Rolf W. Holocaust testimony

Videotape testimony of Rolf W., who was born in Berlin, Germany in 1912. He recounts his assimilated family's affluence; his parents' divorce; attending gymnasium; business training in Breslau, Du?sseldorf, Berlin, and Bremen; termination because he was Jewish; working in his father's business in Auerbach; his father's death in 1934; economic and social problems resulting from the Nuremberg laws; returning to Berlin; a warning about Kristallnacht; hiding with his brother's friend; obtaining immigration papers for San Salvador from his half-brother who was there; his brother's emigration to the United States; joining him; military draft in spring 1942; training as an interrogator in the United States and England; assignment to the 7th Army; interrogating German prisoners in Bla?mont; moving to Augsburg; interrogating and accompanying Hermann Go?ring; transfer to Nuremberg; heading the translation division working with the Soviets; taking command of his unit in May 1946; and working with the defendants, trial staff, and in the courtroom until 1947. Mr. W. discusses episodes with many Nazi defendants; the Einsatzgruppen trial (only four of fourteen death sentences were ever carried out); testifying concerning documents at the request of Judge Michael Musmanno; and indelible memories of obvious murderers. He shows photographs and documents.

3 videocassettes