27. Le procès d’Auschwitz à Francfort (1963-1965). Préalables et déroulement

27. Le procès d’Auschwitz à Francfort (1963-1965). Préalables et déroulement

Not until the end of the 1950s did the judiciary of the Federal Republic begin with the systematic investigation of Nazi criminals. With the establishment of the Central Office of the State Justice Administrations for the Investigation of National Socialist Crimes in 1958, the long overdue politica...

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Auteurs principaux: Renz, Werner, Mannoni, Olivier
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Publié: 2018
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spelling cairn-RHSHO_209_0591RHSHORevue d’Histoire de la Shoah https://shs.cairn.info/revue-d-histoire-de-la-shoah-2018-2-page-591?lang=fr https://doi.org/10.3917/rhsho.209.0591 27. Le procès d’Auschwitz à Francfort (1963-1965). Préalables et déroulement Renz, WernerMannoni, Olivier2018 fre Revue d’Histoire de la Shoah | 209 | 2 | 2018-10-17 | p. 591-613 | 2111-885X RHSHO_20927 Not until the end of the 1950s did the judiciary of the Federal Republic begin with the systematic investigation of Nazi criminals. With the establishment of the Central Office of the State Justice Administrations for the Investigation of National Socialist Crimes in 1958, the long overdue political stance was taken so that Nazi perpetrators who had integrated seamlessly into German society could be held responsible. The first Frankfurt Auschwitz trial (1963-1965) was an attempt to not only make the crimes of the individual perpetrators the subject of the proceedings but also the totality of the events in the extermination camp. The West German judiciary conducted “normal criminal proceedings” against mass murderers on the basis of the law applicable at the time. The court sentenced those with lower ranks who had murdered independently to lifelong imprisonment as perpetrators. However, where involvement in the mass killings had occurred on orders, this was merely considered aiding and abetting. According to settled case law at the time, almost all of the accused who had exclusively acted on orders had only wanted to facilitate and support the ordered crime as the offence of another. The Frankfurt Auschwitz trial is an example for the failed attempt to judicially resolve the Nazi past with the “good old penal code” from 1871.Cairn free access
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description Not until the end of the 1950s did the judiciary of the Federal Republic begin with the systematic investigation of Nazi criminals. With the establishment of the Central Office of the State Justice Administrations for the Investigation of National Socialist Crimes in 1958, the long overdue political stance was taken so that Nazi perpetrators who had integrated seamlessly into German society could be held responsible. The first Frankfurt Auschwitz trial (1963-1965) was an attempt to not only make the crimes of the individual perpetrators the subject of the proceedings but also the totality of the events in the extermination camp. The West German judiciary conducted “normal criminal proceedings” against mass murderers on the basis of the law applicable at the time. The court sentenced those with lower ranks who had murdered independently to lifelong imprisonment as perpetrators. However, where involvement in the mass killings had occurred on orders, this was merely considered aiding and abetting. According to settled case law at the time, almost all of the accused who had exclusively acted on orders had only wanted to facilitate and support the ordered crime as the offence of another. The Frankfurt Auschwitz trial is an example for the failed attempt to judicially resolve the Nazi past with the “good old penal code” from 1871.
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Mannoni, Olivier
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