War Crimes and Trials

Trials & Defendants

• An Introduction to War Crimes Trials
• The CIA and Nazi War Criminals (2/4/05)
• The Dachau Trials (1945-1948)
• The Demjanuk Case
• The Doctors Trial
• Adolf Eichmann
• Ex-SS officer Viel Sentenced to 12 Years (4/3/01)
• The Flossenbürg War Crimes Trial (1946-1947)
• Former Nazi Accused of Massacre in Slovakia (11/2005)
• Nazi Hunters
• Nazi War Crime Trials [List]
• The Nuremberg Trial
• Odessa (The Organization of former SS members)
• Prosecuting Nazi War Criminals
• The RuSHA Case (1947-1948)
• Slovak Court Clears Accused Nazi War Criminal (12/19/05)
• Sobibor Trials (1965-1966)
• The Trial of Klaus Barbie (5/11/87)
• Trials of War Criminals in Europe [Map]

Key Events

• The Katyn Massacre (4/1940)
• The Malmédy Massacre
• Massacre at Gardelegen
• The “Russelheim Massacre” (8/25/44)
  • Photos
• The Sant’Anna di Stazzema Massacre (8/1944)

Documents

• CIA Withholding Documents about U.S. and Nazi War Criminals (1/30/05)
• Convention on the Non-Applicability of Statutory Limitations to War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity (11/26/68)
• Forwarding of Berlin Document Center Check Results (6/21/60) [pdf]
• Government of Yugoslavia Press Statement on Kurt Waldheim and International Reactions, U.S. Embassy Cable (2/9/88) [pdf]
• Knesset Resolution on the Limitation of Nazi Crimes (6/18/79)
• London Agreement (8/8/45)
• Nazis and Nazi Collaborators (Punishment) Law, 5710-1950 (8/1/50)
• Obliterating the Traces of Bodies of Jews Killed by the Einsatzgruppen (6/18/47)
• President Truman’s Executive Order 9547 (5/2/45)
• Rejection of Visa Application for Former Member of Dutch National Police (7/3/89) [pdf]
• Roosevelt’s Statement on Punishment of War Crimes (8/21/42)
• Roosevelt’s Statement on War Crimes (10/7/42)
• US Archives on War Crimes — Update on Waldheim Case, U.S. Mission to the UN (4/11/86) [pdf]
• West German Crackdown on Nazis (7/7/60) [pdf]