In this production filmmakers Rolf Bickel and Dietrich Wagner present excerpts from the testimonies of over 300 witnesses, including both Holocaust surviviors and those who ran the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp, in what came to be known as the first Ausc hwitz Trial. This longer version includes extended background on the investigation, testimony by Ella Lingens, Filip Muller, Anna Palarcyk, a history of the Auschwitz concentration camp, Auschwitz as an industrial center, reports on the Hungarian deporta tions, the court visit to Auschwitz, defense, closing statements, verdict and sentencing. DVD includes German audio track, English subtitles. Hessischer Rundfunk.