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00:00 The Nuremberg Trials and the Evidence Incriminating the Nazis
04:30 The Creation of the Mauthausen Concentration Camp
06:35 The First Deportees and the Hell of the Camp
08:31 The Stairway to Death and the Extermination System
12:10 Francisco Boix in the SS Photographic Service
17:36 The Birth of the Underground Resistance
22:19 The Solidarity of the Spanish Republicans
25:21 Resisting at the Very Heart of the Nazi System
28:11 The Hidden Crimes of the SS
31:54 Escapes, Reprisals, and Terror
33:36 The Secret Operation to Save the Photographs
40:05 Anna Pointner, the Woman Who Hiding the Evidence
42:25 The Order from Berlin: "Burn Everything!" »
43:50 The Last Days of the Reich at Mauthausen
45:17 The Liberation of the Camp by the Americans
47:37 The Recovery of the Hidden Negatives
49:05 The Revelation of the Evidence to the World
50:35 Francisco Boix Testifies in Nuremberg

“Burn it all!” At the end of 1944, the defeat of the Reich was a matter of months. The Allied victory was looming. The order from Berlin was unequivocal: the deaths of millions of men, women, and children had to be hidden from the world and from the judgment of history. No one was to know the reality of the concentration and extermination camps. From Warsaw to Prague, from Hamburg to Vienna, in every administration, in every office, hundreds of thousands of reports, identification cards, and photographs went up in smoke. And in the camps, the last survivors were murdered. But the Nazis would fail to conceal their crimes. Deportees will return to recount the unspeakable. And they will bring proof! For five years, at the Mauthausen concentration camp, a handful of men will do more than just survive. They will steal this evidence. They will hide it. And they will even smuggle it out of the camp and protect it from the SS. Thanks to them, 1,000 photographs from the Mauthausen camp have survived to this day. This documentary tells the incredible story of this rescue, which we are about to share with you.

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THE RESISTERS OF MAUTHAUSEN
Directed by Barbara Necek
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