Les procès de criminels nazis de l’année charnière 1958 dans la presse locale et suprarégionale du sud de la République fédérale d’Allemagne

Abstract

1958 has been identified by historians as the beginning of a new era for the memory of nazism in the federal republic of Germany. The revival of penal investigations against unpunished Nazi criminals played an important role in that political change. But what did the German population know about these trials and what was its awareness of this subject? This article analyses two daily newspapers of the south of Germany, one at a local level (the Sudkurier) and one at a supraregional level (the Suddeutschezeitung) in order to know what the population could really read about the trials of this decisive year 1958.

Keywords

• Trials
• Nazi criminals
• Federal Republic of Germany
• Local and regional Press