Nazis Chronology

Wilhelm Canaris, German admiral/head German military intelligence, anti-Hitler conspirator, dies.

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Hans Oster German Major-General/spy, "July 20th plot", hanged.

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Hans von Dohnanyi "July 20th plotter", hanged.

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Theodor Haecker German cultural philosopher (Mensch?), dies at 65.

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Apr 17

Walter Model German fieldmarshal, commits suicide at 54.

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Apr 30

Adolf Hitler committed suicide along with his wife of one day, Eva Braun (age 33); Karl Donitz becomes his successor. Americans free 33,000 inmates from concentration camps.

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May 01

Paul Josef Goebbels, Nazi minister on propoganda, commits suicide at age 47.

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May 02

Martin Bormann propoganda minister for Hitler, dies.

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May 05

(date approximated) Martin Bormann, German Nazi party leader, dies at age 44.

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May 21

Heinrich Himmler, disguised as a Wehrmacht private, surrenders to a British sentry at a bridge in the German countryside.

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May 22

NSB-Führer Rost van Tonningen attempts & fails at suicide.

Ref: 5

May 23

SS Reichsführer Himmler, 44, commits suicide while imprisoned in Luneburg, Germany after being captured by Allied forces.

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May 30

Irma Laplasse Flemish farmer/Nazi collaborator, executed.

Ref: 5

Sep 10

Vidkun Quisling is sentenced to death in Norway for collaborating with the Nazis.

Ref: 70

Sep 19

William Joyce ("Lord Haw Haw"), broadcaster of Nazi propaganda to Great Britain during World War II, is convicted for treason in London, England. He will hang in January.

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Oct 15

Vichy French Premier Pierre Laval is executed by a firing squad for his wartime collaboration with the Germans.

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Oct 24

Vidkun Quisling, 58, Norway's wartime minister president, is executed by firing squad for collaboration with the Nazis.

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Dec 13

Robert van Genechten Dutch Nazi (NSB), commits suicide.

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Dec 14

Josef Kramer known as "beast of Belsen," & 10 others are hung for crimes committed at the Belsen and Oswiecim Nazi concentration camps.

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Dec 16

Fumimaro Konu Japanese prince/PM (1937-39, 40-41), commits harakiri.

Ref: 5

1946

Jan 03

William Joyce ("Lord Haw Haw"), broadcaster of Nazi propaganda to Great Britain during World War II, is hanged for treason at age 40, in London, England.

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Feb 23

Lt. Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita, The 'Tiger of Malaya', was hanged near Manila in retribution for Japanese war crimes. This hanging was likely direct retribution from MacArthur for Yamashita's defense of the Philippines in 1944-5 rather than a penalty for war crimes committed or sanctioned.

Ref: 2

Mar 13

Werner von Blomberg German minister of Reichswehr, dies at 67.

Ref: 5

Mar 22

Werner Blomberg, German general and minister of war under Hitler, dies at age 67.

Ref: 70

Apr 03

Lt. General Masaharu Homma, the Japanese commander responsible for the Bataan Death March, was executed in the Philippines.

Ref: 70

Apr 12

August Borms Flemish nazi collaborator, executed at 67.

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Apr 16

NSB mayor of Rotterdam Netherlands, FE Müller sentence to 100 years in jail.

Ref: 5

Apr 29

28 former Japanese leaders were indicted as war criminals.

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May 07

Anton A Mussert engineer/NSB leader, executed.

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May 13

US convicts 58 camp guards of Mauthausen concentration camp to death.

Ref: 5

Sep 30

An international military tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany, found 22 top Nazi leaders guilty of war crimes.

Ref: 70

Oct 01

Twelve Nazi war criminals are sentenced to be hanged at Nuremberg trials---Karl Donitz, Hermann Goring, Alfred Jodl, Hans Frank, Wilhelm Frick, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Wilhelm Keitel, Joachin von Ribbentrop, Fritz Saukel, Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Julius Streicher, and Alfred Rosenberg.

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Hermann Göering, German Nazi commander, commits suicide at age 53, two hours before the scheduled execution of the first group of ten major Nazi war criminals at Nuremberg. During his imprisonment, a (now repentant) Hans Frank states, "A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased." Frank and the others are hanged and the bodies are brought to Dachau and burned (the final use of the crematories there) with the ashes then scattered into a river.

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Wilhelm Frick, German statesman; Hitler's minister of the interior, is executed at age 69.

Ref: 5

Joachim von Ribbentrop, German foreign minister under the Nazi regime (1933-45), is hanged at age 53.

Ref: 70

Ten Nazi war criminals condemned during the Nuremberg trials were hanged.

Ref: 70

Dec 24

US General MacNarney gives 800,000 "minor nazi's" amnesty.

Ref: 5

1947

Jan 05

Nagano Osami, Japanese admiral; planned the Pearl Harbor attack, dies at age 66.

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Ganzefles Dutch Nazi spy/Jew hunter, executed.

Ref: 5

Apr 16

Former Auschwitz Kommandant Höss is hanged at Auschwitz.

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Apr 25

Trial against WWII mayor of Amsterdam Edward Voûte begins.

Ref: 5

1948

Jan 14

Anna "Ans" van Dike Dutch Jewish Nazi-collaborator, executed at 42.

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Johann Blaskowitz German General (surrendered at Wageningen), dies at 64.

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Feb 06

Robert Brasillach French author/Nazi collaborator, dies at 38.

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May 07

Nazi collaborator V-Mann Antonius van de Waals sentenced to death.

Ref: 5

Sep 10

American-born Mildred Gillars, the Nazi wartime radio broadcaster known as "Axis Sally," was indicted in Washington, D.C. for treason.

Ref: 70

Sep 24

Mildred Gillars, accused of being Nazi wartime radio propagandist "Axis Sally," pleaded innocent in Washington, D.C., to charges of treason. (Gillars served 12 years in prison.)

Ref: 70

Dec 21

Seishiro Itagaki Japanese general/Minister of War, hanged.

Ref: 5

Dec 22

Hideki Tojo Prime Minister of Japan; WWII war criminal, is hanged.

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Dec 23

Japan's Prime Minister, Hideki Tojo and six other collaborators are hanged for war crimes.

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1949

Jan 12

Dutch court affirms death sentence against SS chief Hanns Rauter.

Ref: 5

Mar 25

SS police chief Rauter request for a pardon, denied.

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Mar 25

Hanns A Rauter German SS-commandant in Netherlands, executed at 54.

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Oct 06

American-born Iva Toguri D'Aquino, convicted as Japanese wartime broadcaster "Tokyo Rose," was sentenced to 10 years in prison and fined $10,000.

Ref: 70

Oct 07

Iva Toguri D'Aquino, better known as Tokyo Rose, is sentenced to 10 years in prison for treason.

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1951

Feb 01

Alfred Krupp & 28 other German war criminals freed.

Ref: 5

Jul 23

Henri Petain, French general; World War I hero and head of the French Vichy government during World War II, dies in a French prison. (XDG, p 4A, 7/23/2000)

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Dec 19

Nazi General Christiansen leaves Netherlands.

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1952

Mar 21

A J Pieters SS-Untersturmfurhrer, executed.

Ref: 5

Mar 21

Wilhelm Albrecht German SD-chief, executed.

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1953

Jan 11

Ernst H Ridder Rappard Dutch Nazi founder (NSNAP), dies at 53.

Ref: 5

Feb 24

Karl R G von Rundstedt German General-field marshal (Ardennes), dies at 77.

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1955

Jan 11

Rodolfo Graziani, Italian field marshal; adherent of Mussolini, dies at age 72.

Ref: 70

1956

Apr 03

German war criminals Hinrichsen/Rühl/Siebens/Viebahn are freed.

Ref: 5

Oct 25

Adolf Hitler declared dead by German Federal Republic.

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1957

Feb 01

Friedrich von Paulus German field marshal (Stalingrad), dies at 66.

Ref: 5

1960

May 11

Adolf Eichmann is captured in Argentina by Israeli secret service.

Ref: 35

May 23

Israel announced it had captured former Nazi official Adolf Eichmann in Argentina. (Eichmann was tried in Israel, found guilty of crimes against humanity, and hanged in 1962.)

Ref: 70

Jul 16

Albert Kesselring, German field marshal during World War II, dies at age 74.

Ref: 70

Dec 20

Auschwitz-commandant Richard Bär arrested in German Federal Republic.

Ref: 5

1961

Feb 11

Trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem.

Ref: 5

Apr 10

Adolf Eichmann tried as a war criminal in Israel.

Ref: 5

Aug 24

Former Nazi leader Johannes Vorster becomes South Africa's minister of justice.

Ref: 5

Dec 09

SS Colonel Adolf Eichman found guilty of war crimes in Israel.

Ref: 5

Dec 11

Adolf Eichmann is found guilty of war crimes, in Israel.

Ref: 5

Dec 13

Gideon Hausner in Jerusalem demands death penalty for Adolf Eichmann.

Ref: 5

Dec 15

Adolf Eichmann, the former German Gestapo official accused of a major role in the Nazi murder of 6 million Jews, is sentenced by a Jerusalem court to be hanged.

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1962

May 31

Adolf Eichmann, the former SS commander, hanged for crimes against Jews in WWII at Ramie Prison in Israel at age 56.

Ref: 5

1963

Dec 20

Trial against 21 camp guards of Auschwitz begins.

Ref: 5

1966

Sep 30

Nazi war criminals Albert Speer, the German minister of armaments, and Baldur von Schirach, the founder of the Hitler Youth, were freed at midnight from Spandau prison after serving twenty-year prison sentences.

Ref: 4

1969

May 02

Franz von Papen German chancellor (1932), dies at 89.

Ref: 5

1970

Dec 22

SS Commander Franz Stangl of Treblinka is sentenced to life in prison.

Ref: 5

1971

Jan 13

Bernard "Heinz" Lammerding German SS-General/contractor (Tulle), dies at 65.

Ref: 5

1972

Dec 02

Friedrich Christian Christiansen German Luftwaffe general, dies.

Ref: 5

Dec 28

Martin Bormann's skeleton is found in Berlin (Hitlers deputy).

Ref: 5

1974

Apr 11

WWII war criminal JP Philippa arrested.

Ref: 5

1976

Dec 06

War criminal Pieter Menten arrested in Zurich.

Ref: 5

1977

Dec 14

War criminal Pieter Menten sentenced in Amsterdam to 15 years.

Ref: 5

1978

Dec 04

Dutch War criminal Pieter Menten freed.

Ref: 5

1979

Feb 07

Josef Mengele, German Nazi doctor at Auschwitz extermination camp, dies by drowning at age 67.

Ref: 70

1980

Dec 24

Karl Donitz German great admiral/Fuehrer (1945), dies at 89.

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1981

Sep 01

Albert Speer, German Nazi minister for war production, dies at age 76.

Ref: 70

1982

Wies [Aloisius CA] Moens Flemish writer/Nazi, dies at 84.

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1983

Jan 19

Klaus Barbie (“the butcher of Lyon”), Nazi Gestapo chief in Lyon, France during the German occupation, was arrested in Bolivia on charges of having tortured and killed thousands of people. After World War II, Barbie was protected and employed by U.S. intelligence agents because of his “police skills’ and anti-Communist zeal.” Barbie, together with his wife and children, then escaped to Latin America, where he worked primarily as an interrogator and torturer for dictatorships both in Peru and in Bolivia. He was tried in 1987 and died in prison in 1991.

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Jan 25

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Former Nazi Gestapo official Klaus Barbie, is extradited from Boliva to France for crimes committed during World War II. He is subsequently tried, convicted and sentenced to life in prison.

Ref: 17

1985

Jun 06

Authorities in Brazil exhumed a body near Sao Paulo later identified as the remains of Dr. Josef Mengele, the notorious "Angel of Death" of the Nazi Holocaust.

Ref: 70

Jun 21

American, Brazilian & West German forensic pathologists confirm skeletal remains exhumed in Brazil were Nazi Dr Josef Mengele.

Ref: 5

1986

Jun 08

Alleged Nazi Kurt Waldheim is elected president of Austria

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1987

Feb 16

John Demjanjuk went on trial in Jerusalem, accused of being "Ivan the Terrible," a guard at the Treblinka Nazi concentration camp. (Demjanjuk was convicted, but the conviction ended up being overturned by the Israeli Supreme Court.)

Ref: 5

Apr 20

US deports Karl Linnas, charged with nazi war crimes, to USSR.

Ref: 5

Apr 27

The US Justice Dept bars Austrian Chancellor Kurt Waldheim from entering US, due to his aid of Nazi Germany during WW II.

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May 11

The trial of Klaus Barbie, the former Gestapo chief known as the "Butcher of Lyon," begins in Lyon, France for crimes against humanity. He is ultimately convicted and sentenced to life in prison.

Ref: 17

Jul 02

Karl Linnas accused Nazi, dies of heart failure in Russia.

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Jul 04

Klaus Barbie, the former Gestapo chief known as the "Butcher of Lyon," is convicted by a French court of crimes against humanity and is ultimately sentenced to life in prison.

Ref: 17

Aug 17

Rudolph Hess Nazi, dies at 93, after 46 years in Spandau Prison, at a Berlin hospital near Spandau Prison, apparently a suicide. (also TWA, 1988)

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1988

Feb 29

Nazi document implicates Kurt Waldheim in WWII deportations.

Ref: 5

Jun 25

American-born Mildred Gillars, better known during World War Two as "Axis Sally" for her Nazi propaganda broadcasts, died in Columbus, Ohio, at age 87. (Gillars had served 12 years in prison for treason.) (TWA, 1989)

Ref: 95

1989

Jan 27

German war criminals Fischer & Austrian der Fünten freed.

Ref: 5

Feb 27

German war criminals Austria der Fünten/Fischer, freed in Holland.

Ref: 5

May 24

French war criminal Paul Touvier arrested in monastery in Nice.

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Nov 27

German war criminals Fischer & Austrian der Fünten freed.

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1991

Sep 25

Klaus Barbie ("The Butcher of Lyon"), Gestapo Chief of Lyon France during World War II, dies at age 77. (TWA, 1992)

Ref: 95

1994