The Nuremberg Trials:
The Einsatzgruppen Case

MILITARY TRIBUNAL II

Case No. 9

Defendants

Opening Statement of Prosecution

Testimony of Otto Ohlendorf

Prosecution Evidence: Reich Documents
(Link to materials compiled by Ken Lewis)

Affidavit of Defendant Paul Blobel

Account of Blobel Order to Kill Children

Opinion and Judgment of the Tribunal

Verdicts

Images of the Einsatzgruppen Trial

Links

Otto Ohlendorf, responsible for the deaths of 90,000 men, women, and children in the Crimea.
 
 
 
 
 

Charges: Twenty-four defendants, all members of German mobile killing units, the Einsatzgruppen, charged with the murder and ill-treatment of POWs and civilians in occupied countries, and with wanton destruction not justified by military necessity.

Trial Dates: Sept. 29, 1947 to April 9, 1948

Verdict: All twenty-four defendants were found guilty on one or more charge.  Fourteen defendants were sentenced to die, but ten later had their sentences reduced.
 


 

Defendants and Defense Counsel

Defendants
Defense Counsel
Assistant Defense Counsel
OHLENDORF, OTTO ASCHENAUER, DR. RUDOLF OEHLRICH, DR. KONRAD
JOST, HEINZ SCHWARZ, ALFRED WIESSMATH, PAUL
NAUMANN, ERICH GAWLIK, DR. HANS KLINNERT, DR. GERHARD
RASCH, OTTO SURHOLT, DR. HANS
SCHULTZ, ERWIN DURCHHOLZ, ERNST MUELLER, DR. HERMANN
SIX, FRANZ ULMER, HERMANN VOELKL, DR. KONRAD
BLOBEL, PAUL HEIM, DR. WILLI KOHR, LUDWIG
BLUME, WALTER LUMMERT, DR. GUENTHER BLUME, RUDOLF
SANDBERGER, MARTIN VON STEIN, DR. BOLKO MANDRY, DR. KURT
SEIBERT, WILLY KLINNERT, DR. GERHARD KLUG, HEINRICH
STEIMLE, EUGEN MAYER, DR. ERICH LEIS, DR. FERDINAND
BIBERSTEIN, ERNST BERGOLD, DR. FRIEDRICH FICHT, OSKAR
BRAUNE, WERNER MAYER, DR. ERICH LEIS, DR. FERDINAND
HAENSCH, WALTER RIEDIGER, DR. FRITZ KRAUSE, MAX
NOSSKE, GUSTAV HOFFMAN, DR. KARL
OTT, ADOLF KOESSL, JOSEF MEYER, DR. RUDOLF
STRAUCH, EDUARD GICK, DR. KARL JAEGER, DR. KARL
KLINGELHOEFER, WALDEMAR MAYER, DR. ERICH LEIS, DR. FERDINAND
FENDLER, LOTHAR FRITZ, DR. HANS LEHMANN, DR. GABRIELE
VON RADETZKY, WALDEMAR RATZ, DR. PAUL RENTSCH, HEINRICH
RUEHL, FELIX LINK, HEINRICH HELM, DR. KURT
SCHUBERT, HEINZ KOESSL, JOSEF MEYER, RUDOLF
GRAF, MATHIAS BELZER, DR. EDUARD MAYER, JOSEPH

 
Links

The Holocaust/Shoah Page: The Einsatzgruppen--Mobile Killing Units http://www.mtsu.edu/~baustin/einsatz.html

Einsatzgruppen Archives
www.einsatzgruppenarchives.com/einsatz.html

The Jewish Student Online Research Center: http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/Holocaust/einsatztoc.html


 

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