List of witnesses in the Nuremberg trial of the main war criminals

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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
1 Lahousen Erwin.jpg Erwin von Lahousen AustriaAustria 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 at the Nuremberg Trials.PNG Otto Ohlendorf Germany 1946Germany 1945 to 1949 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.jpg Walter Schellenberg Germany 1946Germany 1945 to 1949 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 AustriaAustria 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 Bundesarchiv Bild 183-S73507, Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski.jpg Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski Germany 1946Germany 1945 to 1949 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 CzechoslovakiaCzechoslovakia 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 1946Germany 1945 to 1949 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 1946Germany 1945 to 1949 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 1944Provisional Government of the French Republic France 1900–? Jan 25, 1946 French prosecution Prisoner in Mauthausen concentration camp
10 Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier.jpg Marie-Claude Vaillant Couturier France 1944Provisional Government of the French Republic 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 1944Provisional Government of the French Republic France 1903–? Jan. 28, 1946 French prosecution Prisoner in Mauthausen concentration camp
12 Victor Dupont France 1944Provisional Government of the French Republic France 1909–? Jan. 28, 1946 French prosecution Member of the Resistance and prisoner in Buchenwald concentration camp
13 Boix testigo.jpg Francisco Boix Spain 1945Spain 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 NorwayNorway 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 1944Provisional Government of the French Republic 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 1944Provisional Government of the French Republic France 1901-1983 Jan. 29, 1946 French prosecution Member of the Resistance and prisoner and doctor in Buchenwald concentration camp
17th Luxemburger-Wort-1946.07.23-p1-Emile-Reuter-2.jpg Émile Reuter LuxembourgLuxembourg 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 1951.jpg Koos Vorrink NetherlandsNetherlands 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 BelgiumBelgium 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 Federal Archives Image 183-B24575, Friedrich Paulus.jpg Friedrich Paulus Germany 1946Germany 1945 to 1949 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 1946Germany 1945 to 1949 Germany 1895-1994 Feb 12, 1946 Soviet Prosecution General of the Infantry; said of the Russian campaign and the commissar order from
22nd 1987 CPA 5814.jpg Joseph Orbeli Soviet Union 1923Soviet Union 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 1923Soviet Union Soviet Union ? Feb. 26, 1946 Soviet Prosecution Farmer and village soviet from near Leningrad
23 Eugene Alexandrowitsch Kiwelischa Soviet Union 1923Soviet Union Soviet Union ? Feb. 26, 1946 Soviet Prosecution Doctor; testified, among other things, about the mistreatment of Soviet prisoners of war
24 Abraham Sutzkever 1950.jpg Abraham Sutzkever Soviet Union 1923Soviet Union Soviet Union 1913-2010 Feb. 27, 1946 Soviet Prosecution Jewish writer, prisoner in the Vilna ghetto
25th Severina Schmaglewskaja Poland 1944Poland Poland ? Feb. 27, 1946 Soviet Prosecution Survivors of the Auschwitz concentration camp
26th Samuel Rajzman Poland 1944Poland Poland 1902-1979 Feb. 27, 1946 Soviet Prosecution Jewish survivor in the Treblinka extermination camp
27 Nikolai Ivanovich Lomakin Soviet Union 1923Soviet Union 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 Bundesarchiv Bild 183-E10796, Poland, map review (cropped) .jpg Karl Bodenschatz Germany 1946Germany 1945 to 1949 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.jpg Erhard Milch Germany 1946Germany 1945 to 1949 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 v Brauchitsch.jpg Bernd von Brauchitsch Germany 1946Germany 1945 to 1949 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 Bundesarchiv Bild 146-1993-086-12, Paul Körner.jpg Paul Koerner Germany 1946Germany 1945 to 1949 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 Federal Archives Image 183-R93434, Albert Kesselring.jpg Albert Kesselring Germany 1946Germany 1945 to 1949 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 SwedenSweden 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.JPG Ernst Wilhelm Bohle Germany 1946Germany 1945 to 1949 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 Strölin1938.JPG Karl Strölin Germany 1946Germany 1945 to 1949 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 from Moyland.JPG Gustav Adolf Steengracht of Moyland Germany 1946Germany 1945 to 1949 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 1946Germany 1945 to 1949 Germany ? 28 Mar 1946 Martin Horn attorney for Joachim von Ribbentrop Secretary of Ribbentrops
38 Paul Schmidt Germany 1946Germany 1945 to 1949 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 Federal Archives Image 183-H28193, Hans Heinrich Lammers.jpg Hans Heinrich Lammers Germany 1946Germany 1945 to 1949 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 1946Germany 1945 to 1949 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 1946Germany 1945 to 1949 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.jpg Rudolf Höss Germany 1946Germany 1945 to 1949 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 AustriaAustria 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 RieckeHansJoachim.jpg Hans-Joachim Riecke Germany 1946Germany 1945 to 1949 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 1946Germany 1945 to 1949 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 1946Germany 1945 to 1949 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 Bühler Josef.jpg Josef Bühler Germany 1946Germany 1945 to 1949 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 Gisevius 2 460426 NARA.jpg Hans Bernd Gisevius Germany 1946Germany 1945 to 1949 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 1946Germany 1945 to 1949 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 1946Germany 1945 to 1949 Germany ? Apr 29, 1946 Hans Marx attorney for Julius Streicher Streicher's wife
51 Wilhelm Vocke Germany 1946Germany 1945 to 1949 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 Federal Archives Image 146-2008-0206, Franz Hayler.jpg Franz Hayler Germany 1946Germany 1945 to 1949 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 1946Germany 1945 to 1949 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 1946Germany 1945 to 1949 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 1946Germany 1945 to 1949 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.jpg Emil Puhl Germany 1946Germany 1945 to 1949 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 1946Germany 1945 to 1949 Germany ? May 15, 1946 Lawyer Fritz Sauter for Walther Funk Employee of the Reichsbank
58 Federal Archives Image 183-R11405, Carl Severing.jpg Carl Severing Germany 1946Germany 1945 to 1949 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 Heinrich von Weizsäcker.jpg Ernst von Weizsäcker Germany 1946Germany 1945 to 1949 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 1946Germany 1945 to 1949 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 LauterbacherHartmann.jpg Hartmann Lauterbacher AustriaAustria 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 1946Germany 1945 to 1949 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 AustriaAustria Austria ? May 28, 1946 Lawyer Fritz Sauter for Baldur von Schirach Adjutant von Schirachs
64 Max Timm Germany 1946Germany 1945 to 1949 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 1946Germany 1945 to 1949 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 1946Germany 1945 to 1949 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 1946Germany 1945 to 1949 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 1946Germany 1945 to 1949 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 1946Germany 1945 to 1949 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 1946Germany 1945 to 1949 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 (1882–1946) © Max Fenichel (1885–1942) OeNB 8154602.png Edmund Glaise-Horstenau AustriaAustria 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 RainerFriedrich.jpg Friedrich Rainer AustriaAustria 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 AustriaAustria 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 AustriaAustria 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 AustriaAustria 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 Hirschfeld 1932.jpg Hans Max Hirschfeld NetherlandsNetherlands 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 Dr.  Ernst August Schwebel, representative of the Reich Commissioner in the Province of South Holland.png Ernst Schwebel Germany 1946Germany 1945 to 1949 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 Federal Archives Image 183-92106-0014, Hans Kroll.jpg Hans Kroll Germany 1946Germany 1945 to 1949 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 1946Germany 1945 to 1949 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 1924.jpg Hans-Heinrich Dieckhoff Germany 1946Germany 1945 to 1949 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 1946Germany 1945 to 1949 Germany ? Jun 26, 1946 Attorney Otto von Lüdinghausen for Konstantin von Neurath Personal advisor to Neuraths
82 Moritz von Schirmeister Germany 1946Germany 1945 to 1949 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 1946Germany 1945 to 1949 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 1946Germany 1945 to 1949 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 1946Germany 1945 to 1949 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 1923Soviet Union 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 1908Bulgaria 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 UnionSoviet Union 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 1946Germany 1945 to 1949 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 Bundesarchiv Bild 146-1973-079-70, Karl Kaufmann.jpg Karl Kaufmann Germany 1946Germany 1945 to 1949 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 1946Germany 1945 to 1949 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 1946Germany 1945 to 1949 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 1946Germany 1945 to 1949 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 1946Germany 1945 to 1949 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 Federal Archives Image 183-B22627, Dr.  Werner Best.jpg Werner Best Germany 1946Germany 1945 to 1949 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 1946Germany 1945 to 1949 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 1946Germany 1945 to 1949 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 1946Germany 1945 to 1949 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.JPG Franz Schlegelberger Germany 1946Germany 1945 to 1949 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 Eberstein.hoffman1.jpg Friedrich Karl von Eberstein Germany 1946Germany 1945 to 1949 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 1946Germany 1945 to 1949 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 1946Germany 1945 to 1949 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 1946Germany 1945 to 1949 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 1946Germany 1945 to 1949 Germany ? Aug 7, 1946 British Prosecution Jewish prisoner in Majdanek camp; survived a killing operation by the SS
99 Konrad morning Germany 1946Germany 1945 to 1949 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.jpg Wolfram Sievers Germany 1946Germany 1945 to 1949 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 Bundesarchiv Bild 183-E00780, Walther von Brauchitsch.jpg Walther von Brauchitsch Germany 1946Germany 1945 to 1949 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 Bundesarchiv Bild 183-H01757, Erich von Manstein.jpg Erich von Manstein Germany 1946Germany 1945 to 1949 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.jpg Gerd von Rundstedt Germany 1946Germany 1945 to 1949 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 1946Germany 1945 to 1949 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 1946Germany 1945 to 1949 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 1946Germany 1945 to 1949 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 Juettner.jpg Max Jüttner Germany 1946Germany 1945 to 1949 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 1946Germany 1945 to 1949 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

  1. 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 .
  2. Zuzana Mosnáková: Czech prisoners in the Dachau concentration camp. In: haGalil .com. Retrieved June 20, 2019 .
  3. ^ Westhoff, Adolf. In: www.tracesofwar.com. Retrieved June 22, 2019 .