List of Axis war crime trials
The following is a list of war crime trials and tribunals brought against the Axis powers following the conclusion of World War II.
- Nazi Germany
- Nuremberg Trials of the 24 most important leaders of the Third Reich; 1945–1946, held by the United Kingdom, the United States, the Soviet Union, and France.
- Dachau Trials; Judge Advocate General's Corps, United States Army tribunal held within the walls of the former Dachau concentration camp, 1945–1948
- Auschwitz Trial; held in Kraków, Poland in 1947 against 40 SS-staff of the Auschwitz concentration camp death factory
- Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials; trial of 22 staff members from Auschwitz, first criminal trial of Holocaust perpetrators under German jurisdiction
- Belzec Trial; before the 1st Munich District Court in the mid-1960s of the eight SS-men of the Belzec extermination camp command
- Majdanek Trials; the overall longest Nazi war crimes trial in history spanning over 30 years
- Sobibor Trial; held in Hagen, Germany in 1965, concerning the Sobibor extermination camp officials
- Chełmno Trials of the Chełmno extermination camp personnel; held in Poland and in Germany. The cases were decided almost twenty years apart
- Supreme National Tribunal for Trial of War Criminals; active in Poland from 1946 to 1948
- Empire of Japan
- International Military Tribunal for the Far East (Allied tribunal held in Tokyo for leaders of the Empire of Japan)
- Nanjing War Crimes Tribunal (Tribunal created by the Republic of China for crimes committed in the Chinese theatre)
- Manila Tribunal (American military tribunal where were judged Tomoyuki Yamashita and Masaharu Homma)
- Yokohama War Crimes Trials, tried by the US Military Commission at Yokohama 1945-1949[1]
- Khabarovsk War Crime Trials, tribunal of Kwantung Army officials for use of chemical and biological weapons
- Other
- Hungarian People's Tribunals
- Romanian People's Tribunals; held to try war criminals who had served under Ion Antonescu's fascist government in Romania
- Bulgarian People's Tribunals;
- Yugoslav People's Tribunals
- War-responsibility trials in Finland
- Czechoslovak People's Tribunals
Notes
- Lee, Stella. "Yokohama War Crimes Trials." WWII Pacific Theater. U.C. Berkeley War Crimes Studies Center. 17 Nov. 2008
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