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Directed by Matthew Shoychet
2018, Canada, 78 min
Oskar Gröning, known as the “The Accountant of Auschwitz,” was charged with the murder of 300,000 Jews. When he took the stand in 2015, at the age of 94, his trial made worldwide headlines. The debate around his prosecution is at the centre of this historic yet contemporary look at justice. Survivors travel to Germany to testify and the heinous acts of the Holocaust remain vivid and traumatic. For some, there is no grey area: Gröning was witness and therefore complicit, regardless of his duty to follow orders. Others look at a frail man in the last years of his life and see no reason to pursue charges. Bringing war criminals to justice, with no statute of limitations, asks fundamental moral questions with few simple answers. Ranging from Nuremberg to the rise of the new alt-right, The Accountant of Auschwitz constructs a stark reminder that those who forget history are doomed to repeat it.
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