Publication log
On this date, 20 complete profiles were added to the archive in five language editions.
commander of Sonderkommando 7b within Einsatzgruppe B
Commander of Sonderkommando 7b convicted in the Einsatzgruppen trial; the judgment documents his command responsibility and admission that Jews were killed without any partisan connection.
SS medical orderly and member of the Auschwitz disinfection squad; participant in gassing operations
A member of the Auschwitz disinfection squad whom witnesses identified as participating in gassing operations; convicted and executed in Czechoslovakia after the war.
camp physician at Ravensbrück; participant in selections of women prisoners
A Ravensbrück camp doctor who admitted participating in selections of prisoners; found guilty by a British court, he died before sentence was imposed.
adjutant to the Mauthausen commandant; staff link in the processing of execution orders
Adjutant to the Mauthausen commandant who described the processing of execution orders in a sworn affidavit; sentenced to death and executed.
field marshal; Commander-in-Chief South-West and commander of Army Group C in Italy
Field marshal and commander-in-chief in Italy convicted for unlawful reprisal orders and command responsibility; his death sentence was commuted to life imprisonment.
commandant of Dachau concentration camp from February 1940 to September 1942
Commandant of Dachau from 1940 to 1942, linked to prisoner transports, punishment practices and tolerated medical experiments; sentenced to death and executed.
Sobibor staff member; cashier who took victims’ property before the gas chamber
Sobibor staff member who took valuables from victims before the gas chamber; convicted at Hagen of aiding the murder of at least 68,000 people.
SS physician at Neuengamme; participant in the Bullenhuser Damm murders
SS physician at Neuengamme who participated in the murder of twenty children and twenty-eight adults at Bullenhuser Damm; sentenced to death and executed.
SS guard at Majdanek, Płaszów and Auschwitz-Birkenau
Guard at Majdanek, Płaszów and Auschwitz identified by women prisoners as committing violence; sentenced to fifteen years’ imprisonment in 1947.
guard at the Neugraben and Tiefstack subcamps of Neuengamme
Guard at the Neugraben and Tiefstack subcamps of Neuengamme, identified by prisoners and admitting beatings; sentenced to two years’ imprisonment.
Wehrmacht general and commander of LXXV Army Corps in Italy
Wehrmacht general who ordered the shooting of fifteen captured US soldiers from Operation Ginny II; convicted of a war crime and executed.
commandant of Sachsenhausen concentration camp from 1942 to 1945
Commandant of Sachsenhausen who ordered preparations for the evacuation that became a death march of more than 33,000 prisoners; sentenced by a Soviet court to lifelong forced labour.
senior prisoner-camp officer at Majdanek and Neuengamme
SS officer in senior camp roles at Majdanek and Neuengamme, individually linked to two executions in April 1945; sentenced to death and executed.
RSHA chemist and technical inspector of T4 gassing installations and Einsatzgruppen gas vans
An RSHA chemist and technical operative of Aktion T4 who installed gassing equipment and later inspected Einsatzgruppen gas vans; sentenced after the war to ten years in prison.
Gauleiter and Reich governor of Reichsgau Oberdonau
Gauleiter and Reich governor of Oberdonau who held political authority over the Mauthausen region and ordered the killing of 34 resistance members in April 1945; sentenced to death in the Mauthausen trial.
deputy chief of the WVHA and head of Amtsgruppe A
Deputy chief of the WVHA and head of Amtsgruppe A, convicted for participation in forced labor and the wholesale looting of property from Action Reinhardt victims; his life sentence was commuted to fifteen years.
Higher SS and Police Leader in occupied Serbia
Higher SS and Police Leader in occupied Serbia who directed the police and reprisal apparatus and ordered the mass shooting of 575 people near Kruševac; sentenced to death in Belgrade and executed in 1947.
Treblinka staff member responsible for the so-called infirmary and supervision of prisoner labor details
A Treblinka staff member responsible for the so-called infirmary, convicted as co-perpetrator in the mass murder of at least 300,000 people and of eight murder acts against at least nine individual victims; sentenced to life imprisonment.
SS-Ahnenerbe anthropologist involved in the Jewish skeleton-collection project
An SS-Ahnenerbe anthropologist who selected and measured prisoners for a planned skeleton collection; sentenced to three years for aiding the murder of 86 people, with the court limiting proven knowledge of the killing plan to his work at Natzweiler.
SS physician at Auschwitz-Birkenau and Neuengamme who participated in prisoner selections
An SS physician at Auschwitz-Birkenau and Neuengamme who took part in selections of women prisoners and abused prisoners during “fitness for work” examinations; sentenced to death in the main Neuengamme trial and executed in 1946.