Defendants
| Name | Photo | Function | Sentence | Outcome, 1951 Amnesty |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Otto Ohlendorf | SS Gruppenführer; member of the SD; commanding officer of Einsatzgruppe D | Death by hanging | executed June 8, 1951 | |
| Heinz Jost | SS Brigadeführer; member of the SD; commanding officer of Einsatzgruppe A | Lifetime imprisonment | commuted to 10 years; died 1964 | |
| Erich Naumann | SS Brigadeführer; member of the SD; commanding officer of Einsatzgruppe B | Death by hanging | executed June 8, 1951 | |
| Otto Rasch | SS Brigadeführer; member of the SD and the Gestapo; commanding officer of Einsatzgruppe C | Removed from the trial on February 5, 1948 due to medical reasons | died 1 November 1948 | |
| Erwin Schulz (DE) | SS Brigadeführer; member of the Gestapo; commanding officer of Einsatzkommando 5 of Einsatzgruppe C | 20 years | commuted to 15 years; released 9 January 1954-died 1981 | |
| Franz Six | SS Brigadeführer; member of the SD; commanding officer of Vorkommando Moscow of Einsatzgruppe B | 20 years | commuted to 15 years; released 30 September 1952-died 1975 | |
| Paul Blobel | SS Standartenführer; member of the SD; commanding officer of Sonderkommando 4a of Einsatzgruppe C | Death by hanging | executed June 8, 1951 | |
| Walter Blume | SS Standartenführer; member of the SD and the Gestapo; commanding officer of Sonderkommando 7a of Einsatzgruppe B | Death by hanging | commuted to 25 years; released 1955, died 1974 | |
| Martin Sandberger | SS Standartenführer; member of the SD; commanding officer of Sonderkommando 1a of Einsatzgruppe A | Death by hanging | commuted to lifetime imprisonment, released in 1958, died 2010 | |
| Willi Seibert (DE) | SS Standartenführer; member of the SD; Deputy Chief of Einsatzgruppe D | Death by hanging | commuted to 15 years, died in 1976 | |
| Eugen Steimle (DE) | SS Standartenführer; member of the SD; commanding officer of Sonderkommando 7a of Einsatzgruppe B and of Sonderkommando 4a of Einsatzgruppe C | Death by hanging | commuted to 20 years; released June 1954; died 1987 | |
| Ernst Biberstein | SS Obersturmbannführer; member of the SD; commanding officer of Einsatzkommando 6 of Einsatzgruppe C | Death by hanging | commuted to lifetime imprisonment, released in 1958, died 1986 | |
| Werner Braune | SS Obersturmbannführer; member of the SD and the Gestapo; commanding officer of Sonderkommando 11b of Einsatzgruppe D | Death by hanging | executed June 8, 1951 | |
| Walter Haensch (DE) | SS Obersturmbannführer; member of the SD; commanding officer of Sonderkommando 4b of Einsatzgruppe C | Death by hanging | commuted to 15 years | |
| Gustav Adolf Nosske (DE) | SS Obersturmbannführer; member of the Gestapo; commanding officer of Einsatzkommando 12 of Einsatzgruppe D | Lifetime imprisonment | commuted to 10 years; died 1990 | |
| Adolf Ott (DE) | SS Obersturmbannführer; member of the SD; commanding officer of Sonderkommando 7b of Einsatzgruppe B | Death by hanging | commuted to lifetime imprisonment; released 9 May 1958 | |
| Eduard Strauch | SS Obersturmbannführer; member of the SD; commanding officer of Einsatzkommando 2 of Einsatzgruppe A | Death by hanging; handed over to Belgian authorities; died in hospital 11 September 1955. | ||
| Emil Haussmann | SS Sturmbannführer; member of the SD; officer of Einsatzkommando 12 of Einsatzgruppe D | Committed suicide before the arraignment on July 31, 1947 | ||
| Waldemar Klingelhöfer | SS Sturmbannführer; member of the SD; officer of Sonderkommando 7b of Einsatzgruppe B | Death by hanging | commuted to lifetime imprisonment; released 1956-died 1980 | |
| Lothar Fendler (DE) | SS Sturmbannführer; member of the SD; Deputy chief of Sonderkommando 4b of Einsatzgruppe C | 10 years; reduced to 8 years | commuted to 8 years | |
| Waldemar von Radetzky (DE) | SS Sturmbannführer; member of the SD; Deputy chief of Sonderkommando 4a of Einsatzgruppe C | 20 years | released | |
| Felix Rühl (DE) | SS Hauptsturmführer; member of the Gestapo; officer of Sonderkommando 10b of Einsatzgruppe D | 10 years | released | |
| Heinz Schubert | SS Obersturmführer; member of the SD; officer in Einsatzgruppe D | Death by hanging | commuted to 10 years | |
| Matthias Graf (DE) | SS Untersturmführer; member of the SD; officer in Einsatzkommando 6 of Einsatzgruppe D | Time served |
^ Rasch had to be removed from the courtroom during the arraignment due to his poor health; he was arraigned separately on September 22, 1947.
^ Strauch suffered an epileptic attack during the arraignment on September 15, 1947. His defense later tried to get him removed from the trial on medical grounds, but the tribunal dismissed this, stating that Strauch's testimonies (which he did give subsequently) were coherent and showed no reason why he shouldn't be mentally capable to stand trial.
^ While Fendler was found guilty on all counts, the tribunal considered the evidence presented insufficient to prove that he ordered or helped plan the killings. He seems to have held primarily an office post.
^ Rühl was found guilty only on count 3; regarding counts 1 and 2, the tribunal found him not guilty, stating that as a subaltern officer, he was not responsible for the atrocities committed by Einsatzgruppe D and in no position to prevent them, and although he knew of the killings, it could not be proved that he directly participated in them.
^ Graf was found guilty only of membership in the SD. He had actually been expelled from the SS for "general indifference to the organization" and later had tried to be relieved from the SD. On counts 1 and 2, he was also found not guilty, because as a noncommissioned officer, he had never held any command post, and in fact even refused one once.
Of the 14 death sentences, only four were carried out; the others were commuted to prison terms of varying lengths in 1951. In 1958, all convicts were released from prison.
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