The Auschwitz trial began sixty years ago. This was, for twenty months, a look into hell on earth.
Sixty years ago, shortly before Christmas, a criminal trial began that had never been seen before. The Auschwitz trial was a look at and into the Nazi murder machine; it was a look into hell. A map of the extermination factory hung on the wall behind the judge’s bench. 1.2 million people were gassed, poisoned, shot and killed there. The printed version of the judgment runs four hundred pages.