The Ulm Einsatzkommando trial (1958) was the first major trial of Nazi crimes under

West German West Germany is the colloquial term used to indicate the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG; german: Bundesrepublik Deutschland , BRD) between its formation on 23 May 1949 and the German reunification through the accession of East Germany on 3 O ...

law (rather than by an international or military tribunal). Ten suspects, former members of the Einsatzkommando ''Tilsit'', were charged for their involvement in war crimes committed in Lithuania in 1941. All were convicted as accessories to mass murder and sentenced to various terms in prison, the chief perpetrators being held to be those from whom the orders had come down.Sonia Phalnikar
Landmark Trial Pushed Germany to Tackle Nazi Past
(an interview with ), Deutsche Welle, 20 May 2008. Accessed 30 September 2016. In light of the trial,

Konrad Adenauer Konrad Hermann Joseph Adenauer (; 5 January 1876 – 19 April 1967) was a German statesman who served as the first chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany from 1949 to 1963. From 1946 to 1966, he was the first leader of the Christian Dem ...

set up the

Central Office of the State Justice Administrations for the Investigation of National Socialist Crimes The Central Office of the State Justice Administrations for the Investigation of National Socialist Crimes (german: Zentrale Stelle der Landesjustizverwaltungen zur Aufklärung nationalsozialistischer Verbrechen; in short or ) is Germany's main age ...

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