War Crimes Trials: Medical Case

Identifier
irn1001604
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1993.177.1
  • RG-60.2435
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
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 478) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 1 (Medical Case), Nuremberg, Germany. MS, HS, MCU Brig. Gen. Telford Taylor addressing courtroom. Taylor discusses the different departments of the Wehrmacht and then reviews the careers of defendants Handloser and Oskar Schroeder. In reading the indictment, Taylor speaks of the so-called "anthropological experiments." HS of the Tribunal: Judges Sebring, Beals, Crawford, and Swearingen. General Taylor talks of the "high and low pressure" experiments conducted at Dachau.

Note(s)

  • Trial transcripts available in the departmental files. Tape previously considered NURM 4.

Subjects

  • MEDICAL PERSONNEL
  • HANDLOSER, SIEGFRIED
  • GERMANY
  • WEHRMACHT (GERMAN ARMY)
  • NUREMBERG (SUBSEQUENT TRIALS)
  • NAZI OFFICIALS
  • TAYLOR, TELFORD
  • DOCTORS
  • JUDGES
  • WAR CRIMINALS/WAR CRIMES TRIALS
  • MEDICAL EXPERIMENTS
  • COURTS/COURTROOMS
  • DACHAU
  • TRIALS

Places

  • Nuremberg, Germany

Genre

  • Unedited.
  • Film
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