List of major perpetrators of the Holocaust


This is a list of major perpetrators of the Holocaust.
NamePhotographDate of birthDate of deathAge at deathRoleFate
Leader of the Nazi Party and the Third ReichCommitted suicide by gunshot
Reichsführer-SS

Chief of German Police

Reich Minister of the Interior
Arrested; committed suicide by biting down on a cyanide capsule
Commander-in-Chief of the Luftwaffe
President of the Reichstag
Reichsminister of Aviation
Established the Final Solution as official policy in July 1941.
Sentenced to death by hanging; committed suicide by cyanide poisoning hours before his execution
Chief of the Reich Security Main Office

Deputy Reich-Protector of Bohemia and Moravia
Died of sepsis caused by injuries sustained in an assassination attempt
Head of the Gestapo Office of Jewish Affairs. Charged by Reinhard Heydrich with facilitating and managing the mass deportations of Jews to ghettos and extermination camps in Eastern Europe.Evaded arrest and escaped to Argentina in 1950. Discovered and kidnapped by Israeli agents in May 1960; subsequently brought to Israel, tried and executed by hanging in 1962.
Unknown, but evidence points to May 1945UnknownSS-Gruppenführer und Generalleutnant der Polizei, Chief of the Gestapo 1939–45Disappeared; possibly killed in Berlin in May 1945
Chief Propagandist of the Nazi Party, Reich Minister of Propaganda
Brief Chancellor of Germany
Committed suicide by cyanide poisoning
Reich Minister of Armaments and War Production
denied any involvement of knowledge of the Holocaust, letters found after his death proved he was aware amongst other crimes
Sentenced to 20 years in prison; released in 1966; died in 1981
SS and Police Leader in the General Government

Head of Operation Reinhard
Committed suicide by cyanide poisoning
A major figure in the creation of the Nazi concentration camps

First commander of SS Division Totenkopf, which became notorious for its war crimes.
Killed in action
Head of Concentration Camp Operations in the SS Main Economic and Administrative Department Committed suicide by cyanide poisoning
February 25, 1905March 20, 199691 years,
23 days
Head of Deutsche Reichsbahn and State Secretary in Reich Ministry of Transport, involved with the mass deportations of German Jews to concentration camps and ghettos, also involved with the deportation of ghetto's residents to extermination campsDied of natural causes
Chief of the Reich Security Main Office after Heydrich was assassinatedExecuted by hanging
Governor-General of the General GovernmentExecuted by hanging
May 13, 1900July 17, 198484 years,
66 days
Chief of Personal Staff Reichsführer-SS, liaison officer between SS and Adolf Hitler, Supreme SS and Police Leader in occupied ItalySentenced to 5 years in prison by a denazification court in 1948; released in 1949 after sentence reduced to 4 years; re-arrested in 1962; sentenced to 15 years in prison in 1964; released in 1971; died in 1984
Reichskommissar of the Netherlands
Deputy Governor-General
of the General Government,
Executed by hanging
February 16, 1904August 22, 1948State Secretary and deputy to Hans Frank,
Executed by hanging
Head of the Nazi Party Chancellery
Private Secretary to Adolf Hitler
Sentenced to death by hanging in absentia; believed to have committed suicide to avoid capture in Berlin; the buried body was not found until 1972; the remains were conclusively identified in 1998.
April 19, 1889October 26, 194657 years, 190 daysHead of NSRB, Minister of Justice in Saxony, President of the Academy for German Law, Minister of Justice, Judge President of the People's Court, co-responsible for creating and establishing antisemitic and totalitarian laws that led to the Final Solution and justified terror in occupied territories.Committed suicide by poisoning himself
Chief of the Ordnungspolizei
Deputy Reich-Protector of Bohemia and Moravia
Executed by hanging
Chief of the SS-Wirtschafts-Verwaltungshauptamt, the central SS financial office responsible for overall administration of the concentration camps.
Directed the construction of Auschwitz, Majdanek, and Stutthof
Executed by hanging
State Secretary and SS and Police Leader in Bohemia and MoraviaExecuted by hanging
December 2001 or December 201089 or 98Deputy to Adolf Eichmann; organised the deportations of at least 140,000 Jews from France, Greece, Slovakia and Austria. Commandant of the Drancy internment camp.Escaped to Egypt around 1954, then fled to Syria. Served as a consultant to the al-Assad regime on torture techniques; died in Syria of natural causes in December 2001
Deputy to Adolf Eichmann; Head of the SD Hauptamt – Judenreferat for Paris: September 1940 – July 1942
In charge of the Final Solution in Bulgaria, the Balkans and Hungary
Arrested by the U.S. military; committed suicide
Minister of War and chief of the Supreme Command of the Armed ForcesExecuted by hanging. See War crimes of the Wehrmacht.
Chief of the Kommandostab Reichsführer-SS under Himmler. Coordinated Waffen-SS operations during the Pripyat Marshes massacresSentenced to two years imprisonment in 1949; died in 1952.
March 13, 1877October 16, 194669 years, 215 daysReich Minister of the Interior, Reich Minister without Portfolio, Protector of Bohemia and Moravia Executed by hanging
Coordinator of Operation ReinhardArrested; committed suicide by hanging
Leader of the Independent State of CroatiaEscaped to Argentina in 1948 via the ratlines in Spain. Died from wounds sustained from an assassination attempt in 1957.
August 14, 1890May 16, 1946Sold Zyklon B to the SS, knowing that it would be used to exterminate concentration camp prisonersExecuted by hanging
June 23, 1898May 16, 1946Sold Zyklon B to the SS, knowing that it would be used to exterminate concentration camp prisonersExecuted by hanging
July 4, 1884October 27, 196783 years, 115 daysMember of the board of IG Farben and Bayer, co-responsible for creation of Monowitz concentration camp and usage of slave laborSpent 4 years in prison, died of natural causes.
Organizer for Aktion T4
Extensively involved in the process of establishment of extermination camps for Operation Reinhard
Executed by hanging
Carl ObergJanuary 27, 1897June 3, 196568 years, 99 daysSS and Police Leader in Radom District
August 1941- May 1942, Higher SS and Police Leader in occupied France May 1942 - November 1944
Died of natural causes
March 14, 1910April 4, 200393 years,
21 days
Commandant of SiPo and SD in Paris, involved in mass deportations of the French Jews and also the French population in generalSentenced to death in 1947 and 1954; commuted to life imprisonment; released in 1962; died in 2003
Walter SchimanaMarch 12, 1898September 12, 194850 years, 184 daysSS and Police Leader in occupied Soviet Union, Higher SS and Police Leader in occupied GreeceCommitted suicide by hanging himself
Head of gas chamber construction during Operation ReinhardServed four years in prison after one trial, acquitted after a second trial on separate charges
Inspector of Aktion T4 and Operation Reinhard;
Commandant of Bełżec, – end of
Assassinated
Commandant of Auschwitz, –, – Executed by hanging
Commandant of Auschwitz, –
Commandant of Majdanek, –
Executed by hanging
September 9, 1911June 17, 1963Commandant of Auschwitz, May 1944 – February 1945
Commandant of Mittelbau-Dora, February 1945 – April 1945
Arrested in 1960; died in prison while awaiting trial in 1963
Commandant of Auschwitz-Birkenau
Commandant of Bergen-Belsen
Executed by hanging
Commandant of Dachau, –
Commandant of Dachau, –
Commandant of Neuengamme, –
Commandant of Majdanek, –
Executed by hanging
August 26, 19011945 44 years A deputy to Oswald Pohl in WVHA and chief of its Office C that was responsible for designing and building concentration camps, including gas chambers and crematoria.Unknown
Commandant of Dachau, February 1940 – September 1942Executed by hanging
Commandant of Mittelbau-Dora, October 1944 – January 1945Executed by hanging
June 1, 1907October 8, 1946Commandant of Stutthof, September 1939 – August 1942
Commandant of Neuengamme, September 1942 – May 1945
Executed by hanging
June 14, 1906March 20, 1947Commandant of Monowitz,
Commandant of Natzweiler-Struthof, February 1945 – April 1945
Executed by firing squad
Commandant of Buchenwald, August 1, 1937 – September 1941
Commandant of Majdanek, September 1941 – August 24, 1942
Executed by Nazi Germany for multiple "unauthorized murders" and embezzlement
February 28, 1910July 15, 197464 years, 196 daysCommandant of Stutthof concentration camp, September 1942 - April 1945Arrested in Italy in 1946; escaped in 1949; re-arrested in 1953; sentenced to 5 years and three months in prison, later increased to nine years; released in 1960; died in 1974
Karl ChmielewskiJuly 16, 1903December 1, 199188 years, 138 daysCommandant of Gusen concentration camp, 1940-1942, commandant of Herzogenbusch concentration camp, 1943Arrested in 1959 in West Germany, released in 1979 on health grounds. Died of natural causes
December 12, 1895January 31, 1946Commandant of Esterwegen concentration camp, July 1934 - April 1936, commandant of Dachau, April 1936 - July 1939, commandant of Sachsenhausen, March 1940 - September 1942, commandant of several work camps in Norway, 1942 - 1945Committed suicide in internment camp
February 21, 1885September 28, 1948Commandant of Buchenwald, August 1, 1937 – September 1941Died awaiting execution
Commandant of Treblinka, – Arrested; committed suicide by hanging
Commandant of Chelmno, – Arrested by the British Army; committed suicide by hanging
Commandant of Chelmno, – Killed in action during the Battle of Berlin
Commandant of Sobibor, – ;
Commandant of Treblinka, –
Arrested on ; sentenced to life imprisonment on ; died in prison
Commandant of Treblinka, – Arrested on ; sentenced to life imprisonment in 1965; released on health grounds in 1993
October 23, 1903May 12, 1945In charge of construction for the Operation Reinhard death camps: Bełżec, Sobibor and TreblinkaExtrajudicially executed by the NKVD
Commandant of Sobibor, – Killed in action
Commandant of Bełżec, end of – Died of mysterious health complications
Commandant of Kraków-PłaszówExecuted by hanging
Commandant of Theresienstadt, –
Leading member of the Sondereinsatzkommando Eichmann, which organized the mass deportations of approximately 437,000 Hungarian Jews, hundreds of thousands of whom were sent to Auschwitz and gassed
Executed by hanging
April 2, 1907April 30, 194740 years, 28 daysCommandant of Theresienstadt, January 1944 – May 1945Executed by hanging
Commandant of Ravensbrück, –
Commandant of Majdanek, –
Commandant of Flossenbürg, –
Committed suicide by hanging
Commandant of Ravensbrück, August 1942 – April 1945Executed by firing squad
Commandant of Mauthausen, -Shot by American soldiers while trying to escape, died of his injuries the next day
August 24, 1907September 6, 196053 years, 13 daysCommandant of JägalaCommitted suicide by hanging in Canada, allegedly to protect his relatives from potential reprisals
August 20, 1906Commandant of Vaivara, August 1943 – November 1943
Deputy commandant at Auschwitz
Executed by hanging
Higher SS and Police Leader for the NetherlandsExecuted by firing squad
Close aide of Reinhard Heydrich. Group Leader II D of the RSHA. Designed gas vans to poison Jews, and persons with disabilities. Einsatzkommando leader in North Africa, SS and Gestapo commander in northwest Italy.Arrested in Italy in 1945; escaped in 1946, fled to Syria in 1948, to Ecuador in 1949, to Chile in 1958. Extradition request by Germany denied by Chile in 1963 on the grounds of expired statute of limitations. Most wanted Nazi fugitive in the 1970s and 1980s. Died of natural causes in Chile in 1984.
Human medical experimentation, and formal responsibility of medical staff at AuschwitzArrested; committed suicide by hanging
Human medical experimentation, particularly children, and selection of prisoners to be gassed at AuschwitzEscaped to Brazil; evaded arrest and suffered a heart attack while swimming in 1979
SS and Police Leader of the District of Galicia
Responsible for the establishment of the Lwów Ghetto, which had a population of 120,000 Polish Jews, only 823 surviving after the war.
SS and Police Leader of Radom District
In charge of the establishment of the Radom Ghetto, which enclosed about 33,000 Polish Jews, the majority of whom died.
Evaded arrest after the war and died in 1957
Chief of the Chancellery of the Führer of the NSDAP, Director of Aktion T4Arrested; committed suicide by cyanide poisoning
Co-director of Aktion T4
Conducted human medical experimentation
Executed by hanging
April 25, 1902February 13, 1964Senior medical expert for Aktion T4Arrested in 1945; escaped custody in 1947; turned himself in 1959; committed suicide while awaiting trial in 1964
November 25, 1876March 25, 1948Senior medical expert for Aktion T4Executed by guillotine
June 8, 1899April 24, 1945Involved in Aktion T4 and human medical experimentation in concentration campsCommitted suicide
Oversaw human medical experimentation of concentration camp inmates at Ravensbrück and AuschwitzExecuted by hanging
Commander of the Security Police and SD. Responsible for the deaths of at least 104,000 Jews.Arrested in 1945 and transferred to Dutch custody. Tried and sentenced to 12 years imprisonment in 1949; served six years; deported to West Germany in 1955. Arrested and tried in 1967. Sentenced to 15 years imprisonment, but sentence commuted and released in 1969.
Commandant of Camp I at SobiborArrested on ; sentenced to life imprisonment on ; released on health grounds in 1982
March 1, 1899March 8, 197273 years, 7 daysIn charge of Nazi security warfareArrested in 1945; released in 1949; sentenced to 10 years imprisonment, which he served under house arrest; sentenced to 4.5 years imprisonment in 1958; sentenced to life imprisonment in 1961; died in prison in 1972
May 1, 1896April 6, 1947Reich [Ministry of Food and Agriculture|Minister of Food and Agriculture], responsible for the Hunger PlanArrested; committed suicide by hanging
Responsible for the Pripyat Marshes massacresExecuted by Nazi Germany for desertion after trying to flee from Berlin in April 1945
September 26, 1895June 7, 1945Commander of the Dirlewanger BrigadeArrested, then beaten to death by Polish guards while in custody
June 16, 1899August 28, 1944Commander of the Kaminski BrigadeExecuted by Nazi Germany after being court-martialed for looting
Suppression and destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto UprisingExecuted by hanging
SS and Police Leader of the Warsaw area from 1941–43

Responsible for the Grossaktion Warsaw, the single most deadly operation against the Jews in the course of the Holocaust in occupied Poland, which entailed sending between 254,000 and 265,000 men, women and children aboard overcrowded Holocaust trains to Treblinka
Leading figure in the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Assassinated
Higher SS and Police Leader in occupied PolandCommitted suicide
June 15, 1896July 2, 197579 years, 17 daysSS and Police Leader in Reichsgau Wartheland
Supreme SS and Police Leader in General Government
Died of natural causes
Higher SS and Police Leader in Russia-South; Russia-North
Responsible for Rumbula, Babi Yar, and Kamianets-Podilskyi massacres
Executed by hanging
April 22, 1903May 16, 194643 years, 24 daysCommanded multiple Einsatzgruppen units in Poland
Commander of the BdS in the Netherlands
Executed by hanging
Military governor of German-occupied Kyiv
Responsible for the Babi Yar massacre
Arrested; committed suicide
October 8, 1884January 17, 1942Issued the Severity Order
Responsible for the Babi Yar and Bila Tserkva massacres
Died after having a stroke, then suffering injuries in a plane crash
July 1, 1909February 8, 1988Commandant of the Stanisławów Ghetto
Responsible for the Stanislawow Ghetto massacre
Arrested in 1945; released in 1948; re-arrested in 1962; sentenced to life imprisonment in 1968; released on health grounds in 1986; died in 1988
Supreme SS and Police Leader of Ukraine
Higher SS and Police Leader of Russia-North; Russia-South
Oversaw the activities of the Einsatzgruppen detachments that perpetrated the Holocaust in the Baltic States and Ukraine
Committed suicide by cyanide poisoning while in Allied custody
Trained the Einsatzgruppen
Commander of Einsatzgruppe I in Poland
Supp
Served 10 years in Soviet custody, but never tried; released on
January 23, 1908November 10, 1986Commander of Einsatzkommando 1/I, Poland
Suppression of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Suppression of the Warsaw Uprising
Arrested in 1960; released in 1961; briefly re-arrested in 1965 and 1966; arrested for the last time in 1972; sentenced to 12 years in prison in 1973; sentenced to life imprisonment in 1975; released on health grounds in 1983; died in 1986
December 18, 1902June 23, 194745 years,
97 days
Chief of German administration of Litzmannstadt GhettoExecuted by hanging
July 26, 1900December 7, 1980Commander of Einsatzkommando 4/I, PolandNever prosecuted
April 20, 1900December 4, 1974Commander of Einsatzgruppe II, Poland
Commander of the BdS in Serbia,
Sentenced to 21 months in prison by a denazification court in 1951; released in 1953. Sentenced to a further 6.5 years in prison in June 1953; released in 1956.
Friedrich SuhrMay 6, 190731 May, 194639 years, 25 daysMember of Gestapo Referat IVb
Commander of Sonderkommando 4b in Einsatzgruppe C, November 1942 - August 1943
Commander of Einsatzkommando 6, August 1943 - November 1943,
Commander of Sipo and SD in occupied France, December 1943 -December 1944
Committed suicide in prison
May 6, 1902May 16, 198684 years, 10 daysCommander of Einsatzgruppe IV, Poland Served 10 years in Soviet custody, but never tried; released in October 1955. Arrested and charged in West Germany in 1965; released on bail in 1967; charges dropped in 1971; died in 1986.
September 14, 1899March 7, 1947Commander of Einsatzgruppe IV, Poland
Commander of the state police in Warsaw
Executed by hanging
October 30, 1882July 24, 1945Commander of Einsatzgruppe V, PolandDied under unclear circumstances
October 18, 1909February 28, 1948Commander of Einsatzkommando 2/VI, PolandExecuted by firing squad
Commander of Einsatzgruppe A, Baltic states, – Killed in action
Commander of Einsatzgruppe A, Baltic states, – Sentenced to life imprisonment in 1948; commuted to 10 years; released in December 1951; died in 1964
Commander of Einsatzgruppe A, Baltic states, – Killed in air raid
Herbert BöttcherApril 24, 1907June 12, 195043 years, 49 daysLast SS and Police Leader in District Radom in General Government, May 12, 1942 - January 16, 1945.Executed by hanging
Commander of Einsatzgruppe A, Baltic states, –
Last chief of the Kripo
Arrested by the Soviets 1946, sentenced to 25 years in prison; released in 1955; re-arrested in 1959; committed suicide
Commander of Einsatzgruppe A, Baltic states, –
Commander of Einsatzkommando 3, –
Commander of Einsatzgruppe E, Croatia, October 1944–November 1944
Commander of the BdS in Serbia,
Executed by hanging
Commander of Einsatzkommando 2, Latvia, –
Commander of Sonderkommando 1b, –
Responsible for Rumbula massacre
Sentenced to death by an American military court in 1948, then transferred to Belgium, where he received another death sentence. Strauch was never executed and died in custody.
Commander of Einsatzkommando 2, Latvia, –Believed to have been killed in action
Commander of Einsatzkommando 3, Lithuania, –Discovered and arrested in 1959; committed suicide while awaiting trial
deceased after 2002over 90 yearsCommander of Einsatzgruppe B, PolandArrested in 1964; released due to insufficient evidence
Commander of Einsatzgruppe B, Belarus, –
Chief of the Kripo
President of Interpol
Executed by Nazi Germany for involvement in the failed 20 July 1944 attempt to kill Adolf Hitler
Commander of Einsatzgruppe VI, Poland
Commander of Einsatzgruppe B, Belarus, –
Commander of the BdS in the Netherlands, September 1943–July 1944
Executed by hanging
Lidice
Commander of Einsatzgruppe B, Belarus, –, and
Commander of Einsatzgruppe C, north and central Ukraine, –
Presumed killed in action in Königsberg, East Prussia; officially declared dead in 1954
Commander of Einsatzgruppe B, Belarus, – ;
Commander of Sonderkommando 1b, –
Arrested in ; sentenced to 12 years imprisonment
August von MeysznerAugust 3, 1886January 24, 194761 years,174 daysCommander of Orpo in occupied Norway 1940-1942
Higher SS and Police Leader in German-occupied territory of Serbia 1942-1944
Execution by hanging
Commander of Einsatzgruppe B, Belarus, – ;
Commander of Einsatzkommando 10a, Moldova, south Ukraine, the Crimea, and north Caucasus, –
Arrested in September 1945; committed suicide by cyanide poisoning
Commander of Einsatzkommando 8, Belarus, –Arrested on ; sentenced to 13 years imprisonment in 1963; released in 1969; died in 1994
Commander of Einsatzgruppe C, north and central Ukraine, –
Responsible for the Babi Yar massacre
Arrested; removed from trial on health grounds in February 1948; died in November 1948
Commander of Sonderkommando 4a, north and central Ukraine, June 1941–13 January 1942, commander of the Sonderaktion 1005 project
Responsible for the Babi Yar and Bila Tserkva massacres
Executed by hanging
Commander of Einsatzgruppe D, Moldova, south Ukraine, the Crimea, and north Caucasus, – Executed by hanging
Commander of Einsatzgruppe D, Moldova, south Ukraine, the Crimea, and north Caucasus, – Committed suicide
Rolf GüntherJanuary 8, 1913August 194532 yearsDeputy of Adolf Eichmann, head of section IV B4 a of Gestapo, co-responsible for deportations of Jews from SalonikaCommitted suicide
Commander of Einsatzgruppe H in Slovakia, September – November 1944
Commander of SiPo and SD, Slovakia, November 1944 – May 1945
Transported over 14,000 Slovaks to the death camps
Committed suicide
September 13, 1905March 1, 1960Commander of Einsatzkommando 2/I, Poland
Commander of Einsatzkommando 11b, south Ukraine and the Crimea, –
Sentenced to 20 years in prison for unrelated crimes in 1948; released in 1953; died in 1960
Commander of Einsatzkommando 11b, south Ukraine and the Crimea, –Executed by hanging
Commander of Einsatzkommando 2
Oversaw Einsatzgruppen killings in the Baltic States
Arrested in 1961; committed suicide while awaiting trial
Commander of Rollkommando Hamann, a small mobile unit established by him that murdered an estimated 60,000 Latvian Jews in massacres across occupied territoryCommitted suicide
October 17, 1911March 4, 197765 yearsHead of Central Office for the Settlement of the Jewish Question in Bohemia and Moravia, Member of Eichmann-Kommando in Budapest.Sentenced to 15 years in prison in 1948; released in 1953; died in 1960
January 10, 1913October 21, 198370 yearsRailway and transportation expert in Eichmann's Office of Jewish Affairs. Member of the Eichmann-kommando responsible for the deportation of Hungarian Jews.Died of natural causes
November 30, 1887December 15, 195063 years,
15 days
Deputy to Josef Bühler and State Secretary in General Government in occupied Poland, co-responsible for the policy of terror, deportations to concentration camps and forced labor.Executed by hanging
April 10, 1895September 18, 199297Commander of 8th SS Cavalry Division Florian Geyer, in this position he took part in Pripyat Marshes massacresSentenced to 25 years in prison in 1947; released in 1955; died in 1992
November 19, 1911December 25, 199180 yearsJudenreferent in Greece
Commandant of Theresienstadt concentration camp July 3, 1943 - February 7, 1944
Died of natural causes
October 27, 1913March 24, 1945Commander of Kommando Bialystok, a small mobile unit which murdered at least 1,800 Polish JewsKilled in action
July 8, 1901July 14, 194948 years, 6 daysGovernor of District of Kraków and District of Galicia in General GovernmentDied reportedly from kidney disease as a fugitive
January 2, 1886August 30, 1944Ordered the mass deportations of Jews in France as a reprisal policy
Collaborated with the Einsatzgruppen for reprisals against Jews in Ukraine
Executed by Nazi Germany for involvement in the failed 20 July 1944 attempt to kill Adolf Hitler
September 14, 1886August 8, 1944Heavily collaborated with Einsatzgruppe A
Carried out orders to summarily execute Communist officials under the Commissar Order
Executed by Nazi Germany for involvement in the failed 20 July 1944 attempt to kill Adolf Hitler
February 12, 1888July 23, 1944Collaborated with Einsatzgruppe DImprisoned by Nazi Germany after disobeying orders, then executed in the aftermath of the failed 20 July 1944 attempt to kill Adolf Hitler
April 1, 1894July 23, 1944Drew up regulations that allowed German soldiers to take hostages from civilian population and execute them as response to resistance
Drew up the regulations with Reinhard Heydrich to ensure the Wehrmacht's cooperation with the Einsatzgruppen in the murders of Soviet Jews
Created and implemented deliberate starvation policies against Soviet prisoners of war
Committed suicide in the aftermath of the failed 20 July 1944 attempt to kill Adolf Hitler
December 8, 1896February 6, 1949Responsible for the mass expulsions of non-Germans, as well as a directive ordering the mass abductions of children suspecting of being ethnic GermansDied in prison
Commandant of female camp at AuschwitzExecuted by hanging
Commandant of Auschwitz-Birkenau
Commandant of Natzweiler-Struthof, May 9, 1944 – January 1945
Died awaiting execution
Commandant of men's camp at Auschwitz, and selection of prisoners to be gassed at Auschwitz
Commandant of Birkenau
Executed by hanging
September 30, 1984Commander of the Vilna Ghetto

Commander of the Ypatingasis būrys killing squad, which was largely responsible for the Ponary massacre where approximately 100,000 people were shot, including 70,000 Jews.
Arrested in 1949; sentenced to life imprisonment in 1950; sentence suspended in 1971 and revoked in 1977; died in 1984
Commandant of the Riga GhettoArrested in 1945 but released early; fled to Argentina and subsequently escaped prosecution; died in 1977
General Commissioner for Latvia for Nazi Germany's occupation regime
Major figure in the establishment of the Riga Ghetto
Taken into British custody; committed suicide
March 17, 1909December 28, 198273 yearsCommandant of Vorkomando Moskau, a section of Einsatzgruppe B, later worked in SD headquarters in occupied Łódź and again as commandant of Einsatzkommando 9, another section of Einsatzgruppe B operating near VitebskDied of natural causes
Responsible for the establishment of the Vilna Ghetto, which hosted a population of about 55,000 Jews, none of whom survived after the war
Effectively ruled the ghetto until July 23, shortly before its liquidation
Arrested in 1947 and deported to the Soviet Union in January 1948; sentenced to 25 years in hard labor; released in 1955 due to the Austrian State Treaty. Arrested and prosecuted again in 1963 due to the intervention of the famous Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal; acquitted on all charges and died in 1994.
Inspector of SiPo and SD for Vienna, the "Upper" and "Lower Danube" regions; formal chief of the Central Agency for Jewish Emigration in Vienna.
Responsible for the mass deportations of tens of thousands of Austrian Jews
Died in 1975 without being prosecuted for any crimes
Reich plenipotentiary to Hungary after the occupation of the country
Helped establish the Ustaše-led Independent State of Croatia
Assisted in the deportations of 300,000 Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz
Arrested in 1945; sentenced to 20 years imprisonment in 1949; sentence commuted to 10 years imprisonment in 1951; released December, 1951; died in 1977
Leader of the State of SlovakiaExecuted by hanging
Head of the Hlinka Guard, one of the leading forces in the extermination of 68,000–71,000 Slovak Jews during the Holocaust in SlovakiaSentenced to 30 years imprisonment; released in 1968; died in 1980
Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Slovak State
Leading figure in the mass deportations of Slovak Jews to Nazi concentration camps
Executed by hanging
Governor of the Warsaw District
Responsible for the establishment of the Warsaw Ghetto, the largest ghetto ever built by the Nazis
Executed by hanging
September 16, 1902December 6, 1952Oversaw and implemented Operation Harvest FestivalExecuted by hanging
July 26, 1902February 28, 1952Reichsstatthalter and Gauleiter of Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia
Incited the massacres in Piaśnica
Executed by hanging
Reichsstatthalter and Gauleiter of Reichsgau WarthelandExecuted by hanging
Influential in the rise of the Nazi movement

Responsible for the establishment of the Central Agency for Jewish Emigration in Vienna

Gauleiter of Vienna

Governor of the Vienna region
Gauleiter of Gau Westmark
Died because of ill health
December 17, 1909April 19, 1989Head of the Central Office for Jewish Emigration in AmsterdamSentenced to death in 1950, which was commuted to life in imprisonment in 1951; released on health grounds in 1989; died later that year
Gauleiter of East Prussia

Chief of Civil Administration of Bezirk Bialystok
Reich Commissioner for Ukraine
Arrested by the British in 1949, and extradited to Poland in 1950. Sentenced to death in 1959, which was commuted to life imprisonment in 1960; died in prison in 1986.
Gauleiter of Schleswig-Holstein

Reich Commissioner for Ostland
Arrested by the British in 1945; sentenced to 10 years in prison in 1948; released due to ill health in 1951; died in 1964
78 yearsLeader of the Arajs Kommando, which murdered half of Latvia's Jewish populationHeld in a British internment camp until 1949; evaded prosecution until 1979 when convicted for his involvement in the Rumbula massacre and sentenced to life imprisonment; died in prison in 1988.
August 6, 1898October 22, 1948Commander of SS police in Liepāja
Responsible for Liepāja massacres
Executed by hanging
October 8, 1910February 26, 1947Responsible for Plungė massacreExecuted by shooting
Leader of Romania during World War II
Responsible for the Odessa massacre, deportations to Transnistria, and the Iași pogrom
Executed by firing squad
June 28, 1883October 15, 1945Prime Minister of Vichy FranceExecuted by firing squad
April 24, 1856July 23, 1951Chief of Vichy FranceSentenced to death in 1945, but had his sentence commuted to life imprisonment due to his World War I service and old age; died in custody in 1951
July 29, 1883April 28, 1945Prime Minister of Fascist Italy
Duce of the Italian Social Republic
Executed by firing squad
July 18, 1887October 24, 1945Prime Minister of German-occupied NorwayExecuted by firing squad
May 23, 1898May 8, 1945Reichkommissar of German-occupied NorwayCommitted suicide
Chief of Department 1 of the Gestapo; initiated a registry of all Jews in Germany

Deputy to Reinhard Heydrich
Sentenced to death in 1948, later to 12 years imprisonment; released in 1951; held in detention in 1958 and charged again of war crimes in 1972; died in 1989 without serving time in prison a second time
August 2, 1900December 18, 1945Chief of German-occupied LuxembourgArrested; committed suicide by hanging
March 6, 1914April 20, 1969Croatian Ustaše official who headed the system of concentration camps in the Independent State of Croatia during much of World War IIMurdered in exile
Chief of the Gestapo and commander of the SiPo and the SD in Paris

Responsible of the single largest mass deportation of French Jews in Occupied France
Sentenced in 1980 to ten years imprisonment; released early on health grounds and died in 1989
Chief medical officer of all SS concentration camps.
Involved in human experimentation
Committed suicide
Leader of the Hungarian Government of National Unity from 1944-1945.

Deported tens of thousands of Jews to Nazi concentration camps
Executed by hanging