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  1. Karl Brandt makes final statement at Medical trial

    War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 1 (Medical Case), Nuremberg, Germany. Judge Beals announces that the Tribunal has convened to hear last statements of the defendants of Case 1 and that the defendants do not have to make statements unless they desire to. Karl Brandt, once Hitler's personal doctor, makes his statement.

  2. War Crimes Trials: Medical Case

    (Munich 488) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 1 (Medical Case), Nuremberg, Germany. Dr. Leo Alexander speaking in English describes a mutilating scar on Maria Kusmierczuk's leg. Kusmierczuk, a messenger in the Polish underground, received the wound at Ravensbrueck concentration camp. MCUs, prisoner's dock. Pan from defendants to Dr. Alexander. He examines Kusmierczuk as she sits on the stand. The doctor explains the leg wound. MS, doctor and Kusmierczuk as seen from the attorney's podium, shot of the attorney's back. More of Dr. Alexander, Kusmierczuk, and defendants.

  3. War Crimes Trials: Malmedy

    (Munich 176) Malmedy War Crimes Trials, Dachau, Germany, May 21, 1946. Kenneth E. Kingston, former American officer, tells how he and his unit surrendered and how some of the soldiers were massacred. Kingston is questioned by Lt. Robert E. Byrne, US prosecutor. K. Ahrens, another former soldier, testifying about his surrender and how US soldiers were killed. Pointer on map indicates the route which Ahrens' unit followed. MS, Capt Ralph Shumacker, prosecution counselor, questions Ahrens.

  4. War Crimes Trials: Buchenwald

    (Munich 541) Buchenwald Trial, Dachau, Germany, April 12, 1947. Spectators enter courtroom. LS, attorneys are administered oath by the Military Tribunal. At 16:20:42 U.S. Army Major Carl Everett Whitney, Jr hands papers to the tribunal and begins speaking. Major Whitney was assigned as attorney for the defense. Pan, prisoners in the dock, including Ilse Koch at 16:22:01. Scenes of the trial. LS, prisoners pleading to the indictment. One defendant hides his face with a card.

  5. Barbie Trial -- Day 4 -- Barbie's activities in Bolivia

    15:15 Witness Gustavo Sanchez describes the takeover of General Banzer in 1970. 15:23 Sanchez discusses the range of crimes Barbie commited while in Bolivia, including illegal drug trafficking. 15:46 Sanchez discusses the action taken by the Bolivian and Italian Governments and Interpol against the organization headed by Barbie, the "Grooms of Death." 15:52 Lawyer Nordmann and Sanchez discuss the Bolivian military identification of Klaus Altmann, a letter written to his bodyguard, and his loyalty commitment.

  6. War Crimes Trials: Medical Case

    (Munich 486) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 1 (Medical Case), Nuremberg, Germany. Continuation of Walter Neff testifying and identifying pictures in book of evidence. When asked whether experiments were made on prisoners other than those condemned to death, he answers in the affirmative. Neff admits that out of 70 prisoners who were not condemned to death, 40 died when they were used for experiments in the pressure chamber.

  7. Legacy of Babi Yar

    Babi Yar (?). Visitors to mass graves. The ground is covered with a light dusting of snow. Exhumation of bodies. Pan down ravine. Wide angle shot of bodies in a ditch, CU of a skull, propped on top of clothing, the skull still has hair, menacing placement of the skull staring at the camera. Translation of Ukrainian narration: [Abrupt] ...in Babi Yars all over Ukraine: in Kyiv, Kharkiv, Kerch, Lviv. Criminals were forced to look at what they had done. [A woman's voice behind the camera. Abrupt.] "The only thing I want to say: all this horror that happened..."

  8. Persecution of religious and other victim groups presented at Nuremberg Trial

    (Paris 479) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, January 8, 1946. Rear views, Col. Wheeler of the US prosecution continues speaking about the persecution of religious groups, particularly "Bibelforscher," in Germany and occupied countries. Enumerates other victim groups incarcerated at Dachau, including Jehovah's Witnesses, homosexuals, asocials. Rear view, US prosecutor addresses the Tribunal about the knowledge of the defendant's actions to instigate pogroms and set the pace of atrocities committed against the people of Germany and occupied countries, and concludes that they were willin...

  9. Jackson accuses defense counsel of antisemitism at Nuremberg Trial

    (Munich 95) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, April 10, 1946. MLS, Chief US Prosecutor Robert H. Jackson telling the Tribunal that Dr. Alfred Thoma, defense counselor for Rosenberg, had translated sections of documents in an antisemitic character. Jackson charges that the defense is trying to disseminate antisemitic propaganda. Dr. Rudolf Dix, counselor for Schacht, defends before the Tribunal the entire defense staff whom he feels has been accused by Jackson. Note: Camera did not catch all of Jackson's charge. Jackson holds up the stencils involved in his accusation.

  10. Autopsies, human skin discussed at Nuremberg Trial

    War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, January 11, 1946. Thomas J. Dodd continues reading Dr. Franz Blaha's signed affidavit which tells of the Gestapo forcing him to work in the autopsy room. Dr. Blaha performed 7000 autopsies during his stay. He filled many requests for human skin that was cured in the sun and used for making saddles, gloves, and ladies' handbags. In his testimony, Dr. Blaha identifies Wilhelm Frick and Alfred Rosenberg, whom he saw touring the Dachau camp.

  11. Russian prosecutor presents case

    (Munich 04) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, February 21-22, 1946. Russian prosecutor Maj. Gen. Lev Romanovitch Shainin presents case to the Tribunal. MSs, Justices A F Volchoff (USSR), Maj. Gen. I T Nikitchenko (USSR), and Birkett (Britain). Russian prosecutor M Y Raginsky presents case on the destruction of cultural and scientific treasures and churches.

  12. Execution of Antonescu

    Antonescu and other Nazi collaborators from the Romanian wartime regime are led to their execution after being tried for war crimes, walking on village road surrounded by police with rifles. VAR CUs, collaborators saying their last words. Lined up against wooden posts, Antonescu and the 3 other men are shot repeatedly, from far range at first, then closer with a pistol and rifle. CUs bodies. Men rolling bodies over to ensure death. LS, crowd watching from afar. VAR CUs bodies. Men loading bodies on litters, taking bodies away.

  13. War Crimes Trials: Medical Case

    (Munich 480) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 1 (Medical Case), Nuremberg, Germany. MLS, MS Prosecutor McHaney interrogating Dr. Wolfgang Lutz. HS, McHaney questioning Lutz. LS, prosecutor's table. McHaney asks a question about Field Marshal Erhard Milch. Pan, defendants in dock. CU, Dr. Alfred Seidel, defense attorney, speaking.

  14. Summary of trial judgment in Medical case

    (Munich 619) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 1 (Medical Case), Judgment and Sentencing, Nuremberg, Germany. LS, MS Army photographer setting up camera in booth. LS, MS Judge Beals giving a summary of the trial and how the defense and prosecution conducted the case and what points the defendants were tried and convicted on.

  15. Defendants' closing statements at Nuremberg Trial

    (Munich 378) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, August 31, 1946. Short excerpts from the final speeches of defendants Fritz Sauckel, Alfred Jodl, Franz von Papen, Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Albert Speer, Constantin von Neurath, and Hans Fritzsche.

  16. War Crimes Trials: Flick Case

    (Munich 543) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 5 (Flick Case), Nuremberg, Germany, 1947. Rear view, American prosecutor Telford Taylor reads the indictment and tells about the subjection of civilians and prisoners of war to slave labor. MS, Friedrich Flick, Otto Steinbrinck, and Konrach Kaletsch (right to left) listening to indictment.

  17. War Crimes Trials: Flick Case

    (Munich 545) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 5 (Flick Case), April 19, 1947. MLS, defendants rise as their names are called: Friedrich Flick, Otto Steinbrinck, Odilo Burkart, Konrad Kaletsch, Bernhard Weiss, Hermann Terberger. Defendants Flick, Steinbrinck, Burkart, and Weiss pleading to the indictment. Other two defendants not pictured with sound. Gen. Lucius D. Clay seated in prosecution section of the courtroom. Silent, cut-in shots of defendants in dock.

  18. War Crimes Trials: Medical Case

    (Munich 542) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 1 (Medical Case), Nuremberg, Germany. LS, Herta Oberhauser is cross-examined by attorney. Witness is asked if she gave injections to patients to relieve their pain or to kill them. She received awards for her work with the sulphanilamide experiments. She is questioned by a defense attorney. Answers by witness are in German (translation is not provided).

  19. Luxembourg occupation discussed at Nuremberg Trial

    (Paris 534) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, February 1, 1946. MSs, Emil Reuter, President of the Assembly of Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, is sworn in and begins testifying. LS, French prosecutor Faure interrogates the witness. MSs, Reuter testifies about the German occupation of Luxembourg. He gives an account of the situation in Luxembourg immediately before the annexation by Germany, testifying that the continuation of government in Luxembourg was at the time secured, and the German government repeatedly expressed peaceful intentions. Faure speaking from the stand. LS, prisoners' dock.

  20. Judge Brand & T. Taylor open Krupp case; defendants

    War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 10 (Krupp Case), Nuremberg, Germany, December 8, 1947. Profile shot of presiding judge James T. Brand opening the Krupp case. LS, defendants in dock. Alfred Krupp von Bohlen und Halback is on the far left followed by Loeser, Houdremont, Mueller, Janssen, Pfirsch, Ihn, and Everhardt. MS, Gen Telford Taylor, chief prosecutor, making the opening statement telling on what counts the defendants are guilty. Taylor gives a brief history of the Krupp concern and a resume of the Krupp family until the outbreak of WWI.