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 (and one prisoner) 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 (Allied tribunal held in Tokyo for leaders of the Empire of Japan)
Nanjing War Crimes Tribunal (Tribunal created by the Republic of China for crimes committed in the Chinese theatre)
Shenyang and Taiyuan Special Military Tribunal (created by People's Republic of China for crimes committed in the Chinese theatre)
French Permanent Military Tribunal in Saigon (French military tribunal which investigated war crimes committed in French Indochina after the Japanese coup d'état in French Indochina.)
Philippine War Crimes Commission (American military tribunal in charge of the war crimes trials of Tomoyuki Yamashita and Masaharu Homma)
Yokohama War Crimes Trials, tried by the US Military Commission at Yokohama 1945–1949[1]
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
Comparative table
Axis member
Total convicted
Executed
Germany[2]
5,025 (by the Western Allies) ~10,000 (by the Soviet Union)
486+
Japan[3]
>4,400
927
Bulgaria[4]
2,618 (death sentences only)
1,576
Hungary[5]
~27,000
189
Slovakia[6]
65 (death sentences only)
27
Romania[7]
Hundreds
4
^Lee, Stella. "Yokohama War Crimes Trials." WWII Pacific Theater. U.C. Berkeley War Crimes Studies Center. 17 Nov. 2008
^James Larry Taulbee, ABC-CLIO, Jun 30, 2009, International Crime and Punishment, p. 79
^Ronald Eyerman, Jeffrey C. Alexander, Elizabeth Butler Breese, Routledge, Oct 23, 2015, Narrating Trauma: On the Impact of Collective Suffering, p. 47
^Benjamin Frommer, Cambridge University Press, 2005, National Cleansing: Retribution Against Nazi Collaborators in Postwar Czechoslovakia, p. 91
^Stefano Bottoni, Indiana University Press, Oct 19, 2017, Long Awaited West: Eastern Europe since 1944, pp. 22-23
^Benjamin Frommer, Cambridge University Press, 2005, National Cleansing: Retribution Against Nazi Collaborators in Postwar Czechoslovakia, p. 91
^Baumel Judith Tydor Laqueur Walter, Walter Laqueur, Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz, Yale University Press, Jan 1, 2001, The Holocaust Encyclopedia, p. 580
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