List of convicted war criminals

This is a list of convicted war criminals as according to the conduct and rules of warfare as defined by the Nuremberg Trials following World War II as well as earlier agreements established by the 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, List of Axis war criminals, and War crime
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B
  • Milan Babić (1956–2006), Croatian Serb and prime minister of Republic of Serb Krajina. Sentenced to 13 years following agreement[6]
  • Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski (1899–1972), German official and SS officer
  • Théoneste Bagosora (born 1941), Rwandan Armed Forces officer sentenced to life in prison for his role in planning and carrying out the Rwandan genocide, later reduced to 35 years on appeal.
  • Hans Baier (1893-1969), economic administration for the SS in Nazi Germany, sentenced to 10 years in prison at the Nuremberg Pohl Trial, released in 1951.
  • László Baky (1898–1946), Hungarian Interior Ministry official
  • Haradin Bala (1957-2018), Kosovo Albanian soldier, sentenced to 13 years in prison for war crimes committed at Lapušnik prison camp.
  • Robert Bales (born 1973), United States Army soldier, sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for perpetrating the Kandahar massacre during the War in Afghanistan.
  • Awad Hamed al-Bandar (1945–2007), Iraqi chief judge, sentenced to death
  • Klaus Barbie (1913–1991), German Gestapo officer
  • Laszlo Bardossy (1890–1946), Hungarian Prime Minister
  • Franz Anton Basch (1901–1946), German Nazi leader in Hungary
  • Hermann Becker-Freyseng (1910-1961), consultant for aviation medicine in Nazi Germany, sentenced to 20 years in prison, taken into American custody until his death.
  • Wilhelm Beiglböck (1905-1963), medical internist in Nazi Germany, sentenced to 15 years in prison in the Nuremberg Doctors' trial.
  • Nicola Bellomo (1881-1945), Italian Army general, executed by firing squad.
  • Jean-Pierre Bemba (born 1962), Congolese politician and former rebel leader, sentenced to 18 years in prison for war crimes committed in the Central African Republic, but the conviction was overturned after he served 10 years of his original sentence.
  • Gottlob Berger (1897–1975), German SS official
  • Werner Best (1903–1989), German Plenipotentiary of Denmark
  • Hans Biebow (1902–1947), chief of German Administration of the Łódź Ghetto
  • Augustin Bizimungu (born 1952), Chief of Staff of the Rwandan Army, sentenced to 30 years in prison for his role in the Rwandan genocide.
  • Tihomir Blaškić (born 1960), Bosnian Croat sentenced to 45 years, changed to 9 years following appeal[7]
  • Paul Blobel (1894–1951), German Einsatzgruppe C official
  • Kurt Blome (1894-1969), high ranking scientist in Nazi Germany, charged in the Nuremberg Doctor’s Trial, avoided sentencing by taking a job in the United States.
  • Hanns Bobermin (1903-1960), economic administrator for the SS in Nazi Germany, sentenced to 20 years in prison at the Nuremberg Pohl Trial, released in 1951.
  • Franz Böhme (1885-1947), Nazi general in Nazi Occupied Yugoslavia, indicted for war crimes at the Nuremberg Hostages Trial, committed suicide in prison.
  • Martin Ludwig Bormann (1900–c. 1945), German Party Chancellor, Tried at Nuremberg in absentia
  • Philipp Bouhler (1899–1945), German Führer Chancellory of in ficial
  • Viktor Brack (1904 –1948), German Führer 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
  • Miroslav Bralo (born 1967), Bosnian Croat member of the "Jokers" anti-terrorist platoon, sentenced to 20 years[8]
  • Karl Brandt (1904–1948), German Plenipotentiary for Health official
  • Rudolf Brandt (1909–1948), secretary of Heinrich Himmler
  • Walther von Brauchitsch (1881–1948), German Commander-in-Chief of the Army
  • Werner Braune (1909–1951), German Einsatzgruppe D official
  • Radoslav Brdjanin (born 1948), Bosnian Serb sentenced to 32 years (30 following appeal)[9]
  • Fernand de Brinon (1885–1947), French collaborator and member of the Vichy government
  • Heinz Brückner (born 1913), German official on illegal extradition, sentenced to 15 years in prison at the Nuremberg RuSHA Trial, released in 1951.
  • Yuri Budanov (1963-2011), officer of the Russian Armed Forces, sentenced to ten years in prison for war crimes committed during both the First and Second Chechen Wars, later released on parole after serving four years.
  • Josef Bühler (1904–1948), German Generalgouvernement official
  • Ernst Bürgin (1885-1966), German industrialist, created unethical weapons in Nazi Occupied Norway, sentenced to 2 years in prison at the Nuremberg IG Farben Trial.
  • Odilo Burkart (1899-1979), Nazi industrialist, charged and indicted with using slave labor at the Nuremberg Flick Trial, released in 1947.
  • Heinrich Bütefisch (1894-1969), Chemist in Nazi Germany, member of the SS, sentenced to 6 years in prison at the Nuremberg IG Farben Trial, released in 1951.

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G

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  • Paul Häfliger (1886-1950), committed war crimes on behalf of Germany in Nazi Occupied Norway, sentenced to 2 years in prison at the Nuremberg IG Farben Trial.
  • Siegfried Handloser (1885-1954), Chief of the German Armed Forces Medical Services in Nazi Germany, sentenced to life in prison, released in 1954.
  • Fritz Hartjenstein (1905–1954), German Auschwitz concentration camp administrator
  • Emil Haussmann (died 1948), German major
  • August Heissmeyer (1897–1979), German SS officer
  • Konrad Henlein (1898–1945), German Gauleiter of Sudetenland
  • Eberhard Herf (1887–1946), German police official who served as the commander of the Order Police units in Minsk, Belarus, executed by hanging.
  • Rudolf Hess (1894–1987), deputy Führer (leader) of Nazi Germany
  • Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich (1904–1942), chief of the SD, the Gestapo, the SIPO & the RSHA and Acting Reichprotektor of Bohemia and Moravia until his assassination in June 1942.
  • Alphonse Higaniro (born 1949), factory owner, sentenced to 20 years.[19][20]
  • 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
  • Oskar von Hindenburg (1883–1960), German commander of prisoner of war camps in East Prussia
  • Hirota Koki (1878–1948), Japanese premier from 1936 to 1937
  • August Hirt (1898–1945), German medical officer who ran the Struthof-Nazweiler laboratory
  • Franz Hofer (1902–1975), German Gauleiter of the Tyrol and Vorarlberg
  • Hermann Julius Höfle (1911–1962), German Higher SS and Police Leader in Slovakia
  • Otto Hofmann (1896–1982), German RuSHA 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
  • Rudolf Hoess (1900–1947), German Auschwitz concentration camp commander and deputy inspector of Nazi concentration camps
  • Hans Hohberg, executive officer of the SS in Nazi Germany, sentenced to 10 years in prison at the Nuremberg Pohl Trial, released in 1951.
  • Franz Hössler (1906-1945), German SS officer who served as a deputy camp commander at both Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen concentration camps, executed by hanging in 1945.
  • Hermann Hoth (1885–1971), German commander of Panzer Group 3, Army Group Center, 17th Group Army and Army Group South
  • Waldemar Hoven (1903–1948), German Buchenwald concentration camp doctor.
  • Herbert Hübner (1902-1951), German SS leader, deported people from Poland during the Second World War, sentenced to 15 years in prison at the Nuremberg RuSHA trial, released in 1951.
  • Saddam Hussein (1937–2006), President of Iraq from 1979 to 2003, executed by hanging for the Dujail Massacre in 2006.

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  • Sabawi Ibrahim (died 2009), Iraqi Directorate of General Security
  • Kang Kek Iew, Leader of the Khmer Rouge oversaw Tuol Sleng where thousands were murdered and tortured. Sentenced to 30 years imprisonment and then to life by the Cambodia Tribunal
  • Max Ilgner (1895–1957), German I.G. Farben official
  • Béla Imrédy (1891–1946), Hungarian Prime Minister
  • Seishirō Itagaki (1885–1948), Japanese War Minister

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  • Friedrich Jähne (1879-1965), engineer in Nazi Germany, sentenced to 18 months in prison at the Nuremberg IG Farben Trial, released in 1948.
  • Andor Jaross (1896-1946), Hungarian Nazi collaborator, executed by firing squad.
  • Friedrich Jeckeln (died 1946), German SS officer and Police Leader of Ostland
  • Goran Jelisić (born 1969), Bosnian Serb sentenced to 40 years for murders in Brčko. Personally killed 13 civilians[21]
  • Zhang Jinghui (1871-1959), Prime Minister of Manchukuo from 1935 to 1945
  • Alfred Jodl (1890–1946), German commander of operations personnel
  • Günther Joël (1903-1978), prosecutor in Nazi Germany, sentenced to 5 years in prison at the Nuremberg Judges’ Trial, released in 1951.
  • Miodrag Jokić (born 1935), commander of the Yugoslav Navy, sentenced to 7 years in prison for war crimes committed during the Siege of Dubrovnik.
  • Drago Josipović (born 1955), Bosnian Croat sentenced to 15, changed to 12 years following appeal[22][23]
  • Heinz Jost (1904–1964), German Einsatzgruppe commander
  • William Joyce (1906-1946), American-born Nazi propagandist, convicted of high treason and executed by hanging.
  • Hans Jüttner (1894–1965), commander of German SS's Main Leadership Office and Obergruppenführer.

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  • Ernst Kaltenbrunner (1903–1946), Chief of the SD, the SiPo & the RSHA after Reinhard Heydrich's assassination. Highest-ranking Nazi official to stand trial at Nuremberg. Executed by hanging.
  • Brima Bazzy Kamara (born 1968), commander in the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council, sentenced to 45 years in prison for multiple war crimes committed during the Sierra Leone Civil War.
  • Jean Kambanda (born 1955), Rwandan politician who served as Prime Minister in the caretaker government of Rwanda during the Rwandan genocide, sentenced to life in prison for his role in planning and carrying out the genocide.
  • Santigie Borbor Kanu (born 1965), senior commander of the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council, sentenced to 51 years in prison for war crimes committed during the Sierra Leone Civil War.
  • Radovan Karadžić (born 1945), Bosnian Serb politician who served as President of Republika Srpska during the Bosnian War, sentenced to life in prison for eleven counts of war crimes.
  • Germain Katanga (born 1978), former leader of the Patriotic Resistance Front of Ituri, sentenced to 12 years in prison for his role in the Bogoro massacre.
  • Wilhelm Keitel (1882-1946), German Field Marshal. Sentenced to death by hanging at Nuremberg.
  • Omar Khadr, Canadian convicted for murder and supporting terrorism[24]
  • Ashrafuz Zaman Khan, sentenced to death by hanging for the murder of 18 people described as prominent intellectuals, during the 1971 liberation war of Bangladesh from Pakistan[25]
  • Max Kiefer (1889-1974), economic administrator for the SS in Nazi Germany, sentenced to life in prison at the Nuremberg Pohl Trial, released in 1951.
  • Maria Kisito, sentenced to 12 years in prison for supplying gasoline to a militia to burn refugees with.[20]
  • Dietrich Klagges (1891–1971), German politician and premier (Ministerpräsident) of Braunschweig
  • Horst Klein (born 1910), economic administrator for the SS in Nazi Germany, charged and indicted in the Nuremberg Pohl Trial, released in 1947.
  • Herbert Klemm (1903-1961), State Secretary in the Ministry of Justice in Nazi Germany, sentenced to life in prison at the Nuremberg Judges’ Trial, released in 1956.
  • Fritz Knoechlein (1911–1949), SS Obersturmbannführer, convicted and executed for war crimes (Le Paradis massacre)
  • Ilse Koch (1906–1967), German female officer at Buchenwald and Sachsenhausen concentration camps
  • Dragan Kolundžija (born 1959), Bosnian Serb, sentenced to 3 years for Keraterm camp[14]
  • Dario Kordić (born 1960), Bosnian Croat, sentenced to 25 years[11]
  • Milojica Kos, Bosnian Serb, sentenced to 6 years for Omarska camp[26]
  • Radomir Kovač (born 1961), Bosnian Serb sentenced to 20 years[27]
  • Momčilo Krajišnik, Bosnian Serb politician, sentenced to 27 years[28]
  • Carl Krauch (1887-1968), Chairman of the Supervisory Board, member of Göring's Office of the Four-Year Plan, sentenced to 6 years in prison at the Nuremberg IG Farben Trial, released in 1950.
  • Milorad Krnojelac, Bosnian Serb sentenced to 7,5 years for Foča massacres. Following appeal, his sentence was raised to 15 years[29]
  • Radislav Krstić, Bosnian Serb sentenced to 46 years (35 following appeal) for his part in the Srebrenica massacre, also found guilty of being an accomplice to genocide,[30] first such ruling at ICTY
  • Alfred Krupp {1907–1967} German Steel/Arms maker; involved in slave labour
  • Hans Kugler (1900-1968), German industrialist, took over French companies in Nazi Occupied France, sentenced to 18 months in prison at the Nuremberg IG Farben Trial, released in 1948.
  • Dragoljub Kunarac (born 1960), Bosnian Serb sentenced to 28 years[27]
  • Walter Kuntze (1883-1960), Nazi general who served as the commander of the 12th Army, sentenced to life in prison but ended up being released in 1953.
  • Franz Kutschera (1904–1944), German SS general and Gauleiter of Carinthia.
  • Slavko Kvaternik (1878–1947), Croatian military commander and Minister of Domobranstvo (Armed Forces)
  • Miroslav Kvocka, Bosnian Serb, sentenced to 7 years for Omarska camp[26]

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  • Esad Landžo, Bosnian Muslim sentenced to 15 years for Čelebići prison camp[13]
  • Hubert Lanz (1896-1982), Nazi general, sentenced to 12 years in prison at the Nuremberg Hostages Trial, released in 1951.
  • Ernst Lautz (1887-1979), Chief Public Prosecutor of the People's Court, sentenced to 10 years in prison at the Nuremberg Judges’ Trial, released in 1951.
  • Robert Ley (1890-1945), head of the labor force in Nazi Germany, indicted at the Nuremberg trials, committed suicide in custody.
  • Wilhelm List (1880-1971), Nazi German field marshall, sentenced to life in prison at the Nuremberg Hostages Trial, released in 1952.
  • Hinrich Lohse (1896–1964), German politician
  • Alexander Löhr (1885–1947), Austrian and German Air Force (Luftwaffe) commander
  • Werner Lorenz (1891–1974), German head of Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle (Repatriation Office for Ethnic Germans) and an SS Obergruppenführer.
  • Georg Lörner (1899-1959), administrator and economist in the SS in Nazi Germany, sentenced to death, commuted and released in 1954.
  • Hans Lörner (Born 1893), senior leader of the SS in Nazi Germany, sentenced to 10 years in prison at the Nuremberg Pohl Trial, released in 1951.
  • Milan Lukić (born 1967), commander of the White Eagles paramilitary group, sentenced to life in prison for his role in the Višegrad massacres during the Bosnian War.
  • Sreten Lukić (born 1955), former Chief of the Serbian Police, sentenced to 22 years in prison for war crimes committed during the Kosovo War.

M

N
  • Antun Najzer, Croatian physician and member of the Fascist Ustase movement. He was sentenced to execution by a firing squad.
  • Hiromi Nakayama (died 1946), Imperial Japanese Army who convicted for war crime.
  • Mladen Naletilić Tuta (born 1946), Bosnian Croat sentenced to 20 years[32]
  • Erich Naumann (died 1951), German Einsatzgruppe B commander
  • Günther Nebelung (1896-1970), Chief Justice of the Nazi People’s Court, interned by the Allies I’m 1945, indicted in the Nuremberg Judges’ Trial, released in 1947.
  • Hermann Neubacher (died 1960), German supported mayor of Vienna and Southeast Economic Plenipotentiary
  • Konstantin von Neurath (1873–1956), German Foreign Minister and Reichsprotektor
  • Hassan Ngeze (born 1957), Rwandan journalist and politician, sentenced to life in prison for his role in the Rwandan genocide, later reduced to 35 years on appeal.
  • Dragan Nikolić, Bosnian Serb sentenced to 23 years[36]
  • Takuma Nishimura (1889-1951), Japanese military officer who was found guilty of perpetrating the Parit Sulong Massacre during World War II, executed by hanging in 1951.
  • Motiur Rahman Nizami (1943-2016), leader of Al Badr, sentenced to death and hanged for his role in masterminding the Demra massacre during the Bangladesh Liberation War.
  • Mirko Norac (born 1967), Croatian Army general sentenced to 12 years in prison for various war crimes committed during the Croatian War of Independence.
  • Bosco Ntaganda (born 1973), former chief of staff of the National Congress for the Defence of the People sentenced to 30 years imprisonment for war crimes.
  • Vincent Ntezimana, university professor, sentenced to 12 years.[20][37]
  • Bernard Ntuyahaga (born 1952), Rwandan Army officer, sentenced to 20 years in prison for his role in the murder of ten Belgian United Nations peacekeepers at the beginning of the Rwandan genocide.
  • Aziz Saleh Nuhmah, Iraqi governor of Kuwait during occupation
  • Takuma Nishimura (1889-1951), Japanese army general in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. He was executed in the then Australian territory of Papua and New Guinea.
  • Ildephonse Nizeyimana (born 1963), Rwandan soldier, who was convicted of having participated in the Rwandan genocide.
  • Pauline Nyiramasuhuko (born 1946), Rwandan politician. She was indicted on the charges of conspiracy to commit genocide.

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P
  • Friedrich Panzinger (1903–1959), German RSHA official
  • Franz von Papen (1879–1969), German diplomat and deputy chancellor
  • Enver Pasha (1881-1922), Triumvir of the Ottoman Empire, sentenced to death in absentia for his role in the Armenian Genocide.
  • Ante Pavelić (1889-1959), Croatian leader of the Ustaše, sentenced to death in absentia for multiple war crimes perpetrated during World War II.
  • Donald Payne ( 1970-) first member of the British armed forces to be convicted of a war crime, for the killing of Baha Mousa.He was jailed for one year and dismissed from the army.[38]
  • Joachim Peiper (1915–1976), SS-Standartenführer, 1st SS Panzer Division, Leibstandarte-SS Adolf Hitler, held responsible for the Malmedy massacre during the Malmedy massacre trial
  • Philippe Pétain (1856–1951), Marshal of France and head of the collaborative Vichy France, sentenced to death first, then life imprisonment
  • Hans Petersen (1886-1963), Chief Justice of the people’s court in Nazi Germany, charged and indicted in the Nuremberg Judges’ Trial, released in 1947.
  • Constantin Petrovicescu (1883-1949), Romanian soldier and member of the Iron Guard, sentenced to life in prison for war crimes committed during World War II.
  • Biljana Plavšić (born 1930), Bosnian Serb politician and former president of the Republika Srpska. Sentenced to 11 years[39]
  • Paul Pleiger (1899–1985), German state adviser and corporate general director, sentenced to 15 years
  • Oswald Pohl (died 1951), German WVHA official
  • Hermann Pook (1901-1983), dentist for the SS in Nazi Germany, sentenced to 10 years in prison at the Nuremberg Pohl Trial, released in 1951.
  • Helmut Poppendick (1902-1994), chief of personal staff in Nazi Germany, sentenced to 10 years in prison at the Doctors’ Trial, released in 1951.
  • Slobodan Praljak (1945-2017), Bosnian Croat general sentenced to 20 years in prison by the ICC for war crimes committed against the Bosniak population. He committed suicide upon hearing of the verdict.
  • Dragoljub Pricac, Bosnian Serb, sentenced to 5 years for Omarska camp[26]

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  • Mlado Radić Bosnian Serb, sentenced to 20 years for Omarska camp[26]
  • Erich Raeder (1876–1960), German grand admiral, sentenced to life imprisonment, later released
  • Friedrich Rainer (1903–1947?), German Gauleiter and an Austrian Landeshauptmann of Salzburg and Carinthia, sentenced to death
  • Ivica Rajić (born 1958), Bosnian Croat sentenced to 12 years[40]
  • Taha Yassin Ramadan (1938–2007), Iraqi Vice President, 1991–2003, sentenced to life imprisonment, appealed to death
  • Hanns Albin Rauter (died 1949), German Higher SS and Police Leader in the Netherlands, sentenced to death
  • Giovanni Ravalli (1910-1998), soldier in the Royal Italian Army during World War II, initially received a life sentence but was pardoned after serving 13 years.
  • Hermann Reinecke (1888–1973), German OKW official, sentenced to life imprisonment, later released
  • Lothar Rendulic (1887–1971), German commander of 52nd Infantry Division, sentenced to 20 years (later 10)
  • Tharcisse Renzaho (born 1944), Rwandan soldier and head of the Civil Defence Committee for Kigali, sentenced to life in prison for his role in the Rwandan genocide.
  • Joachim von Ribbentrop (1893–1946), German foreign minister, sentenced to death
  • Karl von Roques (died 1949), German Rear Area Army Group South commander
  • Gerhard Rose (1896-1992), expert on tropical disease in Nazi Germany, performed experiments in Dachau and Buchenwald concentration camp, sentenced to life in prison at the Doctor’s trial, released in 1955.
  • Alfred Ernst Rosenberg (1893–1946), German east minister, sentenced to death
  • Oswald Rothaug (1897-1967), Chief Justice of the special court in Nazi Germany, sentenced to Life in prison at the Nuremberg Judges’ Trial, released in 1956.
  • Curt Rothenberger (1896-1959), State Secretary in the Ministry of Justice in Nazi Germany, sentenced to 7 years in prison at the Nuremberg Judges’ Trial, released in 1950.
  • Abdullah Kadhem Ruaid (?), Iraqi Baathist official, sentenced to 15 years
  • Mizhar Abdullah Ruaid (1949–present), Iraqi Baathist official, sentenced to 15 years
  • Siegfried Ruff (1907-1989), physician who performed experiments at Dachau concentration camp, charged at the Nuremberg Doctor’s trial, avoided jail due to his work for the United States.
  • Georges Rutaganda (1958-2010), commander for the Interahamwe militia, sentenced to life in prison for his role in the Rwandan genocide.

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  • Duško Tadić, Bosnian Serb sentenced to 25 years[51]
  • Miroslav Tadić (born 1937), Bosnian Serb sentenced to 8 years for Bosanski Šamac[47]
  • Charles Taylor (born 1948), 22nd President of Liberia, guilty on 11 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity during both the Sierra Leone Civil War and the Second Liberian Civil War.
  • Josef Terboven (1898–1945), German Nazi commissioner of Norway
  • Hashim Thaci (born 1968), Kosovo President
  • Otto Thierack (1889–1946), German justice minister
  • Fritz Thyssen (1873–1951), German industrialist
  • Jozef Tiso (1887-1947), President of the First Slovak Republic, sentenced to death and hanged for his role in the Holocaust in Slovakia.
  • Stevan Todorović, Bosnian Serb sentenced to 10 years for Bosanski Šamac[52]
  • Hideki Tōjō (1884–1948), Japanese prime minister and general in the Imperial Japanese Army, sentenced to death and hanged.
  • Zdravko Tolimir (1948-2016), Bosnian Serb soldier in the Army of Republika Srpska, sentenced to life in prison for his involvement in the Srebrenica massacre.
  • Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti (1951–2007), Iraqi head of Mukhabarat, sentenced to death
  • Watban Ibrahim al-Tikriti (died 2009), Former Iraqi interior minister
  • Erwin Tschentscher (1903-1972), economic administrator of the SS in Nazi Germany, sentenced to 10 years in prison at the Nuremberg Pohl Trial, released in 1951.
  • Vojtech Tuka (1880-1946), Prime Minister of the First Slovak Republic from 1939 to 1945, found guilty for mass deportation of Slovak Jews and executed by hanging in 1946.
  • Harald Turner (1891–1947), SS commander and Staatsrat (privy councillor) in the German military administration of the Territory of the Military Commander in Serbia

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V
  • Frans van Anraat (born 1942), Dutch arms dealer who sold raw materials for the production of chemical weapons to Saddam Hussein, sentenced to 15 years in prison.
  • Mitar Vasiljević, Bosnian Serb sentenced to 20 years, later lowered to 15 years for war crimes in Višegrad[53]
  • Cyriel Verschaeve (1874-1949), Flemish priest and Nazi collaborator, sentenced to death in absentia.
  • Jorge Rafael Videla (1925-2013), President of Argentina from 1976 to 1981, found guilty of multiple war crimes and crimes against humanity during the Dirty War and sentenced to life in prison.
  • Josef Vogt (1884-1967), SS economic and administrative official, indicted in the Nuremberg Pohl Trial, released in 1947.
  • Leo Volk (1909-1973), head of legal department of the SS in Nazi Germany, sentenced to 10 years in prison at the Nuremberg Pohl Trial, released in 1951.
  • Wilhelm von Ammon (1903-1992), administrator in the ministry of Justice in Nazi Germany, sentenced to 10 years in prison at the Nuremberg Judges’ Trial, released in 1951.
  • Ernst von Leyser (1889-1962), Nazi general, sentenced to 10 years in prison at the Nuremberg Hostages Trial, released in 1951.
  • Zoran Vuković (born 1955), Bosnian Serb sentenced to 12 years[27]

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  • Robert Wagner (1895–1946), German Chief of Civil Administration in Alsace and Reichsstatthalter of Baden
  • Walter Warlimont (1894–1976), German OKW official
  • Maximilian von Weichs (1881–1954), German field marshal
  • Bernhard Weiss (died 1973), Nazi industrialist, sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison at the Nuremberg Flick Trial.
  • Glendale Wells, specialist; he pleaded guilty to being an accessory in the death of the prisoner known as Dilawar.[54]
  • Georg August Weltz (1889-1963), radiologist in Nazi Germany, performed experiments at Dachau concentration camp, indicted for crimes against humanity at the Nuremberg Doctors’ Trial, avoided jail due to his work in the medical field in Germany.
  • Carl Westphal (1902-1946), administrator for the ministry of Justice in Nazi Germany, committed suicide after being charged and indicted in the Nuremberg Judges’ Trial.
  • Henry Wirz (1822–1865), Confederate administrator of the Andersonville Camp
  • Dieter Wisliceny (died 1948), German SS deportation expert in Greece, Slovakia and Hungary
  • Karl Wolff (1900–1984), Heinrich Himmler Chief of Staff

Y
  • Tomoyuki Yamashita (1885–1946), Japanese general; his conviction resulted in establishing a new doctrine regarding criminal culpability for the involvement of chain of command in war crimes: Yamashita standard.

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Notes

World War II

Yugoslav Wars

After the Yugoslav Wars, an international Court was formed to try war criminals (ICTY). However, ICTY tried only a selected number of high-ranking people (a total of 161), with local Courts (in Bosnia, Croatia and Serbia) starting trials mostly against individuals or soldiers who carried out orders of those high-ranking officers. Many of those have been convicted.

Croatia raised charges against 3666 people for war crimes, of which 1381 were dropped due to lack of evidence.[55]

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  33. http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia/2013/09/201391735611372698.html
  34. ICTY: Judgement in Mrkšić, Šljivančanin and Radić case
  35. May 5, 1994: Sister Gertrude Mukangango caused the death of Tutsi in Sovu
  36. ICTY: Dragan Nikolić Judgement
  37. TRIAL International: Vincent Ntezimana
  38. First British soldier to be convicted of a war crime is jailed for ill-treatment of Iraqi civilians
  39. ICTY: Plavsic Judgement
  40. ICTY: Rajić Judgement
  41. Executed Today: Shigematsu Sakaibara, "I obey with pleasure"
  42. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-21611769
  43. https://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/28/us-bangladesh-tribunal-idUSBRE91R0AN20130228
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  45. Bangladesh Jamaat leader sentenced to death
  46. http://bdnews24.com/bangladesh/2013/02/28/sayedee-to-hang
  47. ICTY: Simic and others Judgment
  48. ICTY: Šimić Judgment
  49. ICTY: Stakić Judgment
  50. ICTY: Strugar Judgment
  51. ICTY: Duško Tadić Judgement
  52. ICTY: Todorović Judgement
  53. ICTY: Vasiljevic appeal Judgement
  54. Afghan abuse sentence "lenient"
  55. (in Croatian) Jutarnji List: State Attorney says 3666 war crime cases since 1991
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