The author of this article living in Germany in 1964 and 1965 in A Great Adventure in the shadow of war story was living at an American boarding school.
When the 20-month-long Auschwitz trial was coming to an end in 1964–1955, I was a 14-year-old student at Frankfurt American High. I was only a short streetcar ride from the downtown courts and 200 kilometers south of my parents, who were based in Rothwesten on an Army base. Initially unaware that this realm of fairy tales also offered a sobering history lesson, my friends and I happily explored the green, palace fantasy that was postwar Germany.
Judge Hans Hofmeyer began the criminal prosecution of 22 Third Reich SS members accused of killing thousands at the Auschwitz concentration camp in the dark, high-ceilinged city hall courthouse in Frankfurt am Main. This trial would go on to become the longest jury trial in German legal history.
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