Abstract
ABSTRACT On 11 March 1965, Dr. Franz Lucas, a defendant in Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial (1963–65), admitted to selecting prisoners on the ramp of Auschwitz-Birkenau in the spring of 1944. His remorseless confession came after an accusation from fellow defendant Stefan Baretzki. Rudolf Aschenauer, famous for defending Nazi criminals such as Otto Ohlendorf, contributed to Lucas’s putative claim of being a victim of superior orders, especially of Commandant Josef Kramer. Survivor witnesses from Ravensbrück reinforced Lucas’s claim of innocent entanglement in Nazism, which helped acquit Lucas in 1970 and reverse his earlier confession.
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