# List of major perpetrators of the Holocaust

This is a list of major perpetrators of the Holocaust.
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 Established the Final Solution as official policy in July 1941. | Sentenced to death by hanging; committed suicide by cyanide poisoning hours before his execution |
| 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. |
| 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) |
| Joseph Goebbels | October 29, 1897 | May 1, 1945 | 47 years, 184 days | Chief Propagandist of the Nazi Party, Reich Minister of Propaganda Brief Chancellor of Germany | Committed suicide by cyanide poisoning |
| Albert Speer | March 19, 1905 | September 1, 1981 | 76 years, 166 days | Reich Minister of Armaments and War Production denied any involvement of knowledge of the Holocaust, letters found after his death proved he was aware amongst other crimes | Sentenced to 20 years in prison; released in 1966; died in 1981 |
| 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 |
| Albert Ganzenmüller | February 25, 1905 | March 20, 1996 | 91 years, 23 days | Head of Deutsche Reichsbahn and State Secretary in Reich Ministry of Transport, involved with the mass deportations of German Jews to concentration camps and ghettos, also involved with the deportation of ghetto's residents to extermination camps | Died of natural causes |
| 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 |
| Karl Wolff | May 13, 1900 | July 17, 1984 | 84 years, 66 days | Chief of Personal Staff Reichsführer-SS, liaison officer between SS and Adolf Hitler, Supreme SS and Police Leader in occupied Italy | Sentenced to 5 years in prison by a denazification court in 1948; released in 1949 after sentence reduced to 4 years; re-arrested in 1962; sentenced to 15 years in prison in 1964; released in 1974; died in 1984 |
| Arthur Seyss-Inquart | July 22, 1892 | October 16, 1946 | 54 years, 86 days | Reichskommissar of the Netherlands Deputy Governor-General of the General Government, (October 12, 1939 – May 18, 1940) | Executed by hanging |
| Josef Bühler | February 16, 1904 | August 22, 1948 | 44 years, 188 days | State Secretary and deputy to Hans Frank, (May 18, 1940 – January 19, 1945) | Executed by hanging |
| Otto Georg Thierack | April 19, 1889 | October 26, 1946 | 57 years, 190 days | Head of NSRB, Minister of Justice in Saxony, President of the Academy for German Law (20 August 1942 – 8 May 1945), Minister of Justice (24 August 1942 – 2 May 1945), Judge President of the People's Court, co-responsible for creating and establishing antisemitic and totalitarian laws that led to the Final Solution and justified terror in occupied territories. | Committed suicide by poisoning himself |
| 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 |
| 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. |
| Karl Hermann Frank | January 24, 1898 | May 22, 1946 | 48 years, 118 days | State Secretary and SS and Police Leader in Bohemia and Moravia | Executed by hanging |
| Alois Brunner | April 8, 1912 | December 2001 or December 2010 | 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 |
| 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. |
| Wilhelm Frick | March 13, 1877 | October 16, 1946 | 69 years, 215 days | Reich Minister of the Interior (30 January - 20 August 1943), Reich Minister without Portfolio (24 August 1943 -30 April 1945), Protector of Bohemia and Moravia (24 August 1943 – 8 May 1945) | Executed by hanging |
| 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 |
| Helmut Knochen | March 14, 1910 | April 4, 2003 | 93 years, 21 days | Commandant of SiPo and SD in Paris, involved in mass deportations of the French Jews and also the French population in general | Sentenced to death in 1947 and 1954; commuted to life imprisonment; released in 1962; died in 2003 |
| 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 |
| Hans Kammler | August 26, 1901 | 1945 (assumed) | 44 years (assumed) | A deputy to Oswald Pohl in WVHA and chief of its Office C that was responsible for designing and building concentration camps, including gas chambers and crematoria. | Unknown |
| 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 |
| Paul-Werner Hoppe | February 28, 1910 | July 15, 1974 | 64 years, 196 days | Commandant of Stutthof concentration camp, September 1942 - April 1945 | Arrested in Italy in 1946; escaped in 1949; re-arrested in 1953; sentenced to 5 years and three months in prison, later increased to nine years; released in 1960; died in 1974 |
| 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 denied 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 | Involved in Aktion T4 and human medical experimentation in concentration 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 in April 1945 |
| 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 |
| Wilhelm Koppe | June 15, 1896 | July 2, 1975 | 79 years, 17 days | SS and Police Leader in Reichsgau Wartheland (September 1939 - October 1943) Supreme SS and Police Leader in General Government (October 1943 - 1945) | Died of natural causes |
| 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 |
| Hans Biebow | December 18, 1902 | June 23, 1947 | 45 years, 97 days | Chief of German administration of Litzmannstadt (Łódź) Ghetto | Executed by hanging |
| 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 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 | 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 |
| Ernst Girzick | October 17, 1911 | March 4, 1977 | 65 years | Head of Central Office for the Settlement of the Jewish Question in Bohemia and Moravia, Member of Eichmann-Kommando in Budapest. | Sentenced to 15 years in prison in 1948; released in 1953; died in 1960 |
| Franz Novak | January 10, 1913 | October 21, 1983 | 70 years | Railway and transportation expert in Eichmann's Office of Jewish Affairs. Member of the Eichmann-kommando responsible for the deportation of Hungarian Jews. | Died of natural causes |
| Ernst Boepple | November 30, 1887 | December 15, 1950 | 63 years, 15 days | Deputy to Josef Bühler and State Secretary in General Government in occupied Poland, co-responsible for the policy of terror, deportations to concentration camps and forced labor. | Executed by hanging |
| Gustav Lombard | April 10, 1895 | September 18, 1992 | 97 | Commander of 8th SS Cavalry Division Florian Geyer, in this position he took part in Pripyat Marshes massacres | Sentenced to 25 years in prison in 1947; released in 1955; died in 1992 |
| Anton Burger | November 19, 1911 | December 25, 1991 | 80 years | Judenreferent in Greece Commandant of Theresienstadt concentration camp July 3, 1943 - February 7, 1944 | Died of natural causes |
| 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 |
| Otto Wächter | July 8, 1901 | July 14, 1949 | 48 years, 6 days | Governor of District of Kraków and District of Galicia in General Government | Died reportedly from kidney disease as a fugitive |
| 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 |
| Friedrich Buchardt | March 17, 1909 | December 28, 1982 | 73 years | Commandant of Vorkomando Moskau,a section of Einsatzgruppe B, later worked in SD headquarters in occupied Łódź and again as commandant of Einsatzkommando 9, another section of Einsatzgruppe B operating near Vitebsk | Died of natural causes |
| 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 |
| 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. |
| Hinrich Lohse | September 2, 1896 | February 25, 1964 | 67 years, 176 days | Gauleiter of Schleswig-Holstein Reich Commissioner for Ostland (Reichskommissariat Ostland) | Arrested by the British in 1945; sentenced to 10 years in prison in 1948; released due to ill health in 1951; died in 1964 |
| 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 World War II 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 |
| Werner Best | July 10, 1903 | June 23, 1989 | 85 years, 348 days | Chief of Department 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Ferenc Szálasi | Jan 6, 1897 | Mar 12, 1946 | 49 years, 65 days | Leader of the Hungarian Government of National Unity from 1944-1945. Deported tens of thousands of Jews to Nazi concentration camps | Executed by hanging |