• Justice Hans Hofmeyer

    Letter to German lawyer in charge of first Auschwitz trial. THE FRANKENHUIS COLLECTION1914 – 1918 1939-1945 M. FRANKENHUIS221 WEST 82ND STREETNEW YORK 24, N.Y.ENDICOTT 2-6758 April 7, 1964 To his Excellency Hon. Justice Hans HofmeyerFrankfurt a/M Respectfully, Your Honor: The Press is daily reporting the essence of the trial in Frankfurt of the twenty-two defendants charged with homicide and unheard inhumanity at Auschwitz-Birkenau committed about twenty years ago. These reports engage the attention of civilized persons everywhere and arouse their revulsion at the sworn recital of savagery by them and the entire establishment. They are true symbols, which resulted in the satanic obliteration of about six million European Jews, of…