00:00The liberation of Mauthausen and Gusen allowed around 40,000 surviving inmates to be freed
00:05from the appalling conditions they had endured during their internment. One of them was Philip
00:10Möller. After the camp's liberation, Möller moved back to Czechoslovakia and testified at
00:16the Auschwitz trial, which began on 24 November 1947 and lasted one month. His testimony at the
00:23Auschwitz trial in December 1947 contributed significantly to the conviction of the high
00:28ranking SS officers Hans Aumeier and Maximilian Grabner. He also testified at the second
00:34Frankfurt Auschwitz trial in 1964. His testimony was taken into account in the verdicts against
00:41the accused SS officers Hans Stark, Willy Frank and Franz Lukas. Philip Möller was also cited as a
00:48key informant for one of the first books about the Holocaust, The Death Factory by Otak Kraus and
00:53Erich Kulka, that first appeared in the Czech language in 1946.
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