Producer Irvin Shapiro had an upscale battle with the Hays' Office in releasing this film due to the graphic content regarding the footage of the atrocities used as evidence against the Nazis during the trial. He was forced to only be able to screen the film in small, independent theaters that didn't fall under the Office's jurisdiction.
May well be the first feature-length documentary American audiences saw that depicted Nazi atrocities committed during the Holocaust. Production on the film began before Liberation, but the film did not receive distribution until after theaters were showing newsreels of the camps. No known complete copy of the film survives as of January 2017, though the National Archive and Records Administration has located the final six or seven minutes of the film among some outtakes for the Universal newsreel service collection.