[Narrator, archive and actor speaking witness testimony]
Austrian Police volunteer Walter describes how, when he first joined the shooting squad, his hands shook when he shot Jews. But, as more and more lorry-loads of people arrived to be killed, he shot the women, toddlers and babies with much more confidence and accuracy, even though he had two babies at home himself.
[Narrator, archive and actor speaking witness testimony]
Austrian Police volunteer Walter describes how, when he first joined the shooting squad, his hands shook when he shot Jews. But, as more and more lorry-loads of people arrived to be killed, he shot the women, toddlers and babies with much more confidence and accuracy, even though he had two babies at home himself.
Hannah was 6 and, along with her mother, was a prisoner in a labour camp in Poland. Men from an Einsatzgruppe came to clear the camp.
Inna was 13 when she witnessed the Einsatzgruppen shooting of 33,771 people at Babi Yar in Ukraine.
Renee was 12 when she saw the Lodz ghetto being ‘liquidated’ or cleared by the Einsatzgruppen.
