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JUSTICE SERVED Fritz Bauer, the German Attorney General who pushed for the 1963 trial documented in Verdict on Auschwitz
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Limited Release: Jan 12, 2007; Rated: Unrated; Length: 180 Minutes; Genre: Documentary
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Scott Brown
Scott Brown writes the Hit List for EW and is a frequent contributor to National Public Radio -- he has the tote bag to prove it
For the average, passive consumer of history, the crimes of the Nazi regime were answered at Nuremberg — case closed. Not so in Germany, where, in 1963, 22 members of the SS were belatedly brought to trial for horrors perpetrated at Auschwitz. In three hours of discursive yet rivetingly essential documentary footage (an eyeblink by Holocaust doc standards), Verdict on Auschwitz not only tracks the 20-month trial but meticulously re-creates it. You feel the anguish, but also the catharsis, of a reckoning — the kind of healing a hastily gaveled hanging can't deliver.
Posted Jan 24, 2007
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