The Belsen Trials 1945-48:: an investigation and analysis

An analysis of three sets of war crimes trials conducted by British military tribunals in Germany between 1945 and 1948 that were concerned with the ill-treatment and killing of Allied nationals at Bergen-Belsen, Auschwitz and other concentration camps. The formation of British war crimes policy is studied along with the legal provisions which allowed the trials to proceed. The outcomes of the trials and the public reaction to them is examined to show how these attitudes contributed to the abandonment of the war crimes trial programme.