The Tolsdorff Trials in Traunstein: Public and Judicial Attitudes to the <I>Wehrmacht</I> in the Federal Republic, 1954–60

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How Historians Begin: Openings in Historical Discourse

“…ran the headline in the Süddeutsche Zeitung on 24 June 1954 in an article on the trial of former Wehrmacht Generalleutnant Theodor Tolsdorff in the town of Traunstein in southern Bavaria. 106 On Wednesday 4 April 1604, an unnamed bailiff in the tiny village of Zandt, 25 miles south west of Nuremberg, made the greatest criminal arrest of his career. 107 On 10 March 1952 A. J. Turton, the Senior Urban Areas Commissioner of the Department of Native Affairs (NAD), received a very urgent telegram from Werner Epstein, the Departmental Secretary, instructing him to take the next train to Cape Town.…”