Crimes and War Crimes: William Hodge & Co and the public understanding of the Holocaust in post-Second World War Britain

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.