imprisonment | |
46 | Kurt von Burgsdorff | Germany | 1886-1962 | Apr 18, 1946 | Attorney Albert Seidl for Hans Frank | SA brigade leader ; from 1939 to 1942 in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia and from 1943 Governor of the Krakow District in the General Government ; Sentenced to three years imprisonment in Poland for war crimes in 1948 and released in 1949 | |
47 | Josef Bühler | Germany | 1904-1948 | Apr 23, 1946 | Attorney Albert Seidl for Hans Frank | State Secretary to the Government of the General Government and as such participant in the Wannsee Conference; participated in the deportation and murder of the Jews; Sentenced to death in Poland in 1948 and executed | |
48 | Hans Bernd Gisevius | Germany | 1904-1974 | 24.-26. Apr. 1946 | Attorney Otto Pannenbecker for Wilhelm Frick | worked for the Gestapo from 1933 to 1934, then, among other things, in the Reich Ministry of the Interior and from 1940 to 1944 in the Foreign / Defense Office in the High Command of the Wehrmacht; he was part of the resistance against National Socialism and was involved in the September conspiracy and on July 20 . After the failed assassination attempt, he went into hiding and fled to Switzerland; Among other things, he testified about the Reichstag fire and claimed that the National Socialists were involved in it | |
49 | Fritz Herrwerth | Germany | ? | Apr 29, 1946 | Hans Marx attorney for Julius Streicher | Driver Streichers; tried to dismiss Streicher, for example, because of his involvement in the November 1938 pogroms and knowledge of the Holocaust | |
50 | Adele Streicher | Germany | ? | Apr 29, 1946 | Hans Marx attorney for Julius Streicher | Streicher's wife | |
51 | Wilhelm Vocke | Germany | 1886-1973 | May 3, 1946 | Lawyer Rudolf Dix for Hjalmar Schacht | Member of the board of directors of the Reichsbank ; Issued in 1939 at his own request after pointing out the risk of inflation. From 1948 to 1957 President of the Bank deutscher Länder and the Bundesbank | |
52 | Franz Hayler | Germany | 1900-1972 | May 7, 1946 | Lawyer Fritz Sauter for Walther Funk | SS-Obersturmführer; from 1943 to 1945 State Secretary in the Reich Ministry of Economics | |
53 | Gerhard Wagner | Germany | 1898-1987 | 13-14 May 1946 | Fleet judge Otto Kranzbühler for Karl Dönitz | Rear admiral; Head of the Operations Department of the Naval War Command , later Admiral of the German Navy | |
54 | Eberhard Godt | Germany | 1900-1995 | May 14, 1946 | Fleet judge Otto Kranzbühler for Karl Dönitz | Rear admiral; from 1939 head of operations department fleet judge Otto Kranzbühler for Karl Dönitzung at the commander of the submarines, from 1943 additionally department head in the naval command ; later member of the Naval Historical Team | |
55 | Günter Hessler | Germany | 1909-1968 | May 14, 1946 | Fleet judge Otto Kranzbühler for Karl Dönitz | Frigate captain ; Admiral Staff Officer to the staff of the Commander in Chief of Submarines; later worked in the War History Department of the Royal Navy | |
56 | Emil Puhl | Germany | 1889-1962 | May 15, 1946 | Lawyer Fritz Sauter for Walther Funk | 1939 to 1945 Vice President of the Reichsbank, was involved, among other things, in the exploitation of gold (“ Nazi gold ”) confiscated by Nazi authorities ; Sentenced to five years imprisonment in the Wilhelmstrasse Trial in 1949, but released that same year; belonged 1952 to 1957 the Management Board of Dresdner Bank to | |
57 | Albert Thoms | Germany | ? | May 15, 1946 | Lawyer Fritz Sauter for Walther Funk | Employee of the Reichsbank | |
58 | Carl Severing | Germany | 1875-1952 | May 21, 1946 | Walter Siemers attorney for Ernst Raeder | SPD politician, Reich Interior Minister and Interior Minister of Prussia during the Weimar Republic ; testified among other things about the work of the Reichsmarine during the Weimar Republic | |
59 | Ernst von Weizsäcker | Germany | 1882-1951 | 21-22 May 1946 | Walter Siemers attorney for Ernst Raeder | SS Brigadführer, State Secretary in the Foreign Office from 1938 to 1943; from 1943 to 1945 German ambassador to the Holy See ; was sentenced to five years imprisonment in 1949 for participating in the deportation of French Jews to Auschwitz; Dismissed in 1950 | |
60 | Erich Schulte Mönting | Germany | 1897-1976 | May 22, 1946 | Walter Siemers attorney for Ernst Raeder | Vice admiral; 1939 to 1944 Chief of Staff of the Commander-in-Chief of the Navy | |
61 | Hartmann Lauterbacher | Austria | 1909-1988 | May 27, 1946 | Lawyer Fritz Sauter for Baldur von Schirach | SS-Obergruppenführer; Deputy Reich Youth Leader, Gauleiter of the Gaus Süd-Hanover-Braunschweig , Upper President of the Province of Hanover ; after the war several proceedings against him were dropped; worked for the Gehlen organization from 1950 | |
62 | Gustav Höpken | Germany | ? | 27.-28. May 1946 | Lawyer Fritz Sauter for Baldur von Schirach | Employee in the Reich Youth Leadership ; Office manager of Schirachs | |
63 | Fritz Wieshofer | Austria | ? | May 28, 1946 | Lawyer Fritz Sauter for Baldur von Schirach | Adjutant von Schirachs | |
64 | Max Timm | Germany | 1898–? | May 31–1. Jun. 1946 | Lawyer Robert Servatius for Fritz Sauckel | as head of department in the Reich Ministry of Labor jointly responsible for the deployment of forced laborers ; from 1950 to 1964 in various management positions in the Schleswig-Holstein Ministry of Social Affairs | |
65 | Hubert Hildebrand | Germany | ? | Jun 1, 1946 | Lawyer Robert Servatius for Fritz Sauckel | active in the Reich Ministry of Labor; testified about forced labor in France and claimed that the Vichy regime was partly responsible for the forced labor program | |
66 | Walter Stothfang | Germany | 1902–? | Jun 1, 1946 | Lawyer Robert Servatius for Fritz Sauckel | Ministerialrat in the Reich Ministry of Labor; from 1943 Sauckel's personal advisor as general representative for work | |
67 | Wilhelm Jäger | Germany | ? | Jun 3, 1946 | Lawyer Robert Servatius for Fritz Sauckel | Doctor; the forced laborers was for medical assistance Friedrich Krupp AG responsible | |
68 | Horst Freiherr Treusch von Buttlar-Brandenfels | Germany | 1900-1990 | May 7, 1946 | Lawyer Franz Exner for Alfred Jodl | Major general; 1942-1945 in the high command of the Armed Forces active | |
69 | Herbert Büchs | Germany | 1913-1996 | Jun 8, 1946 | Lawyer Franz Exner for Alfred Jodl | Major in the General Staff; as General Staff Officer of the Air Force with the Chief of the Wehrmacht Command and Adjutant Jodls; from 1957 in the Bundeswehr; from 1967 to 1971 deputy general inspector of the Bundeswehr | |
70 | Percy Ernst Schramm | Germany | 1894-1970 | Jun 8, 1946 | Lawyer Franz Exner for Alfred Jodl | Historian; kept the war diary in the High Command of the Wehrmacht | |
71 | Edmund Glaise-Horstenau | Austria | 1882-1946 | Jun 12, 1946 | Gustav Steinbauer attorney for Arthur Seyß-Inquart | Austrian National Socialist; from 1936 Minister in Kurt Schuschnigg's cabinet ; forced this together with Seyß-Inquart to resign as part of the “Anschluss”; subsequently worked in the Seyss-Inquart government; During the Second World War general for special use and as such from 1941 to 1944 was a "German Plenipotentiary General in Croatia" representative of the Wehrmacht in the Ustaša regime. Committed suicide in prison in July 1946 | |
72 | Friedrich Rainer | Austria | 1903 – approx. 1947 | 12-13 Jun. 1946 | Gustav Steinbauer attorney for Arthur Seyß-Inquart | SS-Obergruppenführer; Gauleiter and Reich Governor of Salzburg; from 1941 active in civil administration in Italy and Slovenia; Sentenced to death in Ljubljana in 1947 ; unclear if and when he was executed | |
73 | Guido Schmidt | Austria | 1901-1957 | Jun 13, 1946 | Gustav Steinbauer attorney for Arthur Seyß-Inquart | in Austria from 1936 State Secretary in the Foreign Ministry and from February 1938 Foreign Minister; after the "Anschluss", which he had worked towards, director of the Hermann Göring Works in Linz; after the war in Austria charged with high treason, but acquitted | |
74 | Michael Skubl | Austria | 1877-1964 | Jun 13, 1946 | Gustav Steinbauer attorney for Arthur Seyß-Inquart | until the “Anschluss” head of the Federal Police Directorate Vienna and State Secretary in the Austrian Federal Chancellery; fixed in Kassel from May 1938; said about Seyss-Inquart's participation in the “Anschluss” | |
75 | Friedrich Wimmer | Austria | 1897-1965 | June 13-14, 1946 | Gustav Steinbauer attorney for Arthur Seyß-Inquart | SS-Brigadführer, after the “Anschluss” State Secretary in the Austrian government; from 1940 to 1944 general commissioner for administration and justice in the occupied Netherlands under Seyß-Inquart | |
76 | Hans Max Hirschfeld | Netherlands | 1899-1961 | Jun 14, 1946 | Gustav Steinbauer attorney for Arthur Seyß-Inquart | before the occupation of the Netherlands, Secretary General in the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs; remained in this position after the occupation until the end of the war and thus collaborated with Seyss-Inquart; | |
77 | Ernst Schwebel | Germany | 1886-1955 | Jun 14, 1946 | Gustav Steinbauer attorney for Arthur Seyß-Inquart | from 1940 to 1945 commissioner Arthur Seyß-Inquarts in the province of South Holland | |
78 | Hans Kroll | Germany | 1898-1967 | Jun 19, 1946 | Lawyer Egon Kubuschok for Franz von Papen | Diplomat; was at the German Embassy in Turkey from 1936 to 1943 ; from 1939 under von Papen as ambassador, then head of the German Consulate General in Barcelona until the end of the war; later, among other things, German ambassador to Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union | |
79 | Gerhard Koepke | Germany | ? | Jun 26, 1946 | Attorney Otto von Lüdinghausen for Konstantin von Neurath | Diplomat; From 1923 to 1935 he headed the political department in the Foreign Office | |
80 | Hans-Heinrich Dieckhoff | Germany | 1884-1952 | Jun 26, 1946 | Attorney Otto von Lüdinghausen for Konstantin von Neurath | Diplomat; Ministerial Director and Head of the Political Department in the Foreign Office, 1937/38 German Ambassador to the USA, 1933/34 German Ambassador to Spain | |
81 | Hans Völckers | Germany | ? | Jun 26, 1946 | Attorney Otto von Lüdinghausen for Konstantin von Neurath | Personal advisor to Neuraths | |
82 | Moritz von Schirmeister | Germany | 1901–? | 28-29 Jun. 1946 | Heinz Fritz attorney for Hans Fritzsche | From 1933 to 1943 Joseph Goebbels ' personal press officer , secretary of most of the conferences of the leadership of the Propaganda Ministry | |
83 | Friedrich Ahrens | Germany | ? | Jul 1, 1946 | Attorney Otto Stahmer for Hermann Göring | Colonel in the Wehrmacht; was stationed as commander of Army Group News Regiment 537 near Katyn ; was accused in the Soviet indictment of the murder of Poles in the Katyn massacre , but stated that the massacre had been committed before the Wehrmacht occupied the area | |
84 | Reinhart von Eichborn | Germany | 1911-1990 | Jul 1, 1946 | Attorney Otto Stahmer for Hermann Göring | headed the switchboard of the headquarters of Army Group Center in Smolensk; also stated that the Katyn massacre could not have been committed by the Germans | |
85 | Eugen Oberhäuser | Germany | ? | Jul 1, 1946 | Attorney Otto Stahmer for Hermann Göring | Wehrmacht General; was stationed near Katyn from 1941; also stated that the Wehrmacht was not responsible for the Katyn victims | |
86 | Boris Bazilevsky | Soviet Union | ? | Jul 1, 1946 | Soviet Prosecution | Professor at the University of Smolensk, Deputy Mayor of Smolensk during the German occupation; claimed that the Wehrmacht was responsible for the Katyn massacre | |
87 | Marko Markow | Bulgaria | 1901-1967 | 1st – 2nd Jul. 1946 | Soviet Prosecution | Professor of Medicine, was a member of the International Medical Commission , which examined the bodies of the victims of the Katyn massacre at the invitation of the Germans; claimed, contrary to the result of the commission, that the victims could only have been killed after the conquest of the area by the Wehrmacht | |
88 | Viktor Ilyich Prosorovsky | Soviet Union | 1901-1986 | Jul 2, 1946 | Soviet Prosecution | Coroner; worked for the Soviet Ministry of Public Health; belonged to the Soviet Burdenko Commission , which investigated the Katyn massacre; claimed responsibility of the Germans for the massacre | |
89 | Erich Kempka | Germany | 1910-1975 | Jul 3, 1946 | Friedrich Bergold attorney for Martin Bormann | SS-Obersturmbannführer; Adolf Hitler's driver, claimed to have seen Bormann injured and presumably killed in the Battle of Berlin | |
90 | Karl Kaufmann | Germany | 1900-1969 | Jul 30, 1946 | Robert Servatius, attorney for the Political Leadership Corps | SS-Obergruppenführer; from 1929 to 1945 Gauleiter and from 1933 to 1945 Reichsstatthalter of Hamburg, also Reich Defense Commissioner in military district 10 and from 1942 Reich Commissioner for Maritime Shipping ; was not convicted after the war | |
91 | Willi Meyer-Wendeborn | Germany | 1891–? | 30.-31. Jul. 1946 | Robert Servatius, attorney for the Political Leadership Corps | from 1934 to 1945 to district leader in the district of Cloppenburg | |
92 | Hans Wegschneider | Germany | 1885–? | Jul 31, 1946 | Robert Servatius, attorney for the Political Leadership Corps | from 1933 to 1945 local group leader of the NSDAP and mayor of Hirschdorf | |
93 | Ernst Hirth | Germany | 1896– | Jul 31, 1946 | Robert Servatius, attorney for the Political Leadership Corps | Jurist; from 1942 to 1945 block leader in Nuremberg | |
94 | Theo Hupfauer | Germany | 1906-1993 | Jul 31, 1946 | Robert Servatius, attorney for the Political Leadership Corps | SS-Sturmbannführer; from 1936 head of the office of the German Labor Front , from 1944 head of the Central Office of the Armaments Ministry , in 1945 appointed Reich Labor Minister in Adolf Hitler's Political Testament ; was not convicted after the war | |
95 | Werner Best | Germany | 1903-1989 | Jul 31 - Nov 1 Aug 1946 | Lawyer Rudolf Merkel for the Gestapo | SS-Obergruppenführer; 1934 to 1940 deputy of Reinhard Heydrich as leader of the SD ; from 1942 to 1945 as well as German governor in Denmark; Sentenced to death in the first instance in the great war crimes trial in Copenhagen , the sentence was reduced to five years in prison on appeal; Released in 1951 | |
96 | Karl-Heinz Hoffmann (SS-Sturmbannführer) | Germany | ? | Aug 1, 1946 | Lawyer Rudolf Merkel for the Gestapo | SS-Sturmbannführer; worked from 1940 for the GeStaPo in the department "Occupied Western European Territories" and from 1943 for the commander of the security police and the SD in Denmark | |
97 | Rolf-Heinz Höppner | Germany | 1910-1998 | Aug 1-2, 1946 | Attorney Hans Gawlik for the SD | SS-Obersturmbannführer; was head of the immigration center in Poznan, jointly responsible for the deportation of Jews and Poles to the Generalgouvernement; from 1944 headed Office Group III A “People's and Legal Order” in the Reich Security Main Office; later convicted in Poland but released in 1956 | |
98 | Hans Roessner | Germany | 1910-1997 | Aug 2, 1946 | Attorney Hans Gawlik for the SD | SS-Obersturmbannführer; from 1938 head of Section III C 3 (Folk Culture and Art) in the Reich Security Main Office; | |
99 | Franz Schlegelberger | Germany | 1876-1970 | 2-3 Aug 1946 | Lawyer Egon Kubuschok for the Reich government | from 1931 to 1941 State Secretary in the Reich Ministry of Justice ; from 1941 to 1942 after the death of Franz Gürtner, acting Reich Minister of Justice; Sentenced to life imprisonment in the legal process, released in 1951 | |
95 | Friedrich Karl von Eberstein | Germany | 1894-1979 | 3rd to 5th Aug 1946 | Attorney Horst Pelckmann for the SS | SS-Obergruppenführer and General of the Waffen SS and the Police; from 1937 Higher SS and Police Leader in Military District VII (Munich) , from 1942 Police President in Munich; lawsuits against him were later dropped | |
96 | Robert Brill | Germany | ? | Aug 5, 1946 | Attorney Horst Pelckmann for the SS | former head of the supplementary office of the Waffen SS; testified about the development of personnel and the composition of the Waffen SS | |
97 | Paul Hausser | Germany | 1880-1972 | Aug 5, 1946 | Attorney Horst Pelckmann for the SS | Colonel General of the Waffen SS; 1936 to 1939 inspector of the SS disposal force, headed various military units during the war | |
98 | Günther Reinecke | Germany | 1908-1972 | 6-7 Aug 1946 | Attorney Horst Pelckmann for the SS | SS-Oberführer; from 1938 member of the personal staff of the Reichsführer SS, from 1939 head of the legal office at the main office of the SS court, from 1942 chief judge of the supreme SS and police court. Initiated corruption proceedings against various high-ranking Nazi leaders; states that the SS also initiated proceedings against heads of concentration camps | |
98 | Israel Eisenberg | Germany | ? | Aug 7, 1946 | British Prosecution | Jewish prisoner in Majdanek camp; survived a killing operation by the SS | |
99 | Konrad morning | Germany | 1909-1982 | 7th-8th Aug 1946 | Attorney Horst Pelckmann for the SS | SS-Obersturmbannführer and SS judge; from 1940 judge at the main office of the SS court in Munich; from January 1, 1941, Morgen was judge at the SS and Police Court in Cracow; was founded in 1943 by Heinrich Himmler with the investigation of corruption cases in concentration camps; sentenced several concentration camp leaders for crimes of corruption, bodily harm and homicide | |
100 | Wolfram Sievers | Germany | 1905-1948 | 8th-9th Aug 1946 | Attorney Horst Pelckmann for the SS | SS standard leader; As managing director of the Research Association for German Ahnenerbe, he was responsible for human experiments in concentration camps; Sentenced to death in the Nuremberg Doctors' Trial in 1947 and executed in 1948 | |
101 | Walther von Brauchitsch | Germany | 1881-1948 | Aug 9, 1946 | Attorney Hans Laternser for the General Staff and the OKW | Field Marshal General; from 1938 to 1941 commander in chief of the army; Dismissed in 1941 because of conflicts with Hitler | |
102 | Erich von Manstein | Germany | 1887-1973 | 9-12 Aug 1946 | Attorney Hans Laternser for the General Staff and the OKW | Field Marshal General; shared responsibility for war crimes as commander on the Eastern Front; was therefore sentenced to 18 years imprisonment by a British military tribunal in 1949 but released in 11952; then advised the federal government on building the Bundeswehr | |
103 | Gerd von Rundstedt | Germany | 1875-1953 | Aug 12, 1946 | Attorney Hans Laternser for the General Staff and the OKW | Field Marshal General; between 1940 and 1945 with interruptions Commander in Chief West ; charged with war crimes; however, the proceedings were discontinued for health reasons | |
104 | Franz Bock | Germany | 1905-1974 | 12-13 Aug 1946 | Lawyer Georg Böhm for the SA | SA-Obergruppenführer; in the 1937 Supreme SA Leadership active | |
105 | Werner Schäfer | Germany | 1904-1973 | Aug 13, 1946 | Lawyer Georg Böhm for the SA | SA Oberführer; from 1933 to 1934 commander in the Oranienburg concentration camp and from 1934 to 1942 camp commander of the Emslandlager , the prisoner camp of the Reich Justice Administration, and remained in this position until May 1942; was sentenced to four and two and a half years in prison for mistreating detainees in 1950 and 1953, respectively | |
106 | Theodor greeting | Germany | ? | Aug 13, 1946 | Lawyer Georg Böhm for the SA | from 1919 to 1935 Federal Treasurer of the Stahlhelm, which was subordinated to the SA in 1933 | |
107 | Max Jüttner | Germany | 1888-1963 | 13-16. Aug 1946 | Lawyer Georg Böhm for the SA | SA-Obergruppenführer; from 1919 to 1933 member of the Stahlhelm; then switched to the SA; from 1934 to 1945 deputy SA chief of staff, head of the main leadership office of the supreme SA leadership | |
108 | Walter Paul Schreiber | Germany | 1893-1970 | Aug 26, 1946 | Soviet Prosecution | General doctor ; Head of the Science and Health Management Department of the Army Medical Inspection; initiated human experiments in concentration camps |
Individual evidence
- ↑ Case No. 000-50-5-2 (US vs. Ernst Walter Dura et al). (PDF) In: Website of the Jewish Virtual Library . Retrieved June 20, 2019 .
- ↑ Zuzana Mosnáková: Czech prisoners in the Dachau concentration camp. In: haGalil .com. Retrieved June 20, 2019 .
- ^ Westhoff, Adolf. In: www.tracesofwar.com. Retrieved June 22, 2019 .