Publication log
On this date, 20 complete profiles were added to the archive in five language editions.
Treblinka staff member; head of the Goldjuden unit
Treblinka staff member who supervised the sorting of victims’ valuables and helped process arriving transports; sentenced in Düsseldorf to six years for aiding joint murder.
Camp administrator and senior officer in Birkenau’s final phase
SS officer involved in Birkenau’s final administration and Auschwitz’s evacuation; a Polish tribunal found him guilty of participation in killings and prisoner abuse.
SS camp physician
SS physician named in institutional accounts of drug tests on Auschwitz prisoners; sentenced to death in the Mauthausen staff trial.
Commandant of Auschwitz II-Birkenau and Natzweiler
Commandant of Auschwitz II-Birkenau and Natzweiler who wrote an evacuation instruction; convicted after the war and died while an appeal remained pending.
Gauleiter and Reich governor of Mecklenburg
Mecklenburg Gauleiter convicted in a case concerning murdered captured airmen; historians dispute the evidence for a specific telephone order.
Dachau protective-custody camp leader
A Dachau SS officer whom a survivor described beating prisoners; a US military court sentenced him to death.
Rapportführer in the Roma camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau
An SS functionary at Auschwitz-Birkenau; the court found that he took part in selections, killed a prisoner and abused inmates. Sentenced to death and executed in 1948.
SS physician at Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen
An SS physician at Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen. He carried out selections on the Auschwitz arrival ramp; a British military court sentenced him to death in the first Belsen Trial. Executed in 1945.
company commander in the 2nd SS-Totenkopf Infantry Regiment
A Waffen-SS company commander who ordered the shooting of surrendered British prisoners near Le Paradis on 27 May 1940. Ninety-seven were killed. A British court sentenced him to death; he was executed in 1949.
Ravensbrück camp commandant
Commandant of Ravensbrück from 1942 to 1945. He expanded prisoner forced labour, jointly imposed a severe punishment on one prisoner and ordered evacuation marches. A French court sentenced him to death; executed in 1950.
commander of the 18th Army and Army Group North
Commander of the 18th Army and Army Group North. A Nuremberg tribunal found him responsible for transmitting criminal orders and for crimes against prisoners of war and civilians. Sentenced to 20 years; released in 1953.
chief camp physician involved in selections and prisoner selection for experiments
Chief physician at Ravensbrück in 1941–1943; sources document his participation in selections and selection of prisoners for experiments. Sentenced to death in the first Ravensbrück trial and executed in 1947.
commander of the 7th Company, SS Panzergrenadier Regiment 35, during the Sant’Anna di Stazzema massacre
Commanded a Waffen-SS company involved in the Sant’Anna di Stazzema massacre. An Italian military court sentenced him to life in absentia; no German merits judgment followed.
guard assigned to women prisoners’ labour deployment at Ravensbrück
Ravensbrück guard assigned to prisoner labour deployment. Trial records document her striking prisoners; a British military court sentenced her to death and the sentence was carried out in 1947.
commander of Sonderkommando 4b, Einsatzgruppe C, during mass killings in Ukraine
Commander of Sonderkommando 4b. Documents describe his order to shoot Jews lured to the German headquarters in Vinnytsia. Sentenced to seven years in prison in 1973.
State Secretary at the Nazi Foreign Office from 1943 to 1945
State Secretary at the Nazi Foreign Office. Convicted in the Ministries Trial for involvement in persecution; review retained count V, set aside count III, and reduced the sentence to five years.
Industrialist and chairman of the Krupp supervisory board
Industrialist who personally chaired an industry fund for Hitler; the Krupp firm used forced labour. Charged but never tried or convicted.
commander of Einsatzkommando 12, Einsatzgruppe D, in 1941–1942
Commander of Einsatzkommando 12. The Nuremberg tribunal found him responsible, including for his detachment’s killing of 94 Jews, and convicted him of war crimes and crimes against humanity; a life sentence was reduced to ten years.
Sachsenhausen Rapportführer involved in violence and killings of prisoners
Sachsenhausen Rapportführer involved in killings of prisoners. After the 1947 Soviet trial, the Bonn court sentenced him in 1959 to life imprisonment plus a further 15 years.
German envoy in Bratislava
German envoy in Bratislava: involved in deportation negotiations and personally delivered Reich pressure for reprisals against Slovak opponents. Sentenced to death in 1947.