War Crimes Trial: Bergen-Belsen guards
Creator(s)
- United News Company (Producer)
- United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
- United States Office of War Information (Producer)
Scope and Content
"Belsen Death Camp Leaders Meet Justice." Four British soldiers guarding door. CU, SS camp guards arriving for trial and climbing out of a truck. VCU, Josef Kramer. Crowds behind barriers in street. SS woman, including Irma Grese (the "bitch of Bergen-Belsen") and Juana Bormann, climbing out of truck. Filing into courtroom. Numbers hanging on defendants. Soldiers/military seated, Fritz Klein. Hundreds of corpses laid out in rows on ground. Newsreel footage also includes the following parts: 01:32:31 "Sailing Ship 'Danmark' Goes Home Again" 01:33:44 "14 Marines and Sailors Win Highest Award" 01:34:38 "Allied Undersea Demolition Teams Aided Invasion" 01:36:58 "Secretary Byrnes Reports on London Meeting" 01:39:17 "Admiral Nimitz is Hailed in Washington"
Note(s)
United News Contents Sheets available in departmental files.
Subjects
- GRESE, IRMA
- COURTS/COURTROOMS
- KRAMER, JOSEF
- TRIALS
- CORPSES
- NAZI OFFICIALS
- BERGEN-BELSEN TRIAL
- TRUCKS
- WAR CRIMINALS/WAR CRIMES TRIALS
- SOLDIERS/MILITARY (BRITISH)
- NUREMBERG (SUBSEQUENT TRIALS)
Places
- Lueneberg, Germany
- Bergen-Belsen, Germany
Genre
- Film
- Newsreels.