The trial in Nuremberg was a very painful question for Poland, as the memories of the war time were very fresh. Polish people found themselves the biggest victims of the Second World War, and they did not find any proportion between the Poland’s size of victim and its role within of the process of judging the German war criminals. It did not reflect the fact that Poland was the fourth military power on the allies’ side during the war, and to contrary to France didn’t have full rights during the trial. Poland had only two witnesses during the trial, the procedure let Poland take only 10 days for indicating their confessions corresponding to the war crimes of the Nazis. One of the witnesses was S. Szmaglewska who was a prisoner of Paviak and Birkenau.¹
It was stressed that inside Hans Frank’s Protectorate there were in all 3800 camps, under-camps and the so- called commands of enforced work. Only one out of ten prisoners succeeded in surviving in there. The Poland correspondent’s side evidenced the meaning of Frank’s diaries indicating what there practically meant the quick temporary courts’ procedures and premeditations.
¹ Seweryna Szmaglewska (1916-1992)- Polish writer. She completed the Jagiellonian University in Cracow, in years 1942-45 she was staying in the Aushvitz Concentrational Camp. She is especiall y famous for 2 books: „The not Guilty in Nuremberg” and „Smokes over Birkenau” . She was generally writing books for young people, especially dedicated to the Polish scouts (as the bok „the Black Feet”)

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10th of April-1961-31st of May, 1962: Eichmann's Trial The Polish public opinion knew much about Eichmann. He was known as one of the most serious Nazi war criminals . The action of Israeli agents was supported by the Polish opinion and within the Polish press. It was written that Eichman did not feel guilty for his crimes and presented himself only as a kind of clerk or administrator who did not actually initiate the mechanism of crime. The truth however was different, and Eichman was always presented in Poland as one of the key figure in the Nazi hierarchy, who should have been judged in Nuremberg. The Polish opinion knew well he was the close co- operator of R. Heydrich- SD’s (Sicherheitsdienst) and RSHA’s (Reichssicherheitshauptamt) leader. Eichmann’s specialty was the Jewish Issue. He was responsible for their transports also in the territory of Poland . The number of people who were to die in the result of his operations was estimated about 3 millions. Poland was especially sensitive to the question of the Nazis who escaped from the responsibility and the fault according to the question was bound to the western allies and the Vatican- also according to the political propaganda’s grounds. Therefore the Eichmann’s Trial was defined in a category of equalizing the justice after time.