In November 1975, sixteen former Majdanek death camp employees stood trial in Düsseldorf. The case focused on the murder of more than 900,000 people in the camp. The press paid special attention to the defendant Hermine Braunsteiner (1919-1999), who had been hiding in the United States for years. In the end, she was the only defendant in the trial to be sentenced to life imprisonment. As with so many other similar trials, this one also dashed people’s hopes that justice would be served.
