Boden oder: Das Wissen um Auschwitz

Summary/Abstract: The article analyses the role of Max Boden, the commandant of the Nazi transit camp of Mechelen/Malines in occupied-Belgium. From here, the Belgian Jews were deported to Auschwitz. Boden was a simple man, who treated the victims with a shattering brutality and particularly enjoyed exposing women to sexual violence. In a deep analysis of Boden’s postwar trial, Meyer demonstrates that Boden knew exactly about what expected the prisoners in Auschwitz, symptomatically for the German postwar society.

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