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...