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  1. Annexation of Austria; Munich Pact; Invasion of Poland and Denmark

    Reel 3: Austrian Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg addressing government, speech in progress. Schuschnigg replaced by Arthur von Seyss-Inquart in Austria, riding in automobile, waving to crowd. CU, transcription of Goering's conversation with Keppler. In city street, Nazis round up civilians, slowly closing in on them with horses and police, man carried away. Nazis marching in streets, heiling, waving flags. Crossing Austrian border, over bridge LS, lifting up pole, Austrians with big grins. 21 May 1935: Annexation text superimposed on screen. Tanks moving through streets lined with crowds. 05:20...

  2. Antisemitic Campaign opens: Boycott, Bookburning

    "Part 2: Acquiring Totalitarian Control of Germany, 1933-1935." Title: "Opening of the Official Anti-Semitic Campaign 1 April 1933" Minister for Public Enlightenment & Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, launches antisemitic campaign in Berlin Lustgarten. Original sound, Goering addresses a cheering crowd. Boycott of Jewish shops, Berlin. Crowds. SA men chant slogans from truck in the streets: "Germans, protect yourselves. Don't buy from the Jews." On doorway the sign with skull: "Achtung Juden". On closed stores the sign "Jude" painted on window. Party members put up signs, hold back crowds, ...

  3. Arnold Joseph collection

    The Arnold Joseph collection consists of correspondence to and from defendants at the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal, which Joseph acquired during his military service as a censor. Incoming correspondence from the general public comes from the so‐called “201 file” of letters not to be delivered to the defendants so as not to upset them. It includes a mixture of praise and good wishes for the defendants as well as insults and invectives, and some correspondence includes prayers, poems, and songs. At least one letter is from a former German soldier, another is from a former political prisoner,...

  4. Arthur Seyss-Inquart's Nuremberg war crimes trial headphones

    1. IBM Corporation collection

    Headset used by Arthur Seyss-Inquart during the Nuremberg war crimes trials.

  5. Auschwitz liberated

    "Filmdokumente" on the German concentration camps, made under Soviet auspices with narration in English. This film was taken by a Soviet military film crew upon liberating Auschwitz in January 1945. eople in camp in winter with snow on the ground. CUs, prisoners behind wire (women and children). LSs, AVs, the camp covered with snow. Map of Auschwitz, plans for the crematorium. INT, women in rows of bunks. "Arbeit Macht Frei" gate. Barbed wire. INT, gas chamber. CUs women in the bunks. CUs albums of photographs (showing different nationalities). VS groups of survivors behind wires, worn face...

  6. 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.

  7. Bach-Zelewski testifies at Nuremberg Trial

    (Paris 488) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, January 7, 1946. Col. Telford Taylor identifies the witness Eric von dem Bach-Zelewski and asks him to identify himself. The witness says he is a former general of a branch of the SS and spells out his name. LS, Bach-Zelewski takes the oath administered by Justice Lord Geoffrey Lawrence. The witness tells of his background from 1917 to 1942. He is asked whether he gave commands/ROEs to Wehrmacht officers about how to deal with partisans ("...with regard to the methods that should be applied to combat partisans ..."), and he answers "Yes," t...

  8. Bach-Zelewski testifies at Nuremberg Trial

    (Paris 488) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, January 7, 1946. MS, Hermann Goering, Rudolf Hess, Joachim von Ribbentrop, and Wilhelm Keitel in prisoners' dock as Col. Telford Taylor addresses the Tribunal. MS, witness Eric von dem Bach-Zelewski testifying in German. MLS, rear view, Russian prosecutor Col. Pokrovsky cross examines Bach-Zelewski, regarding Einsatzgruppe B. Questions are asked in Russian; witness answers in German. Alfred Jodl's counselor, Dr. Franz Exner, questions Bach-Zelewski. Questions and answers are in German. Another defense counselor, Dr. Kraus, questions the wit...

  9. Badge

    1. Hans Pauli collection

    Colorful patch advertising Nuremberg as the site of Nazi Party Rallies acquired by Hans Pauli in Italy at an unknown date before 1990. In the 1920s and annually from 1933-1938, this German city in Bavaria was where the Nazi Party staged massive and lavish rallies. Here on September 15, 1935, Hitler announced the Nuremberg Laws, racial based antisemitic legislation for the systematic persecution of Jews in Germany. In 1943, the Allies decided to hold an International Military Tribunal to prosecute those responsible for war crimes and violence against civilian populations. In summer 1945, aft...

  10. Badge

    1. Hans Pauli collection

    Colorful patch advertising Nuremberg as the site of Nazi Party Rallies acquired by Hans Pauli in Italy at an unknown date before 1990. In the 1920s and annually from 1933-1938, this German city in Bavaria was where the Nazi Party staged massive and lavish rallies. Here on September 15, 1935, Hitler announced the Nuremberg Laws, racial based antisemitic legislation for the systematic persecution of Jews in Germany. In 1943, the Allies decided to hold an International Military Tribunal to prosecute those responsible for war crimes and violence against civilian populations. In summer 1945, aft...

  11. Baldur von Schirach's Nuremberg war crimes trial headphones

    1. IBM Corporation collection

    Headset used by Baldur von Schirach during the Nuremberg war crimes trials.

  12. Bank of Algeria, 100 franc note, acquired by a war crimes trials court reporter

    1. Dixie Foster collection

    French Algerian bank note valued at 100 francs acquired by Dixie Foster when she worked as a civilian court reporter during the US War Crimes Tribunal at the former Dachau concentration camp in Germany, also known as the Dachau war crimes trials. The trials were conducted in the American postwar occupation zone by the US Army from November 1945 to August 1948.

  13. Barbie Trial -- Day 2 -- Crimes defined at Nuremberg; indictment of Barbie

    13:45 A clerk defines "crimes against humanity" and "crimes of war" according to the Nuremberg Tribunal. 14:19 The clerk discusses the indictment and imprisonment of Barbie.

  14. Barbie Trial -- Day 5 -- The Izieu Telex

    17:40 An argument between several lawyers from the prosecution and defense ensues because President Cerdini allows defense lawyer Vergès to handle the Telex D'Izieu and remove it from its protective plastic. Several lawyers become very upset, because they are afraid Vergès will tear or otherwise destroy the evidence 17:43 A prosecutor asks that the Telex be examined by the jurors and civil parties; explains why it was necessary to remove it from the plastic (because it was difficult to read some of the text through the covering) 17:51 President Cerdini reads a written statement from Barbie,...

  15. Barbie Trial -- Day 6 -- Barbie's knowledge of the Final Solution; an expert testifies

    16:21 Prosecutor Iannucci reminds the court that Barbie had been a member of the SD since 1935 and of the Nazi party since 1937; Dachau was inaugurated in March 1933; argues that Barbie cannot have been a member of the organization, for whom the concentration camps were an arm of government, without knowing they existed; gives history relating to the Reichstag Fire (February 1933) and the subsequent decimation of personal freedoms by the Nazi party, as well as the inauguration of Dachau just one month later. 16:27 Nordmann remarks that Barbie's formal education, and therefore his ideologica...

  16. Benjamin B. Ferencz collection

    1. Benjamin B. Ferencz collection

    The Benjamin B. Ferencz collection consists of the personal papers of Benjamin B. Ferencz, Chief Prosecutor of the Einsatzgruppen at the Nuremberg Trials. The collection includes materials relevant to the Second World War, the Nuremberg Trials, Holocaust-related restitution and indemnification issues, war crimes justice, the efforts to establish a permanent international criminal court for war crimes, and biographical information pertaining to Ferencz. For a more detailed scope note, please see the finding aid.

  17. Benjamin Sagalowitz Archive: Copies of documents from the Nuremberg Trials regarding the persecution of the Jews of France and their deportation to the East, 1941-1942

    1. P.13 - Archive of Benjamin Sagalowitz , head of the press agency of the Union of Jewish Communities in Switzerland, 1929-1969

    Benjamin Sagalowitz Archive: Copies of documents from the Nuremberg Trials regarding the persecution of the Jews of France and their deportation to the East, 1941-1942 In the file: - Copies of documents from the Nuremberg Trials regarding the persecution of the Jews of France and their deportation to the East, 1941-1942, including letters from Theodor Dannecker, Otto Abetz, Adolf Eichmann and Martin Luther. Also in the file: - Article in the French periodical, "Le Monde Juif", July 1956, regarding the arrest of Jews in Paris, 16-17 July 1942.

  18. Bequest Konrad Morgen

    In 2005, friends and neighbours of the Morgens offered the bequest of Konrad Morgen (1909-1982) as a gift to the Fritz Bauer Institute. Konrad Morgen was a SS judge and witness at the First Frankfurt Auschwitz trial. Before her death, Morgen's wife had transferred her husband's bequest with all rights to the couple living in the neighbourhood of their vacation home in Niedernhausen im Taunus. Konrad Morgen was born on June 8, 1909 in Frankfurt (Main). He studied law at the University of Frankfurt (Main), Rome, Berlin and The Hague. In 1933, he joined the NSDAP and the SS. In the following y...

  19. Black long sleeved robe with a braided cord worn by a US judge at the Nuremberg trials

    1. Daniel T. O'Connell collection

    Black long sleeved judicial gown worn by Justice Daniel T. O’Connell, an American judge who sat on Military Tribunal I during the Subsequent Nuremberg Trials in Germany from October 20, 1947, to February 17, 1948. Justice O’Connell was a superior court judge from Massachusetts and tried Case #8, the RuSHA case. On trial were the leading officials of Rasse- und Siedlungshauptamt [Race and Resettlement Main Office] or RuSHA, an organization that oversaw the racial purity and cleansing policies and programs of the Nazi government. Fourteen defendants were tried; 13 were found guilty.

  20. Black market; US prosecutors address Nuremberg Trial; Award

    01:37:27 (Paris 401) Black Market, Frankfurt, Germany, November 28, 1945. Full screen view, civilian police chief and a US Army major of the AMG hold discussion in front of police headquarters. MSs, a male civilian is arrested by police and civilian deputies. MLS, rear view, civilians loading onto police truck. 01:38:39 (Paris 407) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, December 3, 1945. LS, Tribunal judges entering courtroom and taking their seats. MLS, Chief Prosecutor Robert H. Jackson making notes. MLS, Sydney Alderman, US asst prosecutor, addressing courtroom. MS, US judges Francis Bid...