page_title: Supreme National Tribunal
section_title: Trials
hierarchical_section_title: Supreme National Tribunal / Trials
caption_attribution_description: Polski: Proces Ludwiga Fischera przed Najwyższym Trybunałem Narodowym w Warszawie. Siedzą od lewej w drugim rzędzie: Ludwig Fischer, Ludwig Leist, Josef Meisinger i Max Daume English: Trial of Ludwig Fischer before the Supreme National Tribunal in Warsaw. From the left in second row: Ludwig Fischer, Ludwig Leist, Josef Meisinger and Max Daume
context_page_description: The Supreme National Tribunal was a war-crime tribunal active in Stalinist-era Poland from 1946 to 1948. Its aims and purpose were defined by the State National Council in decrees of 22 January and 17 October 1946 and 11 April 1947. The new law was based on an earlier decree of 31 August 1944 issued by the new Soviet-imposed Polish regime, with jurisdiction over "fascist-Hitlerite criminals and traitors to the Polish nation". The Tribunal presided over seven high-profile cases involving a total of 49 individuals.
context_section_description: Seven trials were brought before the Supreme National Tribunal in 1946–1948:
  The trial of Arthur Greiser, head of the Free City of Danzig and later, governor of Reichsgau Wartheland
  Trial took place in Poznań, from 22 June to 7 July 1946.
  Sentence: death penalty, carried out
  The trial of Amon Göth, commander of the Kraków-Płaszów concentration camp
  Trial took place in Kraków, from 27 August to 5 September 1946.
  Sentence: death penalty, carried out
  The trial of Ludwig Fischer, Ludwig Leist, Josef Meisinger, Max Daume, all four high-ranking Nazi officials of occupied Warsaw
  Trial took place in Warsaw from 17 December 1946 to 24 February 1947
  Sentences: Fischer, Meisinger, Daume — death penalty, Leist — 8 years, sentences carried out.
  The trial of Rudolf Höss, one of the commanders of the Auschwitz concentration camp
  Trial took place in Warsaw from 11 March to 29 March 1947
  Sentence: death penalty, carried out
  The trial of 40 staff of the Auschwitz concentration camp (including one of the commanders, Arthur Liebehenschel).
  Trial (also known as the First Auschwitz Trial, with the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials known as the Second Auschwitz Trial) took place in Kraków from 24 November to 16 December 1947
  Sentences: 23 death sentences, 17 imprisonments from life sentences to 3 years of imprisonment, one person (Hans Münch) acquitted for humane behavior and enabling the survival of numerous patients.
  The trial of Albert Forster, governor of Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia
  Trial took place in Gdańsk from 5 April – 29 April 1948
  Sentence: death penalty, carried out
  The trial of Josef Bühler, state secretary and deputy governor to the General Government
  Trial took place in Kraków from 17 June – 5 July 1948
  Sentence: death penalty, carried out
  The first two of the above trials (of Greiser and Göth) were completed before the sentence was passed by the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg on 30 September 1946.
  The Tribunal also declared that the General Government was a criminal institution.
caption: Warsaw Trial, 1946–1947
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