2.3.4 Other Trials

• Each occupying power was responsible for organising their own trials. In total 5,000 people were prosecuted and 486 were executed
• The Americans held 489 trials of low-level officials whilst the French prosecuted over 2,000 former Nazis, the most of all the Allied Powers
• Many individuals who committed war crimes, like Adolf Eichmann, evaded punishment either going into hiding or leaving Germany. Even those who faced prosecution often avoided punishment by arguing they were merely obeying orders