In April 1952, a sensational trial began at the Munich District Court. The defendant was the most prominent Jew in Germany after the war: Philipp Auerbach. He had survived Auschwitz and fought like no one else for the survivors of the Holocaust. His judges, former Nazis, convicted him of minor offenses. Auerbach took his own life on the same day. His fate symbolically represents the fact that there was no true zero hour after the war. Old elites transformed into new ones, and anti-Semitism persisted. Hans-Hermann Klares' striking biography sheds new light on the post-war era. It brings to life a world where hundreds of thousands of displaced persons in Germany had to fight for a life of dignity.