Phillips Nuremberg Trials Collection: Trial 4 - Pohl Case

Also known as the WVHA Case as Oswald Pohl and 17 other SS officers were employed by the SS-Wirtschafts-Verwaltungshauptamt (WVHA), the Economics and Administrative Department of the SS. The main charge against them was their active involvement in and administration of the "Final Solution". The WVHA was the government office that ran the concentration and extermination camps. It also handled the procurement for the Waffen SS and, as of 1942, the administration of the SS-Totenkopfverbände (Death's-Head units).

Counts: 1) Conspiracy; 2) War Crimes; 3) Crimes Against Humanity; and 4) Membership in the SS

Original Indictment

• Indictment
• Opening Statement
• Closing Argument
• Opinion and Judgment of the Tribunal
• Concurring Opinion, Judge Musmanno
• Supplemental Judgment

Trials of War Criminals Before the Nuernberg Military Tribunals Under Control Council Law No. 10

The 15-volume series, also known as “The Green Series,” focuses on the 12 trials of almost 200 defendants. This publication by the United States Government Printing Office is the official abridged record of the individual indictments and judgments, as well as the administrative materials that were common to all the trials.

• Volume 5, "The Pohl Case"

Style of the case: United States of America v. Oswald Pohl, et al.

Indictment filed: 13 January 1947

Trial dates: 8 April 1947 -17 September 1947

NMT 2 Judges: Robert M. Toms (Michigan) (presiding judge), Fitzroy Donald Phillips (North Carolina), Michael A. Musmanno (Pennsylvania), and John J. Speight (Alabama) (alternate judge)

Chief Prosecutor: James M. McHaney and Jack W. Robbins

Judgment: 3 November 1947

Sentencing: 3 November 1947; 11 August 1948

* At the request of the judges, the court reconvened on July 14, 1948 to consider additional material presented by the defense. On August 11, 1948, the tribunal issued its final sentences, confirming most of its earlier sentences, but slightly reducing some of the prison sentences and changing the death sentence of Georg Lörner into a sentence of life imprisonment.