March of Time -- outtakes -- Nuremberg Trial: Walter Funk on stand

Identifier
irn1000211
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2001.358.1
  • RG-60.3079
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Item
Languages
  • English
  • German
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EHRI Partner

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Scope and Content

Cross examination of Walter Funk. MS in courtroom at Nuremberg Trial as Walter Funk, president of the Reichsbank, is cross examined by US Prosecutor Thomas Dodd. Closer shot of Funk in witness chair guarded by MP, answering questions. Another LS of courtroom as Funk is on stand, questions by Dodd are about the loot taken from concentration camp prisoners and conquered countries and put into the Reichsbank of which Funk had complete charge, and about which Funk denies any knowledge (regular sound). "Wouldn't you have had to know about the 1,000 wagons of textiles that...had been shipped....composed of the clothing of dead Jews who had been exterminated and other people in concentration camps who'd been exterminated?" Dodd questions Funk about whether Oswald Pohl would have had any reason to dislike him. Dodd becomes very annoyed, angry.

Note(s)

  • "Bureau of PR, official MP Release" War Department. Dupe footage found on Film ID 2364, Story 2902.

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