This article aims to give an overview of the German literature on perpetrators of the Third Reich and its reception, which has been marked by silence. The first part presents the conditions in Germany as Täternation and shows how the trials condemned the perpetrators to silence. A look at the critical edition of Mein Kampf, published in Germany in 2016, punctuates the problems and the scarcity of both autobiographical and fictional perpetrator literature in the German language, even in the second and third generation of writers.