Eyewitness to Genocide: The Operation Reinhard Death Camp Trials, 1955-1966

Winner of the Book of the Year Award from the American National Chapter of the Association Internationale de Droit Penal.

One of the deadliest phases of the Holocaust, the Nazi regime’s “Operation Reinhard” produced three major death camps—Belzec, Treblinka, and Sobibor—which claimed the lives of 1.8 million Jews. In the 1960s, a small measure of justice came for those victims when a score of defendants who had been officers and guards at the camps were convicted of war crimes in West German...