1948 official German newsreel - "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 report 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."
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