WDR revisits The Specialist

Sometimes bigger is better - but the project has to be worth it. That's the lesson learned by Werner Duetsch of Cologne, Germany pubcaster ARD/WDR. He's commissioning editor for the strand 'Dokumentarfilm' and helped spearhead The Specialist. The documentary is a refashioning of the well-known and, as it happens, well-recorded 1961 trial of Adolf Eichmann, the SS colonel who kept the trains arriving on time at the Nazi death camps.

August 1, 2002

Sometimes bigger is better - but the project has to be worth it. That's the lesson learned by Werner Duetsch of Cologne, Germany pubcaster ARD/WDR. He's commissioning editor for the strand 'Dokumentarfilm' and helped spearhead The Specialist. The documentary is a refashioning of the well-known and, as it happens, well-recorded 1961 trial of Adolf Eichmann, the SS colonel who kept the trains arriving on time at the Nazi death camps.