ABSTRACT
After setting the scene for the trial Hannah Arendt turns to consider the charges against Eichmann under the Nazis and Nazi Collaborators (Punishment) Law (1950) (NNCL). Recognition of crimes against the Jewish people is unique to the NNCL and represents an attempt by the Knesset to recognise the unprecedented nature of the mass exterminations and elevate that offence above crimes against humanity. The legislative history and application of the NNCL represents a rich and understudied aspect of the Eichmann trial and contains many lessons for lawyers and theorists alike. This chapter discusses Kapos and the context within which they made decisions in death camps. It considers the informal trials which took place inside displaced persons' camps at the end of the war and finally the trials of Jewish collaborators which were conducted in Israel between 1951 and 1964. Kapos were usually political, criminal or Jewish inmates of different nationalities.
