Hitler's unwilling executioners? The representation of the Holocaust through the Bielefeld Bialystok trial of 1965-1967

Only a few court cases in the Federal Republic of Germany dealt with the deportation of Jews. The importance of the Bialystok trial and its judgment lies in the act of assigning the word 'crimes' to the deportation of Jews..By imposing its point of view on the past, no one could deny or ignore the occurrence of these events, and that those who had particpated in them would be called to account