- Saddam Hussein
Saddam Hussein Abd al-Majid al-Tikriti was the fifth President of Iraq and Chairman of the Iraqi Revolutionary Command Council from 1979 until his overthrow by US forces in 2003. He was executed after being found guilty of war crimes at his trial in 2006. He was a member of the revolutionary Ba'ath Party, which espoused secular pan-Arabism, economic modernization, and Arab socialism. Saddam played a key role in the 1968 coup that brought the party to long-term power.
- Klaus Barbie
Klaus Barbie, the Butcher of Lyon (October 25, 1913 - September 25, 1991) was a German soldier and Gestapo member.
- Taha Yassin Ramadan
Taha Yasin Ramadan al-Jizrawi was the Vice President of Iraq from March 1991 to the fall of Saddam Hussein in April 2003. Born in Mosul. He became a bank clerk after completing his education. In 1956 he joined the Ba'ath Party where he worked with Saddam Hussein, becoming a member of the Iraqi Revolutionary Command Council after the 1963 coup that brought the Ba'ath Party to power. For a time he led the Popular Army, …
- Awad Hamed Al-Bandar
Awad Hamad al-Bandar (aka: Awad Hamad Bandar Alsa'doon) (January 2, 1945 - January 15, 2007) was an Iraqi chief judge under Saddam Hussein's presidency. He was the head of the Revolutionary Court which issued death sentences against 143 Dujail residents, in the aftermath of the failed assassination attempt on the president on July 8 1982 (a year before the U.S. assumed diplomatic ties with Hussein to help thwart their common enemy: Iran).
- Barzan Ibrahim Al-Tikriti
Barzan Ibrahim al-Hasan al-Tikriti was one of three uterine half-brothers of Saddam Hussein, and a leader of the "Mukhabarat", the intelligence organisation was believed to have tortured and murdered thousands of opponents of the regime. Despite falling out of favour with Saddam Hussein at one time, he was believed to have been a presidential adviser at the time of his capture.
- Adolf Eichmann
Otto Adolf Eichmann was a high-ranking Nazi and SS Obersturmbannführer (equivalent to Lieutenant Colonel). Due to his organizational talents and ideological reliability, he was charged by Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich with the task of facilitating and managing the logistics of mass deportation to ghettos and extermination camps in Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe.
- Maurice Papon
Maurice Papon was a French civil servant, known for his collaboration with Nazi Germany during the Second World War, later reconverted as a Gaullist politician. He is best known as prefect of police of Paris during the 1950s and 1960s, treasurer of the Gaullist Party and member of the French government under Valéry Giscard d'Estaing. During the Second World War he was secretary general for police of the Prefecture of Bordeaux.
- Julius Streicher
Julius Streicher was a prominent Nazi prior to and during World War II. He was the publisher of the Nazi "Der Stürmer" newspaper, which was to become a part of the Nazi propaganda machine. His publishing firm released three anti-Semitic books for children, including the 1938 "Der Giftpilz" ("The Poison Mushroom"), one of the most widespread pieces of propaganda, …
- Paul Touvier
Paul Touvier was convicted of crime against humanity for his Collaborationist role during Vichy France. He was born in Saint-Vincent-sur-Jabron, Alpes de Haute-Provence, in south-western France. Sympathetic to the ideas of Marshall Petain, Touvier joined the "Milice", a militia of the Vichy regime which collaborated with the Nazis against French partisans (e.g. the resistance).
- Hermann Göring
Hermann Wilhelm Göring was a German politician and military leader, a leading member of the Nazi Party, second in command of the Third Reich, and commander of the Luftwaffe. He was tried for war crimes and crimes against humanity at the Nuremberg Trials in 1945-1946 and sentenced to death by hanging; however, he escaped the hangman's noose around two hours before his scheduled execution by taking his life through the use of potassium cyanide.
- Albert Speer
Berthold Konrad Hermann Albert Speer, commonly known as Albert Speer (March 19, 1905 - September 1, 1981), was an architect, author and high-ranking Nazi German government official, sometimes called "the first architect of the Third Reich". His two bestselling autobiographical works, "Inside the Third Reich" and "Spandau: the Secret Diaries" detailed his often close personal relationship with German dictator Adolf Hitler, …
- Rudolf Hess
Walter Richard Rudolf Hess was a prominent figure in Nazi Germany, acting as Adolf Hitler's deputy in the Nazi Party. On the eve of war with the Soviet Union, he flew to Scotland in an attempt to negotiate peace, but was arrested. He was tried at Nuremberg and sentenced to life internment at Spandau Prison, where he died in 1987. He has become a figure of veneration among neo-Nazis and anti-Semites.
- Joachim von Ribbentrop
Ulrich Friedrich Wilhelm Joachim von Ribbentrop (April 30, 1893 – October 16, 1946) was Foreign Minister of Germany from 1938 until 1945. He was later hanged for war crimes after the Nuremberg trials.
- Hans Frank
Hans Michael Frank (May 23, 1900 - October 16, 1946) was a German lawyer who worked for the Nazi party during the 1920s and 1930s and a senior official in Nazi Germany. He was prosecuted during the Nuremberg trials for his role in perpetrating the Holocaust during his tenure as Governor-General of occupied Poland. He was found guilty of complicity in the murder of millions of Poles and Polish Jews, and executed on October 16 1946.
- Alfred Rosenberg
"'"' (January 12, 1893 Reval (nowadays Tallinn) – October 16, 1946) was an early and intellectually influential member of the Nazi party, who later held several important posts in the Nazi government. He is considered the main author of key Nazi ideological creeds, including its racial theory, persecution of the Jews, "Lebensraum", abolition of the Treaty of Versailles, and opposition to "degenerate" modern art. He is also known for his rejection of Christianity.
- Martin Bormann
Martin Bormann was a prominent Nazi official. He became head of the Party Chancellery "(Parteikanzlei)" and private secretary to German Führer Adolf Hitler. He gained Hitler's trust and derived immense power within the Third Reich by controlling access to the Führer.
- Baldur von Schirach
Baldur Benedikt von Schirach (May 9, 1907 - August 8, 1974) was a Nazi youth leader later convicted of being a war criminal. Schirach was the head of the "Hitler-Jugend" (HJ, Hitler Youth) and Gauleiter and Reichsstatthalter ("Imperial Governor") of Vienna
- Ernst Kaltenbrunner
Ernst Kaltenbrunner (October 4, 1903 - October 16, 1946) was a senior Nazi official during World War II. He was the highest ranking SS leader to face trial. He was executed for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
- Wilhelm Keitel
Wilhelm Bodewin Johann Gustav Keitel was a German field marshal (Generalfeldmarschall) and a senior military leader during World War II.
- Wilhelm Frick
Dr. Wilhelm Frick (March 12, 1877 - October 16, 1946) was a prominent Nazi official. He was executed for war crimes after the end of World War II.
- Arthur Seyss-Inquart
Dr Arthur Seyss-Inquart was a prominent lawyer and later Nazi official in pre-Anschluß Austria, the Third Reich and for wartime Germany in Poland and the Netherlands. Seyß-Inquart was executed at the Nuremberg Trials for crimes against humanity.
- Alfred Jodl
Alfred Jodl was a German military commander, attaining the position of Chief of the Operations Staff of the Armed Forces High Command (Oberkommando der Wehrmacht, or OKW) during World War II, acting as deputy to Wilhelm Keitel.
- Walther Funk
Walter Emanuel Funk (August 18, 1890 - May 31, 1960) was a prominent Nazi official. He served as Minister for Economic Affairs in Nazi Germany from 1937 to 1945.
- Fritz Sauckel
Fritz Sauckel (October 27, 1894 – October 16, 1946) was a Nazi war criminal, who organized the systematic enslavement of millions of men and boys from lands occupied by Nazi Germany. He was General Plenipotentiary for the Employment of Labour from 1942 until the end of the war. He was born in Haßfurt (Lower Franconia), the only child of a postman and a seamstress. Sauckel was educated at local schools and left early when his mother fell ill.
- Konstantin von Neurath
Konstantin Freiherr von Neurath (February 2, 1873 - August 14, 1956) was a German diplomat, Foreign Minister of Germany (1932-1938) and "Reichsprotektor" (Governor) of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (1939-1941. He remained titular Protector until 1943).
- Mengistu Haile Mariam
Mengistu Haile Mariam (born 1937) was the military leader of Ethiopia from 1977-1991. During much of the period, Ethiopia was ruled by the Provisional Military Administrative Council. In 1987, the People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia was formed under the leadership of the Workers Party which Mengistu headed.
- René Bousquet
René Bousquet was a high-ranking French civil servant, who notably served as secretary general of the Vichy regime police from May 1942 to the 31 December 1943.
- Ali Daeem Ali
A defendant in Iraq's Al-Dujail trial, Ali Daeem Ali served as a Baath party official in Dujail in 1982, when he is accused of having participated in the executions of 140 people, and the illegal detentions of 1500. The charges allege that these were retaliatory killings, as retribution for an attack on Saddam Hussein's motorcade in the region. In all images of the defendants at trial, Ali is seen seated in the center of the back row.
- Franz Schlegelberger
Louis Rudolph Franz Schlegelberger (born 23 October 1876 in Königsberg, East Prussia, now Kaliningrad, Russia; died 14 December 1970 in Flensburg) was State Secretary in the German Reich Ministry of Justice (RMJ) and served awhile as Justice Minister during the Third Reich. He was the highest-ranking defendant at the Nuremberg Judges' Trial.
- Alois Brunner
Alois Brunner, born April 8 1912 in Nádkút, Hungary (now: Rohrbrunn, Burgenland, Austria), reports of death contested, is an Austrian Nazi war criminal who was Adolf Eichmann's assistant, who called him "his best man.". After the war, he worked for the CIA through the Gehlen Org, and then escaped to Syria through a "ratline" organized by Roman Catholic bishop Alois Hudal. Commander of the Drancy internment camp outside Paris from June 1943 to August 1944, …
- Jean Leguay
Jean Leguay was a high ranking French civil servant, accomplice of the Deportation of Jews from France. During the Vichy regime, Leguay was second in command to René Bousquet, general secretary of the National police in Paris. After the war, he became president of Warner Lambert, Inc. from London (now merged with Pfizer), and later president of Substantia Laboratories in Paris.
- Jorge Rafael Videla
Jorge Rafael Videla Redondo was the "de facto" President of Argentina from 1976 to 1981. He came to power in a coup d'état that deposed Isabel Martínez de Perón. After the return to democracy, he was prosecuted for large-scale human rights abuses, including widespread torture and extrajudicial murder of suspected and actual leftists under his rule. He is now under house arrest.
- Erich Priebke
Erich Priebke is a Nazi war criminal. A former "Hauptsturmführer" in the S.S., he participated in the massacre at the Ardeatine caves in Rome, on March 24, 1944. 335 Italian civilians were killed there as revenge after a partisan group had killed 33 German soldiers and an unknown number of civilians. Priebke was one of those who stood responsible for this mass execution.
- Jean Kambanda
Jean Kambanda (born October 19, 1955) was the Prime Minister in the caretaker government of Rwanda from the start of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide. He is the first and only head of government to plead guilty to genocide, in the first group of such convictions since the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide came into effect in 1951. Kambanda holds a degree in commercial engineering and began his career as a low-level United Popular BPR banker, …
- Miguel Etchecolatz
Miguel Osvaldo Etchecolatz (b. 1929) was a senior Argentine police officer, who worked in the Buenos Aires Provincial Police during the first years of the military dictatorship known as the National Reorganization Process. He was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment in 2006, on charges of homicide, illegal deprivation of freedom (kidnapping), and torture.
- Abdullah Kadhem Roweed Al-Musheikhi
A defendant in Iraq's Al-Dujail trial, Abdullah Kadhem Roweed Al-Musheikhi served as a Baath party official, and was the father of Mizher Abdullah Roweed Al-Musheikhi.
- Jean Bosco Barayagwiza
Jean Bosco Barayagwiza was a leader of the Rwandan radio station Radio Télévision Libre des Mille Collines during the 1994 Rwandan Genocide. He was charged by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda on October 23, 2000 along with co-leader Ferdinand Nahimana and Hassan Ngeze, director and editor of the Kangur newspaper. Barayagwiza refused to partake in the trial, claiming that the judges were not impartial.
- Hassan Ngeze
Hassan Ngeze is a Rwandan journalist, best known for publishing the "Hutu Ten Commandments", which fomented anti-Tutsi feeling among Rwandan Hutus prior to the Rwandan Genocide. Ngeze was born in Rubavu Commune, Gisenyi Prefecture, in Rwanda. He is a Muslim of Hutu ethnicity. In 1990, he founded the newspaper "Kangura", initially intended as a counterweight to the popular anti-government newspaper "Kanguka".
- Milan Martić
Milan Martić (born 18 November 1954) is a Croatian Serb politician, convicted of war crimes by the ICTY on June 12, 2007. He led Croatia's Serb minority during the Croatian War of Independence.
- Elizaphan Ntakirutimana
Elizaphan Ntakirutimana was a pastor of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Rwanda. In February 2003, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda found both Ntakirutimana and his son Gérard guilty of genocide committed in Rwanda in 1994. The Tribunal found it proven beyond reasonable doubt that Ntakirutimana had transported armed attackers to the Mugonero complex, where they killed hundreds of Tutsi refugees. Ntakirutimana was sentenced to 10 years imprisonment.