Söhner, Jasmin, and Máté Zombory. Accusing Hans Globke.

Eichmann’s Jerusalem trial triggered a DDR campaign to discredit Adenauer’s chief of staff, attorney Hans Globke, who had been instrumental in Nazi regulatory isolation of Jews in Germany and occupied area. Focus shifted in 1963 to an actual trial (in absentia) in DDR. The first phase was mediatized through Jenő Lévai and Reinhard Strecker, and carried into the trial phase. The efforts raised public consciousness of the widespread participation of Germans in implementation of Nazi policies, and of their continuing place in FRG’s highest seats of power, as eastern bloc propaganda had hoped.

This chapter forms part of: Eric Le Bourhis, Irina Tcherneva, and Vanessa Voisin (eds.), Seeking Accountability for Nazi and War Crimes in East Europe: A People’s Justice? (Rochester NY: University of Rochester Press, 2022).

Jasmin Söhner and Máté Zombory, “Accusing Hans Globke, 1960-1963: Agency and the Iron Curtain in Frankfurt,” in Eric Le Bourhis, Irina Tcherneva, and Vanessa Voisin (eds.), Seeking Accountability for Nazi and War Crimes in East Europe: A People’s Justice? (Rochester NY: University of Rochester Press, 2022), 351-386.