War Crimes Trials: Malmedy

Identifier
irn1001403
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1994.119.1
  • RG-60.2283
Dates
1 Jan 1946 - 31 Dec 1946
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
  • German
Source
EHRI Partner

Creator(s)

  • United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
  • United States. Army. Signal Corps. (Producer)

Scope and Content

(Munich 167) Malmedy War Crimes Trials, Dachau, Germany, May 24, 1946. First witness for the prosecution, US Army Lt Wiiliam R Pearl, interrogator for the War Crimes Branch, identifies Gen Joseph Sepp Dietrich. Pearl tells about his interview with Dietrich who told him how he was kicked in the back by a Polish guard. Pan, map of the Malmedy campaign as Lt. Col. Barton J. Ellis, Chief Prosecutor, tells of the killing of American and Allied prisoners by men of the SS Panzer Regiment. Pan, approx 75 prisoners in dock as Ellis reads the charges. CU, Col. Ellis reading charges.

Subjects

  • MALMEDY (ATROCITY)
  • PROSECUTORS
  • DACHAU
  • GERMANY
  • MAPS
  • PRISONERS
  • WAR CRIMINALS/WAR CRIMES TRIALS
  • NAZI OFFICIALS
  • COURTS/COURTROOMS
  • SOLDIERS/MILITARY (AMERICAN)
  • SS (SCHUTZSTAFFEL)
  • TRIALS
  • DIETRICH, JOSEPH (SEPP)

Places

  • Dachau, Germany

Genre

  • Unedited.
  • Film
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