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  1. Nazi crimes: early gassing; corpses; camp atrocities; forced labor; Nuremberg Trial proceedings

    Part 3 of GERMAN language version [corresponds to NARA reels 5 & 6] Includes extra shot of nurses and Mogilev gassing. Courtroom scene, Russian prosecutor Gen. Rudenko at podium, Gen. Erwin Lahousen in witness stand. Narrator quotes Lahousen speaking about Canaris and Hans Frank describing Nazi policies and methods for exterminating Poles and others. Goering, Hitler, and other Nazi officials in a meeting. Pan, hut with thatched roof. CU pipes from a German police car bearing a license plate POL-28545 and a German police truck with license POL-51628 (as well as military unit markings: 7 ...

  2. Nazi crimes: early gassing; corpses; camp atrocities; forced labor; Nuremberg Trial proceedings

    Part 3 of ENGLISH language version [corresponds to NARA reels 5 & 6] Excludes extra shot of nurses and Mogilev gassing. Courtroom scene, Russian prosecutor Gen. Rudenko at podium speaking about Canaris and Hans Frank describing Nazi policies and methods for exterminating Poles and others. Goering, Hitler, and other Nazi officials in a meeting. Pan, hut with thatched roof. CU pipes from a German police car bearing a license plate POL-28545 and a German police truck with license POL-51628 (as well as military unit markings: 7 circle-with-flag IX). Apparently metal piping is directed into ...

  3. Concentration camp uniform jacket with purple triangle worn by Jehovah’s Witness

    Concentration camp uniform jacket issued to Max Hollweg, a Jehovah’s Witness imprisoned in Buchenwald and Wewelsburg concentration camps from 1938 to 1945. It has a purple patch marking him as a Jehovah’s Witness above a white patch with his prisoner number from Wewelsburg, 13573. The Nazi regime persecuted Jehovah’s Witnesses, who refused to put any authority before God. On July 7, 1938, Max was arrested for illegally distributing Jehovah’s Witness materials. He was sent to Buchenwald September 23, put in a punishment commando, and severely beaten multiple times. He had intestinal surgery ...

  5. Oscar Karbach

    1. World Jewish Congress
    2. Institute of Jewish Affairs
    3. Executive Files and Correspondence

    Contains, beginning in box 54, a section on war crimes and restitution that includes witness lists and items relating to witness searches and trial matters. Box C50. Folder 9. Correspondence, 1944-1945 Box C50. Folder 10. Correspondence, 1946 Box C50. Folder 11. Correspondence, 1947 Box C50. Folder 12. Correspondence, 1961 Box C51. Folder 1. Correspondence, 1962 Box C51. Folder 2. Correspondence, 1963 Box C51. Folder 3. Correspondence DL notes, 1964 Box C51. Folder 4. Correspondence, 1964 Box C51. Folder 5. Correspondence, 1965 Box C51. Folder 6. Basic libraries, 1955-1959 Box C51. Folder 7...

  6. Gusen [War Crimes Commission: Mauthausen Concentration Camp]

    "Mauthausen Concentration Camp" [Title incorrectly identifies this camp as Mauthausen. The footage actually shows Gusen concentration camp.] High pan of concentration camp for slave laborers. Pan of buildings. Gallows with 2-3 men standing alongside it, courtyard wall behind. Soldiers provide "tour." American POW talking about experience at Mauthausen [filmed at Mauthausen], "fortunately my turn hadn't come," talks of two American soldiers/officers killed, talks about his uniform. Survivors. Pile of corpses. Inmates help each other through the camp, one washes another at trough. German civi...

  7. War Crimes Trials: Medical Case

    (Munich 488) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 1 (Medical Case), Nuremberg, Germany. SILENT: Judges enter courtroom. An unidentified woman who was a victim of the Ravensbrueck experiments on the stand, questioned by Dr. Alexander about the wound received at Ravensbrueck. She walks to dock and points out the defendants Gebhardt, Oberhauser, and Fischer. MLSs, defendants in dock. 10:13:02 SOUND: Polish survivor Jadwiga Dzido on the stand. Dr. Leo Alexander identifies the X-ray of Dzigo's leg and explains the nature of the medical experiment performed on her at Ravensbruec...

  8. Eichmann Trial -- Session 91 -- Cross-examination of the Accused

    Footage begins late in the session during the cross-examination of the accused by Attorney General Gideon Hausner. Adolf Eichmann is asked a series of questions about the Madagascar Plan, including whether or not Reinhard Heydrich made efforts to implement it (00:04:05) and who opposed the plan. [The Madagascar Plan was an idea to resettle the Jews on the island of Madagascar]. Hausner asks the accused if the main objective was to send the Jews there to die (00:07:19). Eichmann maintains that the plan was not to exterminate or annihilate the Jews (00:07:49) and Hausner points out that there...

  9. Antisemitism Questionnaires Cuestionario antisemitismo

    A survey on antisemitism conducted by José Moskovits in the 1970s by mailing a questionnaire on antisemitism to almost 5,000 dignitaries in 150 countries worldwide. The questionnaire was mailed to heads-of-state and other leading politicians, authors, journalists, scientists, artists, doctors, as well as corporate, military, civic, and religious leaders. Mr. Moskovits received almost 1,000 filled-out questionnaires back, often with additional letter responses attached. The purpose of the survey was a book to be edited by Dr. Asher Mibashan (1914-2005), the Buenos Aires bureau chief of the J...

  10. Eichmann Trial -- Sessions 70 and 71 -- Witnesses R. Kagan, E. Goldstein, V. Alexander; film screenings

    Footage begins with testimony from witness Raya Kagan, who describes a meeting with Untersturmbannführer Maximilian Grabner, in which she was told that she was forbidden to talk about the office work she performed (registration of supposed causes of deaths among prisoners), on pain of death. She also provides an account of her contact with the women of the Aussenkommando and the female Slovakian intelligentsia, as well as a description of the kapos and block elders. The remainder of Kagan's testimony is missing from the tape and the footage begins again with a witness account from Esther Go...

  11. Eichmann Trial -- Session 87 -- Direct examination of the Accused re: his travel to Auschwitz, Chelmno, Lublin and his knowledge of the gassing program

    Footage begins in the middle of the session. Servatius examines the witness about the "Gordon Affair." Avraham Gordon was a witness for the prosecution who testified in session 54 on 26 May 1961. In his testimony, Gordon described how he worked as a forced laborer on the villa Eichmann occupied in Budapest. Gordon testified that Eichmann and a man named Slawik beat a Hungarian Jewish boy to death for allegedly stealing fruit from the property. Eichmann states that he does not know anything about this event and never physically harmed or killed a human being in his life. There is a large sec...

  12. War Crimes Commission: Buchenwald and Dachau Concentration Camps

    "Buchenwald Concentration Camp" General views of the camp at Buchenwald. Red EXT of camp. HSs of the area. "Jedem Das Sein" gate closes. Red Cross trucks from Switzerland enter the camp grounds. Male survivors leave the camp. Among the survivors are 1000 boys under 14. Evidence of crimes: CUs of dead with numbers tattooed on stomachs; emaciated survivors; stacks of bodies outside and inside the crematorium; the experimental building where various toxins were tried; truckloads of the dead; CU weapon of torture; INT, crematorium ovens showing skeletons inside and piles of bone ash. 1200 Germa...

  13. Hitler speech; Krupp munitions plant; reoccupying Rhine; Ribbentrop

    Title: "1936" Title: "Reoccupation of the Rhineland, 7 March 1936." Nazis march into Dusseldorf as people cheer. Guards are posted at monuments and docks. 02:33:56 Title: "Minister von Neurath expresses confidence all Germans will vote approval of Hitler's policies, 29 March 1936." Hess, Goebbels, and others also cast votes. 02:35:14 Title: "Ribbentrop, Ambassador to Great Britain, Outlines Nazi Foreign Policy, April 1936." Seated at a desk Ribbentrop explains that the Chancellor has placed before the world his peace plan. Germany's sovereignty has been restored and Hitler will not allow it...

  14. Organization of SS and German police presented at Nuremberg Trial

    (Paris 457) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, December 20, 1945. Maj. Warren Farr of the US prosecution explains the subdivisions of the SS organization. CU, rear view, Maj. Farr. LS, side view of the Tribunal in the courtroom. "The personal staff. ... First, when the question is asked, how many persons in the SS had something to do with the concentration camp program... you may find out how many people were in the Deaths Head ..." CU, SS organization chart. "I shall read only the Himmler directive appearing on Page 2 of the translation. The Tribunal will note that it is addressed to e...

  15. War Crimes Commission: Leipzig and Penig Concentration Camps

    Foreword: "This is an official document made by U.S. military photographers as they advanced into Germany," etc. Two exhibited affidavits attesting to the authenticity of scenes in the film are shown, one signed by Lt Col George E. Stevens and the other by Capt John Ford. A map shows the location of concentration camps in Germany and Europe. "Leipzig Concentration Camp" MLS, empty field, barbed wire, remaining foundation of burnt out building. Three men stand near bloody and burnt corpse. CUs, piles of burnt bodies by barbed wire. At the Leipzig camp more than 200 were burned alive in a bui...

  16. Eichmann Trial -- Session 29 -- Testimonies of A. Aviel and H. Behrendt

    Session 29. Court is adjourned. There are shots of the audience, frontals of the courtroom, and a conversation between Defense Attorney Dr. Robert Servatius and Adolf Eichmann. Following a blip at 00:05:21, excerpts from Tape 2040 with witness Avraham Aviel are repeated. He discusses the liquidation of the Radun ghetto, and his escape to the group of Jewish men being used for labor. After joining the second group, Aviel recounts the death of his mother and younger brother: "Only afterward did I learn that I had been the only one who somehow managed to escape from that situation." Aviel disc...

  17. Eichmann Trial -- Selections from sessions 93 and 94 -- Cross-examination of the Accused

    The footage begins in the middle of Session 93. Judges Landau, Halevi, and Raveh are seated at the bench. Assistant State Attorneys Bach and Bar-Or are seated at the prosecution table. Robert Servatius is seated at the defense table. Cross-examination of Adolf Eichmann by Attorney General Gideon Hausner continues. Eichmann is asked if the testimonies from Rudolf Hoess, Karl Heinz Hoffmann, Dieter Wisliceny, Rudolf Mildner, and Alfred Six submitted in his defense were truthful or whether these men gave false testimony. A small portion of the session is missing and footage resumes with Hausne...

  18. Eichmann Trial -- Sessions 110 and 111 -- Prosecution continues summing up

    Sessions 110 and 111. Hausner discusses the Defense's two worlds, that of the suffering and those in power. These two worlds collided. He uses a quote from the Torah to compare the worlds. He says that Eichmann was described as a chasm of hate, and is stone-hearted. 00:06:56 Tape jumps, Hausner says that Eichmann tries to convince the court that he found satisfaction in his job in Berlin. However, the only time he ever mentioned a transfer was at this time and then only in his personal papers. As early as 1938, he was an indispensable expert and the Gestapo refused to move him. 00:11:45 Tap...

  19. War Crimes Commission: Breendonck, Hanover, Arnstadt Concentration Camps

    "Breendonck" Views of Breendonck camp in Belgium. EXTs of prison used to house Belgian patriots. Blood-stained coffins are exhibited as evidence of brutality Inmates demonstrate the methods used against the prisoners, such as beatings with barbed wire poles, chaining them into a vise, thumb screws. Victims reveal results of beatings and cigarette burns; a woman also reveals scars on her hips. "Hanover Concentration Camp" General views of the camp where only 200 remained of 10,000 Poles. INTs of the camp, few remaining inmates mill about. VS, Red Cross clubmobiles enter, issue hot soup, ciga...

  20. Abraham Sutzkever and Szmerke Kaczergingski Collection (RG-223, Vilna Ghetto, Part 1)

    This collection contains materials relating to the Vilna ghetto, its daily life and living conditions in the ghetto, social and cultural work, activities of the Judenrat (Jewish Council) and the Jewish interaction with the German and Lithuanian authorities.The records consists of: maps of the ghetto, 1942, diaries, chronicles and manuscripts on the history of the ghetto by Zelig Kalmanovitch, Herman Kruk, Yitschak Rudashevsky, Szmerke Kaczerginski, personal identification documents such as badges, armbands, identification cards, passes; materials on the ghetto administration and its divisio...