Twentieth Century Fox version, Reel 2: Triumph of the Will excerpts; rearmament; Nuremberg Laws
Creator(s)
- E. R. Kellogg (Producer)
- 20th Century Fox (Producer)
- James B. Donovan (Compiler)
- United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
- E. R. Kellogg (Director)
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
Reel 2 of the English language version of "The Nazi Plan" produced by Twentieth Century Fox with new graphics. Nighttime rally. Ernst Roehm (?) speaks at a podium. SA members sing. Hitler, Goebbels, and Baldur von Schirach at a huge gathering of Hitler Youth. Young boys play drums, wave at Hitler. Von Schirach introduces Hitler, who makes a speech. Only part of the speech is translated. Title: Sixth Party Congress presented in excerpts from the official German film "Triumph of the Will" 4 - 10 September 1934. Excerpts from speeches of Hess, Rosenberg, Dietrich, Streicher, Ley, Frank, Goebbels, Hierl. Hitler makes two speeches to participants in the rally. Long sequence of Hitler reviewing parades of SA, SS, others. Heinrich Himmler, Christian Wirth are present. Hitler speaks again at the closing of the Parteitag. 01:53:38 Title: Part 3 Preparation for Wars of Aggression 1935 - 1939. Next title: Von Schirach urges Hitler Youth to follow principles of "Mein Kampf". Von Schirach speaks to nighttime gathering of Hitler Youth, shot from above. They sing "Heute gehoert uns Deutschland und Morgen die ganze Welt." Title: Goering announces rearmament of Germany March 1935. Goering speaks over images of Hitler reviewing troops, tanks on a field, marching soldiers, airplanes. Title: Seventh Party Congress. Hitler demands Memel and "pleads for enactment of laws to be read by the president of the Reichstag." Goering announces Nuremberg Laws.
Note(s)
Some of the sequences in the English version have been edited down. Credits: Legal Supervision by James B. Donovan, Commander U.S.N.R. Search teams commanded by Budd Schulberg, Lieutenant U.S.N.R. Film Editors: Robert Webb, Robert Parrish, and John McCafferty. There is also a thank you to Col. Darryl F. Zanuck for making the adapted English version possible.
The German version of "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
- HIMMLER, HEINRICH
- STREICHER, JULIUS
- MARCHING
- SCHIRACH, BALDUR VON
- LEY, ROBERT
- ROSENBERG, ALFRED
- SS (SCHUTZSTAFFEL)
- NUREMBERG LAWS
- ROEHM, ERNST
- SOLDIERS/MILITARY (GERMAN)
- GOEBBELS, JOSEPH
- SPEECHES
- HITLER YOUTH
- HITLER, ADOLF
- GOERING, HERMANN
- SA (STURMABTEILUNG)
- SOLDIERS/MILITARY
- TANKS
- HIERL, KONSTANTIN
- HESS, RUDOLF
- DIETRICH, OTTO
- RALLIES
- SINGING
- WIRTH, CHRISTIAN
- FRANK, HANS
- AIRPLANES
- RALLIES (NAZI)
Places
- Nuremberg, Germany
- , Germany
Genre
- Documentary.
- Film