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According to the Rules: A Doctor in Auschwitz

on BBC One London

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, Jozef Carlinski,
Mrs Maurice Stone

Part 2: England
The trial: a reconstruction.

"A harrowing but superbly handled account of the Auschwitz libel suit of 1964 and the horrors which had to be re-lived in the calm of an English courtroom" (Sunday Telegraph)
"By far the most contemporaneously relevant programme to the killing of the Son of God... a full and compassionate documentary" (Sunday Times)

Contributors

Director (Courtroom Sequences):
David C. Rea
Writer/Producer:
Robert Reid
Narrator:
Frank Gillard
Interviewee:
Professor Bruno Bettelheim
Interviewee:
Josef Garlinski
Interviewee:
Mrs Maurice Stone

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