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Latest comment: 11 months ago by Buidhe in topic List of witnesses to the International Military Tribunal
A notable subject, but not all the witnesses can be mentioned in the main article. Here, I am starting an incomplete list. Bolded names are currently mentioned in the article.
Prosecution witnesses edit
37 total called[1] 6 mentioned
- American witnesses
200 questioned prior to trial[2]
- Abwehr general and 20 July plotter Erwin Lahousen (30 November), implicated Ribbentrop, Keitel, and others as part of the conspiracy to commit crimes against peace[3]
- Einsatzgruppen commander Otto Ohlendorf (3 January),[4] testified about the murder of 80,000 people by those under his command[5][6] incriminated "SS, the military High Command, and the SD"[4]
- Eichmann's subordinate Dieter Wisliceny (3 January)[7]
- SS intelligence officer Walter Schellenberg (4 January), talked about the Einsatzgruppen[7]
- Mauthausen guard Alois Hollriege (4 January), told about murder of prisoners, also incriminated defendants von Schirach and Kaltenbrunner[8]
- SS general Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski (7 January),[9] who admitted that German anti-partisan warfare was little more than a cover for the mass murder of Jews.[5][6] incriminated High Command of the Wehrmacht[9]
- Franz Blaha (11 January), Czech doctor and Dachau survivor, told about Nazi human experimentation[10]
- British witnesses
- none?
- French witnesses
- 11[11] Seven were survivors of Nazi concentration camps[12]
- Maurice Lampe (25 January), Mauthausen survivor[13]
- Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier (28 January) Communist and member of the French resistance, who testified about what she had seen during the three years she spent in Auschwitz[14][15]
- Francisco Boix (28 January),[16] Spanish photographer who testified about defendant Albert Speer's visit to Mauthausen, among other things[17]
- Hans Cappelen (28 January), Norwegian lawyer who survived several concentration camps[18]
- A fourth witness also testified on 28 January[14]
- Soviet witnesses
Soviet witnesses Rajzman and Sutzkever were the only Holocaust survivors who testified[19] On the Soviet decision to call witnesses and selection procedure, see [20]
- Friedrich von Paulus (11 February), German field marshal, incriminated former associates,[21] stated that defendants Keitel, Jodl, and Göring were most responsible for the war[22] Although the Americans had called surprise witnesses, Soviet prosecutor Nikolai Zorya's offer to produce Paulus threw the courtroom into such disarray that proceedings had to be suspended temporarily[23]
- Erich Buschenhagen (12 February), testified about Finnish German collaboration[24]
- Joseph Orbeli (22 February), testified about siege of Leningrad, damage to Winter Palace[25]
- Jacob Grigorev (26 February), peasant from Pskov, village attacked "for no reason" in October 1943[26]
- Red Army doctor Eugene Kivelisha (26 February), testified about German mistreatment of Soviet prisoners of war[27]
- Abraham Sutzkever (27 February), Holocaust survivor and Yiddish poet from Vilna, testified about the Ponary massacre[19][28]
- Seweryna Szmaglewska, (27 February), Polish Auschwitz survivor[29]
- Samuel Rajzman (27 February), Treblinka survivor[19][30]
- Russian orthodox bishop and Leningrad survivor Metropolitan Nikolai Lomakin (27 February), testified about Siege of Leningrad[31]
Defense witnesses edit
83, not including 19 defendants who testified on their own behalf[1]
approved to testify included Walther von Brauchitsch, Gerd von Rundstedt, and Reinhard von Eichborn[32]
References
- ^ a b Priemel 2016, p. 105.
- ^ Hirsch 2020, p. 126.
- ^ Hirsch 2020, p. 130.
- ^ a b Hirsch 2020, p. 193.
- ^ a b Douglas 2001, pp. 69–70.
- ^ a b Priemel 2016, pp. 118–119.
- ^ a b Hirsch 2020, p. 194.
- ^ Hirsch 2020, pp. 194–195.
- ^ a b Hirsch 2020, p. 199.
- ^ Hirsch 2020, p. 201.
- ^ Gemählich 2019, 20–21.
- ^ Hirsch 2020, p. 207.
- ^ Hirsch 2020, pp. 207–208.
- ^ a b Hirsch 2020, p. 208.
- ^ Douglas 2001, p. 70.
- ^ Hirsch 2020, pp. 208–209.
- ^ Pike 2003, p. 340, fn 40.
- ^ Hirsch 2020, pp. 209–210.
- ^ a b c Priemel 2016, p. 119.
- ^ Hirsch 2020, pp. 118, 143. 158–160.
- ^ Hirsch 2020, pp. 221–222.
- ^ Hirsch 2020, p. 223.
- ^ Hirsch 2020, p. 221.
- ^ Hirsch 2020, p. 224.
- ^ Hirsch 2020, p. 233.
- ^ Hirsch 2020, p. 236.
- ^ Hirsch 2020, pp. 236–237.
- ^ Hirsch 2020, p. 237.
- ^ Hirsch 2020, pp. 238–239.
- ^ Hirsch 2020, p. 239.
- ^ Hirsch 2020, pp. 159–160, 239–240.
- ^ Hirsch 2020, p. 161.
- Pike, David Wingeate (2003). Spaniards in the Holocaust: Mauthausen, Horror on the Danube. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-134-58713-1.