Auschwitz trials

"Auschwitz has come to serve as a symbol of the Holocaust, although tens of thousands of members of other groups were killed there and other killing sites such as Treblinka and Babi Yar were more specific to the killing of Jews. One explanation for the prominent place of Auschwitz in understanding the Holocaust is the role of this most notorious of camps in postwar trials. Following the example of the Nuremberg Trial, it has often been argued that Jewish suffering was marginalized in trials of Nazi criminals. This article shows, however, that the genocide of the Jews occupied a significant portion of the proceedings at the various Auschwitz trials. At the British Lüneburg, the Polish Höss, and the Frankfurt Auschwitz trials, Jewish voices resonated and reached a wide public. The elements of the testimony about Jewish suffering at these trials have come to supply iconic images of Auschwitz. "