August 1945 and the evidence is being amassed in Nuremberg. If anything, there’s too much paperwork – the Nazi machine insisted on recording absolutely everything. But are these documents sufficient – or should they hear from witnesses?

Roger Barrett, the lawyer running the Documents Room, watches this debate unfold. Some argue that documents don’t lie, others that they must hear from the victims themselves. All the more so after the first shock discovery of the concentration camps in Germany.

When they start taking affidavits from prisoners, they hear about a place in the East called Auschwitz-Birkenau – and the witnesses talk about gas chambers and industrial-scale killing. It’s almost unbelievable – a camp designed only to exterminate.

Meanwhile, two Jewish German refugees now in the British Army begin their War Crimes Investigation into Tesch & Stabenow, which appears to be a harmless pest-control company - but it also provided the SS with Zyklon B, the principal poison used in the gas chambers.

Cast:
Roger Barrett - LUKE NORRIS
Robert Storey- HARI DHILLON
John Amen - JOSEPH ALESSI
Charles Bendel - HENRY GOODMAN
Robert H Jackson - JOSEPH MYDELL
Alfred Zaun and other roles - NIGEL LINDSAY
Secretary - ROSIE SHEEHY
Colonel Leo Genn and other roles- NICHOLAS WOODESON
Captain Smallwood and other roles - MARK EDEL-HUNT
Major Williams and other roles - NATHAN WILEY
Bruno Tesch and other roles - JONATHAN CULLEN
Emil Sehm and other roles - JASPER BRITTON
ACC Officer and other roles - ANDREW WOODALL
Quartermaster Sergeant and other roles - CLIVE WOOD

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

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