None Shall Escape

What is supposed to happen to the National Socialist war criminals once the war is over? One possible vision to this end can be seen in NONE SHALL ESCAPE, made two years before the end of the war. The film describes the trial of a SS section commander responsible for the persecution of the Jewish population in occupied Poland who now stands accused at an international court in Warsaw. People who used to be close to him are called to testify, including his former fiancée and his brother. 
Himself a Hungarian Jew, director Andre De Toth (Endre Antal Mihály Tóth) emigrated to the US via the UK after the Horthy regime passed the racial laws and German expanded its powerbase following the attack on Poland. Shot in 1943, his courtroom drama makes the case for the founding of a war tribunal and was one of the first features to address the Holocaust. One central scene that was hugely important for De Toth shows how the persecuted Jew fight against being deported in goods wagons at the risk of their lives and decide to form a resistance.