Held at Düsseldorf in West Germany, they were the two judicial trials in a series of similar war crime trials held during the early 1960s, such as the Jerusalem Adolf Eichmann trial (1961) and the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials (1963–65), as a result of which the general public came to realize the extent of the crimes that some two decades earlier had been perpetrated in occupied Poland by German bureaucrats and their willing executioners.
The two Treblinka trials concerning the Treblinka extermination camp personnel began in 1964. Trials related to the personnel of the Treblinka extermination camp that began in 1964 Düsseldorf District Court ( Land- und Amtsgericht Düsseldorf).
