Synopsis
His investigation preparing the Auschwitz Trial is the historical achievement of Heinz Düx. He questioned very intensively and with great knowledge all the witnesses and the accused people about the Auschwitz Concentration Camp. So he had set the preconditions for the Auschwitz-Trial - the most important trial in German post-war history. Like none other the Auschwitz Trial revealed the structure of a concentration camp - just as much the criminal nature of the Nazi regime and Germans willing cooperation. Heinz Düx acted as coroner for the euthanasia trials, too. The German judiciary was involved majoritarianly in the Nazi regime. Thus Heinz Düx remains a outsider. In the following years he was judge in Frankfurt for the claims about recompences and reparations of those, who were persecuted during the Third Reich due to political or racist reasons. Thanks to his anti-Fascist engagement he was very often met with hostility up to the attempt of the CDU-party to eliminate him as a judge.
