Soviet prosecutor Rudenko questions witness about Katyn Forest Massacre at Nuremberg Trial

Identifier
irn1002323
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2001.358.1
  • RG-60.2892
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • German
  • Russian
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 272) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, July 1 and 29, 1946. LS Tribunal. Russian prosecutor Lt. Gen. R A Rudenko questioning witness (not seen). MLS, former colonel of German signal regiment, Ahrens, is questioned by Russian prosecutor. Russian witness Professor Boris Vasiltevich Bazilevsky testifying about the Katyn Forest massacre. MLS, Rudenko interrogating Bazilevsky. Shots of prominent US newspapermen seated in visitors' gallery: (left to right) Arthur Hays Sulzberger, Publishing Editor of N Y Times; Lee Hills, Managing Editor of Miami Florida Herald; John C. Ostreicher, Foreign Editor of International News; Herbert F. Conn, Managing Editor of Washington Star; J O Ferguson, Editor and Publisher of Milwaukee Journal; Mr. Christinson, Editor of Omaha World Herald; Hugh Robertson, Washington Star; Mr. Gilmare, Detroit News.

Subjects

  • WAR CRIMINALS/WAR CRIMES TRIALS
  • NUREMBERG (INTERNATIONAL MILITARY TRIBUNAL)
  • COURTS/COURTROOMS
  • FORESTS
  • MILITARY OFFICERS
  • MASSACRES
  • GERMANY
  • TRIALS
  • PRESS
  • PROSECUTORS
  • JOURNALISTS (AMERICAN)
  • SOVIET UNION

Places

  • Katyn Forest, Soviet Union
  • Nuremberg, Germany

Genre

  • Unedited.
  • Film
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