Hitler on annihilation of Jewish race; Occupation of Czechoslovakia; Aircraft launch
Creator(s)
- E. R. Kellogg (Director)
- James B. Donovan (Compiler)
- United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
Biographical History
United States Navy Lieutenant E. R. Kellogg certifies motion pictures of Nazi concentration camps in an affidavit presented in the "Nazi Concentration Camps" film by the Americans as evidence during the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg. Kellogg had expertise in motion picture and photographic techniques through his employment with Twentieth Century Fox Studios in California from 1929 to 1941. He attests that he has thoroughly examined the concentration camp liberation films of the Army Signal Corps and found them to be unaltered, genuine, and true copies of the originals in the U.S. Army Signal Corps vaults.
James B. Donovan. United States Navy Commander. Associate Prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials, where he coordinated and presented all Nazi films at the trials. General Counsel to OSS. Negotiated the exchange of Bay of Pigs prisoners with Fidel Castro as an independent lawyer under backdrop of the missile crisis, securing the freedom of nearly 10,000 people. Portrayed by Tom Hanks in "Bridge of Spies".
Scope and Content
Title: "Goering Launches First Aircraft Carrier 8 December 1938" Goering speaks at the launching of the carrier Graf Zeppelin. Title: "1939" Title: "Hitler Predicts Annihilation of the Jewish Race in Europe if War Occurs 30 January 1939" Hitler speech at Reichstag. Title: "President Hacha of Czechoslovakia Arrives in Berlin as Guest of Hitler 14 March 1939." Hacha walking in street lined with SS officers. CU, flag. Hacha gets into automobile. Title: "Occupation of Remainder of Czechoslovakia 15 March 1939." Various newspaper headlines. Nazi soldiers on village road, on motorcycles and bicycles in winter. Officers conversing. Arriving in Prague with military vehicles, snowing, marching. Hitler riding in automobile, exiting through Prague castle gates through crowded street. Walking, talking with Nazi officials (Himmler, Heydrich, Karl Wolff) in street, reviewing wounded men. Airplanes in formation. Military goosestepping parade, with flags and band. Civilians watch. German tanks parade through city streets. Title: "Occupation of Memel 22 March 1939." Hitler and his troops are cheered in Memel. Title: "Reply to Roosevelt's Plea that Germany Avoid Aggression 28 April 1939" Hitler ridicules Pres. Roosevelt's plea to avoid aggression.
Note(s)
See also Story 36, Film ID 6 and Story 25, Film ID 5 for duplicate footage.
"The Nazi Plan" was shown as evidence at the International Military Tribunal (IMT) in Nuremberg on December 11, 1945. It was compiled by Budd Schulberg and other military personnel, under the supervision of Navy Commander James Donovan. The compilers took pains to use only German source material, including official newsreels and other German films (1919-45). It was put together for the US Counsel for the Prosecution of Axis Criminality and the US Office of the Chief Counsel for War Crimes. The film was received in evidence as IMT exhibit USA-167. Summary from NARA story card (archive source number 238.1): "On the activities and policies of the National Socialist Party in Germany, 1921-1944, particularly as reflected in the speeches of Adolf Hitler. Shows much of the pagentry associated with the speeches. Consists of four parts: Part I: The rise of the NSDAP, 1921-1933 (reels 1-2); Part II: Acquiring totalitarian control of Germany, 1933-1935 (reels 3-8); Part III: Preparation for wars of aggression, 1935-1939 (reels 9-16); and Part IV: Wars of aggression, 1939-1944 (reels 17-22)."
Subjects
- AIRPLANES
- LITHUANIA
- JEWS
- GERMAN OCCUPATION
- ROOSEVELT, FRANKLIN D.
- WAR CRIMINALS/WAR CRIMES TRIALS
- SPEECHES
- GOERING, HERMANN
- HACHA, EMIL
- CZECHOSLOVAKIA
- HITLER, ADOLF
- DIETRICH, OTTO
- NAZI PARTY
- NUREMBERG (INTERNATIONAL MILITARY TRIBUNAL)
- CEREMONIES
- NAZI OFFICIALS
- ANTISEMITISM
- SOLDIERS/MILITARY (GERMAN)
- BOHEMIA/MORAVIA
- MILITARY ADVANCES
- WAR CRIMES COMMISSIONS
Places
- , Czechoslovakia
- , Bohemia and Moravia (Protectorate)
- Memel, Lithuania
Genre
- Documentary.
- Film