National Content: Germany

The court to punish Nazi crime started with trials in Nuremberg, Germany, the former cita of the "Reichsparteitag" (party convention) of the Nazi party. The trials had a strict but democratic target. The result of the trials was that some of the Nazi leaders were punished with death by hanging, others committed suicide or were sentenced to life imprisonment. The trials cleard up the public in Germany and the world. The effect on the people in Germany was low, most of them struggled for life in destroyed cities, were fugitive or in captivity. The Eichmann trial took place in Jerusalem, Israel, and endet 1962 with death by hanging. This trial was followed by the German public and the next generation who heard often for their first time about the mass-killing of people in the concentration camps, the holocaust or the war crimes. This young generation of the 1960ies started to ask their mothers or parents about the nazi time and the role of members of their own family as well as in society. The discussion how to live with the nazi past personally and as community in Germany started.