Auschwitz trials: the Jewish dimension
[nb-NO]Title[nb-NO]Auschwitz trials: the Jewish dimension
[nb-NO]Author[nb-NO]
Call numberS940.5318/002
[nb-NO]Object number[nb-NO]04187ei
[nb-NO]Place of publication[nb-NO]Jerusalem
[nb-NO]Publisher[nb-NO]Yad Vashem
[nb-NO]Year of publication[nb-NO]
2013
[nb-NO]Dimensions[nb-NO]pp139-171
[nb-NO]Material[nb-NO]Article
NotesArticle from the journal "Yad Vashem Studies" Vol 41Part 2, 2013 p139-171
[nb-NO]Description[nb-NO]
The authors analyze the place of the Jews in three postwar trials relating to Auschwitz and find that the murder of the Jews played a signficant role in the proceedings. The Jews figured prominently in the trial of Auschwitz-Birkenau commandant Rudolf Hess in Poland in 1947 and in the 1963-65 Frankfurt Auschwitz trial. The analysis of these trials helps us to understand why Auschwitz-Birkenau became the symbol of the Holocaust