Publication log
On this date, 20 complete profiles were added to the archive in five language editions.
president of the Hanseatic Court of Appeal and state secretary in the Reich Justice Ministry
President of the Hamburg Court of Appeal and state secretary in the Reich Justice Ministry; convicted for his part in racial persecution, Night and Fog and the subordination of courts to Party and police power.
Order Police commander in occupied Belarus and staff officer in anti-partisan formations
Order Police commander in occupied Belarus; a Soviet tribunal attributed command responsibility for mass killing and deportation to him, but the trial record requires critical use.
colonel general and commander of the German 14th Army in Italy
Commander of the 14th Army through whose chain of command the ten-to-one reprisal order passed in Rome; convicted for being concerned in the killing of 335 people at the Ardeatine Caves.
SS chief camp physician at Mauthausen
SS chief camp physician at Mauthausen; sources document killings by injection, participation in shootings and gassings, and selections of sick prisoners for death.
head nurse in the Ravensbrück camp infirmary
Head nurse at Ravensbrück; sources document her selection and supervisory duties in the camp infirmary and her conviction in the first Ravensbrück trial.
head overseer at Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen
Head overseer at Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen, convicted in the first Belsen trial; the trial record documents testimony about beatings of prisoners and participation in selections.
camp guard; deputy senior guard
Guard at Lichtenburg, Ravensbrück and Auschwitz-Birkenau; institutional sources document her supervisory roles, violence against prisoners and conviction in the sixth Ravensbrück trial.
State Secretary in the Reich Air Ministry; Inspector General and field marshal of the Luftwaffe
State Secretary in the Reich Air Ministry and Luftwaffe field marshal; convicted in the Milch trial for participation in the forced-labour programme, but acquitted on the medical-experiments count.
Sobibor staff member responsible for the gas-chamber engine
Sobibor staff member responsible for operating the engine whose exhaust was fed into the gas chambers; sentenced in Berlin to death, later replaced by life imprisonment.
Gestapo and SD officer; participant in the Ardeatine Caves massacre
Gestapo and SD officer in Rome who maintained the victim list for the Ardeatine Caves massacre and admitted personally shooting two men; sentenced to life imprisonment in 1998.
SS pharmacist at Mauthausen involved in prisoner selections and in handling agents used for killing
SS pharmacist at Mauthausen whom institutional sources link to prisoner selections and the handling of Zyklon B; convicted and executed after the main Mauthausen trial.
State Secretary in the Foreign Office involved in administrative approval of Jewish deportations
State Secretary in the German Foreign Office whose signed record linked him to approval of the deportation of 6,000 Jews from France; convicted in the Ministries Case.
construction specialist involved in building gas chambers
Construction specialist from the T4 and Operation Reinhard programmes who worked on gas chambers at Sobibor and Treblinka; convicted of aiding mass murder.
commander of Einsatzkommando 5 within Einsatzgruppe C
Commander of Einsatzkommando 5, under whose direction the unit shot 90–100 people in Lviv without a list or report proving guilt; convicted in the Einsatzgruppen trial.
Wehrmacht field marshal convicted for unlawful killing and attempted killings of subordinate soldiers
Wehrmacht field marshal convicted by a Munich court of manslaughter and two attempted killings of subordinate soldiers; sentenced to four years and six months.
commander of Vorkommando Moscow in Einsatzgruppe B and senior RSHA official
Commander of Vorkommando Moscow and RSHA official sentenced to twenty years in the Einsatzgruppen trial; the judgment also cautioned that his active participation in the murder program had not been established to the stated standard.
protective-custody camp leader and supervisor of the women’s camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau
A camp leader at Auschwitz whom witnesses placed at selections; in the Belsen Trial he was convicted on the Auschwitz charge, acquitted on the Belsen charge and executed in 1945.
SS camp physician at Auschwitz and Mauthausen implicated in prisoner selections
An SS physician at Auschwitz and Mauthausen prosecuted over participation in selections; the 1965 judgment was overturned and the retrial ended in a final acquittal in 1970.
Auschwitz staff member connected with the clothing store and the plunder of victims’ property
Auschwitz staff member individually linked by the judgment to beating prisoners and organised plunder of property from gas-chamber victims; sentenced to fifteen years.
SS commander of the Kleinbodungen subcamp and its evacuation column
Commander of the Kleinbodungen subcamp and its evacuation column to Bergen-Belsen; sentenced to death on the Belsen charge. The sources do not establish that he personally shot prisoners.