Nuremberg: The Trial of the Nazi War Criminals - Episode 5 - Documents Don't Lie

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August 1945, the war is over, and the evidence is building up. If anything there’s too much paperwork, too many files – the Nazi machine insisted on recording everything. But are these documents sufficient – or will they need to hear from the victims themselves?

Meanwhile, across Germany, ordinary soldiers are stumbling across the concentration camps, shocked and stunned by what they find. The British drive into Belsen having been told it was ‘just a typhus hospital’. But when they start taking affidavits from prisoners, the investigators start to hear about a place in the East called Auschwitz-Birkenau – and the witnesses talk about gas chambers and industrial-scale killing. It’s unbelievable. Starring Luke Norris as Roger Barrett, lawyer in charge of the Nuremberg Documents Room, and featuring Rosie Sheehy as Ada Bimko, a Polish Survivor of Auschwitz.

Cast:
Roger Barrett - LUKE NORRIS
Robert Storey - HARI DHILLON
John Amen - JOSEPH ALESSI
Robert H Jackson - JOSEPH MYDELL
Colonel Leo Genn - NICHOLAS WOODESON
Fritz Leo - NIGEL LINDSAY
Ada Bimko - ROSIE SHEEHY
Captain Galitzine - ILAN GOODMAN
Captain Smallwood and other roles - MARK EDEL-HUNT
Major Williams and other roles - NATHAN WILEY
Heinrich Hoffman and other roles - JASPER BRITTON
Wilhelm Keitel and other roles - JONATHAN CULLEN
Lord Cadogan and other roles - ANDREW WOODALL
Quartermaster Sergeant and other roles - CLIVE WOOD
Titles - LEWIS MACLEOD

Sound Designer - ADAM WOODHAMS
Studio Manager - MARK SMITH
Casting Director - GINNY SCHILLER
Original Score - METAPHOR MUSIC
Writer and Director - JONATHAN MYERSON
Producer - NICHOLAS NEWTON

A Promenade Production for BBC Radio 4 and BBC Sounds

Published on Tuesday, 11th January 2022.

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