Taylor speaks of experiments and rules of war at Medical trial
Creator(s)
- United States. Army. Signal Corps. (Producer)
- United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
Scope and Content
(Munich 464) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 1 (Medical Case), Nuremberg, Germany. LS, Taylor tells of concentration camp victims being injected with epidemic jaundice and being used for sterilization experiments. Numerous healthy victims were injected with spotted fever virus. Experiments in cholera, typhus, and other infectious diseases were also conducted. Experimental patients were shot poisoned bullets. General Taylor accuses the defendants of violating the rules of war, the rules of the Geneva convention pertaining to prisoners of war.
Note(s)
Incorrectly labeled on slate as 111 ADC 6332. This is 111 ADC 6322. Duplicate footage on Film ID 14, Story 2359.
Subjects
- POWS
- PRISONERS
- COURTS/COURTROOMS
- NUREMBERG (SUBSEQUENT TRIALS)
- TRIALS
- NAZI OFFICIALS
- PROSECUTORS
- MEDICAL EXPERIMENTS
- DOCTORS
- MEDICAL PERSONNEL
- MEDICAL CARE
- WAR CRIMINALS/WAR CRIMES TRIALS
- GERMANY
- TAYLOR, TELFORD
Places
- Nuremberg, Germany
Genre
- Unedited.
- Film
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