Rauschenberger, Katharina. Friedrich Karl Kaul in Jerusalem and After.

Multiple links connected the Eichmann Jerusalem trial (1961) to the GDR’s trial of Bonn official Hans Globke, in absentia (1963). This was the first trial in which the GDR confronted the Holocaust. The links helped define the GDR’s future policy towards its own Nazi past and towards former Nazis living in the BRD. In the evolution of this policy, Friedrich Kaul, an attorney, survivor and avowed Communist had initially played a central role in defining and publicizing the link between Eichmann in Jerusalem and the government in Bonn. He was set aside as his inflexible anti-Zionist views displaced and eclipsed the SED’s objectives for linking Jerusalem and Bonn. Rauschenberger uses B.Arch SAPMO (Kaul materials) as well as published primary sources and a engages robustly with the extensive secondary literature (principally in German).

Katharina Rauschenberger, “Friedrich Karl Kaul in Jerusalem and After. Trials in the Anti-fascist Campaigns,” in Katharina Rauschenberger, Joachim von Puttkamer and Sybille Steinbacher (eds.), Investigating, Punishing, Agitating. Nazi Perpetrator Trials in the Eastern Bloc (Göttingen: Wallstein, 2023), 113-132.