1965 ⟶ Limited Number of Auschwitz SS Personnel Tried

Overall, only 789 individuals of the approximately 6,500 sur...
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⚖️ Limited Number of Auschwitz SS Personnel Tried

Overall, only 789 individuals of the approximately 6,500 surviving SS personnel who served at Auschwitz and its sub-camps were ever tried, of which 750 received sentences. Unlike the first trial in Poland held almost two decades earlier, the trials in Frankfurt were not based on the legal definition of Crimes against humanity as recognized by international law, but according to the state laws of the Federal Republic.⟶
Limited Number of Auschwitz SS Personnel Tried (1965)
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⚖️ Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials Begin

The Frankfurt Auschwitz trials, known in German as der Auschwitz-Prozess, or der zweite Auschwitz-Prozess, (the "second Auschwitz trial") was a series of trials running from 20 December 1963 to 19 August 1965, charging 22 defendants under German Criminal law for their roles in the Holocaust as mid- to lower-level officials in the Auschwitz-Birkenau death and Concentration camp complex. Hans Hofmeyer led as Chief Judge the "criminal case against Mulka and others" (reference number 4 Ks 2/63).⟶
Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials Begin (1965)
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