List of convicted war criminals

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This is a list of convicted war criminals as according to the conduct and rules of warfare as defined by the Nuremberg Trials following World War II as well as earlier agreements established by the Hague Conferences of 1899 and 1907, the Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928, and the Geneva Conventions of 1929 and 1949.

See also: List of war crimes, List of Axis war criminals, and War crime

A

• Abdul Quader Molla (born 1948), Convicted war criminal from Bangladesh, sentenced to imprisonment for life
• Heinrich Otto Abetz (1903–1958), German ambassador to France, sentenced to 20 years
• Muto Akira (1883–1948), Japanese army commander and member of the General High Staff, sentenced to death
• Zlatko Aleksovski (born 1960), Bosnian Croat commander of a prison facility, sentenced to 7 years
• Ali Daeem Ali (born 1940), Iraqi Baathist official, sentenced to 15 years
• Ion Antonescu (1882–1946), Romanian marshal; found guilty by the Romanian People's Tribunals; executed;
• Mihai Antonescu (1907–1946), Romanian government official; found guilty by the Romanian People's Tribunals; executed;
• Andrija Artuković (1899–1988), Croatian minister of Justice and Internal Affairs, Ustasha, sentenced to death, but died before execution
• Tariq Aziz (born 1936), Iraqi foreign minister under Saddam Hussein, awaiting execution

B

• Milan Babić (1956–2006), Croatian Serb and prime minister of Republic of Serb Krajina. Sentenced to 13 years following agreement
• Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski (1899–1972), German official and SS officer
• László Baky (1898–1946), Hungarian Interior Ministry official
• Awad Hamed al-Bandar (1945–2007), Iraqi chief judge, sentenced to death
• Klaus Barbie (1913–1991), German Gestapo officer
• Laszlo Bardossy (1890–1946), Hungarian Prime Minister
• Franz Anton Basch (1901–1946), German Nazi leader in Hungary
• Gottlob Berger (1897–1975), German SS official
• Werner Best (1903–1989), German Plenipotentiary of Denmark
• Hans Biebow (1902–1947), chief of German Administration of the Łódź Ghetto
• Tihomir Blaškić (born 1960), Bosnian Croat sentenced to 45 years, changed to 9 years following appeal
• Paul Blobel (1894–1951), German Einsatzgruppe C official
• Martin Ludwig Bormann (1900–c. 1945), German Party Chancellor, Tried at Nuremberg in absentia
• Herbert Böttcher (1907–1950), German SS and Police Leader in Radom, Poland
• Philipp Bouhler (1899–1945), German Führer Chancellory official
• Viktor Brack (1904–1948), German Führer Chancellory official
• Otto Bradfisch (1903–1994), member of the German SS Obersturmbannführer, Leader of Einsatzkommando 8 of Einsatzgruppe B of the Security Police (Sicherheitspolizei) and the SD, and Commander of the Security Police in Litzmannstadt (Łódź) and Potsdam
• Miroslav Bralo (born 1967), Bosnian Croat member of the "Jokers" anti-terrorist platoon, sentenced to 20 years
• Karl Brandt (1904–1948), German Plenipotentiary for Health official
• Rudolf Brandt (1909–1948), secretary of Heinrich Himmler
• Walther von Brauchitsch (1881–1948), German Commander-in-Chief of the Army
• Werner Braune (1909–1951), German Einsatzgruppe D official
• Radoslav Brdjanin (born 1948), Bosnian Serb sentenced to 32 years (30 following appeal)
• Fernand de Brinon (1885–1947), French collaborator and member of the Vichy government
• Josef Bühler (1904–1948), German Generalgouvernement official

C

• Pietro Caruso (1899–1944), Italian police chief of Rome
• Edith Cavell (1865–1915), abused the protection arising from medical status by helping PoWs escape, sentenced to death
• Mario Čerkez (born 1959), Bosnian Croat sentenced to 6 years
• Ranko Česić (born 1964), Bosnian Serb sentenced to 18 years for Brčko
• Paul Chack (1876–1945), French collaborator
• Carl Clauberg (1898–1957), medical doctor present at Auschwitz concentration camp

D

• Kurt Daluege (1897–1946), German ORPO and Protektorat official
• Theodor Dannecker (1913–1945), German SS deportation expert in France and Bulgaria
• Joseph Darnand (1897–1945), Vichy French chief of police
• Denice Delfau (died 1945), French collaborator
• Hazim Delić (born 1964), Bosnian Muslim sentenced to 18 years for Čelebići prison camp
• Albert Deutscher (died 1981), member of a Nazi paramilitary group
• Joseph Dietrich (1892–1966), personal bodyguard to Adolf Hitler and commander of Nazi security
• Otto Dietrich (1898–1957), personal Press Secretary to Adolf Hitler
• Kenji Doihara (1883–1948), Japanese general
• Anton Dostler (1891–1945), German General
• Damir Došen (born 1967), Bosnian Serb, sentenced to 5 years for Keraterm camp
• Sekula Drljević (1884–1945), Montenegrin Nazi collaborator

E

• Adolf Eichmann (1906–1962), German SS official
• August Eigruber (1907–1947), German Gauleiter of Oberdonau (Upper Danube) and Landeshauptmann of Upper Austria
• Franz Eirenschmalz (1879–1962), German WVHA official
• László Endre (1895–1946), Hungarian Minister of the Interior
• Franz von Epp (1882–1946), Bavarian politician
• Hans Eppinger (1879–1946), Austrian physician who performed medical experiments on prisoners in the Dachau concentration camp
• Dražen Erdemović (born 1972), Bosnian Croat who fought for Serb forces and was sentenced to 5 years for Pileca farm (part of Srebrenica massacre)

F

• Miroslav Filipović (1915–1946), Croatian Ustashi and administrator of the Jasenovac concentration camp

G

• Stanislav Galić, Bosnian Serb commander in Siege of Sarajevo. Sentenced to 20 years, appealed and had his sentence changed to life imprisonment
• Karl Gebhardt (died 1948), German SS chief clinician
• Karl Genzken (1895–1957), German SS medical officer
• Richard Glücks (1889–1945), German WVHA official
• Hermann Wilhelm Göring (1893–1946), Commander of the German Luftwaffe
• Amon Göth (1908–1946), Commandant at Nazi concentration camp at Płaszów, Poland
• Ulrich Greifelt (died 1949), German Main Office official
• Arthur Greiser (died 1946), German Gauleiter of Wartheland
• Irma Grese (1923–1945), German administrator of the Auschwitz concentration camp

H

• Franz Halder (1884–1972), German general and chief of Army General Staff
• Fritz Hartjenstein (1905–1954), German Auschwitz concentration camp administrator
• Emil Haussmann (died 1948), German major
• August Heissmeyer (1897–1979), German SS officer
• Konrad Henlein (1898–1945), German Gauleiter of Sudetenland
• Rudolf Hess (1894–1987), deputy Führer (leader) of Nazi Germany
• Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich (1904–1942), chief of the SD, the Gestapo, the SIPO & the RSHA and Acting Reichprotektor of Bohemia and Moravia until his assassination in June 1942.
• Friedrich Hildebrandt (1898–1948), German RuSHA chief and Higher SS and Police Leader of Danzig
• Richard Hildebrandt (1895–1945), German NSDAP Gauleiter of Franconia and SA Gruppenführer
• Oskar von Hindenburg (1883–1960), German commander of prisoner of war camps in East Prussia
• Hirota Koki (1878–1948), Japanese premier from 1936 to 1937
• August Hirt (1898–1945), German medical officer who ran the Struthof-Nazweiler laboratory
• Franz Hofer (1902–1975), German Gauleiter of the Tyrol and Vorarlberg
• Hermann Julius Höfle (1911–1962), German Higher SS and Police Leader in Slovakia
• Otto Hofmann (1896–1982), German RuSHA official
• Hans Hohberg (1898–1948), German WVHA official
• Karl Holz (1895–1945), German NSDAP Gauleiter of Franconia and SA Gruppenführer
• Homma Masaharu (1887–1946), Japanese general involved in the Bataan Death March
• Erich Hoppner (died 1944), German commander of 4th Panzer Army and Army Group North
• Rudolf Hoess (1900–1947), German Auschwitz concentration camp commander and deputy inspector of Nazi concentration camps
• Franz Hossler (died 1945), German Auschwitz concentration camp administrator
• Hermann Hoth (1885–1971), German commander of Panzer Group 3, Army Group Center, 17th Group Army and Army Group South
• Waldemar Hoven (1903–1948), German Buchenwald concentration camp doctor
• Saddam Hussein (1937–2006), President of Iraq, 1979–2003

I

• Sabawi Ibrahim, (died 2009) Iraqi Directorate of General Security
• Max Ilgner (1895–1957), German I.G. Farben official
• Béla Imrédy (1891–1946), Hungarian Prime Minister
• Seishirō Itagaki (1885–1948), Japanese War Minister

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J

• Andor Jarosz (died 1946), Hungarian interior minister
• Friedrich Jeckeln (died 1946), German SS officer and Police Leader of Ostland
• Goran Jelisić (born 1969), Bosnian Serb sentenced to 40 years for murders in Brčko. Personally killed 13 civilians
• Alfred Jodl (1890–1946), German commander of operations personnel
• Drago Josipović (born 1955), Bosnian Croat sentenced to 15, changed to 12 years following appeal
• Heinz Jost (died 1946), German Einsatzgruppe commander
• Hans Jüttner (1894–1965) commander of German SS's Main Leadership Office and Obergruppenführer.

K

• Ernst Kaltenbrunner (1903–1946) Chief of the SD, the SiPo & the RSHA after Reinhard Heydrich's assassination. Highest-ranking Nazi official to stand trial at Nuremberg. Executed by hanging.
• Omar Khadr, Canadian convicted for murder and supporting terrorism
• Dietrich Klagges (1891–1971), German politician and premier (Ministerpräsident) of Braunschweig
• Fritz Knoechlein (1911–1949), SS Obersturmbannführer, convicted and executed for war crimes (Le Paradis massacre)
• Ilse Koch (1906–1967), German female officer at Buchenwald and Sachsenhausen concentration camps
• Dragan Kolundžija (born 1959), Bosnian Serb, sentenced to 3 years for Keraterm camp
• Dario Kordić (born 1960), Bosnian Croat, sentenced to 25 years
• Milojica Kos, Bosnian Serb, sentenced to 6 years for Omarska camp
• Radomir Kovač (born 1961), Bosnian Serb sentenced to 20 years
• Momčilo Krajišnik, Bosnian Serb politician, sentenced to 27 years
• Milorad Krnojelac, Bosnian Serb sentenced to 7,5 years for Foča massacres. Following appeal, his sentence was raised to 15 years
• Radislav Krstić, Bosnian Serb sentenced to 46 years (35 following appeal) for his part in the Srebrenica massacre, also found guilty of being an accomplice to genocide, first such ruling at ICTY
• Alfred Krupp {1907–1967} German Steel/Arms maker; Involved in slave labor
• Dragoljub Kunarac (born 1960), Bosnian Serb sentenced to 28 years
• Franz Kutschera (1904–1944), German SS general and Gauleiter of Carinthia.
• Miroslav Kvocka, Bosnian Serb, sentenced to 7 years for Omarska camp

L

• Esad Landžo, Bosnian Muslim sentenced to 15 years for Čelebići prison camp
• Hartmann Lauterbacher (1909–1988) German Gauleiter of the Gau of South Hanover-Braunschweig, SS Gruppenführer Leader and high area leader (Obergebietsführer) of the Hitler Youth.
• Hinrich Lohse (1896–1964), German politician
• Werner Lorenz (1891–1974), German head of Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle (Repatriation Office for Ethnic Germans) and an SS Obergruppenführer.

M

• Harry 'Breaker' Harbord Morant (1864 – 27 February 1902) convicted and executed for illegal summary executions of Boer and other prisoners during the Second Boer War.
• Ali Hassan al-Majid, (1941–2010) Iraqi Baathist Defense Minister, executed for war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide
• Abid Hamid Mahmud, (died 2010) Iraqi military officer
• Milan Martić (born 1954), President and defence minister of Croatian Serbs during Croatian War of Independence, sentenced to 35 years
• Vinko Martinović (born 1963), Bosnian Croat sentenced to 18 years
• Josef Mengele (1911-19??) SS Officer and Camp doctor at the Auschwitz Death camp, notorious for his medical experiments; called "the angel of death".
• Mile Mrkšić (born 1947), Serb General convicted to 20 years for the Vukovar massacre
• Zdravko Mucić, Bosnian Croat sentenced to 9 years for Čelebići prison camp

N

• Mladen Naletilić Tuta (born 1946), Bosnian Croat sentenced to 20 years
• Erich Naumann (died 1951), German Einsatzgruppe B commander
• Hermann Neubacher (died 1960), German supported mayor of Vienna and Southeast Economic Plenipotentiary
• Konstantin von Neurath (1873–1956), German Foreign Minister and Reichsprotektor
• Dragan Nikolić, Bosnian Serb sentenced to 23 years
• Gustav Noske (1868–1946), German defence minister
• Aziz Saleh Nuhmah, Iraqi governor of Kuwait during occupation

O

• Otto Ohlendorf (died 1951), German Einsatzgruppe D commander
• Hiroshi Ōshima (1886–1975), Japanese ambassador to Germany

P

• Friedrich Panzinger (died 1959), German RSHA official
• Franz von Papen (1879–1969), German diplomat and deputy chancellor
• Joachim Peiper (1915–1976) SS-Standartenführer, 1st SS Panzer Division, Leibstandarte-SS Adolf Hitler, held responsible for the Malmedy massacre during the Malmedy massacre trial
• Philippe Pétain (1856–1951), Marshal of France and head of the collaborative Vichy France, sentenced to death first, then life imprisonment
• Biljana Plavšić (born 1930), Bosnian Serb politician and former president of the Republika Srpska. Sentenced to 11 years
• Paul Pleiger (1899–1985), German state adviser and corporate general director, sentenced to 15 years
• Oswald Pohl (died 1951), German WVHA official
• Dragoljub Pricac, Bosnian Serb, sentenced to 5 years for Omarska camp

R

• Mlado Radić, Bosnian Serb, sentenced to 20 years for Omarska camp
• Erich Raeder (1876–1960), German grand admiral, sentenced to life imprisonment, later released
• Friedrich Rainer (1903–1947?), German Gauleiter and an Austrian Landeshauptmann of Salzburg and Carinthia, sentenced to death
• Ivica Rajić (born 1958), Bosnian Croat sentenced to 12 years
• Taha Yassin Ramadan (1938–2007), Iraqi Vice President, 1991–2003, sentenced to life imprisonment, appealed to death
• Hanns Albin Rauter (died 1949), German Higher SS and Police Leader in Holland, sentenced to death
• Hermann Reinecke (1888–1973), German OKW official, sentenced to life imprisonment, later released
• Hans Conrad Julius Reiter (1881–1969), German SS officer and involved in medical experiments at the Buchenwald concentration camp, sentenced
• Lothar Rendulic (1887–1971), German commander of 52nd Infantry Division, sentenced to 20 years (later 10)
• Joachim von Ribbentrop (1893–1946), German foreign minister, sentenced to death
• Henrick Rogstad (died 1945), Norwegian collaborator and SS security police chief
• Karl von Roques (died 1949), German Rear Area Army Group South commander
• Alfred Ernst Rosenberg (1893–1946), German east minister, sentenced to death
• Abdullah Kadhem Ruaid, (?) Iraqi Baathist official, sentenced to 15 years
• Mizhar Abdullah Ruaid, (1949–present) Iraqi Baathist official, sentenced to 15 years
• rajapaksa, (2005–present) srilanka president

S

• Dinko Šakić (1921–2008), a convicted Croatian war criminal and commander of the Jasenovac concentration camp during World War II.
• Vladimir Šantić (born 1958), Bosnian Croat sentenced to 25, changed to 18 years following appeal
• Fritz Sauckel (1894–1946), German Labor Plenipotentiary official
• Anthony Sawoniuk (1921–2005), Belarusian collaborator
• Hjalmar Schacht (1877–1970), German Reichsbank official
• Gustav Adolf Scheel (1907–1979), German physician and Nazi deportation officer
• Walter Schellenberg (died 1952), German RSHA official
• Baldur von Schirach (1907–1974), German Vienna Reichsstatthalter
• Franz Schlegelberger (1876–1970), German State Secretary in the Reich Ministry of Justice (RMJ) and later Justice Minister
• Heinrich Schwarz (1906–1947), German administrator of the Auschwitz III Monowitz concentration camp
• Siegfried Seidl (1911–1947), German administrator of the Theresienstadt concentration camp
• Artur Seyss-Inquart (1892–1946), Austrian government official, collaborator and High Commissioner of the Netherlands
• Mamoru Shigemitsu (1887–1957), Japanese foreign minister
• Wolfram Sievers (died 1948), German Ahnenerbe official
• Duško Sikirica (born 1964), Bosnian Serb, sentenced to 15 years for Keraterm camp
• Blagoje Simić (born 1960), Bosnian Serb sentenced to 17 years for Bosanski Šamac
• Milan Šimić (born 1960), Bosnian Serb sentenced to 5 years
• Veselin Šljivančanin, Serb Colonel convicted to 5 years for the Vukovar massacre
• Albert Speer (1905–1981), German armament and munitions minister
• Franz Walter Stahlecker (died 1942), German Foreign Office official
• Milomir Stakić (born 1962), Bosnian Serb sentenced to life imprisonment for war crimes in Prijedor and nearby concentration camps
• Franz Stangl (1908–1971) German SS officer and administrator of the Sobibór and of the Treblinka concentration camps.
• Otto Steinbrinck (1888–1949), German industrialist and member of the SS
• Julius Streicher (1885–1946), German journalist and editor of the Der Stürmer
• Jürgen Stroop (died 1951), German SS and Police leader in Warsaw
• Pavle Strugar (born 1933), Serb general in the Siege of Dubrovnik. Sentenced to 8 years
• Wilhelm Stuckart (died 1953), German Interior Ministry official
• Otto von Stulpnagel (died 1948), German military commander of Nazi-occupied France
• Ferenc Szálasi (1897–1946), Hungarian head of state
• Dome Sztojay (died 1946), Hungarian prime minister

T

• Duško Tadić, Bosnian Serb sentenced to 25 years
• Miroslav Tadić (born 1937), Bosnian Serb sentenced to 8 years for Bosanski Šamac
• Charles Taylor, 22nd President of Liberia, guilty on 11 counts of "aiding and abetting" war crimes and crimes against humanity
• Josef Terboven (1898–1945), German Nazi commissioner of Norway
• Eberhard von Thadden (1906–1947), German foreign office official
• Otto Thierack (1889–1946), German justice minister
• Fritz Thyssen (1873–1951), German industrialist
• Stevan Todorović, Bosnian Serb sentenced to 10 years for Bosanski Šamac
• Hideki Tōjō (1884–1948), Japanese prime minister
• Barzan Ibrahim Al-Tikriti (1951–2007), Iraqi head of Mukhabarat, sentenced to death
• Watban Ibrahim Al-Tikriti, (died 2009), Former Iraqi interior minister

U

• Siegfried Uiberreither (1908–1984?/1986?), German Gauleiter in Styria, Austria

V

• Mitar Vasiljević, Bosnian Serb sentenced to 20 years, later lowered to 15 years for war crimes in Višegrad
• Zoran Vuković (born 1955), Bosnian Serb sentenced to 12 years

W

• Gerhard Wagner (1888–1939), German Reich Doctors' Leader (Reichsärzteführer)
• Robert Wagner (1895–1946), German Chief of Civil Administration in Alsace and Reichsstatthalter of Baden
• Edward Waiter (died 1945), German administrator of the Dachau concentration camp
• Fritz Walther (died 1946), German railroad official
• Walter Warlimont (1894–1976), German OKW official
• Maximilian von Weichs (1881–1954), German general
• Henry Wirz (1822–1865), Confederate administrator of the Andersonville Camp
• Max Winkler (1875–1961), German Main Trusteeship Office East official
• Dieter Wisliceny (died 1948), German SS deportation expert in Greece, Slovakia and Hungary
• Karl Wolff (1900–1984), Heinrich Himmler Chief of Staff

Y

• Tomoyuki Yamashita (1885–1946), Japanese general his conviction resulted in establishing a new doctrine regarding criminal culpability for the involvement of chain of command in war crimes: Yamashita standard.

Z

• Simo Zarić (born 1948), Bosnian Serb sentenced to 6 years for Bosanski Šamac
• Zoran Žigić, Bosnian Serb, sentenced to 25 years for Omarska camp

Notes

Yugoslav Wars

After the Yugoslav Wars, an international Court was formed to try war criminals (ICTY). However, ICTY tried only a selected number of high-ranking people (a total of 161), with local Courts (in Bosnia, Croatia and Serbia) starting trials mostly against individuals or soldiers who carried out orders of those high-ranking officers. Many of those have been convicted.

Croatia raised charges against 3666 people for war crimes, of which 1381 were dropped due to lack of evidence.

References

• Glueck, Sheldon. War Criminals: Their Prosecution and Punishment. New York: Kraus Reprint Corporation, 1966.
• Minear, Richard H. Victors' Justice: The Tokyo War Crimes Trial. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1971.
• Taylor, Telford. Nuremberg and Vietnam: an American Tragedy. Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1970.