Curio house processes

The Curio-Haus Trials were post-war trials held by British military courts in the Curio-Haus in Hamburg from 1946 to 1948. The main defendants were Nazi perpetrators from Neuengamme concentration camp and its satellite camps.

In a total of seven trials, more than 40 people - including members of the SS, camp doctors and prisoner functionaries - were convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity. The Curio-Haus Trials were part of the Allied effort to bring Nazi crimes to justice and played an important role in Hamburg's early culture of remembrance.

The so-called "Bullenhuser-Damm Trial", which dealt with the murder of 20 Jewish children, was part of the 1st Curio-Haus Trial. It was one of the first trials to deal with the murder of children in the context of Nazi medical crimes. Among those tried and sentenced to death was Dr. Alfred Trzebinski, who administered the morphine injections to the children before they were murdered or which led directly to their death.