This chapter explores the use of Holocaust and other Nazi-era atrocities as a source of motivation for contemporary crime in transhistorical crime fiction. It begins by examining how crimes in the narrative present, such as those in Val McDermid’s Tony Hill and Carol Jordan series or in Ferdinand von Schirach’s The Collini Case, can be rooted in the events of the Second World War. In this type of Holocaust crime fiction, deep historical motivations underpin modern-day investigations. The chapter’s main case study is Didier Daeninckx’s Murder in Memoriam (1983), a text which emphasizes the importance of understanding the past to comprehend present crimes, and which uses crime fiction both to reveal unpalatable truths about Holocaust-era history and to link this history to later state crimes from the post-colonial era. This sort of Holocaust crime fiction can serve as a powerful tool for re-examining historical events and their lasting impact.