List of Axis war crime trials

The following is a list of war crime trials and tribunals brought against the Axis powers following the conclusion of World War II.

• Nazi Germany
  • Nuremberg Trials of the 23 most important leaders of the Third Reich, 1945–1946
    • Subsequent Nuremberg Trials
  • Dachau Trials held within the walls of the former Dachau concentration camp, 1945–1948
  • Auschwitz Trial held in Kraków, Poland in 1947 against 40 SS-staff of the Auschwitz concentration camp death factory
  • Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials
  • 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
• Empire of Japan
  • International Military Tribunal for the Far East
  • Nanjing War Crimes Tribunal (Tribunal created by the government of Chiang Kai-Shek for crimes committed in China)
  • Manila Tribunal (American military tribunal where were judged Tomoyuki Yamashita and Masaharu Homma)
  • Yokohama War Crimes Trials, tried by the US Military Commission at Yokohama 1945-1949^[1]
  • Khabarovsk War Crime Trials
• Other
  • Romanian People's Tribunals
  • War-responsibility trials in Finland
  • Hungarian People's Tribunals
  • People's Tribunals in Czechoslovakia
  • Bulgarian People's Tribunals
  • Austrian People's Tribunals (Volksgericht)

Notes

1. Lee, Stella. “Yokohama War Crimes Trials.” WWII Pacific Theater. U.C. Berkeley War Crimes Studies Center. 17 Nov. 2008

External links

• Axis History Factbook: War Crimes Trials