Sepp Dietrich1945
Sentenced to 25 years imprisonment, serves 10 years
Germany · Warfare / World War, 2nd. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.
Sentenced to 25 years imprisonment, serves 10 years
Highest surviving SS-leader, Chief of RSHA, the central Nazi intelligence organ, commanded many of the Einsatzgruppen and several concentration camps, sentenced to death
Head of Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (OKW), sentenced to death
Acquitted of all charges
Given life imprisonment but released in 1955
In a deposition estimates that 3,000,000 died under his command at Auschwitz. In a deposition estimates at least 2,500,000 victims were executed and exterminate
Tried at the Nuremberg war crimes trial
Acquited at the Nuremberg war crimes trials
Swallows poison hours before his scheduled execution
Sentenced to 10 yrs imprisonment, released 30 September 1956. D”nitz is found guilty of breaching the 1936 Second London Naval Treaty, but his sentence was not assessed on the ground of his breaches of the international law of submarine warfare
Sentenced to death, ruler of the General Government in occupied Poland
Sentenced to death, Hitler's Minister of the Interior, author of the Nuremberg Race Laws
Acquited, popular radio commentator, and head of the news division of the Nazi Propaganda Ministry, tried in place of Joseph Goebbels
Hitler's Minister of Economics, succeeded Schacht as head of the Reichsbank, released due to ill health on May 16, 1957
Tried at the Nuremberg war crimes trial. Convicted & handed over to the Polish authorities
Head of DAF, The German Labour Front, commits suicide on October 25, 1945, before the trial begins
Foreign Secretary until 1938, succeeded by Ribbentrop, later, Protector of Bohemia and Moravia, resigned in 1943 due to dispute with Hitler, released (ill health) November 6, 1954
Brought to trial by the Allies at the Military Tribunal at Nuremberg but acquited
Leader of the Kriegsmarine until his retirement in 1943, succeeded by D”nitz, released (ill health) September 26, 1955
Sentenced to death
Sentenced to death
Sentenced to death, Plenipotentiary of the Nazi slave labor program
Acquited, pre-war president of the Reichsbank. Admitted to violating the Treaty of Versailles
Sentenced to 20 yrs, Head of the Hitlerjugend, later Gauleiter of Vienna. Expressed repentance
Sentenced to 20 yrs
Sentenced to death, incited hatred and murder against the Jews through his weekly newspaper, Der Sturmer
Hitler's former private physician is found guilty of war crimes & hanged
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