The Nuremberg
Trials:
The Einsatzgruppen Case

MILITARY TRIBUNAL II

Case No. 9

Introductory
Commentary
(Link
to an essay by Yale F. Edeiken)

Defendants

Map of
Einsatzgruppen Massacres
(Link to The Jewish Student Online Research
Center)

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