War Crimes Trial: Dostler testifies
Creator(s)
- United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
- United States Army Signal Corps (Producer)
- Knechtel (Camera Operator)
Scope and Content
LT GEN ANTON DOSTLER, GERMAN WAR CRIMINAL TRIAL, Palace of Justice, Rome, Italy. Gen. Dostler testifies through his interpreter about checking higher command to determing if these American soldiers came under the Fuehrerbefehl order. In learning that they did, and that he was ordered to have the men shot, he instructed his chief of staff to carry out the order.
Subjects
- SOLDIERS/MILITARY (GERMAN)
- POWS (AMERICAN)
- DOSTLER, ANTON
- COURTS/COURTROOMS
- WAR CRIMINALS/WAR CRIMES TRIALS
- SHOOTINGS
Places
- Rome, Italy
Genre
- Unedited.
- Film