
In 2020, 93-year-old Bruno D. is found guilty. His crimes took place over 75 years ago: D. was an SS guard at Stutthof concentration camp. Without people like him, without thousands of accomplices, the Nazi regime’s genocidal campaign would not have been possible. As early as 1963, Hessian Attorney General Fritz Bauer launched the first trial in Frankfurt against SS guards from Auschwitz concentration camp. The charge: complicity in murder. But why did no wave of prosecutions follow – despite the extensive evidence? And what do the potentially last trials against Nazi perpetrators mean for the survivors of the Shoah, for the German legal system and for coming to terms with German history?
- Year2022
- Runtime98 minutes
- LanguageGerman, English, Hebrew
- CountryGermany
- PremiereBerlin
- SponsorArolson Archiv
- DirectorIsabel Gathof, Sabine Lamby, Cornelia Partmann
In 2020, 93-year-old Bruno D. is found guilty. His crimes took place over 75 years ago: D. was an SS guard at Stutthof concentration camp. Without people like him, without thousands of accomplices, the Nazi regime’s genocidal campaign would not have been possible. As early as 1963, Hessian Attorney General Fritz Bauer launched the first trial in Frankfurt against SS guards from Auschwitz concentration camp. The charge: complicity in murder. But why did no wave of prosecutions follow – despite the extensive evidence? And what do the potentially last trials against Nazi perpetrators mean for the survivors of the Shoah, for the German legal system and for coming to terms with German history?
- Year2022
- Runtime98 minutes
- LanguageGerman, English, Hebrew
- CountryGermany
- PremiereBerlin
- SponsorArolson Archiv
- DirectorIsabel Gathof, Sabine Lamby, Cornelia Partmann