The Investigation | movie | 2024 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

Peter Weiss’ monumental 1965 stage play, among the greatest artworks on the Holocaust, condenses the testimonies of wi | dG1fRkNlZi0zTXpibnc

Transcript

00:00Mr. Witness, the court is in possession of your diary.

00:04It is to be read first.

00:06Today, for lunch, there was roast beef, a very thick cabbage roll with flour dumplings and red cabbage.

00:12Then it says, against 11 executions.

00:20The officer who divided us was very friendly.

00:23I asked him where the others were going.

00:27And he answered, we're just going for a swim now.

00:37Everything went smoothly.

00:39The transports arrived like hot rolls.

00:47The locomotive whistle was the signal that a new transport was arriving.

00:52That meant that in about an hour the ovens had to be ready for use.

00:59When the prisoners were brought into the chambers, the paramedics went to the hatches,

01:03put on their gas masks and emptied the buckets.

01:08At the end of the ramp, the sky was colored red.

01:11The smoke was sweet and subdued.

01:15Don't you want to tell us now what you have arranged in connection with the extermination actions?

01:21We would like to draw your attention to the fact that our inmates dispute the participation in these proceedings.

01:26It was an order. We couldn't do anything about it.

01:28I only did what I had to do.

01:30I only had to do the paperwork.

01:31I did not participate in any of the killings.

01:33What are the findings?

01:34I was against this whole affair.

01:36I don't know anymore.

01:38People don't burn.

01:40It all went very quickly.

01:48I would like to point out how close the path was to the spectators

01:53when we were driven out of our apartments and looted into the cattle carriages.