citação:German perpetrated crimes
According to the Nuremberg Trials, there were four major war crimes that were alleged against German military (and Waffen-SS and NSDAP) men and officers, each with individual events that made up the major charges.
1. Participation in a common plan of conspiracy for the accomplishment of crimes against peace
2. Planning, initiating and waging wars of aggression and other crimes against peace
Planning and executing a campaign of invasion of its European neighbors, as well as the conspiracy to violate the Treaty of Versailles and the Treaty of Saint-Germain through the remilitarization of the Rhineland, and the annexations of Austria and Czechoslovakia.
3. War Crimes These were limited to atrocities against combatants or conventional crimes committed by military units(see War crimes of the Wehrmacht), and include:
Invasion of Poland, in the period of 1st September- 25th October 1939 German Wehrmacht during its military actions engaged in executions of Polish POWs, bombed hospitals, murdered civilians, shot refugees, executed wounded soldiers. The cautious estimates give a number of at least 16,000 murdered victims[2]
Pacification Operations in German occupied Poland, during the occupation of Poland by German Reich, Wehrmacht forces took part in several pacification actions in rural areas, that resulted in murder of at least 20,000 Polish villagers
Le Paradis massacre, May 1940, British soldiers of the Royal Norfolk Regiment, captured by the SS and subsequently murdered. Fritz Knoechlein tried, found guilty and hanged.
Wormhoudt massacre, May 1940, British and French soldiers captured by the SS and subsequently murdered. No one found guilty of the crime.
d'Ardenne Massacres, June 1944 Canadian soldiers captured by the SS and Murdered by 12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend. SS General Kurt Meyer (Panzermeyer) sentenced to be shot 1946; sentence commuted; released 1954
Malmedy massacre, December 1944, United States POWs captured by Kampfgruppe Peiper were murdered outside of Malmedy, Belgium.
Gardelegen (war crime)
Marzabotto massacre
Sant'Anna di Stazzema
Cefalonia Massacre
Oradour-sur-Glane
The annihilation of the Czech city of Lidice
Massacre of Kalavryta
Distomo massacre
The suppression of the 1944 Warsaw Uprising
The treatment of Soviet POWs throughout the war, who were not given the protections and guarantees of the Geneva Convention
Unrestricted submarine warfare against merchant shipping.
4. Crimes against Humanity These were crimes that were committed well away from the lines of battle and were unconnected in any way to military activity.
The major crime was the Holocaust, including:
The construction and use of Vernichtungslagern, most prominently at Auschwitz, Treblinka, Majdanek, Belzec, Sobibór, and Che#322;mno
The employment of other camps across Europe, including Dachau, Sachsenhausen, Mauthausen and Bergen-Belsen which served unofficially as death camps to a degree
Death marches of prisoners, particularly in the last months of the war when the aforementioned camps were being overrun by the Allies
The widespread use of slave and unfree labor by the Nazi regime, including the use of concentration camp and extermination camp prisoners as slaves
The establishment of Jewish Ghettos in Eastern Europe
The use of SSEinsatzgruppen, mobile extermination squads
Babi Yar
Rumbula
Dnepropetrovsk
Ninth Fort
Simferopol
The massacre of 100,000 Jews and Poles at Paneriai
The suppression of the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising which erupted when the SS came to clear the ghetto and send all of the occupants to extermination camps
Izieu Massacre
Other crimes against humanity included:
The Porajmos, the Nazi pogrom against the Romany peoples of Europe
The #321;apanka or "Catching Game," -- Nazi roundups of Poles in the major cities for slave labor and other purposes
Nikolaev Massacre
Operation Tannenberg, the AB Action and the Massacre of Lwów professors, all Nazi actions in Poland meant to mass murder the Polish intelligentsia and other potential leaders of resistance.
The Nazi T-4 Euthanasia Program, an aborted eugenics program meant to kill German children who were mentally or physically handicapped. 200,000 people were gassed to death due to this program.
Well over 10 million people were systematically killed by the Nazi regime (Some accountings place the figure at over 20 million) from crimes against humanity, in particular the Holocaust. Of this figure, the largest amount of deaths happened among the Jews. The common estimate is that 5 to 6 million Jews were killed by the Nazis, although a complete count may never be known. After the war, the Nazi regime was put on trial in two tribunals in Nuremberg, Germany by the victorious Allied powers from 1945 to 1949. The first tribunal indicted 24 major Nazi war criminals, and resulted in 19 convictions (of which 12 led to death sentences) and 3 acquittals. The second tribunal indicted 185 members of the military, economic, and political leadership of Nazi Germany, of which 142 were convicted and 35 were acquitted. In subsequent decades, approximately 20 additional war criminals who escaped capture in the immediate aftermath of World War II were tried in West Germany and Israel. In Germany and many other European nations, the Nazi Party is outlawed.
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