The media history of trials complements the history of law in that it allows us to examine the reception of trials and their jurisdiction in the public arena. Among the criminal trials that posed so many issues for West German federal justice, three of them played a key role: the Ulm Einsatzkommando trial, whose “jurisdiction of accomplices” was surprisingly little discussed in the media; the Majdanek trial, which, despite a more critical reception, confirmed this jurisprudence; and the Gröning trial. Although this trial let to belated legal advances and contributed to overcome the work of overcoming the past in the media, it has not led the justice system to take a critical look at itself in the extent it might have been expected, what reveals a discrepancy between juridical truth and the central place of the Nazi past in current German collective memory.