Defendants in the dock and their lawyers during the trial
The Hostages Trial (or, officially, The United States of America v. Wilhelm List, et al.) was held from
8 July 1947 until 19 February 1948 and was the seventh of the twelve trials for war crimes that United States authorities held in their occupation zone in Germany in Nuremberg after the end of World War II. These twelve trials were all held before US military courts, not before the International Military Tribunal, but took place in the same rooms at the Palace of Justice. The twelve US trials are collectively known as the "Subsequent Nuremberg Trials" or, more formally, as the "Trials of War Criminals before the Nuremberg Military Tribunals" (NMT).
This case is also known as the "Southeast Case" because all of the defendants had once been German generals leading the troops in Southeastern Europe during the Balkans Campaign, i.e. in Greece, Albania and Yugoslavia; and they were charged with ordering the hostage-taking of civilians and wanton shootings of these hostages, the reprisal killings of civilians, and the killing without trial of captured "partisans", as perpetrated by German troops there in the years in 1941 and later. The defendant Lothar Rendulic was further charged in respect of the 'scorched earth' total destruction of all towns, settlements and civil infrastructure in the Norwegian county of Finnmark in the winter of 1944.
The judges in this case, heard before Military Tribunal V, were Charles F. Wennerstrum (presiding judge) from Iowa, George J. Burke from Michigan, and Edward F. Carter from Nebraska. The Chief of Counsel for the Prosecution was Telford Taylor, the chief prosecutor for this case was Theodore Fenstermacher. The indictment was filed on May 10, 1947; the trial lasted from July 8, 1947, until February 19, 1948. Of the 12 defendants indicted, Franz Böhme committed suicide before the arraignment, and Maximilian von Weichs was severed from the trial for medical reasons. Of the remaining ten defendants, two were acquitted; the others received prison sentences ranging from seven years to lifetime imprisonment.
The HostagesTrial (or, officially, The United States of America v. Wilhelm List, et al.) was held from 8 July 1947 until 19 February 1948 and was the...
reprisal killing of Serbian hostages in Yugoslavia. List was tried in front of a U.S. military court in the HostagesTrial, convicted and sentenced to...
The subsequent Nuremberg trials (also Nuremberg Military Tribunals; 1946–1949) were twelve military tribunals for war crimes committed by the leaders of...
Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach – Medically unfit for trial. Robert Ley – Committed suicide before his trial began. Konstantin von Neurath – Guilty, sentenced...
Iranian Army), took over the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and took them as hostages. The hostages were held for 444 days, from November 4, 1979 to their release on...
Nuremberg Trials, Weichs was implicated in war crimes committed in the Balkans, and was scheduled to take part in the US Army's HostagesTrial. He was removed...
the Iron Cross of Nazi Germany. Foertsch was tried at the HostagesTrial in 1947. The trial resulted in Foertsch's acquittal because he was a staff officer...
Lapland War, he was convicted of killing hostages in Yugoslavia at the HostagesTrial and imprisoned. After his release in 1951 he took up writing. Rendulic...
"Shooting: 405 hostages in Belgrade (total up to now in Belgrade, 4,750). 90 Communists in Camp Sebac. 2,300 hostages in Kragujevac. 1,700 hostages in Kraljevo...
people were injured. The attackers took approximately 1,100 hostages. The number of hostages was initially downplayed by the government to the 200–400 range...
Kragujevac massacre. These shootings were punished as war crimes during the Hostagestrial. Longerich, Peter (2012). Holocaust: The Nazi Persecution and Murder...
high-ranking Luftwaffe officer, Felmy was tried and convicted in the 1948 HostagesTrial. Born Walter Hellmuth Wolfgang Felmÿ on 28 May 1885 in Berlin to Otto...
for guerrilla attacks was common, with directives to execute 50 to 100 hostages for each German casualty; only four days before Lanz assumed command, men...
Croatian government in determining its frontiers." In its judgement in the HostagesTrial, the Nuremberg Military Tribunal concluded that NDH was not a sovereign...
July 2013. "The hostagestrial, trial of Wilhelm List and others: Notes", United Nations War Crimes Commission. Law Reports of Trials of War Criminals...
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sentences. The same sentences were handed down in the second trial but after the final trial only Keramat Daneshian and Khosrow Golsorkhi were executed...
labor and deporting civilians. In the Hostages case, several generals were tried for executing thousands of hostages and prisoners of war, looting, using...
and brought to trial, as they already had fled into Albania. At the HostagesTrial in Nuremberg (1948), the American judges reached the decision that the...
of the Iron Cross. In 1948 he was found guilty of war crimes at the HostagesTrial and was sentenced to 7 years imprisonment, but was released in 1951...
in the Balkans and sentenced to ten years of imprisonment during the HostagesTrial; his sentence was commuted to time served and he was released in 1951...
Several hostages were placed on the phone, and they informed the police the gunmen were going to begin executing hostages. Hey, listen, I'm a hostage ......
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