Der Frankfurter Auschwitz-Prozess / eine Koproduktion von Hessischer Rundfunk und hr media ; ein film von Rolf Bickel und Dietrich Wagner ; Produktion, Gerhard Hehrlein.
Publisher:
DEFA Film LibraryUniversity of Massachusetts, Amherst,
Copyright Date:
2006
Description:
2 videodiscs (60 min. and 180 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (35 pages : portraits)
Strafsache, 4 Ks 2/36: Auschwitz vor dem Frankfurter Schwurgericht.
Notes:
Issued with: Strafsache, 4 Ks 2/36: Auschwitz vor dem Frankfurter Schwurgericht = Verdict on Auschwitz : the Frankfurt Auschwitz trial, 1963-1965 / Hessischer Rundfunk / Dokumentation von Rolf Bickel und Dietrich Wagner (3-part documentary originally issued in 1993 with German narration). Includes bonus features: directors' filmographies and biographies, newsreel, website links.
Contents:
Disc 2. Der Frankfurter Auschwitz-Prozess. Disc 2. Der Frankfurter Auschwitz-Prozess.
Summary:
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 witnesses, included survivors of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp and others from 19 countries, in a trial against 22 members of the SS, accused of taking part in the mass murder of millions. In the courtroom, survivors of Auschwitz confronted perpetrators they had not seen for twenty years, many of whom had made comfortable lives for themselves in postwar West Germany. This film is an unparalleled document of the first Auschwitz Trial. The court proceedings were recorded on audiotape--a unique event in German legal history.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.