List of war criminals

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This is a list of formerly charged and/or convicted war criminals as according to the conduct and rules of warfare as defined by the Nurnberg Trials following World War II as well as earlier agreements such as 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

Contents

1 A
2 B
3 C
4 D
5 E
6 F
7 G
8 H
9 I
10 J
11 K
12 L
13 M
14 N
15 O
16 P
17 R
18 S
19 T
20 U
21 V
22 W
23 Y
24 Z

A

Heinrich Otto Abetz (1903-1958), German ambassador to France
Jean-Marie Charles Abrial (1879-1962), French admiral
Jean Akayesu (b. 1953), Rwandan Mouvement Démocratique Républicain politician and mayor (bourgmestre) of Taba commune
Muto Akira (1883-1948), Japanese army commander and member of the General High Staff
Josef Altsotter, German Justice Ministry official
Otto Ambros, German government official
Ion Antonescu (1882-1946), Romanian marshal
Mihai Antonescu (1907-1946) , Romanian government official
Andrija Artukovik (1900-), Croatian minister of Justice and Internal Affairs

B

Erich von dem Bach (1899-1972), German official and SS officer
Herbert Backe (1896-1947), German Acting Food Minister
Richard Baer (1911-1963), first commander of Auschwitz concentration camp
Hans Baier, German WVHA official
Lazlo Baky, (d. 1946), Hungarian Interior Ministry official
Klaus Barbie (1913-1991), German Gestapo officer
Laszlo Bardossy (1890-1946), Hungarian Prime Minister
Adolf Heinz Beckerle, German ambassador to Bulgaria and Police President of Frankfurt
Friedrich Berger, German Gestapo intelligence officer
Gottlob Berger (1897-1975), German SS official
Robert H. Best, American collaberator and propaganda broadcaster.
Werner Best (1903-1989), German Plenipotentiary of Denmark
Ernst Biberstein, German Einsatzgruppe C official
Hans Biebow (1902-1947), chief of German Administration of the Łódź Ghetto
Johannes Blaskowitz (1883-1948), German field marshal accused of murdering civilians and prisoners of war in Poland
Paul Blobel (1894-1951), German Einsatzgruppe C official
Kurt Blome, German Party Main Office official
Walter Blume, German Einsatzgruppe B official
Hans Bobermin, German WVHA official
Wilhelm Bolger (b. 1907), German Auschwitz intelligence officer
Franz Bohme (1885-1947), German military commander in Serbia
Martin Ludwig Bormann (1900-c. 1945), German Party Chancellor
Herbert Bottcher (d. 1950), German SS and Police Leader in Radom, Poland
Philipp Bouhler (1899-1945), German Fuhrer Chancellory official
Viktor Brack (1904-1948), German Fuhrer 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
Karl Brandt (1904-1948), German Plenipotentiary for Health official
Rudolf Brandt (1909-1948), secretary of Heinrich Himmler
Heinrich Alfred Hermann Walter von Brauchitsch (1881-1948), German Commander-in-Chief of the Army
Werner Braune (d. 1951), German Einsatzgruppe D official
Hermine Braunsteiner-Ryan, German Majdanek Prison guard
Fernand de Brinion (d. 1947), French collaberator and member of the Vichy government
Alouis Brunner (d. 1951), German SS deportation expert in France, Salonika and Slovakia
Karl Bruno (b. 1911), Yugoslavian collaberator and Belgrade merchant who accepted the store of a deported Jewish owner
Yuri Budanov, Russian officer convicted of war crimes against civilian population in Chechnya
Joseph Buhler (d. 1948), German Generalgouvernement official
Heinrich Bunke, German doctor involved in the euthanasia of handicapped in 1940-1941
Heinrich Butefisch (b. 1907), German I.G. Farben official

C

William Calley (b. 1943), United States officer responsible for the My Lai Massacre
Corneliu Calotescu, Romanian Governor of Bukovina
Pierto Caruso (d. 1944), Italian police chief of Rome
Josef Catlos, Slovakian war minister
Paul Chack (1876-1945), French collaberator
Dmitri Christov, Bulgarian interor minister
Carl Clauberg (1898-1957), medical doctor present at Auschwitz concentration camp
Karl Clodius, German economist
Granville Cubage, American POW serviceman

D

Kurt Daluege (1897-1946), German ORPO and Protektorat official
Theodor Dannecker (1913-1944), German SS deportation expert in France and Bulgaria
Joseph Darnand (1897-1945), Vichy French chief of police
Denice Delfau (d. 1945), French collaberator
John Demjanjuk (Ivan Denjanjuk) (1921-), officier in Treblinka concentration camp
Karlis Detlavs, Latvian collaberator and deportation of the Latvian Jewish population
Albert Deutscher (d. 1981), member of a Nazi paramilitary group
Joseph Dietrich, (Sepp Dietrich) (b. 1893) personal bodyguard to Adolf Hitler and commander of Nazi security
Otto Dietrich (1898-1957), personal Press Secretary to Adolf Hitler
Doihara Kenji (d. 1948), Japanese general
Karl Dönitz, German minister of war and successor to Adolf Hitler
Anton Dostler (d. 1945), German General
Walter Durrfeld, official in Auschwitz concentration camp.

E

Karl 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
Lazlo Endre (d. 1946), Hungarian Minister of the Interior
Lynndie England (b. 1982), United States soldier convicted in the Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse scandal
Leonard Ennis, American POW serviceman
Franz von Epp (1882-1946), Bavarian politician
Hans Eppinger (1879–1946), Austrian physician who performed medical experiments on prisoners in the Dachau concentration camp

F

Miroslav Filipović (1915-1946), Yugoslavian collaberator and adminnistrator of the Jasenovac concentration camp

G

Jean-Baptiste Gatete (b. 1953), Rwandan politician responsible for the Rwandan Genocide
Karl Gephardt (d. 1948), German SS chief clinician
Karl Genzken (1895-1957), German SS medical officer
Odilo Globocnik (1904-1945), Polish collaberator, SS officer and Police Leader of Lublin
Richard Glucks (1889-1945), German WVHA official
Josef Goebbels [Gobbels] (1897-1945), German Minister of Propaganda
Hermann Goring (1893-1946), Commander of the German SS
Peter Grabowsky, Bulgarian Minister of the Interior
Charles Graner (b. 1968), United States soldier convicted in the Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse scandal
Ernst Grawitz (d. 1945), German SS Reich physican
Ulrich Greifelt (d. 1949), German Main Office official
Artur Greiser (d. 1946), German Gauleiter of Wartheland
Irma Grese (1923-1945), German administrator of the Auschwitz consentration camp
Rolf Gunther, German RHSA official

H

Emil Hacha (1872-1945), German jurist and president of Czechoslovakia
Walter Haensch, German Einsatzegruppe C official
Franz Halder (1884-1972), German general and chief of Army General Staff
Siefred Handloser, German Armed Forces Medical Service chief
Fritz Hartjenstein (1905-1954), German Auschwitz concentration camp administrator
Emil Haussmann (d. 1948), German major
Vilis Hazners, Latvian collaberator charged with wartime police atrocities
Josef Heissmayer, German head of Ubergestapo
August Heissmeyer (1897-1979), German SS officer
Konrad Henlein (1898–1945), German Gauleiter of Sudetenland
Rudolf Hess (1884–1987), German deputy Führer (leader) of Nazi Germany
Reinhardt Tristan Eugene Heydrich (1904-1942), German RHSA official and Reichprotektor
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
Heinrich Himmler (1900–1945), commander of the German SS and Gestapo
Oskar von Hindenburg (1883-1960), German commander of prisoner of war camps in East Prussia
Hirota Koki (1878-1948), Japanese premier from 1936-1937
August Hirt (d. 1945), German medical officer who ran the Struthof-Nazweiler laboratory
Franz Hofer (1902-1975), German Gauleiter of the Tyrol and Vorarlberg
Heinrich Hoffman, photographer of Adolf Hitler
Hans Hofle, German SS and Police Leader in Lublin
Hermann Hofle (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 (d. 1944), German commander of 4th Panzer Army and Army Group North
Rudolf Francis Ferdinand Hoss (1900-1947), German Auschwitz concentration camp commander and deputy inspector of Nazi concentration camps
Franz Hossler (d. 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
Eduard Houdremont, German Krupp Essen official
Waldemar Hoven (1903-1948), German Buchenwald concentration camp doctor
Otto Hunsche, German RHSA official

I

Max Otto Ihn, German Krupp personnel officer
Max Ilgner (1895-1957), German I.G. Farban official
Bela Imredy (1891-1946), German economic minister
Shiro Ishii (1889-1945), Japanese medical officer and administrator of the chemical warfare and prisoner of war camps in Pingfan, Manchuria
Modest Isopescu, Romanian Transnsitrian official
Seishiro Itagaki (1885-1948), Japanese War Minister

J

Andor Jarosz (d. 1946), Hungarian interior minister
Freidrich Jeckeln (d. 1946), German SS officer and Police Leader of Ostland
Goran Jelisić (b. 1968), Serbian army officer
Alfred Jodl (1890-1946), German commander of operations personnel
Heinz Jost (d. 1946), German Einsatzegruppe commander
William Joyce (1906-1946), British collaberator and acted as Nazi propaganda brodcaster known as "Lord Haw-Haw"
Hans Jüttner (1894-1965) commander of German SS's Main Leadership Office and Obergruppenführer.

K

Félicien Kabuga (b. 1935), Rwandan businessman and participatant of the Rwandan Genocide
Jean Kambanda (b. 1955), Rwandan prime minister and participant in the Rwandan Genocide
Clément Kayishema (b. 1954), Rwandan politician and participant in the Rwandan Genocide
Dietrich Klagges (b. 1891), German politician and premier (Ministerpräsident) of Braunschweig
Ilse Koch (1906–1967), German female officer at Buchenwald and Sachsenhausen concentration camps
Johnny Paul Koromah (b. 1960), Sierra Leone Army officer and participant in the attempted 1996 coup against President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah government.
Momčilo Krajišnik, Bosnian Serb politician and participant of war crimes against civilian population of former Yugoslavia
Franz Kutschera (1904-1944), German SS general and Gauleiter of Carinthia.

L

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.
Maks Luburić (1911-1969), Yugoslavian (Croatian) collaberator and commander of the Jasenovac concentration camp

M

Dragomir Milošević (b. 1942), commander of the Sarajevo-Romanija Corps of the Bosnian Serb Army who committed attrocities against the local population of Sarajevo during War in Bosnia
Slobodan Milošević (1941-2006), former President of Yugoslavia, was on trial for war crimes at the time of his death.
Milan Milutinović (b. 1942), Serbian president and supporter of Slobodan Milošević
Salomon Morel (b. 1919), Polish collaberator and commandant of the Soviet Zgoda labor camp
Alfred Musema (b. 1949), Rwandan businessman who participated in the Rwandan Genocide

N

Erich Naumann (d. 1951), German Einsatzgruppe B commander
Samuel Ndashyikirwa, Rwandan businessman and a participant in the Rwandan genocide
Milan Nedic (1878-1946), Serbian head of state
Hermann Neubacher (d. 1960), German supported mayor of Vienna and Southeast Economic Plenipotentiary
Konstantin von Naurath (1873-1956), German Foreign Minister and Reichsprotektor
Mirko Norac (b. 1967), Croatian Army general and commander of forces involved during the Gospic massacre
Gustav Noske (1868-1946), German defence minister
Frank Novak, German RSHA official
Étienne Nzabonimana (b. 1950), Rwandan businessman and participant in the Rwandan genocide

O

Karl Albrecht Oberg, German SS officer and Police Leader in Galacia and France
Otto Ohlendorff (d. 1951), German Einsatzgruppe D commander
Shunei Okawa, Japanese railroad agent in Manchuria
Hiroshi Oshima (1886-1975), Japanese ambassador to Germany
Adolf Ott, German Einsatzegruppe B official

P

Ante Pavelić (1889–1959), dictator of the Independent State of Croatia and founding member of the Ustasha movement
Biljana Plavšić (b. 1930), is a Serbian politician and former president of the Republika Srpska
Paul Pleiger (1899-1985), German state adviser and corporate general director
Pol Pot (1925-1998) Prime minister of Cambodia and of the Khmer Rouge from 1975-1979.
Hans-Adolf Prützmann (1901-1945) German (Superior) SS officer, SS Obergruppenführer and Police Leader

R

Karl Rademacher , German Foreign Office official
Waldemar von Radetzky , German Einsatzgruppe B official
Erich Raeder (1876-1960), German grand admiral
Friedrich Rainer (1903-1947?), German Gauleiter and an Austrian Landeshauptmann of Salzburg and Carinthia
Otto Rasch , German Einsatzgruppe commander
Karl Rasche, German Dresdner Bank official
Sigmund Racher, German medical officer involved in medical experiments in the Dachau concentration camp
Hans Albin Rauter (d. 1949), German Higher SS and Police Leader in Holland
Hermann Reinecke (1888-1973), German OKW official
Hans Reinhardt, German commander of Panzer Group 3, Army Group Center and 3rd Panzer Army
Hans Reiter (1881-1969), German SS officer and involved in medical experiments at the Buchenwald concentration camp
Lothar Rendulic (1887-1971), German commander of 52nd Infantry Division
Joachim von Ribbentrop (1893-1946), German foreign minister
Karl Ritter, German foreign office official
Mario Roatta, Italian chief of staff and head of the secret police
Henrick Rogstad (d. 1945), Norwegian collaborator and SS security police chief
Karl von Roques (d. 1949), German Rear Area Army Group South commander
Gerhard Rose, German official to the [[Robert Koch/Division of Tropical Medicine
Wilhelm Rosenbaum, German SS officer
Alfred Rosenberg (1893-1946), German east minister
Oswald Rothaug, German judiciary official
Curt Rothenburger, German justice ministry official
Heinz Rothke, German SS deportation expert in France
Felix Ruehl, German Einsatzgruppe D official
Obed Ruzindana, Rwandan businessman involved in the Rwandan Genocide
Risto Ryti (1889-1956), Finnish collaborator and premier

S

Dinko Šakić, Yugoslavian collaberator, Croat government official of Independent State of Croatia (NDH) and former administrator of the Jasenovac concentration camp.
Anthony Sawoniuk (1921-2005), Polish collaberator
Gustav Adolf Scheel (1907-1979), German physician and Nazi deportation officer
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
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

T

Takejiro Onishi, (d. c. 1945), Japanese vice admiral who created the Kamikaze suicide attacks
Viano Tanner (Alfred Tanner) (1881-1996), Finland finance minister
Fritz Ter Meer, German I.G. Farben official
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
Max Thomas, German BdS official in Ukraine
Fritz Thyssen (1873–1951), German inductrialist
Tihomir Blaškić (b. 1960), Bosnian Croat army officer
Jozef Tiso (1887-1947), Slovakian president
Hideki Tojo, (1884-1948), Japanese prime minister
Tokuda Hisakichi, Japanese Shingawa Prison medical officer
Valerian Trifa, Romanian collaberator involved in atrocities in Bucharest and later Bishop in the Romanian Orthodox Church
Erwin Tschentscher, German WVHA official
Vojtech Tuka (1880-1946), Slovakian prime minister
Harald Turner, Serbian military governor official

U

Siegfried Uiberreither (1908-1984?/1986?), German Gauleiter in Styria, Austria
Aquilin Ulrich, German doctor involved in Nazi euthanasia of handicaped in 1940-1941

V

Xaiver Vallat, French collaberator and anti-Jewish commissioner
Andrei Vishinksky, Soviet administrator of occupied Latvia and later USSR chief delegate to the United Nations
Leo Volk, German WVHA official

W

Wada Shusuke, Japanese translator convicted of mistreating prisoners of war, of which 450 out of 1,690 survived, while onboard a Japanese troop ship
Gerhard Wagner (1888-1939), German Reich Doctors' Leader (Reichsärzteführer)
Horst Wagner, German Foreign Office official
Robert Wagner (1895-1946), German Chief of Civil Administration in Alsace and Reichsstatthalter of Baden
Edward Waiter (d. 1945), German administrator of the Dachau concentration camp
Kurt Waldheim (b. 1918), Austrian army lietenant and former United Nations Secretary General
Fritz Walther (d. 1946), German railroad official
Frank Walus, American soldier
Walter Warlimont (1894-1976), German OKW official
Maximilian von Weichs (1881-1954), German general
Henry Wirz (1822-1865), Confederate administrator of the Andersonville Camp
Fritz Weiedemann, German Council-General and Nazi spy
Ernst von Weizsacker, German Foreign Office official
Gustav Wilhaus, German officer in the Janovsky consentration camp
Max Winkler (1875-1961), German Main Trusteeship Office East official
Dieter Wiesliceny (d. 1948), German SS deportation expert in Greece, Slovakia and Hungary
Otto Wohler, German 11th Army officer
Karl Wolff (1900-1984), Heinrich Himmler Chief of Staff
Ernst Wormann, German Foreign Office official
Karl Wuster, German I.G. Farben official

Y

Tomoyuki Yamashita (1885–1946), Japanese general

Z

Andrei Zhdanov (1896-1948), Soviet administrator of occupied Estonia
Walter Zirpins, German Police Leader of Lodz and later Hannover Polizedirecktor official

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