War Crimes Trials: Einsatzgruppen Case

Identifier
irn1001419
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1994.119.1
  • RG-60.2299
Dates
1 Jan 1948 - 31 Dec 1948
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • German
Source
EHRI Partner

Creator(s)

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

Scope and Content

(Munich 673) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 9 (Einsatzgruppen Case). Chief of the OCCWC, Telford Taylor, sums up the prosecution's case against former members of Einsatzgruppen. Presiding Judge Michael Musmanno instructs defense counsel that they may reply to the summation. Recess called. Ohlendorf, as the number one defendant, reads his final plea into the record seeking to justify his behavior. Bureaucratic language. At the end, brings in God, human error, split between East and West. 08:06:40 to 08:11:36

Subjects

  • NAZI OFFICIALS
  • OHLENDORF, OTTO
  • GERMANY
  • EINSATZGRUPPEN
  • WAR CRIMINALS/WAR CRIMES TRIALS
  • FERENCZ, BENJAMIN
  • MUSMANNO, MICHAEL
  • WAR CRIMES COMMISSIONS
  • COURTS/COURTROOMS
  • TAYLOR, TELFORD
  • PROSECUTORS
  • JUDGES
  • SPEECHES
  • NUREMBERG (SUBSEQUENT TRIALS)
  • TRIALS

Places

  • Nuremberg, Germany

Genre

  • Unedited.
  • Film
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