- Summary
- Over 250,000 people were held in the Majdanek concentration camp on the outskirts of Lublin, Poland from 1941-1944. The Majdanek war crime trial in Dusseldorf was held from 1975-1981. In this documentary interviews with defendants, witnesses, judges, prosecutors, defense councils, historians, criminals, and victims are interspersed into footage of the concentration camp and other German camps, reconstructed film from the actual trial, and from news accounts.
- Variant Title
- Trial : a portayal of the Majdanek trial in Düsseldorf
- Format
- Video
- Published
- Waltham, MA : National Center for Jewish Film, [2007]
©2007
- Locale
- Poland
Germany
Düsseldorf
- Other Authors/Editors
- Fechner, Eberhard, director.
Brecht, Hans, producer.
National Center for Jewish Film, film distributor.
- Notes
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Originally produced in 1983/84.
DVD; NTSC; all region.
German dialogue with English subtitles.