Case VII, the "List Trial", Nuremberg Trials.

Subsequent Nuremberg Proceedings
Case VII - The Hostage Case

After the completionof the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, the trials known as the Subsequent Nuremberg Trials opened. Their purpose was to determine the guilt of second-tier Nazis accused of, among others, war crimes and contributed to crimes against humanity.
On May 10, 1947 in Nuremberg the Case VII, the “List Trial” (official title: USA versus Wilhelm List et. Al.”) began, widely known as the “Hostage Trial”. The defendants were 11 out of 12 Generals, accused of war crimes in the Balkans. (defendant Franz Böhme committed suicide on May 29, 1947).
The trial lasted 117 days and the sentences imposed by the Nuremberg Court on February 19, 1947, were the following:

1. Wilhelm List – life sentence
2. Walter Kuntze – life sentence
3. Hermann Foertsch - acquitted
4. Curt von Geitner - acquitted
5. Maximilian von Weichs (exempted from the procedure for health reasons)
6. Lothar Rendulic – 20 years of imprisonment
7. Ernst Dehner – 7 years of imprisonment
8. Ernst von Leyser- 10 years of imprisonment
9. Hubert Lanz- 12 years of imprisonment
10. Felmy Hellmuth – 15 years of imprisonment
11. Wilhelm Speidel- 20 years of imprisonment

• The last two were “punished” as responsible for the Wehrmacht crimes in the area of Kalavryta.
• Karl von Le Suire, the “leader” and responsible of the Kalavryta Massacre never stood trial as a war criminal, but died as a prisoner of war in a soviet prison.
• Everyone sentenced between 1951 and 1953 was released from custody early