Nuremberg Trial proceedings; postwar destruction; Nazi party history & atrocities
Creator(s)
- Pare Lorentz (Compiler)
- Stuart Schulberg (Compiler)
- The Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research
Scope and Content
Summary: This is a documentary about the war crimes trial administered by the International Military Court of Justice in Nuremberg against the main Nazi war criminals from November 14, 1945 to October 1, 1946. The film documents footage of the trial from the prosecutor's opening to the verdict. The dramaturgy includes a chronological account of the founding of the National Socialist state, the unleashing of the world war, and the Nazi crimes against humanity and is accompanied with historical footage. This material is occasionally only used for illustration and does not necessarily portray the facts being commented upon. The film is also called "Nuremberg." For a more detailed description of each reel, refer to catalog records for USHMM Film IDs 67, 2388, and 2749 to 2758. This version includes the extra shot of nurses and Mogilev gassing.
Note(s)
There are no burn-in time codes on the VHS. See departmental files for English language transcript of film narration for Reels 1, 2, 7, and 8. See Stories 2413-2417, Film ID 67 and Stories 3007-3008, Film ID 2388 and Story 4326, Film ID 2794 and Film IDs 2749-2758 for additional reels of this film. Bergen-Belsen sequence in this version runs c. 56 seconds, whereas in the Headen/German version and NARA version the sequence runs 60 seconds.
Details from Dr. Albert Widmann's 1967 trial in Stuttgart include his personal description of actions corresponding to the scene of gassing by vehicle exhaust, in the company of Arthur Nebe, and the presence of one male Soviet doctor and two female Soviet doctors (in German-occupied territory in the vicinity of Mogilev, Belarus, in mid-September 1941). Widmann also mentions the presence of a "Polizeigeneral" and several SS officers of varying ranks. See "Archives of the Holocaust: An International Collection of Selected Documents" Vol.22, edited by Henry Friedlander and Sybil Milton.
Subjects
- ATROCITIES
- LAHOUSEN, ERWIN
- GAS (POISON)
- RUDENKO, ROMAN A.
- POSTWAR
- NAZI OFFICIALS
- GOERING, HERMANN
- CORPSES
- HITLER, ADOLF
- NAZI SEIZURE OF POWER
- JACKSON, ROBERT
- DESTRUCTION
- WAR CRIMINALS/WAR CRIMES TRIALS
- MEDICAL PERSONNEL
- GAS VANS
- NAZI PARTY
- NUREMBERG (INTERNATIONAL MILITARY TRIBUNAL)
Places
- Nuremberg, Germany
Genre
- Documentary.
- Film