"I didn't know what Auschwitz was": The Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial and the German Press, 1963-1965
| dc.contributor.author | Pendas, Devin | |
| dc.date | 2021-11-25T13:35:11.000 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2021-11-26T11:55:18Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2021-11-26T11:55:18Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2013-05-08T12:15:54-07:00 | |
| dc.identifier | yjlh/vol12/iss2/4 | |
| dc.identifier.contextkey | 4028474 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.13051/7300 | |
| dc.description.abstract | On December 20, 1963, the Frankfurt Auschwitz trial opened before the State Court (Schwurgericht) at Frankfurt am Main. Ginther Leicher, covering the trial for the Allgemeine Zeitung/Neuer Mainzer Anzeiger, described the scene thus: "A huge mass of journalists, photographers and camera people from all over the world and half-empty seats in the visitors' gallery: these are the contradictory emblems of the public interest in the Auschwitz trial, which opened last Friday, four days before Christmas, in the Frankfurt City Council chambers." In this Article, I examine the seeming paradox that the Auschwitz trial could attract such considerable attention from the mass media while remaining a matter of indifference, if not open hostility, for much of the German public. In other words, I ask what the relationship is between the Auschwitz trial as a trial, as a media event, and as a "moment" in the West German public sphere. | |
| dc.title | "I didn't know what Auschwitz was": The Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial and the German Press, 1963-1965 | |
| dc.source.journaltitle | Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities | |
| refterms.dateFOA | 2021-11-26T11:55:18Z | |
| dc.identifier.legacycoverpage | https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/yjlh/vol12/iss2/4 | |
| dc.identifier.legacyfulltext | https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1231&context=yjlh&unstamped=1 |
