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  2. Barbie Trial -- Day 10 -- Two witnesses testify

    17:57 The witness, Mr. Stourdze, describes the evacuation of Auschwitz in January 1945 on foot to Gleiwitz, and then by coal train to Mauthausen and Oranienburg; the witness was then sent to Flossenburg, where there were inmates of several concentration camps; they were forced under scalding water for 20 minutes, and then made to stand outside naked in the bitter cold for three hours; the witness stayed for two weeks before being transferred again, to Regensburg, where he worked constructing a runway for a jet engine factory; Hermann Göring arrived and inspected the facility, which was ridd...

  3. Report

    Official U.S. Army inspection report of Buchenwald concentration camp, docerig the following catagories: History of the Camp, Surviving Population, Character of Surviving Population, Mission of the Camp, The "Little Camp," The "Regular Barracks," The Hospital, Medical Experiment Building, The Body Disposal Plant, and Miscellaneous with sub-catagories of Rations, Attempted Evacuation, and Tattooing.

  4. Barbie Trial -- Day 6 -- Barbie's role in the roundup of Jews

    14:50 Defense lawyer Vergès gives closing remarks. 14:52 President Cerdini suspends the hearing. 15:29 Cerdini resumes the hearing. 15:30 Cerdini delivers the court's judgment on Barbie's unwillingness to attend trial proceedings. 15:32 Prosecutor Nordmann delivers civil parties' conclusions 15:34 Cerdini delivers a statement of facts relating to the convoy of August 11, 1944, in which prisoners of the Montluc prison in Lyon were rounded up and loaded onto a 10-car train. After many stops in France and little food or water, male resistants were offloaded at Struthof, female resistants were ...

  5. Agro-Joint colony of Kadima

    The intertitles point out the modern features of the colony at Kadima. Men with crates of vegetables. LS Vegetable storehouse with roof sloping to the ground. LS Pan of long low dairy buildings and of livestock, people walking around cattle, horses at trough, CU of more cattle. MLS of horses and building.

  8. Barbie Trial -- Day 4 -- Bolivian president extradites Barbie

    17:30 Details of the naturalization of Barbie as well as funds received by Bolivian President Hernán Siles Zuazo to extradite Barbie.

  9. Laborer identification card

    Contains a German identification card issued to Uzbek laborer; dated September 25, 1943. Bi-folded; green/brown paper; printed and handwritten text; photographic portrait image of man attached.

  11. Capture of Josef Meisinger

    Josef Meisinger, the so-called Butcher of Warsaw is captured. He is dressed in civilian clothes and talks to American Air Force personnel, including MPs. 01:13:39 Lt.Col Jennis R. Galloway (left, facing the camera) and Major James W. McColl (to his right) had orders to escort Meisinger from Atsugi air base Japan to Frankfurt, Germany to await trial as a war criminal. He is escorted across an airfield and onto a plane. Lettering on the side of the plane reads: THE AIR TRANSPORT COMMAND. Some shots repeat.

  14. Barbie Trial -- Day 2 -- Crimes defined at Nuremberg; indictment of Barbie

    13:45 A clerk defines "crimes against humanity" and "crimes of war" according to the Nuremberg Tribunal. 14:19 The clerk discusses the indictment and imprisonment of Barbie.

  16. Barbie Trial -- Day 2 -- Barbie describes his life as a Nazi

    Mme Karla DeJean and Mlle Isabelle Bonne-Fonds translate as Barbie describes his family, childhood, education, marriage and career in the SS.

  18. Atrocities; liberation of concentration camps

    Propaganda compilation of graphic newsreel and documentary materials showing concentration camps as Allied cameramen entered between 1945 and 1946. Opening credits: "An AF Film Release" (Actualites Francais Films); "Sterling Films" ; "Camps of the Dead / They need no explanation, no titles. Just look and be glad you live in America." "Langestein [sic]" Langenstein: Corpses in open area, pits, doctors and other civilians, exhumation, lining bodies on soil. "Ohrdrus [sic]" Ohrdruf: Corpses, pits, VAR CUs. Two male survivors. "Dachau" Soldiers at gate with eagle. CU sign, "Zentral Bauleitung d...

  19. Barbie Trial -- Day 12 -- A witness and a civil party testify

    16:07 The next witness, Mrs. Raymonde Guyon, presents herself to the court and is sworn in; the witness describes her participation in the dissemination of clandestine Resistance newspapers during the war, while in high school and then university; her fiancé at that time met law professors who were involved in the Resistance and they both became formally involved through these professors; she describes creating false papers, with which entire families of Jews were able to escape to Switzerland, and outlines the challenges involved in writing, printing, and distributing the newspaper 'Témoig...

  20. Barbie Trial -- Day 4 -- Political activities in Bolivia

    13:39 President Cerdini asks for the accused, who refuses to appear at the trial, to be introduced. 14:57 The witness Gustavo Sanchez discusses the political situation in Bolivia from 1951 to 1969. 15:03 Sanchez tells of the collaboration between Barbie and Bolivian President General René Barrientos. 15:09 Sanchez discusses the shipping company founded by Barbie.