Amon Goeth was tried as one of the first cases of genocide, as was Josef Leipold, who ran the Brnenec camp as SS commander. Goeth was sentenced to death and was hanged in September 1946, not far from the site of the Płaszów camp. At the end of the war, it was not immediately clear how to address justice; laws did not exist for genocide and crimes against humanity. Here, in the Brnenec camp, the soldiers from the Red Army wanted immediately after the liberation to try the SS guards in a "kangaroo court" and execute them, but the former prisoners were against it. A “kangaroo court” means a mock court in which the principles of law and justice are disregarded or perverted.

Watch the testimony of Leopold Page, who remembers the first days after the end of the war in Brünnlitz.