A swastika and a gallows (1944)

Report on the first process in the camp Majdanek death, which took place November 27 - December 2, 1944 in Lublin.

Forms of the Soviet Army liberated the Polish city of Lublin.

Scenes from the death camp's location - Majdanek - in the Lublin region.

General view of the camp fence of barbed wire, tower, crematorium, gas furnaces.

Dug the grave and learned from them the bodies of dead prisoners, mountain charred bones.

People gathered in Majdanek, angry shouts greeted the arrested workers camp headed by the commander who led the soldiers to the session of the Polish Tribunal.

Hall Tribunal, Tribunal members at the table.

Dock, PNRM. for the protection of persons camp headed by the commandant, SS Obersturmführer Anton Ternes.

Judges sit at the table.

In the hall of audience, and foreign journalists.

Was read the indictment.

Artists sketched portraits of the accused.

It starts questioning the accused.

In the hands of the judge dealing Hermann Vogel.

There is a security guard questioning Shtalpa

Report on the first process in the camp Majdanek death, which took place November 27 - December 2, 1944 in Lublin.

Shtalp answers in German.

He talks about the destruction of the tribunal in the gas chamber 75 children, about the execution of many young men made under fokstrotnoy sounds of music, the burning in crematoriums 10 men and a young woman, and more

Report on the first process in the camp Majdanek death, which took place November 27 - December 2, 1944 in Lublin.

The audience in the hall listening.

Those present at the meeting of the former inmates of Majdanek give the oath of allegiance to court testimony.

A witness gives testimony about gas chambers.

Jewish former prisoners said the burning of her two children and four other mothers, she knew.

Witness - a soldier of the Polish Army - tells about methods of destruction of the prisoners in the camp of the police - capo.

Weights were killed in Majdanek people of different nationalities and religions.

Warehouses with clothing and footwear killed.

The meeting room, the bench of the accused.

Prosecutor examines the activities of the Germans in the camp

Report on the first process in the camp Majdanek death, which took place November 27 - December 2, 1944 in Lublin.

Those defendants.

Emotional speech prosecutor about the destruction of the people, the atrocities of the capo, the killing of children.

Sentencing the accused - death by hanging.

Are the gallows, around the crowd.

Five of the accused under the loops on the machines, the car drives off, the body hang on the gallows