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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
37 total called 6 mentioned 200 questioned prior to trial Soviet witnesses Rajzman and Sutzkever were the only Holocaust survivors who testified On the Soviet decision to call witnesses and selection procedure, see
 * American witnesses:
 * 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
 * Einsatzgruppen commander Otto Ohlendorf (3 January), testified about the murder of 80,000 people by those under his command incriminated "SS, the military High Command, and the SD"
 * Eichmann's subordinate Dieter Wisliceny (3 January)
 * SS intelligence officer Walter Schellenberg (4 January), talked about the Einsatzgruppen
 * Mauthausen guard Alois Hollriege (4 January), told about murder of prisoners, also incriminated defendants von Schirach and Kaltenbrunner
 * SS general Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski (7 January), who admitted that German anti-partisan warfare was little more than a cover for the mass murder of Jews. incriminated High Command of the Wehrmacht
 * Franz Blaha (11 January), Czech doctor and Dachau survivor, told about Nazi human experimentation
 * British witnesses:
 * none?
 * French witnesses: 11 Seven were survivors of Nazi concentration camps
 * Maurice Lampe (25 January), Mauthausen survivor
 * 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
 * Francisco Boix (28 January), Spanish photographer who testified about defendant Albert Speer's visit to Mauthausen, among other things
 * Hans Cappelen (28 January), Norwegian lawyer who survived several concentration camps
 * A fourth witness also testified on 28 January
 * Soviet witnesses:
 *  Friedrich von Paulus (11 February), German field marshal, incriminated former associates, stated that defendants Keitel, Jodl, and Göring were most responsible for the war 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
 * Erich Buschenhagen (12 February), testified about Finnish German collaboration
 * Joseph Orbeli (22 February), testified about siege of Leningrad, damage to Winter Palace
 * Jacob Grigorev (26 February), peasant from Pskov, village attacked "for no reason" in October 1943
 * Red Army doctor Eugene Kivelisha (26 February), testified about German mistreatment of Soviet prisoners of war
 * Abraham Sutzkever (27 February), Holocaust survivor and Yiddish poet from Vilna, testified about the Ponary massacre
 * Seweryna Szmaglewska, (27 February), Polish Auschwitz survivor
 * Samuel Rajzman (27 February), Treblinka survivor
 * Russian orthodox bishop and Leningrad survivor Metropolitan Nikolai Lomakin (27 February), testified about Siege of Leningrad

Defense witnesses
83, not including 19 defendants who testified on their own behalf

approved to testify included Walther von Brauchitsch, Gerd von Rundstedt, and Reinhard von Eichborn

(t &#183; c)  buidhe  05:59, 9 June 2023 (UTC)