List of Axis war crime trials
The following is a list of war crimes trials and tribunals brought against the Axis powers following the conclusion of World War II.
- Nazi Germany
- *Nuremberg Trials of the 24 most important leaders of the Third Reich; 1945–1946, held by the United Kingdom, the United States, the Soviet Union, and France.
- **Subsequent Nuremberg Trials
- * Dachau Trials; Judge Advocate General's Corps, United States Army tribunal held within the walls of the former Dachau concentration camp, 1945–1948
- * Belsen trials; held in Lüneburg, Germany against former personnel at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, 1945–1948
- * Minsk Trial; Soviet military tribunal against eighteen defendants accused of committing crimes in occupied Belarus
- * Riga Trial; trial of eight German military officials in connection with the Nazi occupation of Latvia
- * Borkum Island war crimes trial; held at the Ludwigsburg Palace in 1946
- * Werner Rohde trial; trial of eight former staff members at the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp
- * Auschwitz Trial; held in Kraków, Poland in 1947 against 40 SS-staff of the Auschwitz concentration camp death factory
- * Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials; trial of 22 staff members from Auschwitz, first criminal trial of Holocaust perpetrators under German jurisdiction
- * Belzec Trial; before the 1st Munich District Court in the mid-1960s of the eight SS-men of the Belzec extermination camp command
- * Majdanek Trials; the overall longest Nazi war crimes trial in history spanning over 30 years
- * Sobibor Trial; held in Hagen, Germany in 1965, concerning the Sobibor extermination camp officials
- * Chełmno Trials of the Chełmno extermination camp personnel; held in Poland and in Germany. The cases were decided almost twenty years apart
- * Supreme National Tribunal for Trial of War Criminals; active in Poland from 1946 to 1948
- * Eichmann trial; held in Jerusalem, Israel in 1961 against Adolf Eichmann, one of the chief organizers of the Holocaust
- Empire of Japan
- *International Military Tribunal for the Far East
- * Nanjing War Crimes Tribunal
- *Shenyang and Taiyuan Special Military Tribunal
- *French Permanent Military Tribunal in Saigon
- * Philippine War Crimes Commission
- * Yokohama War Crimes Trials, tried by the US Military Commission at Yokohama 1945–1949
- * Khabarovsk War Crime Trials, tribunal of Kwantung Army officials for use of chemical and biological weapons
- Other
- *Hungarian People's Tribunals
- * Post-World War II Romanian war crime trials
- * Bulgarian People's Tribunals;
- * Yugoslav People's Tribunals
- * War-responsibility trials in Finland
- * Czechoslovak People's Tribunals
- * Belgrade Process
| Axis member | Total convicted | Executed |
Nazi Germany |
Nazi Germany