The trial was initiated by West German judge and prosecutor Fritz Bauer and was in preparation for five years. The first Auschwitz trial took place shortly after Eichmann was tried in Jerusalem. The court heard witnesses from 19 countries including survivors and 54 members of the Auschwitz-SS in proceedings against 21 members of the SS and 1 prisoner, accused of having taken part in the mass murder of millions of people.
On August 20, , after 18 months of hearings, the verdicts were pronounced in one of the most significant trials in German legal history. The immediacy of the testimonies in this film yields a historically precise and absorbing time-capsule. The court proceedings were recorded on audiotape that were to have been destroyed after the trial. Filmmakers Bickel and Wagner located the hours of material in the early s that had languished in obscurity for decades.
They present tape recordings along with extensive and exclusive original film material, original photos, and current interviews with witnesses and other people involved in the trial. Rarely does one get a glimpse inside a historic trial where the voices of the witnesses come alive.
Survivor witnesses describe their unspeakable suffering at the hands of the defendants with amazing attention to detail, and their testimony helps to reconstruct the history of Auschwitz as it has never been told before. This film therefore contributes greatly to our understanding of the actual experience of the Holocaust; rather than reading lifeless documents we are transported into the Haus Gallus to witness for ourselves the dedication of the prosecutors, the courage of the witnesses, the mendacity of the defendants, and the painstaking efforts of the judge to strike the right tone in his verdict.
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