Nazi Plan: 4-hour American film about the Nazi Party shown at Nuremberg Trials
Creator(s)
- James B. Donovan (Compiler)
- E. R. Kellogg (Director)
- International Court of Justice
- Mémorial de la Shoah, Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine
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
"The Nazi Plan" was shown as evidence at the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg on December 11, 1945. It covers the activities and policies of the Nazi Party in Germany from 1921 to 1944, particularly as reflected in the speeches of Adolf Hitler and the pageantry associated with the Party. The four-hour film 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. The film consists of four parts: Part I: The rise of the NSDAP, 1921-1933 Part II: Acquiring totalitarian control of Germany, 1933-1935 Part III: Preparation for wars of aggression, 1935-1939 Part IV: Wars of aggression, 1939-1944
Note(s)
Refer to Film IDs 63, 64, 65, and 66 among others for various versions of this film from NARA.
Subjects
- PRESS
- GERMANY
- HITLER, ADOLF
- PROPAGANDA
- NAZI PARTY
- SPEECHES
- NAZI OFFICIALS
- GOEBBELS, JOSEPH
- USHMM (PERMANENT EXHIBITION)
Places
- , Sudetenland
- Prague, Czechoslovakia
- , Germany
- Munich, Germany
- Nuremberg, Germany
- Berlin, Germany
- , Austria
- Vienna, Austria
- Memel, Lithuania
Genre
- Documentary.
- Film