Synopsis
In a memorable, 41/2-hour documentary on the trial of five Nazi concentration camp guards who worked at the Lublin-Majdanek extermination site, director Eberhard Fechner has valiantly narrowed down a total of 250 hours of courtroom proceedings to the most compelling and crucial testimony. The trial was held in Düsseldorf and the guards sentenced in 1981 -- to growing controversy about the nature of their sentences (some thought they were too light). About 70 people from two dozen cities in Germany...more