The NSU tribunals emerged as a self-organized response to state-entwined right-wing and rascist violence of the NSU complex, challenging the failures of the rule of law through solidarity, community building, and transformative justice.

In May 2017, the first tribunal, "Unraveling the NSU Complex" (NSU Tribunals), was held at Schauspiel Köln as a counter-trial, parallel to the official court proceedings at the Higher Regional Court in Munich. For more than two years, the action alliance of the same name developed a transformative concept of a political and solidaristic tribunal that centered on the survivors and victims' families of the racist terror by the neo-Nazi group "Nationalsocialist Underground" (NSU). The alliance took into its own hands the "thorough investigation" that former Chancellor Angela Merkel had promised publicly to the victims' families.

Subsequent NSU tribunals were held in 2018 in Mannheim, 2019 in Chemnitz and Zwickau, and in 2022 in Nuremberg. More than 130 perpetrators and responsible individuals within the NSU complex were publicly named and accused, exposing the history and continuity of racist violence in Germany. The NSU tribunals were a powerful expression of the anti-racist struggle and resistance, standing as a testament to the fight for a solidary "society of the many."

The book Wir klagen an! (We accuse) is a comprehensive documentation of the NSU Tribunals, which Madlyn Sauer presents in detail. It gives readers a wealth of knowledge about the NSU tribunals and their significance within the broader context of international civil society-led tribunals.