List of Axis personnel indicted for war crimes
The following is a list of people who were formally indicted for committing war crimes or crimes against humanity on behalf of the Axis powers during World War II, including those who were acquitted or never received judgement. It does not include people who may have committed war crimes but were never formally indicted, or who were indicted only for other types of crimes.
The Nuremberg trials
- Martin Bormann – Guilty, sentenced in absentia to death by hanging. Later proven he committed suicide to avoid capture at the end of World War II in Europe, and remains discovered in 1972 were conclusively proven to be Bormann by forensic tests on the skull in 1998. Nonetheless, Simon Wiesenthal, Hugh Thomas and Reinhard Gehlen refused to accept this. Gehlen further argued Bormann was the secret Russian double agent 'Sasha'.
- Karl Dönitz – Guilty, sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment.
- Hans Frank – Guilty, sentenced to death by hanging
- Wilhelm Frick – Guilty, sentenced to death by hanging
- Hans Fritzsche – Acquitted. Tried, convicted and sentenced to nine years' imprisonment by a separate West German denazification court. Released September 1950.
- Walther Funk – Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment, released in 1957 due to poor health.
- Hermann Göring – Guilty, sentenced to death by hanging but committed suicide by ingesting cyanide two hours before the sentence was to be carried out.
- Rudolf Hess – Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment, committed suicide in prison in 1987.
- Alfred Jodl – Guilty, sentenced to death by hanging. Henri Donnedieu de Vabres called the verdict a mistake in 1947. In 1953, the denazification courts reversed the decision and found Jodl not guilty. Within months, the decision of the denazification court was itself overturned. His property, confiscated in 1946, was returned to his widow.
- Ernst Kaltenbrunner – Guilty, sentenced to death by hanging.
- Wilhelm Keitel – Guilty, sentenced to death by hanging.
- Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach – Medically unfit for trial. died 1950
- Robert Ley – Committed suicide before his trial began.
- Konstantin von Neurath – Guilty, sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment.
- Franz von Papen – Acquitted. Tried, convicted and sentenced to eight years' imprisonment by a separate West German denazification court. Released on appeal in 1949.
- Erich Raeder – Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment.
- Joachim von Ribbentrop – Guilty, sentenced to death by hanging.
- Alfred Rosenberg – Guilty, sentenced to death by hanging.
- Fritz Sauckel – Guilty, sentenced to death by hanging.
- Hjalmar Schacht – Acquitted
- Baldur von Schirach – Guilty, sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment.
- Arthur Seyss-Inquart – Guilty, sentenced to death by hanging.
- Albert Speer – Guilty, sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment.
- Julius Streicher – Guilty, sentenced to death by hanging.
Subsequent Nuremberg trials
The Doctors' Trial
- Hermann Becker-Freyseng – Guilty, sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment, commuted to 10 years
- Wilhelm Beiglböck – Guilty, sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment, commuted to 10 years
- Kurt Blome – Acquitted
- Viktor Brack – Guilty, sentenced to death
- Karl Brandt – Guilty, sentenced to death
- Rudolf Brandt – Guilty, sentenced to death
- Fritz Fischer – Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment, commuted to 15 years
- Karl Gebhardt – Guilty, sentenced to death
- Karl Genzken – Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment, commuted to 20 years
- Siegfried Handloser – Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment, commuted to 20 years
- Waldemar Hoven – Guilty, sentenced to death
- Joachim Mrugowsky – Guilty, sentenced to death
- Herta Oberheuser – Guilty, sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment, commuted to 10 years
- Adolf Pokorny – Acquitted
- Helmut Poppendick – Guilty, sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment
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- Gerhard Rose – Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment, commuted to 20 years
- Paul Rostock – Acquitted
- Siegfried Ruff – Acquitted
- Konrad Schäfer – Acquitted
- Oskar Schröder – Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment, commuted to 15 years
- Wolfram Sievers – Guilty, sentenced to death
- Georg August Weltz – Acquitted
The Milch Trial
- Erhard Milch – Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment, commuted to 15 years
The Judges' Trial
- Josef Altstötter – Guilty, sentenced to five years' imprisonment
- Wilhelm von Ammon – Guilty, sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment
- Paul Barnickel – Acquitted
- Hermann Cuhorst – Acquitted
- Karl Engert – Unfit to stand trial
- Günther Joel – Guilty, sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment
- Herbert Klemm – Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment
- Ernst Lautz – Guilty, sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment
- Wolfgang Mettgenberg – Guilty, sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment
- Günther Nebelung – Acquitted
- Rudolf Oeschey – Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment
- Hans Petersen – Acquitted
- Oswald Rothaug – Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment
- Curt Rothenberger – Guilty, sentenced to seven years' imprisonment
- Franz Schlegelberger – Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment
- Carl Westphal – Committed suicide after his indictment but before the beginning of his trial
The Pohl Trial
- Hans Heinrich Baier – Guilty, sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment
- Hans Bobermin – Guilty, sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment, commuted to 15 years
- Franz Eirenschmalz – Guilty, sentenced to death, commuted to nine years' imprisonment
- Heinz Karl Fanslau – Guilty, sentenced to 25 years' imprisonment, commuted to 15 years
- August Frank – Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment, commuted to 15 years
- Hans Hohberg – Guilty, sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment
- Max Kiefer – Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment, commuted to 20 years
- Horst Klein – Acquitted
- Georg Lörner – Guilty, sentenced to death, commuted to 15 years
- Hans Lörner – Guilty, sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment
- Karl Mummenthey – Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment, commuted to 20 years
- Oswald Pohl – Guilty, sentenced to death
- Hermann Pook – Guilty, sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment
- Rudolf Scheide – Acquitted
- Karl Sommer – Guilty, sentenced to death, commuted to 20 years' imprisonment
- Erwin Tschentscher – Guilty, sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment
- Josef Vogt – Acquitted
- Leo Volk – Guilty, sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment, commuted to 8 years
The Flick Trial
- Odilo Burkart – Acquitted
- Friedrich Flick – Guilty, sentenced to seven years' imprisonment, but then released by John J. McCloy after three years
- Konrad Kaletsch – Acquitted
- Otto Steinbrinck – Guilty, sentenced to five years' imprisonment, but died in prison in 1949
- Hermann Terberger – Acquitted
- Bernhard Weiss – Guilty, sentenced to two-and-one-half years' imprisonment
The IG Farben Trial
- Otto Ambros – Guilty, sentenced to eight years' imprisonment
- Max Brüggemann – Ruled unfit to stand trial
- Ernst Bürgin – Guilty, sentenced to two years' imprisonment
- Heinrich Bütefisch – Guilty, sentenced to six years' imprisonment
- Walter Dürrfeld – Guilty, sentenced to eight years' imprisonment
- Fritz Gajewski – Acquitted
- Heinrich Gattineau – Acquitted
- Paul Häfliger – Guilty, sentenced to two years' imprisonment
- Erich von der Heyde – Acquitted
- Heinrich Hörlein – Acquitted
- Max Ilgner – Guilty, sentenced to three years' imprisonment
- Friedrich Jähne – Guilty, sentenced to one-and-one-half years' imprisonment
- August von Knieriem – Acquitted
- Carl Krauch – Guilty, sentenced to six years' imprisonment
- Hans Kugler – Guilty, sentenced to one-and-one-half years' imprisonment
- Hans Kühne – Acquitted
- Carl Lautenschläger – Acquitted
- Wilhelm Rudolf Mann – Acquitted
- Heinrich Oster – Guilty, sentenced to two years' imprisonment
- Hermann Schmitz – Guilty, sentenced to four years' imprisonment
- Christian Schneider – Acquitted
- Georg von Schnitzler – Guilty, sentenced to two-and-one-half years' imprisonment
- Fritz ter Meer – Guilty, sentenced to seven years' imprisonment
- Carl Wurster – Acquitted
The Hostages Trial
- Franz Böhme – Committed suicide
- Ernst Dehner – Guilty, sentenced to 17 years' imprisonment
- Hellmuth Felmy – Guilty, sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment, commuted to 10 years
- Hermann Foertsch – Acquitted
- Kurt von Geitner – Acquitted
- Walter Kuntze – Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment
- Hubert Lanz – Guilty, sentenced to 12 years' imprisonment
- Wilhelm List – Guilty, sentenced to life imprisonment
- Ernst von Leyser – Guilty, sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment
- Lothar Rendulic – Guilty, sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment, commuted to 10 years
- Wilhelm Speidel – Guilty, sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment
- Maximilian von Weichs – Ruled unfit to stand trial
The RuSHA trial
- Heinz Brückner – Guilty, sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment
- Rudolf Creutz – Guilty, sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment
- Gregor Ebner – Guilty, released after the judgment due to time already served
- Ulrich Greifelt – Guilty, sentenced to lifetime imprisonment
- Richard Hildebrandt – Guilty, sentenced to 25 years' imprisonment, then turned over to the Polish authorities and sentenced to death
- Otto Hofmann – Guilty, sentenced to 25 years' imprisonment
- Herbert Hübner – Guilty, sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment
- Werner Lorenz – Guilty, sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment
- Konrad Meyer-Hetling – Guilty, released after the judgment due to time already served
- Fritz Schwalm – Guilty, sentenced to 10 years' imprisonment
- Otto Schwarzenberger – Guilty, released after the judgment due to time already served
- Max Sollmann – Guilty, released after the judgment due to time already served
- Günther Tesch – Guilty, released after the judgment due to time already served
- Inge Viermetz – Acquitted