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Revision as of 13:30, 24 February 2009
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Parent topics
- International law [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Second World War [r]: Add brief definition or description
- War crime [r]: Acts that violate the laws of war as they applied in the time and place of commission, or that were deemed violations of law, possibly ex post facto, as determined by a competent tribunal [e]
Subtopics
Individual defendants
- Hermann Goering [r]: prominent Nazi politician, effectively #2 in status for most of the war and Commander-in-Chief of the German Air Force (Luftwaffe) during WW II. Sentenced to death by the International Military Tribunal (Nuremberg) but committed suicide shortly before execution [e]
- Rudolf Hess [r]: Early Nazi Party member to whom Adolf Hitler dictated Mein Kampf; became Deputy Fuhrer but lost bureaucratic power; made an unauthorized flight to Great Britain in 1941 to seek a peace agreement but was interned; sentenced to life imprisonment by the International Military Tribunal (Nuremberg) and died in Spandau Prison [e]
- Joachim von Ribbentrop [r]: Foreign Minister of Nazi Germany, of lessened importance when the extension of national policies became military rather than diplomatic; tried and executed, principally for planning war, by the International Military Tribunal (Nuremberg) [e]
- Wilhelm Keitel [r]: Field Marshal of Nazi Germany who headed the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht; executed for war crimes by the International Military Tribunal (Nuremberg) [e]
- Ernst Kaltenbrunner [r]: Second commander of the Reich Main Security Administration (RSHA) of the SS of Nazi Germany; executed for war crimes by the International Military Tribunal (Nuremberg) [e]
- Alfred Rosenberg [r]: Early Nazi Party member and philopsopher, later Minister for the occupied territories on the Eastern Front; tried and executed by the International Military Tribunal (Nuremberg) [e]
- Hans Frank [r]: Nazi lawyer, who directed the occupation of Poland (i.e., the Generalgouvernement); executed by the International Military Tribunal (Nuremberg) [e]
- Wilhelm Frick [r]: (1877-1946) Early Nazi who took part in the Beer Hall Putsch; later Reich Minister of the Interior of Nazi Germany with authority over the Nuremberg Laws; titular authority over the police apparatus that was actually controlled by Heinrich Himmler; last Protector of Bohemia and Moravia; executed by the International Military Tribunal (Nuremberg) [e]
- Julius Streicher [r]: Early member of the Nazi Party, who published an extremely anti-Semitic newspaper; Gauleiter of Franconia (1929-1940); removed for corruption; While he was not in the war planning circles, he was executed for his participation in incitement to genocide [e]
- Walter Funk [r]: President of the Nazi Reichsbank from 1939, after replacing Hjalmar Schacht, taking a supportive but not primary role in confiscation of assets from Jews and from conquered countries, and sentenced to life imprisonment by the International Military Tribunal (Nuremberg) [e]
- Karl Doenitz [r]: German naval officer who rose to head the submarine forces of Nazi Germany, then the overall naval command (Oberkommando der Marine), and was briefly Adolf Hitler's successor as President of the Reich. Sentenced to 10 years imprisonment by the International Military Tribunal (Nuremberg) [e]
- Erich Raeder [r]: First commander of the Navy of Nazi Germany, replaced by Karl Doenitz; convicted of war crimes by the International Military Tribunal (Nuremberg) and sentenced to life, but later commuted [e]
- Baldur von Schirach [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Fritz Sauckel [r]: Plenipotentiary in charge of the Nazi slave labor program; executed by sentence of the International Military Tribunal for the Major War Criminals [e]
- Alfred Jodl [r]: Colonel-general in the Army of Nazi Germany; head of operations branch of Oberkommando der Wehrmacht, the overall command staff; executed for war crimes by sentence of the International Military Tribunal (Nuremberg) [e]
- Arthur Seyss-Inquart [r]: Nazi representative to Austria during the Anschluss and then Reich Commissar in the Netherlands; executed by order of the International Military Tribunal for the Major War Criminals [e]
- Albert Speer [r]: (1905-1981) Architect, and Nazi Minister of Armament and Munitions 1942-1945; close personal relationship with Adolf Hitler but opposed his scorched-earth policies and plotted assassination; sentenced to 20 years by the Nuremberg Trials where he was eloquent in accepting responsibility, probably saving his life [e]
- Constantin von Neurath [r]: (1873-1956) German career diplomat, foreign minister 1932 under Franz von Papen 1932, continued under Nazis until expansionist policy of 1938; took role in Czech occupation [e]
- Martin Bormann [r]: German Nazi administrator, little-known to the public but became immensely powerful as the head of Adolf Hitler's personal office, the Chancellery of the Nazi Party, essentially controlling access to him. [e]
- Hjalmar Schact [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Franz von Papen [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Hans Fritzsche [r]: Add brief definition or description
Organizational defendants
- Nazi Party leadership corps [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Oberkommando der Wehrmacht [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Gestapo [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Schutzstaffel [r]: Add brief definition or description
Officials
- Avery Neave [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Telford Taylor [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Nuremberg Military Tribunals [r]: Add brief definition or description
- International Court of Justice [r]: Add brief definition or description
- International Criminal Court [r]: Add brief definition or description
- International Military Tribunal (Tokyo [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Treaty providing for the renunciation of war as an instrument of national policy [r]: Add brief definition or description