nazi war crimes

[boobesque]

what happened to the nazi party members, ie, the ss who were found guilty of war crimes after the end of war?

[shaneystar]

Lots of them were brought to account at the Nuremberg Trials.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremburg_trials
Others have been tracked down over the years by people like Simon Wiesental.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_wiesental
Others were imprisoned.. the most famous one being Rudolf Hess who was imprisoned In Spandau for the rest of his life.
Some are probably still alive and well and living in South America and also in Germany ..although they must be very old men by now.Some commited suicide..eg. Goebbels.

[boobesque]

so nobody was sentenced to death then?

[shaneystar]

If you scroll down to the bottom of the first link you will see that several of them were sentenced to death.
Also Adolf Eichmann whom they caught up with in later years was hung after being tried in Israel in 1961.-1962.Many took cyanide capsules rather than face the executioner.Also Albert Pierrepoint hung many war criminals in Germany after the war including over 200 female war criminals at Hameln prison near Hanover.
Trials took place at all the concentration camps too and many were hung.
Also...
(Between 1945 and 1985 up to 5,000 convicted war criminals are executed and 10,000 imprisoned.)

So of course some of them were sentenced to death..the ones they caught that is.

[shaneystar]

The death sentences of the main party members were carried out by hanging. The French judges suggested the use of a firing squad for the military condemned, as is standard for military courts-martial, but this was opposed by Frances Biddle(U.S.A judge) and the Soviet judges. These argued that the military officers had violated their military ethos and were not worthy of the firing squad, which was considered to be more dignified.
Indiscriminate execution by firing squad took place in the camps and collaboraters were shot..But those brought to trial were hung.

[vehelpfulguy]

Very powerful film made in 1961 called Judgement and Nuremburg.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055031/