During the International Military Tribunal, 37 witnesses testified for the prosecution. 80 witnesses testified for the defense, including 19 of the defendants. An additional 143 witnesses gave evidence for the defense by written answers to interrogatories. For the defense of the organizations, 101 witnesses were heard before Commissioners elected by the tribunal and 1809 affidavits from other witnesses were submitted. A further six reports were submitted, summarizing many more affidavits.
Prosecution witnesses
+Prosecution witnesses Name Date Role Called by Testified about Relevant to defendants Erwin Lahousen 30 NovemberAbwehr general and 20 July plotter United StatesConspiracy to commit crimes against peaceRibbentrop, Keitel, and others Otto Ohlendorf3 January Einsatzgruppen commander United States The murder of 80,000 people by those under his command SS, High Command, and the SDDieter Wisliceny 3 January Eichmann's subordinate United States Walter Schellenberg 4 January SS intelligence officer United States Einsatzgruppen Alois Hollriege 4 January Mauthausen guard United States murder of prisoners von Schirach and KaltenbrunnerErich von dem Bach-Zelewski 7 January SS general United States German anti-partisan warfare, related killings of civilians High Command of the WehrmachtFranz Blaha 11 January Czech doctor and survivor of Dachau concentration camp United StatesNazi human experimentation Maurice Lampe25 January French resistance member, survivor of Mauthausen concentration camp France Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier 28 January French resistance member France what she had seen during the three years she spent in Auschwitz concentration camp Francisco Boix 28 January Spanish photographer, survivor of Mauthausen concentration camp France Albert Speer's visit to Mauthausen, among other things SpeerHans Cappelen 28 January Norwegian lawyer, concentration camp survivor France Leo van der Essen 4February librarian of the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium) France destruction of the library during both world wars Friedrich Paulus 11 February German field marshal in command at the Battle of Stalingrad Soviet Union Crimes against peace Keitel, Jodl, and Göring were most responsible for the war Erich Buschenhagen12 February German general Soviet Union Finland and Germany conspiring to invade the Soviet Union Joseph Orbeli22 February Soviet Armenian scholar Soviet Unionsiege of Leningrad, damage to Winter Palace Jacob Grigorev 26 February peasant from Pskov (Russia) Soviet Union village attacked "for no reason" in October 1943 Eugene Kivelisha 26 February Red Army doctor Soviet Union German mistreatment of Soviet prisoners of war Abraham Sutzkever 27 FebruaryYiddish poet from Vilna (Lithuania) Soviet Union Vilna Ghetto, Ponary massacre NoneSeweryna Szmaglewska 27 February Polish Auschwitz survivor Soviet Union abuse of children Samuel Rajzman 27 February Treblinka survivor Soviet Union Treblinka extermination camp NoneNikolai Lomakin 27 February Russian Orthodox metropolitan Soviet Union Siege of Leningrad
Defense witnesses Witnesses gave testimonies for one or more of the seven government organizations and/or one or more of the 24 leaders of Nazi Germany