A documentary film about the SS unit "Death's Head"; first officer Eicke, training for abuse and murder, SS in Nazi propaganda, terror in Poland, Einsatzgruppen, July 1941: murders in the Pinsk area by SS cavaliers, murder of the Jews, 29.9.1941: Babi Yar massacre, 19.4.1943: Warsaw ghetto uprising, 1964: trial of Auschwitz criminals in Frankfurt. Includes archival photographs and film footage(some in colour), segments from propaganda films, interviews. Participants: prisoners from Auschwitz, witnesses to atrocities, Warsaw ghetto fighters, German clerk, SS member, German police, survivors.