Dachau International Military Tribunal

The Dachau International Military Tribunal was set up after World War II by the Judge Advocate Department of the U.S. Third Army to conduct proceedings against minor war criminals found in the United States sectors of occupation in Germany and Austria, and those accused of committing war crimes against American citizens and military personnel.

Less well known than the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg which tried major German war criminals, the International Military Tribunal at Dachau which tried 1,672 German alleged war criminals in 489 separate proceedings.

The location of the court, within Dachau concentration camp one of best known of the Nazi's infamous concentration camps, underline the moral corruptness of the regime under which those found guilty of war crimes had operated. The most highly publicised trial at the time and the best remembered is the Malmedy Massacre Trial when seventy three Waffen-SS soldiers were found guilty of shooting eighty four American soldiers during the second day of the Battle of the Bulge.