The second of two programmes

How the news of the Nazi genocide policy was brought out of Germany, and the Allies' response. How much did the outside world know about the annihilation of the Jews of Europe? When did they know? What steps did they take to prevent its continuance?

The Allies - caught up in a desperate war of survival against Hitler's Germany - had little attention to spare for the increasing evidence of what was happening to Jews, evidence which was received mostly with disbelief and inaction. Using interviews with key participants, rarely-seen archive film, excerpts from the trial of Adolf Eichmann, photographs and memoranda that are only now available, the film charts the beginnings of the policy of mass extermination in Berlin in 1942 to the requests to bomb Auschwitz in 1944.