The Meeting: An Auschwitz Survivor Confronts an SS Physician

Fifty years after the war Dagmar Ostermann, a former prisoner at Auschwitz-Birkenau, and Hans Wilhelm Münch, former Nazi and SS physician, talk face to face.

In this rare interview Münch—the only SS member acquitted during the 1947 Cracow war crimes trial refers to himself as a "victim," claiming that because he had to follow orders he was "no less a victim than his prisoners."

The Meeting grew out of a documentary film in which Münch was first interviewed by Viennese filmmaker Bernhard Frank...