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According to the Rules: A Doctor in Auschwitz

on BBC One London

Can those who have not suffered an experience such as that of a concentration camp ever begin to understand the psychological as well as the physical pressures put on its inmates? In 1964 an English jury had to try.
On 13 April 1964 there began one of the longest libel actions in English legal history. Twenty years after his release from Auschwitz, an ex-prisoner, Wladislaw Dering - a doctor in London - entered the Royal Courts of Justice to prove that he had not carried out terrible medical experiments on his fellow prisoners on behalf of the SS.

Part 1: Auschwitz: The reality. Concentration camp ex-prisoners: Professor Bruno Bettelheim, Josef Garlinski, Mrs Maurice Stone.

Part 2: England: The trial: a reconstruction.

(After Auschwitz...: page 16)

Contributors

Writer/Producer:
R.W. Reid
Film Cameraman:
John Hooper
Film Editor:
Christopher Woolley
Director (Courtroom Sequences):
David C. Rea
Narrator:
Frank Gillard
Interviewee:
Professor Bruno Bettelheim
Interviewee:
Josef Garlinski
Interviewee:
Mrs Maurice Stone
Professor Nixon:
Frederick Treves
The Judge:
Kenneth Benda
Male witness:
Jouey Douben
Dr Grabczynski:
John Harrington
Colin Duncan, QC:
Andrew Laurence
David Hirst:
Angus MacKay
Dr Dering:
Richard Marner
A woman doctor:
Irene Prador
Lord Gardiner, QC:
Anthony Sharp
Marta:
Izabella Telezynska

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