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List of major perpetrators of the Holocaust

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Name	Date of birth	Date of death	Age at death	Role	Fate
Adolf Hitler	April 20, 1889	April 30, 1945	56 years, 10 days	Leader of the Nazi Party during the Third Reich Chancellor of Germany Führer	Committed suicide by gunshot^[1]^[2]
Heinrich Himmler	October 7, 1900	May 23, 1945	44 years, 228 days	Reichsführer-SS Chief of German Police Reich Minister of the Interior	Arrested; committed suicide by biting down on a cyanide capsule
Reinhard Heydrich	March 7, 1904	June 4, 1942	38 years, 89 days	Chief of the Reich Security Main Office (RSHA) Deputy Reich-Protector of Bohemia and Moravia (acting Protector)	Died of sepsis caused by injuries sustained in an assassination attempt (Operation Anthropoid)
Adolf Eichmann	March 19, 1906	June 1, 1962	56 years, 74 days	Head of the Gestapo Office of Jewish Affairs (RSHA Sub-Department IV-B4). Charged by Reinhard Heydrich with facilitating and managing the mass deportations of Jews to ghettos and extermination camps in Eastern Europe.	Evaded arrest and escaped to Argentina in 1950. Discovered and kidnapped by Israeli agents in May 1960; subsequently brought to Israel, tried and executed by hanging in 1962.
Hermann Göring	January 12, 1893	October 15, 1946	53 years, 276 days	Commander-in-Chief of the Luftwaffe President of the Reichstag Reichsminister of Aviation	Sentenced to death by hanging; committed suicide by cyanide poisoning hours before his execution
Heinrich Müller	April 28, 1900	Unknown, but evidence points to May 1945	Unknown	SS-Gruppenführer und Generalleutnant der Polizei, Chief of the Gestapo 1939–45	Disappeared; possibly killed in Berlin in May 1945 (unconfirmed)
Odilo Globocnik	April 21, 1904	May 31, 1945	41 years, 40 days	SS and Police Leader in the General Government Head of Operation Reinhard	Committed suicide by cyanide poisoning
Theodor Eicke	October 17, 1892	February 26, 1943	50 years, 132 days	A major figure in the creation of the Nazi concentration camps First commander of SS Division Totenkopf, which became notorious for its war crimes.	Killed in action
Richard Glücks	April 22, 1889	May 10, 1945	56 years, 18 days	Head of Concentration Camp Operations (Amt D: Konzentrationslagerwesen) in the SS Main Economic and Administrative Department (SS-Wirtschafts-Verwaltungshauptamt)	Committed suicide by cyanide poisoning
Ernst Kaltenbrunner	October 4, 1903	October 16, 1946	43 years, 12 days	Chief of the Reich Security Main Office after Heydrich was assassinated	Executed by hanging
Hans Frank	May 23, 1900	October 16, 1946	46 years, 146 days	Governor-General of the General Government	Executed by hanging
Arthur Seyss-Inquart	July 22, 1892	October 16, 1946	54 years, 86 days	Ruler of the Netherlands after its conquest Deputy Governor-General for Hans Frank, October 12, 1939 – May 18, 1940	Executed by hanging
Josef Bühler	February 16, 1904	August 22, 1948	44 years, 188 days	Deputy Governor-General for Hans Frank, May 18, 1940 – January 19, 1945	Executed by hanging
Kurt Daluege	September 15, 1897	October 24, 1946	49 years, 39 days	Chief of the Ordnungspolizei Deputy Reich-Protector of Bohemia and Moravia (acting Protector)	Executed by hanging
Oswald Pohl	June 30, 1892	June 7, 1951	58 years, 343 days	Chief of the SS-Wirtschafts-Verwaltungshauptamt (SS Main Economic and Administrative Department), the central SS financial office responsible for overall administration of the concentration camps. Directed the construction of Auschwitz, Majdanek, and Stutthof	Executed by hanging
Alois Brunner	April 8, 1912	December 2001^[3] or December 2010^[4]	89 or 98	Deputy to Adolf Eichmann; organised the deportations of at least 140,000 Jews from France, Greece, Slovakia and Austria. Commandant of the Drancy internment camp.	Escaped to Egypt around 1954, then fled to Syria. Served as a consultant to the al-Assad regime on torture techniques; died in Syria of natural causes in December 2001
Theodor Dannecker	March 27, 1913	December 10, 1945	32 years, 258 days	Deputy to Adolf Eichmann; Head of the SD Hauptamt – Judenreferat (SD Head Office – Jewish Affairs Department) for Paris: September 1940 – July 1942 In charge of the Final Solution in Bulgaria, the Balkans and Hungary (from 1943)	Arrested by the U.S. military; committed suicide
Martin Bormann	June 17, 1900	May 2, 1945	44 years, 319 days	Head of the Nazi Party Chancellery Private Secretary to Adolf Hitler	Sentenced to death by hanging in absentia; believed to have committed suicide to avoid capture in Berlin; the buried body was not found until 1972; the remains were conclusively identified in 1998.^[5]^[6]
Wilhelm Keitel	September 22, 1882	October 16, 1946	64 years, 24 days	Minister of War and chief of the Supreme Command of the Armed Forces	Executed by hanging. See War crimes of the Wehrmacht.
Kurt Knoblauch	December 10, 1885	November 10, 1952	66 years, 336 days	Chief of the Kommandostab Reichsführer-SS under Himmler. Coordinated Waffen-SS operations during the Pripyat Marshes massacres	Sentenced to two years imprisonment in 1949; died in 1952.
Georg Michalsen	September 13, 1906	May 21, 1993	86 years, 250 days	Active in Operation Reinhard; helped oversee Grossaktion Warsaw and the liquidation of several ghettos, including the Białystok Ghetto	Sentenced to 12 years in prison in 1974 but released in 1979
Hermann Höfle	June 19, 1911	August 20, 1962	51 years, 62 days	Coordinator of Operation Reinhard	Arrested; committed suicide by hanging
Ante Pavelić	July 14, 1889	December 28, 1959	70 years, 167 days	Leader of the Independent State of Croatia	Escaped to Argentina in 1948 via the ratlines. Died from wounds sustained from an assassination attempt in 1957.
Bruno Tesch	August 14, 1890	May 16, 1946	55 years, 275 days	Sold Zyklon B to the SS, knowing that it would be used to exterminate concentration camp prisoners	Executed by hanging
Karl Weinbacher	June 23, 1898	May 16, 1946	47 years, 327 days	Sold Zyklon B to the SS, knowing that it would be used to exterminate concentration camp prisoners	Executed by hanging
Viktor Brack	November 9, 1904	June 2, 1948	43 years, 206 days	Organizer for Aktion T4 Extensively involved in the process of establishment of extermination camps for Operation Reinhard	Executed by hanging
Erwin Lambert	December 7, 1909	October 15, 1976	66 years, 313 days	Head of gas chamber construction during Operation Reinhard	Served four years in prison after on trial, acquitted after a second trial on separate charges
Christian Wirth	November 24, 1885	May 26, 1944	58 years, 184 days	Inspector of Aktion T4 and Operation Reinhard; Commandant of Bełżec, March 17, 1942 – end of August 1942	Assassinated
Rudolf Höss	November 25, 1900	April 16, 1947	46 years, 142 days	Commandant of Auschwitz, May 4, 1940 – December 1, 1943, May 8, 1944 – January 18, 1945	Executed by hanging
Arthur Liebehenschel	November 25, 1901	January 24, 1948	46 years, 60 days	Commandant of Auschwitz, December 1, 1943 – May 8, 1944 Commandant of Majdanek, May 19, 1944 – July 22, 1944	Executed by hanging
Richard Baer	September 9, 1911	June 17, 1963	51 years, 279 days	Commandant of Auschwitz, May 1944 – February 1945 Commandant of Mittelbau-Dora, February 1945 – April 1945	Arrested in 1960; died in prison while awaiting trial in 1963
Josef Kramer	November 10, 1906	December 13, 1945	39 years, 33 days	Commandant of Auschwitz-Birkenau (1944) Commandant of Bergen-Belsen (1944–1945)	Executed by hanging
Martin Weiss	June 3, 1905	May 29, 1946	40 years, 360 days	Commandant of Dachau, January 3, 1942 – September 30, 1943 Commandant of Dachau, April 26, 1945 – April 28, 1945 Commandant of Neuengamme, April 1940 – August 1942 Commandant of Majdanek, November 1943 – May 1944	Executed by hanging
Alexander Piorkowski	October 11, 1904	October 22, 1948	44 years, 11 days	Commandant of Dachau, February 1940 – September 1942	Executed by hanging
Otto Förschner	November 4, 1902	May 28, 1946	43 years, 205 days	Commandant of Mittelbau-Dora, October 1944 – January 1945	Executed by hanging
Max Pauly	June 1, 1907	October 8, 1946	39 years, 129 days	Commandant of Stutthof, September 1939 – August 1942 Commandant of Neuengamme, September 1942 – May 1945	Executed by hanging
Heinrich Schwarz	June 14, 1906	March 20, 1947	40 years, 279 days	Commandant of Monowitz, Commandant of Natzweiler-Struthof, February 1945 – April 1945	Executed by firing squad
Karl-Otto Koch	August 2, 1897	April 5, 1945	47 years, 246 days	Commandant of Buchenwald, August 1, 1937 – September 1941 Commandant of Majdanek, September 1941 – August 24, 1942	Executed by Nazi Germany for multiple "unauthorized murders" and embezzlement
Hermann Pister	February 21, 1885	September 28, 1948	63 years, 250 days	Commandant of Buchenwald, August 1, 1937 – September 1941	Died awaiting execution
Irmfried Eberl	September 8, 1910	February 16, 1948	37 years, 161 days	Commandant of Treblinka, July 11, 1942 – August 26, 1942	Arrested; committed suicide by hanging
Hans Bothmann	November 11, 1911	April 4, 1946	34 years, 144 days	Commandant of Chelmno, April 1942 – July 1944	Arrested by the British Army; committed suicide by hanging
Herbert Lange	September 29, 1909	April 20, 1945	35 years, 203 days	Commandant of Chelmno, December 1941 – March 1942	Killed in action during the Battle of Berlin
Franz Stangl	March 26, 1908	June 28, 1971	63 years, 94 days	Commandant of Sobibor, April 28, 1942 – August 30, 1942 ; Commandant of Treblinka, September 1, 1942 – August 1943	Arrested on February 28, 1967; sentenced to life imprisonment on October 22, 1970; died in prison
Kurt Franz	January 17, 1914	July 4, 1998	84 years, 168 days	Commandant of Treblinka, August 1943 – October 19, 1943	Arrested on December 2, 1959; sentenced to life imprisonment in 1965; released on health grounds in 1993
Richard Thomalla	October 23, 1903	May 12, 1945	41 years, 201 days	In charge of construction for the Operation Reinhard death camps: Bełżec, Sobibor and Treblinka	Extrajudicially executed by the NKVD
Franz Reichleitner	December 2, 1906	January 3, 1944	37 years, 32 days	Commandant of Sobibor, September 1, 1942 – October 17, 1943	Killed in action
Gottlieb Hering	June 2, 1887	October 9, 1945	58 years, 129 days	Commandant of Bełżec, end of August 1942 – June 1943	Died of mysterious health complications
Amon Göth	December 11, 1908	September 13, 1946	37 years, 276 days	Commandant of Kraków-Płaszów	Executed by hanging
Siegfried Seidl	August 24, 1911	February 4, 1947	35 years, 164 days	Commandant of Theresienstadt, November 1941 – July 1943 Leading member of the Sondereinsatzkommando Eichmann, which organized the mass deportations of approximately 437,000 Hungarian Jews, hundreds of thousands of whom were sent to Auschwitz and gassed	Executed by hanging
Karl Rahm	April 2, 1907	April 30, 1947	40 years, 28 days	Commandant of Theresienstadt, January 1944 – May 1945	Executed by hanging
Max Koegel	October 16, 1895	June 27, 1946	50 years, 254 days	Commandant of Ravensbrück, January 1940 – August 1942 Commandant of Majdanek, August 1942 – November 1942 Commandant of Flossenbürg, April 1943 – April 1945	Committed suicide by hanging
Fritz Suhren	June 10, 1908	June 12, 1950	42 years, 2 days	Commandant of Ravensbrück, August 1942 – April 1945	Executed by firing squad
Franz Ziereis	August 13, 1905	May 25, 1945	39 years, 285 days	Commandant of Mauthausen, February 1939-May 1945	Shot by American soldiers while trying to escape, died of his injuries the next day
Aleksander Laak	August 24, 1907	September 6, 1960	53 years, 13 days	Commandant of Jägala	Committed suicide by hanging in Canada, allegedly to protect his relatives from potential reprisals
Hans Aumeier	August 20, 1906	January 24, 1948	41 years, 157 days	Commandant of Vaivara, August 1943 – November 1943 Deputy commandant at Auschwitz	Executed by hanging
Hanns Rauter	February 4, 1895	March 24, 1949	54 years, 48 days	Higher SS and Police Leader (HSSPF) for the Netherlands	Executed by firing squad
Walter Rauff	June 19, 1906	May 14, 1984	77 years, 330 days	Close aide of Reinhard Heydrich. Group Leader II D of the RSHA (technical matters). Designed gas vans to poison Jews, and persons with disabilities. Einsatzkommando leader in North Africa (1942–43), SS and Gestapo commander in northwest Italy (1943–45).	Arrested in Italy in 1945; escaped in 1946, fled to Syria in 1948, to Ecuador in 1949, to Chile in 1958. Extradition request by Germany thrown out by Chile in 1963 on the grounds of expired statute of limitations. Most wanted Nazi fugitive in the 1970s and 1980s. Died of natural causes in Chile in 1984.
Eduard Wirths	September 4, 1909	September 20, 1945	36 years, 16 days	Human medical experimentation, and formal responsibility of medical staff at Auschwitz	Arrested; committed suicide by hanging
Josef Mengele	March 16, 1911	February 7, 1979	67 years, 328 days	Human medical experimentation, particularly children, and selection of prisoners to be gassed at Auschwitz	Escaped to Brazil; evaded arrest and suffered a heart attack while swimming in 1979
Fritz Katzmann	May 6, 1906	September 19, 1957	51 years, 136 days	SS and Police Leader of the District of Galicia Responsible for the establishment of the Lwów Ghetto, which had a population of 120,000 Polish Jews, only 823 surviving after the war. SS and Police Leader of Radom District In charge of the establishment of the Radom Ghetto, which enclosed about 33,000 Polish Jews, the majority of whom died.	Evaded arrest after the war and died in 1957
Philipp Bouhler	September 11, 1899	May 19, 1945	45 years, 250 days	Director of Aktion T4	Arrested; committed suicide by cyanide poisoning
Karl Brandt	January 8, 1904	June 2, 1948	44 years, 146 days	Co-director of Aktion T4 Conducted human medical experimentation	Executed by hanging
Werner Heyde	April 25, 1902	February 13, 1964	61 years, 294 days	Senior medical expert for Aktion T4	Arrested in 1945; escaped custody in 1947; turned himself in 1959; committed suicide while awaiting trial in 1964
Paul Nitsche	November 25, 1876	March 25, 1948	71 years, 121 days	Senior medical expert for Aktion T4	Executed by guillotine
Ernst-Robert Grawitz	June 8, 1899	April 24, 1945	45 years, 320 days	Held administrative responsible for all human experimentation conducted at conentration camps	Committed suicide
Karl Gebhardt	November 23, 1897	June 2, 1948	50 years, 192 days	Oversaw human medical experimentation of concentration camp inmates at Ravensbrück and Auschwitz	Executed by hanging
Wilhelm Harster	July 21, 1904	December 25, 1991	87 years, 157 days	Commander of the Security Police (SiPo) and SD (Kraków, 1939–40; Netherlands, 1940–43; Italy, 1943–45). Responsible for the deaths of at least 104,000 Jews.	Arrested in 1945 and transferred to Dutch custody. Tried and sentenced to 12 years imprisonment in 1949; served six years; deported to West Germany in 1955. Arrested and tried in 1967. Sentenced to 15 years imprisonment, but sentence commuted and released in 1969.
Karl Frenzel	August 28, 1911	September 2, 1996	85 years, 5 days	Commandant of Camp I (forced labor camp) at Sobibor	Arrested on March 22, 1962; sentenced to life imprisonment on December 20, 1966; released on health grounds in 1982
Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski	March 1, 1899	March 8, 1972	73 years, 7 days	In charge of Nazi security warfare	Arrested in 1945; released in 1949; sentenced to 10 years imprisonment, which he served under house arrest; sentenced to 4.5 years imprisonment in 1958; sentenced to life imprisonment in 1961; died in prison in 1972
Herbert Backe	May 1, 1896	April 6, 1947	50 years, 340 days	Responsible for the Hunger Plan	Arrested; committed suicide by hanging
Hermann Fegelein	October 30, 1906	April 28, 1945	38 years, 180 days	Responsible for the Pripyat Marshes massacres	Executed by Nazi Germany for desertion after trying to flee from Berlin
Oskar Dirlewanger	September 26, 1895	June 7, 1945	49 years, 254 days	Commander of the Dirlewanger Brigade	Arrested, then beaten to death by Polish guards while in custody
Bronislav Kaminski	June 16, 1899	August 28, 1944	45 years, 73 days	Commander of the Kaminski Brigade	Executed by Nazi Germany after being court-martialed for looting
Jürgen Stroop	September 26, 1895	March 6, 1952	56 years, 162 days	Suppression and destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising	Executed by hanging
Ferdinand von Sammern-Frankenegg	March 17, 1897	September 20, 1944	47 years, 187 days	SS and Police Leader of the Warsaw area from 1941–43 Responsible for the Grossaktion Warsaw, the single most deadly operation against the Jews in the course of the Holocaust in occupied Poland, which entailed sending between 254,000 and 265,000 men, women and children aboard overcrowded Holocaust trains to Treblinka Leading figure in the destruction of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising	Assassinated
Friedrich-Wilhelm Krüger	February 27, 1894	May 9, 1945	51 years, 71 days	Higher SS and Police Leader (HSPPF) in occupied Poland	Committed suicide
Friedrich Jeckeln	February 2, 1895	February 3, 1946	51 years, 1 day	Higher SS and Police Leader in Russia-South; Russia-North Responsible for Rumbula, Babi Yar, and Kamianets-Podilskyi massacres	Executed by hanging
Karl Eberhard Schöngarth	April 22, 1903	May 16, 1946	43 years, 24 days	Commanded multiple Einsatzgruppen units in Poland Commander of the BdS in the Netherlands (September 1944– May 1945)	Executed by hanging
Kurt Eberhard	September 12, 1874	September 8, 1947	72 years, 361 days	Military governor of German-occupied Kyiv Responsible for the Babi Yar massacre	Arrested; committed suicide
Walter von Reichenau	October 8, 1884	January 17, 1942	57 years, 101 days	Issued the Severity Order Responsible for the Babi Yar and Bila Tserkva massacres	Died after having a stroke, then suffering injuries in a plane crash
Hans Krueger	July 1, 1909	February 8, 1988	78 years, 222 days	Commandant of the Stanisławów Ghetto Responsible for the Stanislawow Ghetto massacre	Arrested in 1945; released in 1948; re-arrested in 1962; sentenced to life imprisonment in 1968; released on health grounds in 1986; died in 1988
Hans-Adolf Prützmann	August 31, 1901	May 16, 1945	43 years, 258 days	Supreme SS and Police Leader of Ukraine Higher SS and Police Leader of Russia-North; Russia-South Oversaw the activities of the Einsatzgruppen detachments that perpetrated the Holocaust in the Baltic States and Ukraine	Committed suicide by cyanide poisoning while in Allied custody
Bruno Streckenbach	February 7, 1902	October 28, 1977	75 years, 263 days	Trained the Einsatzgruppen Commander of Einsatzgruppe I in Poland Supp	Served 10 years in Soviet custody, but never tried; released on October 10, 1955
Ludwig Hahn	January 23, 1908	November 10, 1986	78 years, 291 days	Commander of Einsatzkommando 1/I, Poland Suppression of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Suppression of the Warsaw Uprising	Arrested in 1960; released in 1961; briefly re-arrested in 1965 and 1966; arrested for the last time in 1972; sentenced to 12 years in prison in 1973; sentenced to life imprisonment in 1975; released on health grounds in 1983; died in 1986
Karl Brunner	July 26, 1900	December 7, 1980	80 years, 134 days	Commander of Einsatzkommando 4/I, Poland	Never prosecuted
Emanuel Schäfer	April 20, 1900	December 4, 1974	74 years, 228 days	Commander of Einsatzgruppe II, Poland Commander of the BdS in Serbia, (January 6, 1942 – December 1944)	Sentenced to 21 months in prison by a denazification court in 1951; released in 1953. Sentenced to a further 6.5 years in prison in June 1953; released in 1956.
Lothar Beutel	May 6, 1902	May 16, 1986	84 years, 10 days	Commander of Einsatzgruppe IV, Poland (1/2)	Served 10 years in Soviet custody, but never tried; released in October 1955. Arrested and charged in West Germany in 1965; released on bail in 1967; charges dropped in 1971; died in 1986.
Josef Albert Meisinger	September 14, 1899	March 7, 1947	47 years, 174 days	Commander of Einsatzgruppe IV, Poland (2/2) Commander of the state police in Warsaw	Executed by hanging
Ernst Damzog	October 30, 1882	July 24, 1945	62 years, 267 days	Commander of Einsatzgruppe V, Poland	Died under unclear circumstances
Gerhard Flesch	October 18, 1909	February 28, 1948	38 years, 133 days	Commander of Einsatzkommando 2/VI, Poland	Executed by firing squad
Franz Walther Stahlecker	October 10, 1900	March 23, 1942	41 years, 164 days	Commander of Einsatzgruppe A, Baltic states, June 22, 1941–March 23, 1942 (1/5)	Killed in action
Heinz Jost	July 9, 1904	November 12, 1964	60 years, 126 days	Commander of Einsatzgruppe A, Baltic states, March 29, 1942–September 2, 1942 (2/5)	Sentenced to life imprisonment in 1948; commuted to 10 years; released in December 1951; died in 1964
Humbert Achamer-Pifrader	November 21, 1900	April 25, 1945	44 years, 155 days	Commander of Einsatzgruppe A, Baltic states, September 10, 1942–September 4, 1943 (3/5)	Killed in air raid
Friedrich Panzinger	February 1, 1903	August 8, 1959	56 years, 188 days	Commander of Einsatzgruppe A, Baltic states, September 5, 1943–May 6, 1944 (4/5) Last chief of the Kripo (2/2)	Arrested by the Soviets 1946, sentenced to 25 years in prison; released in 1955; re-arrested in 1959; committed suicide
Wilhelm Fuchs	September 1, 1898	January 24, 1947	48 years, 145 days	Commander of Einsatzgruppe A, Baltic states, May 6, 1944–October 10, 1944 (5/5) Commander of Einsatzkommando 3, September 15, 1943–May 27, 1944 Commander of Einsatzgruppe E, Croatia, October 1944–November 1944 (3/3) Commander of the BdS in Serbia, (1941 – January 1942)	Executed by hanging
Eduard Strauch	August 17, 1906	September 15, 1955	49 years, 29 days	Commander of Einsatzkommando 2, Latvia, November 4, 1941–December 2, 1941 (2/6) Commander of Sonderkommando 1b, March 1942–August 1942 (3/4) Responsible for Rumbula massacre	Sentenced to death by hanging by an American military court in 1948, then transferred to Belgium, where he received another death sentence. Strauch was never executed and died in custody.
Rudolf Lange	April 18, 1910	February 23, 1945	34 years, 311 days	Commander of Einsatzkommando 2, Latvia, December 3, 1941–1944	Believed to have been killed in action
Karl Jäger	September 20, 1888	June 22, 1959	70 years, 275 days	Commander of Einsatzkommando 3, Lithuania, June 1941–August 1, 1943	Discovered and arrested in 1959; committed suicide while awaiting trial
Hermann Schaper	August 12, 1911	deceased after 2002	over 90 years	Commander of Einsatzgruppe B, Poland	Arrested in 1964; released due to insufficient evidence
Arthur Nebe	November 13, 1894	March 21, 1945	50 years, 128 days	Commander of Einsatzgruppe B, Belarus, June 1941–November 1941 (1/5) Chief of the Kripo (1/2) President of Interpol	Executed by Nazi Germany for involvement in the failed 20 July 1944 attempt to kill Adolf Hitler
Erich Naumann	April 29, 1905	June 7, 1951	46 years, 40 days	Commander of Einsatzgruppe VI, Poland Commander of Einsatzgruppe B, Belarus, November 1941–March 1943 (2/5) Commander of the BdS in the Netherlands, September 1943–July 1944	Executed by hanging
Horst Böhme	August 24, 1909	April 10, 1945	35 years, 229 days	Lidice Commander of Einsatzgruppe B, Belarus, March 12, 1943–August 28, 1943, August 12, 1944 (3/5) and (4/5) Commander of Einsatzgruppe C, north and central Ukraine, September 6, 1943–March 1944 (3/3)	Presumed killed in action in Königsberg, East Prussia; officially declared dead in 1954
Erich Ehrlinger	October 14, 1910	July 31, 2004	93 years, 291 days	Commander of Einsatzgruppe B, Belarus, August 28, 1943–April 1944 (4/5); Commander of Sonderkommando 1b, June 1941–November 1941	Arrested in December 1958; sentenced to 12 years imprisonment
Heinrich Seetzen	June 22, 1906	September 28, 1945	39 years, 98 days	Commander of Einsatzgruppe B, Belarus, April 28, 1944–August 1944 (5/5); Commander of Einsatzkommando 10a, Moldova, south Ukraine, the Crimea, and north Caucasus, June 1941–July 1942	Arrested in September 1945; committed suicide by cyanide poisoning
Otto Bradfisch	May 10, 1903	June 22, 1994	91 years, 43 days	Commander of Einsatzkommando 8, Belarus, June 1941–April 1, 1942	Arrested on April 21, 1958; sentenced to 13 years imprisonment in 1963; released in 1969; died in 1994
Otto Rasch	December 7, 1891	November 1, 1948	56 years, 330 days	Commander of Einsatzgruppe C, north and central Ukraine, June 1941–October 1941 (1/3) Responsible for the Babi Yar massacre	Arrested; removed from trial on health grounds in February 1948; died in November 1948
Paul Blobel	August 13, 1894	June 7, 1951	56 years, 298 days	Commander of Sonderkommando 4a, north and central Ukraine, June 1941–13 January 1942 (1/5), commander of the Sonderaktion 1005 project Responsible for the Babi Yar and Bila Tserkva massacres	Executed by hanging
Otto Ohlendorf	February 4, 1907	June 7, 1951	44 years, 124 days	Commander of Einsatzgruppe D, Moldova, south Ukraine, the Crimea, and north Caucasus, June 1941–July 1942 (1/2)	Executed by hanging
Walther Bierkamp	December 17, 1901	May 15, 1945	43 years, 149 days	Commander of Einsatzgruppe D, Moldova, south Ukraine, the Crimea, and north Caucasus, July 1942–March 1943 (2/2)	Committed suicide
Bruno Müller	September 13, 1905	March 1, 1960	54 years, 170 days	Commander of Einsatzkommando 2/I, Poland Commander of Einsatzkommando 11b, south Ukraine and the Crimea, July 1941–October 1941	Sentenced to 20 years in prison for unrelated crimes in 1948; released in 1953; died in 1960
Werner Braune	April 11, 1909	June 7, 1951	42 years, 58 days	Commander of Einsatzkommando 11b, south Ukraine and the Crimea, October 1941–September 1942	Executed by hanging
Rudolf Batz	November 10, 1903	February 8, 1961	57 years, 90 days	Commander of Einsatzkommando 2 Oversaw Einsatzgruppen killings in the Baltic States	Arrested in 1961; committed suicide while awaiting trial
Joachim Hamann^[7]	May 18, 1913	July 13, 1945	32 years, 56 days	Commander of Rollkommando Hamann, a small mobile unit established by him that murdered an estimated 60,000 Latvian Jews in massacres across occupied territory	Committed suicide
Wolfgang Birkner	October 27, 1913	March 24, 1945	31 years, 148 days	Commander of Kommando Bialystok, a small mobile unit which murdered at least 1,800 Polish Jews	Killed in action
Carl-Heinrich von Stülpnagel	January 2, 1886	August 30, 1944	58 years, 241 days	Ordered the mass deportations of Jews in France as a reprisal policy Collaborated with the Einsatzgruppen for reprisals against Jews in Ukraine	Executed by Nazi Germany for involvement in the failed 20 July 1944 attempt to kill Adolf Hitler
Erich Hoepner	September 14, 1886	August 8, 1944	57 years, 329 days	Heavily collaborated with Einsatzgruppe A Carried out orders to summarily execute Communist officials under the Commissar Order	Executed by Nazi Germany for involvement in the failed 20 July 1944 attempt to kill Adolf Hitler
Hans Graf von Sponeck	February 12, 1888	July 23, 1944	56 years, 154 days	Collaborated with Einsatzgruppe D	Imprisoned by Nazi Germany after disobeying orders, then executed in the aftermath of the failed 20 July 1944 attempt to kill Adolf Hitler
Eduard Wagner	April 1, 1894	July 23, 1944	50 years, 113 days	Drew up regulations that allowed German soldiers to take hostages from civilian population and execute them as response to resistance Drew up the regulations with Reinhard Heydrich to ensure the Wehrmacht's cooperation with the Einsatzgruppen in the murders of Soviet Jews Created and implemented deliberate starvation policies against Soviet prisoners of war	Committed suicide in the aftermath of the failed 20 July 1944 attempt to kill Adolf Hitler
Ulrich Greifelt	December 8, 1896	February 6, 1949	52 years, 60 days	Responsible for the mass expulsions of non-Germans, as well as a directive ordering the mass abductions of children suspecting of being ethnic Germans	Died in prison
Maria Mandel	January 10, 1912	January 24, 1948	36 years, 14 days	Commandant of female camp at Auschwitz	Executed by hanging
Fritz Hartjenstein	July 3, 1905	October 20, 1954	49 years, 109 days	Commandant of Auschwitz-Birkenau Commandant of Natzweiler-Struthof, May 9, 1944 – January 1945	Died awaiting execution
Johann Schwarzhuber	August 29, 1904	May 3, 1947	42 years, 247 days	Commandant of men's camp at Auschwitz, and selection of prisoners to be gassed at Auschwitz Commandant of Birkenau	Executed by hanging
Martin Weiss	February 21, 1903	September 30, 1984	81 years, 222 days	Commander of the Vilna Ghetto Commander of the Ypatingasis būrys killing squad, which was largely responsible for the Ponary massacre where approximately 100,000 people were shot, including 70,000 Jews.	Arrested in 1949; sentenced to life imprisonment in 1950; sentence suspended in 1971 and revoked in 1977; died in 1984
Eduard Roschmann	November 25, 1908	August 8, 1977	68 years, 256 days	Commandant of the Riga Ghetto	Arrested in 1945 but released early; fled to Argentina and subsequently escaped prosecution; died in 1977
Otto-Heinrich Drechsler	April 1, 1895	May 5, 1945	50 years, 34 days	General Commissioner for Latvia for Nazi Germany's occupation regime (Reichskommissariat Ostland) Major figure in the establishment of the Riga Ghetto	Taken into British custody; committed suicide
Franz Murer	January 24, 1912	January 5, 1994	81 years, 346 days	Responsible for the establishment of the Vilna Ghetto, which hosted a population of about 55,000 Jews, none of whom survived after the war Effectively ruled the ghetto until July 23, shortly before its liquidation	Arrested in 1947 and deported to the Soviet Union in January 1948; sentenced to 25 years in hard labor; released in 1955 due to the Austrian State Treaty. Arrested and prosecuted again in 1963 due to the intervention of the famous Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal; acquitted on all charges and died in 1994.
Franz Josef Huber	January 22, 1902	January 30, 1975	73 years, 8 days	Chief of the SiPo (Security Police) and the Gestapo for Vienna, the "Upper" and "Lower Danube" regions and formal chief of the Central Agency for Jewish Emigration in Vienna Responsible for the mass deportations of Austrian Jews from these regions	Died in 1975 without being suspected of any crimes
Edmund Veesenmayer	November 12, 1904	December 23, 1977	73 years, 42 days	Reich plenipotentiary to Hungary after the occupation of the country Helped establish the Ustaše-led Independent State of Croatia Assisted in the deportations of 300,000 Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz	Arrested in 1945; sentenced to 20 years imprisonment in 1949; sentence commuted to 10 years imprisonment in 1951; released December, 1951; died in 1977
Jozef Tiso	October 13, 1887	April 18, 1947	59 years, 187 days	Leader of the State of Slovakia	Executed by hanging
Alexander Mach	October 11, 1902	October 15, 1980	78 years, 4 days	Head of the Hlinka Guard, one of the leading forces in the extermination of 68,000–71,000 Slovak Jews during the Holocaust in Slovakia	Sentenced to 30 years imprisonment; released in 1968; died in 1980
Vojtech Tuka	July 4, 1880	August 20, 1946	66 years, 47 days	Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Slovak State Leading figure in the mass deportations of Slovak Jews to Nazi concentration camps	Executed by hanging
Ludwig Fischer	April 6, 1905	March 8, 1947	41 years, 336 days	Governor of the Warsaw District Responsible for the establishment of the Warsaw Ghetto, the largest ghetto ever built by the Nazis	Executed by hanging
Jakob Sporrenberg	September 16, 1902	December 6, 1952	50 years, 91 days	Oversaw and implemented Operation Harvest Festival	Executed by hanging
Albert Forster	July 26, 1902	February 28, 1952	49 years, 217 days	Reichsstatthalter and Gauleiter of Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia Incited the massacres in Piaśnica	Executed by hanging
Arthur Greiser	January 22, 1897	July 21, 1946	49 years, 180 days	Reichsstatthalter and Gauleiter of Reichsgau Wartheland	Executed by hanging
Josef Bürckel	March 30, 1895	September 28, 1944	49 years, 182 days	Influential in the rise of the Nazi movement Responsible for the establishment of the Central Agency for Jewish Emigration in Vienna Gauleiter of Vienna Governor of the Vienna region Gauleiter of Gau Westmark	Died because of ill health
Ferdinand aus der Fünten	December 17, 1909	April 19, 1989	79 years, 123 days	Head of the Central Office for Jewish Emigration in Amsterdam	Sentenced to death in 1950, which was commuted to life in imprisonment in 1951; released on health grounds in 1989; died later that year
Erich Koch	June 19, 1896	November 12, 1986	90 years, 146 days	Gauleiter of East Prussia Chief of Civil Administration (Chef der Zivilverwaltung) of Bezirk Bialystok Reich Commissioner for Ukraine (Reichskommissariat Ukraine)	Arrested by the British in 1949, and extradited to Poland in 1950. Sentenced to death in 1959, which was commuted to life imprisonment in 1960; died in prison in 1986.
Viktors Arājs	January 13, 1910	January 13, 1988	78 years	Leader of the Arajs Kommando, which murdered half of Latvia's Jewish population	Held in a British internment camp until 1949; evaded prosecution until 1979 when convicted for his involvement in the Rumbula massacre and sentenced to life imprisonment; died in prison in 1988.
Fritz Dietrich	August 6, 1898	October 22, 1948	50 years, 77 days	Commander of SS police in Liepāja Responsible for Liepāja massacres	Executed by hanging
Jonas Noreika	October 8, 1910	February 26, 1947	36 years, 141 days	Responsible for Plungė massacre	Executed by shooting
Ion Antonescu	June 14, 1882	June 1, 1946	63 years, 352 days	Leader of Romania during WW2 Responsible for the Odessa massacre, deportations to Transnistria, and the Iași pogrom	Executed by firing squad
Pierre Laval	June 28, 1883	October 15, 1945	62 years, 109 days	Prime Minister of Vichy France	Executed by firing squad
Philippe Pétain	April 24, 1856	July 23, 1951	95 years, 90 days	Chief of Vichy France	Sentenced to death in 1945, but had his sentence commuted to life imprisonment due to his World War I service and old age; died in custody in 1951
Benito Mussolini	July 29, 1883	April 28, 1945	61 years, 273 days	Prime Minister of Fascist Italy Duce of the Italian Social Republic	Executed by firing squad
Vidkun Quisling	July 18, 1887	October 24, 1945	58 years, 98 days	Prime Minister of German-occupied Norway	Executed by firing squad
Josef Terboven	May 23, 1898	May 8, 1945	46 years, 350 days	Reichkommissar of German-occupied Norway	Committed suicide
Gustav Simon	August 2, 1900	December 18, 1945	45 years, 138 days	Chief of German-occupied Luxembourg	Arrested; committed suicide by hanging
Vjekoslav Luburić	March 6, 1914	April 20, 1969	55 years, 45 days	Croatian Ustaše official who headed the system of concentration camps in the Independent State of Croatia (NDH) during much of World War II	Murdered in exile
Werner Best	July 10, 1903	June 23, 1980	76 years, 349 days	Chief of Departament 1 of the Gestapo; initiated a registry of all Jews in Germany Deputy to Reinhard Heydrich	Sentenced to death in 1948, later to 12 years imprisonment; released in 1951; held in detention in 1958 and charged again of war crimes in 1972; died in 1989 without serving time in prison a second time
Kurt Lischka	August 16, 1909	May 16, 1989	79 years, 273 days	Chief of the Gestapo and commander of the SiPo and the SD in Paris Responsible of the single largest mass deportation of French Jews in Occupied France	Sentenced in 1980 to ten years imprisonment; released early on health grounds and died in 1989
Enno Lolling	June 19, 1888	May 27, 1945	56 years, 342 days	Chief medical officer of all SS concentration camps. Involved in human experimentation	Committed suicide

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