Series

Verdict on Auschwitz

19931 seasonDocumentary

Creator: Dietrich Wagner
Year: 1993

This documentary re-creates the momentous Frankfurt trial. Rolf Bickel and Dietrich Wagner build the film around taped testimony from more than 200 Auschwitz survivors. Twenty-two former members of Hitler's SS, many of whom had carved out comfortable lives for themselves in postwar West Germany, stood trial in 1963 before 360 witnesses who accused them of murdering millions.

Episodes

Top cast

Edgar M. Böhlke

Narrator (voice)

Created by

Dietrich Wagner

Directed by

Dietrich Wagner, Rolf Bickel

Produced by

Gerhard Hehrlein