Between amnesty and anti-communism: the West German Kameradenschinder Trials, 1948-1960

Discusses the 'Kameradenschinder 'trials which took place in West Germany between the late 1940s and early 1960s. They concentrated on former POW's who had collaborated with their Soviet or Eastern European captors by assuming official functions in the administration of the camps or by engaging in political reeducation efforts as "antifascist activists."