During the International Military Tribunal, 37 witnesses testified for the prosecution and 83 for the defense.[1]
Name | Date | Role | Called by | Testified about | Relevant to defendants |
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Erwin Lahousen | 30 November | Abwehr general and 20 July plotter | United States | Conspiracy to commit crimes against peace | Ribbentrop, Keitel, and others[2] |
Otto Ohlendorf | 3 January[3] | Einsatzgruppen commander | United States | The murder of 80,000 people by those under his command[4][5] | SS, High Command, and the SD[3] |
Dieter Wisliceny | 3 January | Eichmann's subordinate | United States | [6] | |
Walter Schellenberg | 4 January | SS intelligence officer | United States | Einsatzgruppen | [6] |
Alois Hollriege | 4 January | Mauthausen guard | United States | murder of prisoners | von Schirach and Kaltenbrunner[7] |
Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski | 7 January[8] | SS general | United States | German anti-partisan warfare, related killings of civilians[4][5] | High Command of the Wehrmacht[8] |
Franz Blaha | 11 January | Czech doctor and survivor of Dachau concentration camp | United States | Nazi human experimentation[9] | |
Maurice Lampe | 25 January | French resistance member, survivor of Mauthausen concentration camp | France | [10] | |
Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier | 28 January | French resistance member | France | what she had seen during the three years she spent in Auschwitz concentration camp[11][12] | |
Francisco Boix | 28 January | Spanish photographer, survivor of Mauthausen concentration camp | France[13] | Albert Speer's visit to Mauthausen, among other things | Speer[14] |
Hans Cappelen | 28 January | Norwegian lawyer, concentration camp survivor | France | [15] | |
Leo van der Essen | 4 February[16] | librarian of the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium) | France | destruction of the library during both world wars[17] | |
Friedrich von Paulus | 11 February | German field marshal in command at the Battle of Stalingrad | Soviet Union | Crimes against peace[18] | Keitel, Jodl, and Göring were most responsible for the war[19] |
Erich Buschenhagen | 12 February | German general | Soviet Union | Finland and Germany conspiring to invade the Soviet Union[20] | |
Joseph Orbeli | 22 February | Soviet Armenian scholar | Soviet Union | siege of Leningrad, damage to Winter Palace[21] | |
Jacob Grigorev | 26 February | peasant from Pskov (Russia) | Soviet Union | village attacked "for no reason" in October 1943[22] | |
Eugene Kivelisha | 26 February | Red Army doctor | Soviet Union | German mistreatment of Soviet prisoners of war[23] | |
Abraham Sutzkever | 27 February | Yiddish poet from Vilna (Lithuania) | Soviet Union | Vilna Ghetto, Ponary massacre[24][25] | None[24] |
Seweryna Szmaglewska | 27 February | Polish Auschwitz survivor | Soviet Union | abuse of children[26] | [27] |
Samuel Rajzman | 27 February | Treblinka survivor | Soviet Union[24][28] | Treblinka extermination camp[26] | None[24] |
Nikolai Lomakin | 27 February | Russian Orthodox metropolitan | Soviet Union | Siege of Leningrad[29] |
Name | Date | Role | Called by | Testified about | Relevant to defendants |
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Rudolf Höss | 2 April[30] | Commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp | Kurt KauffmannErnest Kaltenbrunner | , counsel forMurders at Auschwitz, which Höss estimated at 2 million[31] | |
Hans Bernd Gisevius[32] | 26 April[33] | German resistance and Abwehr official | Counsel for Hjalmar Schacht and Wilhelm Frick | Schacht, Göring, Keitel and Kaltenbrunner[34][verification needed] |