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• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1002401
• English
• 1944
• Updated 1 year ago

Military parade, men in summer uniforms with pith helmets. Band marching, apparently American troops. There is color guard with five American flags and a reviewing stand. Egyptian buildings with turrets, a mosque. Stevens walks from Fortress toward camera. Roadside shot- Stevens in summer helmet with local boys. Seaside shots of town, beautiful ruins on seaside. Hillside caves. Stevens and officer in FG in front of old buildings. Underexposed shot of Stevens, Mellor and two other men in bathing suits swimming.

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22:36:05 (Munich 305) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, July 16, 1946 (German). MS, Capt. Otto Kranzbuehler, lawyer for Doenitz, reading his client's plea. LS, visitors in the press section. MLS, spectators, including Edwin W. Pauley. Walter Siemers speaking for his client Raeder. HAS, Goering in dock. HAS, Raeder sitting between Doenitz and von Schirach. 22:43:47 (Munich 310) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, July 17, 1946 (silent). H, MS, Fritz Sauter, lawyer for von Schirach, reading plea for his client. MS, von Schirach and Sauckel in dock as Sauter reads plea. MS, Goering, He...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1002403
• English
• 1944
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Officers inspecting troops on parade ground, deep red flag with single white star. (Could be Morocco or Tunisia or Turkey) Senior officer (Bradley?) addresses troops. Officers of country with red flag in white tunics with red band on caps. Foreign officer in white uniform speaks briefly. CU of color guard and officer in charge of troops. Bespectacled General (Bradley) presenting medals to two men in front of color guard.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
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(Munich 40) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, March 13, 1946. Witness Berndt von Brauchitsch, former colonel in the German Luftwaffe, is sworn in and testifies. Brauchitsch is being questioned concerning a document apparently referring to a meeting in which destructive measures of the Luftwaffe during operation "Barbarossa" were outlined. He insists not knowing or remembering the document, now having been present at the meeting and thus not able to elaborate on any of the issues discussed there. To his knowledge at the time, the targets for the Luftwaffe were exclusively airports, not ...

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23:11:07 (Munich 13) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, February 26, 1946. LSs, Eugene Kivilsha, Red Army physician, testifying on stand identifies a photograph presented to him. (The witness and counsel speaking in Russian.) LSs, Dr. Hans Laternser, defense counsel for the German General Staff and OKW, questions the witness in German. LS, audience attending trials. MLSs, prosecution staff in courtroom. LS, court adjourns; judges file out. 23:16:09 (Munich 14) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, no date (silent). HSs, Tribunal as witness Jacob Grigorjov testifies. HSs, Eugene Kivilsh...

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(Munich 04) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, February 21-22, 1946. LSs, MLSs, Professor Joseph Orbelli of the Soviet Academy of Science testifying. MSs, Russian Justice Maj. Gen. I T Nikitchenko, British Justice Birkett, and Chief Justice Geoffrey Lawrence. Whispered conversation between Birkett and Nikitchenko and then between Birkett and Lawrence. Rear views, Robert Servatius, defense counsel for Political Organizations, addressing Tribunal. MSs, Justices John J. Parker, Francis Biddle, Henri Donnedieu de Vabre. LSs, MSs, Prof. Orbelli answering questions of Servatius. MSs, Justices...

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(Munich 193) Landsberg (Dachau) Hangings, Landsberg, Germany, May 1946. Coverage of the military hangings of Becher, Lippman, Temple, Hintermeyer, Knoll, Eicheldorfer, Boettger, Kick, Weiss, and Wagner.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1002408
• English
• 1944
• Updated 1 year ago

Contemporary town, bombed buildings, American jeeps, civilians wandering through ruins. Bombed out pharmacy (Pharmacie-French language sign). Local men doing cleanup. Several explosions going off in BG. Men firing mortars. Shot of three tanks crossing scrubbed brush field with troops following. Tanks are firing. More shots of men going through green brush with tanks firing. Armor firing, considerable smoke. Stevens, William Mellor and two other men swimming in ocean. Stevens swims ashore and walks toward camera. Combat shots of tanks clearing frame to reveal troops with rifles running behin...

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23:37:34 (Munich 275) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, June 12, 1946. LS, US prosecutor Thomas J. Dodd asking unidentified witness whether he was present at Hitler's death. HMS, Dodd asking witness if he wasn't the man who carried Hitler's body to the bunker and set it on fire. Witness actually testifies that he carried Hitler's wife out of the bunker and saw Hitler's body wrapped in a blanket. Asked whether he actually saw Hitler, he answers no, he could only see his legs hanging out of the blanket, which was a bit too short to cover the whole body. 23:40:30 (Munich 224) War Crimes T...

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(Munich 211 and 222) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, July 1946. CU, Wac? wearing earphones seated in visitors' gallery. LS, translation section during court session. MS, British officer and two women of the translation section in courtroom. CU, women translators giving answers of witness in English. MS, girl translator giving answers in French. CU, male interpreter speaking in French. MS, group of women; one is translating in Russian. CU, another Russian woman translator speaking into microphone. CU, German translator's section at work.

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(Munich 345) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, August 8, 1946. Dr. Wolfram Sievers charged with perjury is again put on the stand and questioned by Mr. Jones, a British assistant prosecutor. Sievers is questioned about his earlier given testimony, that he cannot name figures of dead since he had no insight in that. He said that he did not play a part in the creation of the skeleton collection at the University of Frankfurt, but he admits that the skeletons were expected to come from Auschwitz.

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(Munich 354) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, August 8, 1946. HAS, MSs, British prosecutor Mr. Jones questioning the witness Dr. Sievers. The cross-examination concerns the decapitation of concentration camp victims and sending the skulls to laboratories for pathological research. Pan shot of defendants (Goering) in prisoners' dock. Repeated mention is made of a report by Prof. Hirt, who was mainly responsible for the "acquisition" of skeletons and skulls. Sievers repeatedly delegates questions away from him to the report, prosecutor's assistance repeatedly points to the fact that he ...

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01:14:31 (Munich 339) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, August 10, 1946. Unidentified German officer is interrogated by Chief Justice Geoffrey Lawrence (latter is not seen). 01:16:13 (Munich 343) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, no date. Former Field Marshal von Manstein is cross-examined by US prosecutor Brig. Gen. Telford Taylor. Von Manstein is specifically questioned about the Einsatzgruppen in his area of operation, he testifies that he was not directly concerned with them and did not know what they were doing.

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(Munich 386) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, August 30, 1946. HAS, MSs, British prosecutor Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe, in summing up, tells of Germany in its entirety being dominated by National Socialism. "While Germany is not on trial, the proceedings in this court are to give the German people a chance to rehabilitate themselves...." Maxwell-Fyfe tells of the Nazi leaders knowing and condoning murder of Jewish civilians. LS, Maxwell-Fyfe walking away from speaker's stand after his summation.

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02:00:40 (Munich 627) Congressional Inspection of DP Camp #581, Eschwege, Germany, September 8, 1947 (silent). Congressman Frank L. Chelf (Kentucky), consultant to Congressman Walter M. Besterman, and others tour the DP camps. DPs assembled to guide the Congressmen around the camp. 02:02:52 (Munich 628) Arraignment of Defendants, War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 9 (Einsatzgruppen Case), Nuremberg, Germany, September 14, 1947. Continuation of defendants pleading "not guilty" to the indictment. Judge Musmanno recessing the court. NOTE: Defendants called as follows: Lotha...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1002416
• English
• 1944
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Tents in a clearing, France. Stevens, three other men in uniform by train, sign reads: "London (Euston)- Glasgow (Center)." At sea, Stevens, two other men on deck of destroyer, panning shot, cloudy morning, choppy sea. Roughly 50 men looking out to sea. Long panning shot of fleet, barrage balloons overhead. MS, Stevens holds Eyemo camera to eye, ships in BG. CU of Stevens. LS of sea and flashes of firing in distance. LS of ships in choppy sea. Ships' guns firing, large orange puffs of smoke. Pan to landing craft. Passing ships, possibly landing craft.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1002417
• English
• 1944
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Helmeted officer shooting still photos toward Stevens and his camera crew. Men at stations. Man with Red Cross arm band, heavy white gloves and canvas hood peering through binoculars behind camera. VS of sailors, guns and empty shell casings. Pan of eight ships with barrage balloons overhead. Shot over shoulders of officers on bow of ship. HAS of deck. VS of Stevens looking through 35mm camera on tripod. Shot of aircraft overhead.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1002418
• English
• 1944
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MS and CU of Stevens wearing helmet and life vest on landing craft. Building on shore, sign reads: "Bernieres." This is the train station in Bernières-sur-Mer, France. Over Stevens' shoulder shooting out to landing craft. Good coverage of men on the beach, landing crafts, bombed out house, etc. Sign reads: "Route Interdit Vers s'Aubin." Stevens with camera unit setting up, shooting tank with what appear to be Australian or Canadian troops. Sign in German reads: "Danger Mine Field." Cameraman labeling film roll and getting film out of camera box. Two men talking in front of movie poster. Ste...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1002419
• English
• 1944
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On board ship, flags flying in wind. Profile shot of troops looking toward shore. Overhead shot of wounded soldier in stretcher being loaded aboard. Men at side of ship watching this process. Choppy seas makes this difficult. VS covering this action. Six men and officers walking alongside railroad cars. Spectacular shot of massed ships at dock with American flags flying. VS of men, one identified as Capt. Holly Morse. Enlisted men and officers- MS, and CUs of them talking and looking out to sea. *According to LOC original cataloger's notes this footage may be prior to D-Day at embarkation p...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1002420
• English
• 1944
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Stevens digging foxhole with another man. Men eating dinner on camp tables with tin cups. VS of unidentified men in the camp. Gag shot: Sign reads: "Bridge ahead under fire." Stevens seated in jeep turns toward camera and motions forward. Jeep and trucks drive off. Shot of vehicle coming toward camera in late afternoon light with bombed buildings on either side of country road and troops on foot. French civilians walking. Jeep follows. Reverse angle with Red Cross truck and severely bombed village. Shot on dusty road. Shot of jeep at waterfront area, most likely Cherbourg, France. Pan of ch...