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  1. Taylor speaks of experiments and rules of war at Medical trial

    (Munich 464) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 1 (Medical Case), Nuremberg, Germany. LS, Taylor tells of concentration camp victims being injected with epidemic jaundice and being used for sterilization experiments. Numerous healthy victims were injected with spotted fever virus. Experiments in cholera, typhus, and other infectious diseases were also conducted. Experimental patients were shot poisoned bullets. General Taylor accuses the defendants of violating the rules of war, the rules of the Geneva convention pertaining to prisoners of war.

  2. Defendants at Nuremberg Trial

    (Paris 445) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, December 12, 1945. Pan, courtroom during session. Pan, prisoners' dock; attorneys for defendants in FG. MS, Herman Goering and Joachim von Ribbentrop whispering to Rudolf Hess. MS, Hans Frank and Wilhelm Frick. MCU, Julius Streicher.

  3. Ferencz interview on CNBC on war crimes

    CNBC News interview with Benjamin Ferencz. Host: Boyd ? "A war crimes trial should be in Saddam's future." Ferencz argues that Saddam Hussein should be punished in an international court of law. However, he notes, without a system of international law and order, we cannot condemn an international crime. Ferencz encourages the public to express intolerance of violations of law, so that the "rule of law can apply to everyone." He also urges the international arena to agree upon and define aggression.

  4. Frank E. Morse collection

    Partial copy of official transcript of the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials, specifically the judgement against the defendants; dated circa September 30 - October 1, 1946. The excerpted transcript summarizes the indictments against each defendant and ultimately, the judgement and sentence; in English. Frank Morse (donor's grandfather) was an attorney and former Minnesota judge who served as a lawyer working with the United States Army during the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials in 1945 and 1946

  5. Russian testimony at Nuremberg Trial

    (Munich 13) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, February 26, 1946. LSs, witness Jacob Grigorjov, a Russian peasant who remained in German-occupied territory from July 1941 and whose wife and two children were killed by the Germans, is sworn in and questioned by a Russian prosecutor. MSs, Justices A F Volchoff (USSR), Birkett (Britain), and Lawrence (Britain). MSs, girl in audience looking through binoculars. MCU, Russian prosecutor speaking. LSs, Eugene Kivilsha, a Red Army physician, testifying that he was imprisoned in a German prison camp in the Ukraine. Note: All testimony is in Russ...

  6. Barbie Trial -- Day 1 -- Witness statements; Lechene testifies

    14:09:00 Presiding Judge André Cerdini lists the scheduled statements of witnesses. 14:35:00 Cerdini introduces the testimony of Mme. Lechene, concerning her late husband Pierre Louis Lechene. M. Lechene was a member of the resistance. He was captured by the S.S. and interned in Mathausen concentration camp in September 1942. 14:38:00 The plaintiffs Mme. Vogel, Mme. Chartre, Mme. Lara the widow of M. Bianchi and the "Association souvenir du Commissaire Jules Cros" are named.

  7. Robert E. Magnusson collection

    Program guide: “International Military Tribunal / Nurnberg Germany / 1945-1946”; inscribed by Lt. R.E. Magnusson inside front cover; Floor plan of the International Military Tribunal; Two (2) passes to the Visitors’ Gallery at the International Military Tribunal; for sessions 341 and 342; pass for 341 signed on verso by Robert E. Magnusson. Materials acquired by 2nd Lt Robert Eugene Magnusson (donor’s father), who served as a member of the OSS in Europe during WWII. He attended the IMT in Nuremberg on July 19, 1946.

  8. War Crimes Trial: shooting of American POWs

    LT GEN ANTON DOSTLER, GERMAN WAR CRIMINAL TRIAL, Palace of Justice, Rome, Italy. German Lt. Hans George Schultz is cross-examined by Col. Claudius O Wolfe, defense counsel. Schultz testifies that he is not sure who gave the orders to have the American prisoners shot. He further states how, when, and by whom the orders to destroy all records on the shooting were issued. Gen Dostler occasionally whispers to the defense counsel. German Lt. Rudolf Bolze being interrogated by prosecutor.

  9. Priest of Leningrad testifies at Nuremberg Trial

    (Munich 15) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, February 27, 1946. MS, Russian prosecutor questions witness (who is not visible). MLSs, MSs, Nicholas Lonarin, Priest of Leningrad and Director of the Ecclesiastical Priest Courses in Leningrad, testifies in Russian. MS, pan of stenographers at work. Pan to witness. LS, showing spectators in a section of courtroom. Pan from courtroom audience to priest testifying.

  10. War Crimes Trial: Dostler testifies

    LT GEN ANTON DOSTLER, GERMAN WAR CRIMINAL TRIAL, Palace of Justice, Rome, Italy. Gen. Dostler testifies through his interpreter about checking higher command to determing if these American soldiers came under the Fuehrerbefehl order. In learning that they did, and that he was ordered to have the men shot, he instructed his chief of staff to carry out the order.

  11. War Crimes Trial: execution of American soldiers

    LT GEN ANTON DOSTLER, GERMAN WAR CRIMINAL TRIAL, Palace of Justice, Rome, Italy. Lt Bolze testifying. Photograph of where the landing took place. He explains how they selected the spot where the men were to be shot. German Cpl. Wilhelm Knell is questioned by the prosecutor and testifies about seeing the execution of American soldiers.

  12. Prosecution at Nuremberg Trial; courtroom

    (Munich 386) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, August 30, 1946. Thomas Dodd and Brig Gen Telford Taylor of the American prosecution seated in the courtroom. Taylor speaking to the court. Dodd seated at prosecution table. Pan to Russian prosecution table showing General Rudenko. Taylor speaks of the ruthlessness of the German army, saying "this was not soldiery, this was savagery." MS, French prosecutor AC de Ribes summing up. MS, Russian prosecutor Gen. Rudenko summing up. HAS, lawyers, prosecutors, and others filing out of the courtroom after session.

  13. Barbie Trial -- Day 3 -- Barbie's psychiatric and medical evaluation

    18:08 Psychiatric expert M. Jacques Vedrinne lists the medical history of Barbie. 18:14 Psychiatric expert M. Didier Weber presents the role of psychological tests. 18:21 Results of the evaluation of intellectual ability test. 18:33 Results of the memory test. 18:35 Results of the personality test. 19:05 Psychiatric expert M. Daniel Gonin discusses how Barbie views morality, secrecy and death.

  14. First Allied Court: trial of Wehrmacht captain

    (LIB 7175) First Allied Court, Lillehammer, Norway, July 10, 1945. SEQ: Trial of Wehrmacht captain who killed a Russian ex-prisoner of war. Witness gives evidence. The court principals are British and American officers. A German general who commanded the occupation of Norway is among the spectators. Shots of the building where trial is held. MLS, US captain and officers visit the place where the crime was committed. The accused enter the building for the trial.

  15. War Crimes Trials: Malmedy

    (Munich 294) Malmedy War Crimes Trials, Dachau, Germany, July 11, 1946. Lt. Col. Burton J. Ellis concluding his summation. LS and LMS, defendant #22 reading his plea to the court. Army officer for the defense reads statement for a mitigation of verdict of one of the defendants. Col. Willis M. Everett, chief defense counsel, reading his final plea before closing of the court.

  16. War Crimes Trial, Tokyo; Nuremberg Trial

    18:41:14 War Crimes Trials, Tokyo, Japan, May 3-6, 1946 (English). HAS, judges' bench with court recorders and prosecution in FG. The defense lead Sir William F. Webb argues that the court should recess and be reconstituted. Webb announces adjournment. The audience rises as the judges file out. 18:46:21 (Munich 111) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, April 18, 1946 (German). LSs, Dr. Alfred Seidl, counselor for Hans Frank, questions Frank on the stand. CU, Dr. Seidl questioning the witness. CU, Frank giving details of his early career.

  17. War Crimes Trials: Medical Case

    (Munich 478) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 1 (Medical Case), Nuremberg, Germany. MS, HS, MCU Brig. Gen. Telford Taylor addressing courtroom. Taylor discusses the different departments of the Wehrmacht and then reviews the careers of defendants Handloser and Oskar Schroeder. In reading the indictment, Taylor speaks of the so-called "anthropological experiments." HS of the Tribunal: Judges Sebring, Beals, Crawford, and Swearingen. General Taylor talks of the "high and low pressure" experiments conducted at Dachau.

  18. French case presented at Nuremberg Trial

    (Paris 511) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, January 19, 1946. LS, Tribunal enters court and is seated. MLS, new Chief of French delegation Champetier de Ribes presenting the case against the Nazis for the French. MSs, Justices Birkett, Lawrence, and Biddle looking through documents as Chief Justice Geoffrey Lawrence makes a comment to de Ribes. MCU, French prosecutor Mr. Herzog addressing the Tribunal about the National Socialist doctrine on labor.

  19. Barbie Trial -- Day 7 -- The defense questions two expert witnesses

    19:12 The defense questions the witnesses as to differences in the handwriting on the arrival notices written on both the Izieu telex and the Marseille telex 19:12 Cerdini asks the witnesses to remain in the area and available to the Court for further questions for a few days 19:15 Cerdini calls a recess

  20. Freezing experiments presented at Medical trial

    (Munich 480) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 1 (Medical Case), Nuremberg, Germany. MLS Prosecutor Alexander Hardy speaking of the freezing experiment reports. MLS, Hardy reads a letter from Sigmund Rascher who writes of his work and asks for captured Russians to be used for freezing experiments. MS, defendants in dock.