Verdict on Auschwitz: The Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial 1963-1965
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Rolf Bickel
Herman Langbein
Joachim Kugler
Fritz Baueur
Edgar M Bohlke
Armin Alker
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On August 20, 1965, after 20 months of proceedings, the verdict was pronounced in one of the most significant trials in German legal history. The court heard 360 Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp survivors and other witnesses from 19 countries, in a trial against 22 members of the SS, accused of taking part in the mass murder of millions. This documentary illuminates not only the horrors of Auschwitz, but the chilling atmosphere of the courtroom in Frankfurt, Germany, almost twenty years after the Holocaust. Assembled from 430 hours of original audiotapes that languished in obscurity for decades, the Auschwitz survivors confronted perpetrators they had not seen for twenty years--many of whom had made comfortable lives for themselves in postwar West Germany.
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Released in United States January 26, 2007
Released in United States Winter January 12, 2007
Released in United States Winter January 12, 2007 (NY)
Released in United States January 26, 2007 (Los Angeles)
