# List of Axis war crime trials

The following is a list of war crimes 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.
*** Subsequent Nuremberg Trials
** Dachau Trials; Judge Advocate General's Corps, United States Army tribunal held within the walls of the former Dachau concentration camp, 1945–1948
** Belsen trials; held in Lüneburg, Germany against former personnel at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, 1945–1948
** Minsk Trial; Soviet military tribunal against eighteen defendants accused of committing crimes in occupied Belarus
** Riga Trial; trial of eight German military officials in connection with the Nazi occupation of Latvia
** Borkum Island war crimes trial; held at the Ludwigsburg Palace in 1946
** Werner Rohde trial; trial of eight former staff members (and one prisoner) at the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp
** 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
** Eichmann trial; held in Jerusalem, Israel in 1961 against Adolf Eichmann, one of the chief organizers of the Holocaust
* 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)
** Shenyang and Taiyuan Special Military Tribunal (created by People's Republic of China for crimes committed in the Chinese theatre)
** French Permanent Military Tribunal in Saigon (French military tribunal which investigated war crimes committed in French Indochina after the Japanese coup d'état in French Indochina.)
** Philippine War Crimes Commission (American military tribunal in charge of the war crimes trials of Tomoyuki Yamashita and Masaharu Homma)
** Yokohama War Crimes Trials, tried by the US Military Commission at Yokohama 1945–1949
** Khabarovsk War Crime Trials, tribunal of Kwantung Army officials for use of chemical and biological weapons
* Other
** Hungarian People's Tribunals
** Post-World War II Romanian war crime trials
** Bulgarian People's Tribunals;
** Yugoslav People's Tribunals
** War-responsibility trials in Finland
** Czechoslovak People's Tribunals
** Belgrade Process
Comparative table
| Axis member | Total convicted | Executed |
| Germany | 5,025 (by the Western Allies) ~10,000 (by the Soviet Union) | 486+ |
| Japan | >4,400 | 927 |
| Bulgaria | 2,618 (death sentences only) | 1,576 |
| Hungary | ~27,000 | 189 |
| Slovakia | 65 (death sentences only) | 27 |
| Romania | Hundreds | 4 |