In November, Michael Schernthaner is filming a role in the feature film IM LABYRINTH, a film by Claussen+Wöbke+Putz. The year 2013 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the first German Auschwitz trial. A historically unique trial, its significance undisputed, yet not widely known and often confused with the Nuremberg trials. The backstory, the investigation and finally the trial itself stand at the centre of our story. A compelling subject we wish to approach in order to bring the world of our parents'' generation to life. It offers us the chance to immerse ourselves in the world of the 1950s and to illuminate a further facet. In researching this material and in our first attempts to approach the subject cinematically, we kept encountering great astonishment that in 1958 a large number of people, among them academics such as public prosecutors and others, knew nothing, or only little, of the existence of and events at Auschwitz. To convey this credibly is one of the film''s premises. The way the Nazi era was repressed after 1945 is well known. It was the time of reordering, of reconstruction. Unless personally affected, people were scarcely confronted with the atrocities of the National Socialist period, or there was a stubborn silence.