Frankfurt Auschwitz trials

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The Frankfurt Auschwitz trials, or the second Auschwitz trial, known in German as Auschwitzprozesse, was a series of three trials running from 20 December 1963 to 14 June 1968, charging 25 defendants under German criminal law for their roles in the Holocaust as mid- to lower-level officials in the Auschwitz-Birkenau death and concentration camp complex. Hans Hofmeyer led the "criminal case against Mulka and others" (reference number 4 Ks 3/63) as chief judge. Overall, only 789 individuals of the approximately 8,200 surviving SS personnel who served at Auschwitz and its sub-camps were ever tried, of whom 750 received sentences. Unlike the first Auschwitz trial held almost two decades earlier in Poland, the trials in Frankfurt were not based on the legal definition of crimes against humanity as recognized by international law, but according to the state laws of the Federal Republic.

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