The film shows interviews with 36 contemporary witnesses and deals with the question of contemporary knowledge of the Holocaust among people not directly involved in it, but also among individual Nazi perpetrators and victims.
Walter Bargatzky
Marion Gräfin Dönhoff
Willi Dreßen
Kurt Franz
Ludwig Harig
Klaus Hornig
Wilhelm Höttl
Alfred Kolleritsch
Hermann Langbein
Ella Lingens
Hans Wilhelm Münch
Peter Pechel
Hubert Pfoch
Hans-Günther Seraphim
Walter Soswinski
Alfred Spiess
Heinz Ungureit
Hans-Heinrich Herwarth von Bittenfeld
Axel Freiherr von dem Bussche
Ludwig Wolf