This article considers how existing public knowledge of legal procedure and criminality might have helped to shape the presentation and reception of the trials of ‘minor’ war criminals...William Hodge & Co, publisher of the popular Notable British Trials series, published a related series, War Crimes Trials, between 1948 and 1952, and these volumes, especially The Belsen Trial, are compared with the newspaper accounts that they aimed to supplement.
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