War Crimes Trials: Medical Case

Identifier
irn1001425
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1994.119.1
  • RG-60.2305
Dates
1 Jan 1947 - 31 Dec 1947
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
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 488) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 1 (Medical Case), Nuremberg, Germany. Dr. Leo Alexander speaking in English describes a mutilating scar on Maria Kusmierczuk's leg. Kusmierczuk, a messenger in the Polish underground, received the wound at Ravensbrueck concentration camp. MCUs, prisoner's dock. Pan from defendants to Dr. Alexander. He examines Kusmierczuk as she sits on the stand. The doctor explains the leg wound. MS, doctor and Kusmierczuk as seen from the attorney's podium, shot of the attorney's back. More of Dr. Alexander, Kusmierczuk, and defendants.

Note(s)

  • Trial transcripts available in the departmental files.

Subjects

  • NAZI OFFICIALS
  • GERMANY
  • TRIALS
  • SURVIVORS
  • DOCTORS
  • RAVENSBRUECK
  • MEDICAL PERSONNEL
  • NUREMBERG (SUBSEQUENT TRIALS)
  • WAR CRIMINALS/WAR CRIMES TRIALS
  • COURTS/COURTROOMS
  • WOUNDED

Places

  • Nuremberg, Germany

Genre

  • Unedited.
  • Film
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