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Chronicles the history of war crimes trials in Germany, the preparations for the trial of Auschwitz criminals in Frankfurt in 1963-65, and the trial itself. Pp. 92-211 contain excerpts from the 900-page sentence, with commentary and connecting texts by the authors. They deal with conditions in the camp, characterizations of the accused, and testimonies by survivors, as well as the legal problems of ...

Includes bibliographical references. 157 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Pery Broad, a member of the "Politische Abteilung" at Auschwitz, wrote this report as a British prisoner-of-war. He describes in detail the criminal acts and murderous actions that took place in Auschwitz. Broad was tried at the Auschwitz trials. His reminiscences served as testimony. 89 p. illus.,ports. 20 cm.

Hirsch, born in 1907 in Krefeld, escaped Nazi Germany in 1937 and emigrated to Israel via Sweden. In 1949 he returned to Germany, where, as a life's task, he began to report on Nazi war crimes trials. Mentions the trial of Kurt Lischka and his two assistants, who were responsible for the deportation of 73,000 Jews, among them 4,000 children, from Drancy to extermination camps. The trial took place ...

Presents a compact overview of the history of Auschwitz, pointing to all of its complex aspects. Describes the functioning of the Auschwitz concentration camp, focusing on its use for the exploitation of slave labor and for the annihilation of European Jewry. Deals with the establishment and organization of the main camp, tributary and labor camps (Birkenau, IG Farben, and Monowitz), murder experiments, ...

Scenes from the 1939 fraud trial of Bernard Natan, who took over Pathe in 1929. Natan is shown in the dock trying to hide from the cameras, first with a newspaper over his head and then with his hands. Natan, a Romanian-born Jew who became a French citizen, was convicted of fraud and sent to prison. He was released in 1942 and sent to Auschwitz, where he died.

Reports previously published in "Die Gemeinde." 154 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.

"'Auschwitz' steht emblematisch für das deutsche Menschheitsverbrechen. Rechtshistorisch und gesellschaftspolitisch war der erste Frankfurter Auschwitz-Prozess das bedeutendste NS-Verfahren in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. 2013 jährt sich die "Strafsache gegen Mulka u.a." zum 50. Mal. In einführenden Abhandlungen legen Sybille Steinbacher (Wien) und Devin O. Pendas (Boston) die Geschichte des ...