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20:17 // Kramer at Auschwitz: Gas Chambers and Mass Murder
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Minor Criminal - The Trial of the Man Who Murdered My Grandmother
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- 1 00:00 // Introduction and Welcome
- 2 00:14 // Minor Criminal – A Family Story of Murder and Memory
- 3 01:19 // The Belsen Trial: A Forgotten Landmark of the 20th Century
- 4 02:15 // Margareta Wiener and the Liberation Train from Belsen
- 5 04:05 // Death of a Grandmother and the Personal Cost of Genocide
- 6 05:41 // Lieutenant Derek Singleton and Orders to Enter Bergen-Belsen
- 7 07:24 // Meeting the SS and First Shocking Glimpse Inside the Camp
- 8 09:30 // How the Wiener Family Became ‘Exchange Jews’
- 9 11:52 // Life and Death in Belsen: Starvation, Disease and Brutality
- 10 13:08 // Was Killing Gretel a War Crime? The Legal Dilemma
- 11 15:01 // Lessons from Failed First World War Crimes Trials
- 12 17:47 // Allied Debates: Hitler, War Criminals and Justice
- 13 18:46 // Joseph Kramer: From Unemployed Electrician to SS Commandant
- 14 20:17 // Kramer at Auschwitz: Gas Chambers and Mass Murder
- 15 21:50 // Belsen in Collapse and Kramer’s Appointment as Commandant
- 16 23:58 // Arrest of Kramer and the First Witness Statements
- 17 26:16 // The War Crimes Investigation Team and Its Limitations
- 18 29:12 // Kramer’s Affidavit and His Moral Awareness of Gassing
- 19 29:58 // The Belsen Trial Opens in Lüneburg: 45 Defendants in the Dock
- 20 33:35 // Prosecution Strategy and Key Witnesses from Auschwitz and Belsen
- 21 37:10 // Film of Belsen, Survivor Testimony and Public Shock
- 22 37:48 // Kramer’s Defence: Following Orders and the ‘Scapegoat of Belsen’
- 23 39:41 // Judge’s Summing Up: Rejecting the Nuremberg Defence
- 24 40:53 // Verdict and Death Sentences for Kramer and Others
- 25 41:20 // Executions at Hamelin Jail and Albert Pierrepoint
- 26 42:27 // Victors’ Justice and the Birth of International Criminal Law
- 27 44:32 // Capital Punishment and Moral Doubt After Belsen
- 28 45:28 // Final Reflections: Imperfect Justice and Remembering the Victims
