Beyond justice: the Auschwitz trial

A reinterpretation of Germany's first major attempt to confront its past. Wittmann recounts the testimony of survivors, former SS officers and defendants - a cross section of the camp population. Concludes that the Auschwitz trial had a paradoxical result. Although the prosecution succeeded in exposing SS crimes at the camp for the first time, the public absorbed a distorted representation of the criminality of the camp system.