This newsreel clip reports on the final days of the first Belsen trial, which was held before a British military court in Lüneburg in the British occupation zone from September – November 1945. The 45 defendants brought to trial included both male and female members of the SS who had worked as guards in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp as well as some kapos, prisoner functionaries who had been given administrative tasks or supervised other prisoners carrying out forced labor in exchange for certain privileges. The report singles out Josef Kramer, the former camp commandant, and Irma Grese, the former warden of the women’s section at Belsen, who had both become notorious for their brutality. Both were sentenced to death and executed. The clip is taken from a November 1945 edition of the German-language newsreel Welt im Film, which was produced by the American and British military governments.