In December of 1963, one of the most important and dramatic court cases to tackle the issue of the Holocaust came before a jury in a Frankfurt court. Twenty-two members of the SS were charged with being complicit in the mass murder of millions of people. Some 350 witnesses from 19 different countries testified against them. Once again, the survivors of the concentration camp came face to face with their captors. This trial, like no other, brought to light the horrific reality of the Nazi extermination machinery, and for the first time since the end of the war, the German public was confronted directly with questions as to responsibility for the Holocaust: How was it that Hitler managed to gain such support from broad swathes of the German population? And how should the courts of the fledgling West Germany deal with the crimes of the Nazi past? This film contains the original tape recordings of the testimonies and, in conjunction with contemporary film and photo documents, reconstructs the Frankfurt investigations.…
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