Correspondence with Bauer, Fritz

Identifier
WL3000/9/1/112
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 109416
Dates
18 Oct 1961 - 24 Aug 1963
Level of Description
Collection
Languages
  • German
Source
EHRI Partner

Biographical History

Dr. Fritz Bauer was a Jewish-German state attorney in Hesse, primarily known for initiating the Auschwitz Trials in Frankfurt am Main in the early 1960s. He played a key role in the prosecution of Nazi crimes and the establishment of a democratic justice system in West Germany. Bauer also tipped off the Israeli government about the whereabouts of Adolf Eichmann. He and his work have been subject of numerous studies, exhibitions and movies as well. The Fritz Bauer Institut zur Geschichte und Wirkung des Holocaust was founded in Frankfurt am Main in 1995. See Wojak, I., Fritz Bauer 1903-1968: Eine Biografie, Munich, Beck, 2009.

Scope and Content

The correspondence concerns the extradition of former SS-physician Horst Schumann from Ghana, an enquiry by the Library to obtain a Nazi poster seized by the police in Frankfurt am Main, and congratulations on occasion of Bauer’s 60th birtday.

Conditions Governing Reproduction

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People

  • Schumann, Horst
  • Bauer, Fritz

Subjects

Places

  • West Germany [1949-1990]
  • Frankfurt am Main
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