1948 the official German newsreel revealed "nearly 300,000 died in Auschwitz

1948 the official German newsreel revealed "nearly 300,000 died in
Auschwitz"



videotape of the German ARD Television broadcast, "VOR VIERZIG JAHREN"
transmitted on the Third Programme on January 8, 1988. This contained the
entire German movie newsreel (Wochenschau) released in Germany forty years
earlier, on January 8, 1948, with the title Welt im Film. This newsreel
contained a re****t on the closing scenes of the Krakow Auschwitz Trial
late
in 1947.

http://www.focal.org/wochenschau1948.avi


translation

"IN KRAKOW the trial of the principal culprits for the Auschwitz
concentration camp came to an end before a Polish court . The defendants
were German camp guards or members of the German camp administration
staff.
Unheard-of atrocities against the camp inmates, particularly against
female
prisoners, were proved against them. Altogether nearly 300,000 people from
the most different nations died in the Auschwitz concentration camp. The
court sentenced 23 of the accused to death, six to life sentences, and ten
to lengthy jail terms; one was acquitted. The Auschwitz concentration camp
remains as it stands today, as a monument of shame to the lasting memory
of
its three hundred thousand victims."