List of Allied traitors during World War II facts for kids

During World War II, many people from countries fighting against the Axis Powers (like Germany, Italy, and Japan) were accused of helping the enemy. This was often called treason or treachery. These individuals were not Nazi war criminals, but rather people from the Allied side who were suspected of working against their own countries.

People Accused of Treason in World War II

Canada

• Kanao Inouye - He was found guilty of treason and was executed in 1947.
• Edwin Barnard Martin - He joined the British Free Corps, a group of British and Commonwealth prisoners of war who fought for the Germans. He was found guilty of helping the enemy and was sent to prison for 25 years.

New Zealand

• Captain Patrick Stanley Vaughan Heenan - He was found guilty of treason and was shot in 1942 in Singapore.
• Roy Nicolas Courlander - A soldier from New Zealand, he was captured during the war. The Germans recruited him for the Waffen-SS British Free Corps because he had anti-communist views. He was later tried by a military court and sentenced to 15 years in prison.

Soviet Union

Many people from the Soviet Union were accused of treason and war crimes during and after the war. Here are a few examples:

• Mikhail Bulanov - He was found guilty of treason and war crimes and was executed in 1943.
• Sergei Bunyachenko - He was found guilty of treason and was executed in 1946.
• Semyon Bychkov - A pilot, he was found guilty of treason and was executed in 1946.
• Feodor Fedorenko - He was found guilty of war crimes and was executed in 1987.
• Antonina Makarova - She was found guilty of treason and war crimes and was executed in 1979.
• Andrey Vlasov - A general, he was found guilty of treason and was executed in 1946.

United Kingdom

Many British civilians and soldiers were accused of helping the enemy during the war.

• John Amery - A civilian, he was found guilty of treason and was executed in 1945.
• George Johnson Armstrong - A civilian, he was found guilty of treachery and was executed in 1941.
• Norman Baillie-Stewart - A civilian, he was found guilty of helping the enemy and was sentenced to five years in prison.
• Kenneth Berry - He was a member of the Waffen-SS British Free Corps. He was found guilty of helping the enemy and was sentenced to nine months of hard labor.
• William Joyce - Known as "Lord Haw-Haw," he was famous for broadcasting German propaganda during the war. He was found guilty of treason and was executed in 1946. Even though he was born in America, he had a British passport, which meant he owed loyalty to the British King.
• Theodore Schurch - A soldier, he was found guilty of treachery and was executed in 1946.
• Duncan Scott-Ford - A merchant seaman, he was found guilty of treachery and was executed in 1942.

From Gibraltar (UK Crown Dependency)

• Jose Estelle Key - A civilian, he was found guilty of treachery and was executed in London in 1942.
• Alphonse Timmerman - A civilian, he was also found guilty of treachery and was executed in London in 1942.

From British Special Operations in Czechoslovakia

• Karel Čurda - A soldier, he was found guilty of treachery and was executed in 1947. He betrayed the agents who were responsible for assassinating a top Nazi official in Prague.

From British India (Crown Colony)

• Subhas Chandra Bose - He was a leader of the Indian National Army, which fought alongside the Axis Powers. He died in a plane crash in 1945.
• Gurbaksh Singh Dhillon, Shah Nawaz Khan, and Prem Sahgal - Members of the Indian National Army, they were found guilty of treason but were not sentenced.

United States

Many Americans were also accused of treason or helping the enemy during World War II.

• Robert Henry Best - He was found guilty and sentenced to life in prison, where he died in 1952.
• Iva Toguri D'Aquino - Known as "Tokyo Rose," she was accused of broadcasting Japanese propaganda. She was found guilty and sentenced to ten years in prison, but was released in 1956.
• Mildred Gillars - Known as "Axis Sally," she broadcasted Nazi propaganda. She was found guilty and jailed, then released in 1961.
• Ezra Pound - A famous poet, he was a supporter of fascism and broadcasted propaganda. He was deemed mentally unfit for trial.