The Score

For three years the victor nations have been trying war criminals. No central agency of any government has an exact record of all the cases, convictions and sentences. The following tabulation is probably fairly accurate. It includes the major German cases at Niirnberg and the "minor"* cases at Dachau; the major Japanese cases at Tokyo (TIME, Nov. 22) and other cases at Yokohama and in China; other cases in the Pacific and Mediterranean theaters.

Defendants 7,109

Convictions 3,686

Acquittals 924

Death sentences 1,019

Suicides 33/-

Prison sentences 2,667

Cases pending 2,499

* Cases involving atrocities in concentration camps and crimes against U.S. military personnel.

/- No figures available for suicides in connection with trials conducted 1) by French and British in Germany, and 2) in China, Pacific and Mediterranean theaters.

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