Retribution was never a single moment, but a reckoning that spanned decades. Here, history faces its own reflection — in law, in guilt, and in the fading shadow of peace.
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Two decades after liberation, the ghosts of Auschwitz were summoned once more — this time by law. These images capture the moment when justice returned to the ruins, seeking proof among the ashes.
In 1961, the trial of Adolf Eichmann transformed a single courtroom into the moral center of the world. These photographs preserve the faces of justice — judges, witnesses, and the accused — when history itself took the stand.
In the silence of Spandau, time itself became their sentence. Justice had been served, yet peace remained uncertain.
