Auschwitz trials Frankfurt

For a clarification of the evidence problems, an extract from the judgment of the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial may be quoted here 83... 

According, for example to the testimony of M. Buki in the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial see H. Langbein, Der Auschwitz-Prozefi, op. cit. (note 465), p. 96. 

It was intended from the beginning that the expert report arising lfom this request of Remer s attorney would be published. It is unusual to publish expert reports from judicial proceedings, but it does happen when the subject is of public interest. Expert reports drawn up for several trials against supposed National Socialist war criminals, for example, were later made available to a wide public for educational purposes. The Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial is a prime example of this. The expert reports produced during this trial by scientists at the Institut fur Zeitgeschichte were later published as a collection.545... 

Also, Remer s statement that the Frankfurt Auschwitz trial had de-... 

This piece of evidence made the State Attorney roar. "This piece of evidence is an insult to the victims , he yelled into the courtroom with a red face. Herrmann replied, Then your victims were insulted by the decision in the Auschwitz trial in Frankfurt, Herr State Attorney. Most of what I have just read are observations of the court in the great Auschwitz trial in Frankfurt. You can read them in the decision. At this the State Attorney was speechless. It is peculiar, how a State Attorney can free himself from almost any evidentiary difficulty with only two magical words common knowledge . He knew nothing about the decision in the National Socialist trials and he knew next to nothing about historical connections or physical facts. All a state attorney needs in such a case is to be able to pronounce the words, denied on account of common knowledge. ... 

The court refused to accept this evidence. That is, it refused to accept whole passages from the decision in the Auschwitz trial in Frankfurt as well as passages from the writings of survivors such as Lang-bein. Naturally, on account of common knowledge . 

A classic example of this is the verdict of the Auschwitz-Trial in Frankfurt (Ref. 50/4 ICs 2/63, p. 108ff.), which saw itself forced to admit that it lacked almost all the means of evidence available in a normal murder trial71, including the bodies of the victims, autopsy reports, expert reports on the cause and time of death, [...] evidence as to the criminals, murder weapons, etc."... 

Regarding the Auschwitz Trial B. Naumann, Auschwitz, Athenaum, Frankfurt/Main 1968, pp. 67f., 132. 

The Frankfurt Auschwitz trial was an exception, as these procedings were taped, but exclusively for the judges. The defense did never get eacces to these tapes, nor did the prosecution. 

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