Frankfurt Auschwitz trials
The Frankfurt Auschwitz trials were a set of trials in 1963-1965 in Frankfurt-on-Main in West Germany of individuals accused of Holocaust crimes at Auschwitz.
"Testimonies" and "confessions" from these trials are sometimes cited as evidence for the politically correct view. Regarding general Holocaust revisionist views on such trial evidence, see Holocaust testimonial evidence and in particular the section on "Trial confessions".
Regarding specific criticisms of the Frankfurt Auschwitz trials, see the "External links" section in this article.
More generally, by 1960, even politically correct historians had abandoned the claim that mass exterminations of Jews by gassing had occurred in the Western Holocaust camps, as discussed in the article on this topic. These dramatic developments regarding the Western Holocaust camps were, however, followed by the widely publicized Eichmann trial (1961) and the Frankfurt Auschwitz trials (1963-1965), which focused public attention on the camps in Poland.
Involved in the prosecution and/or testifying for it
- Adolf Rögner
- Fritz Bauer - Jewish Mossad agent and judge and prosecutor in West Germany essential in starting the trials.
- Hans Münch
- Hermann Langbein
- Johann Kremer
- Konrad Morgen
- Richard Böck
Well-known defendants
- Hans Stark
- Josef Klehr
- Karl Höcker
- Oswald Kaduk
- Pery Broad
- Richard Baer - the main defendant who allegedly committed suicide before the trial started.
- Robert Mulka
- Wilhelm Boger
External links
Article archives
In books
- Lectures on the Holocaust—Controversial Issues Cross Examined - section 4.3.4. Trials in “Nations under the Rule of Law”
- Many other Holocaust Handbooks discussing Auschwitz also discuss the trials
- Auschwitz: A Judge Looks at the Evidence
