Final Verdict: A Holocaust Trial in the Twenty-First Century review: Deft analysis that takes in author’s family history

Final Verdict: A Holocaust Trial in the Twenty-First Century review: Deft analysis that takes in author’s family historyWhat might prove to be the last trial of a Nazi functionary lies at the heart of Tobias Buck’s discursive and engaging book. Bruno Dey was found guilty in July 2020 of accessory to the murder of 5,232 people at Stutthof Concentration Camp near Danzig in the final months of the second World War.

Dey had, despite giving evidence related to his time in Stutthof in a separate criminal trial in 1982, escaped justice until almost eight decades after the facts. In the dock, he denied any knowledge of the camp being used to murder Jews, Poles and other deportees, claiming he had spent most of the war on a watchtower as a 17 year old, ignorant of the crimes within the camp’s confines.

It was a version that did not wash with the court. The prosecution used a new strategy for trying Nazi war criminals, influenced by the failure in Israel to convict Treblinka camp guard John Demjanjuk in 1988.

A lawyer by training, and now managing editor of the Financial Times, Buck deftly outlines the legal procedures while also expanding his narrative to take in other late Holocaust trials and testimonies from survivors. He also investigates his own grandfather’s Nazi past, which proves to be a lot more implicated than the family had believed – rather than being a common-or-garden Mitläufer or follower, Rupert Buck was an early party member and also in the SS.

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