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  1. Interview of prisoners, Dachau

    (LIB 6561) Interview of Prisoners, Dachau, Germany, May 5, 1945. MSs, CUs off-screen voice interviews Mr. Demagala of Poland. Mr. Demagala explains how the prisoners were used for medical experiments by German doctors. MSs Father Michalowsky, a Polish priest, tells his experiences as a prisoner of the Nazis, as does another Polish prisoner. MSs, CUs Mr. Cirkowietz, a German medic who worked in the malaria section of the camp, relates his experiences. MSs Dr. Hassarek of Czechoslovakia tells how he was hung by his wrists. (All prisoners speak in German).

  2. War Crimes Trials: Malmedy

    (Munich 167) Malmedy War Crimes Trials, Dachau, Germany, May 24, 1946. First witness for the prosecution, US Army Lt Wiiliam R Pearl, interrogator for the War Crimes Branch, identifies Gen Joseph Sepp Dietrich. Pearl tells about his interview with Dietrich who told him how he was kicked in the back by a Polish guard. Pan, map of the Malmedy campaign as Lt. Col. Barton J. Ellis, Chief Prosecutor, tells of the killing of American and Allied prisoners by men of the SS Panzer Regiment. Pan, approx 75 prisoners in dock as Ellis reads the charges. CU, Col. Ellis reading charges.

  3. Arnstadt and Nordhausen concentration camps

    Arnstadt and Nordhausen after Allied soldiers arrive. General shots of corpses and survivors. Survivors receive aid. Some well-known shots of survivors as they board IRC van. (LIB 5566) Arnstadt Horrors, Arnstadt, Germany, April 14, 1945. EXT, Sequence- German civilians disinter bodies of concentration camp victims. CU, a cadaver with a damaged skull. LSs, CUs, dog kennel for watchdog. Pan from camp gate to tents used to house 1700 prisoners. LSs to MSs, corpses lying outside of grave from which they have just been exhumed. LSs to MSs, bodies laid out on ground are viewed by several US sold...

  4. War Crimes Commission: Leipzig and Penig Concentration Camps

    Foreword: "This is an official document made by U.S. military photographers as they advanced into Germany," etc. Two exhibited affidavits attesting to the authenticity of scenes in the film are shown, one signed by Lt Col George E. Stevens and the other by Capt John Ford. A map shows the location of concentration camps in Germany and Europe. "Leipzig Concentration Camp" MLS, empty field, barbed wire, remaining foundation of burnt out building. Three men stand near bloody and burnt corpse. CUs, piles of burnt bodies by barbed wire. At the Leipzig camp more than 200 were burned alive in a bui...

  5. War Crimes Trials: Medical Case - Taylor explains medical experiments in indictment

    (Munich 479) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 1 (Medical Case), Nuremberg, Germany. Brig. General Telford Taylor continues the reading of the indictment and tells of the torture and death of concentration camp inmates during the so-called "scientific experiments." HS, MS defendants in the prisoners' dock. Pan of the courtroom from defendant to Gen. Taylor reading the indictment. 04:11:06 "The victims who did not die in the course of such experiments, surely wished that they had. A long report written in July 1942 by Rascher, and by the defendants Ruff and Romberg, desc...

  6. Dachau Concentration Camp

    (LIB 6519) Dachau Concentration Camp, Germany, May 1-4, 1945. CUs, dead bodies in railroad cars. MS, huge pile of discarded prison uniforms. CUs, prisoners unloading bodies from wagons in front of cemetery. Large group of prisoners is sprayed with DDT powder. MS, prisoners in courtyard waving from behind barbed wire fence. In FG can be seen dead German guards. VS, prisoners parading in camp, carrying flags of various nations and pictures of Stalin and Tito. CUs, prisoners quarreling and fighting for food container (seems staged). MS, CUs large pile of bodies in front of building. CUs, sick,...

  7. War Crimes Trials: Malmedy

    (Munich 164) Malmedy War Crimes Trials, Dachau, Germany, May 16, 1946. LS, court in session as member of the Commission calls defendants for recital of their names and background. Gen Sepp Dietrich is called and he gives his name and age. MS, Dietrich answers questions of the Commission. Defendants Fritz Kramer, PJ Ochmann, Joachim Peiper, Hermann Priess, and Wolfgang Richter rise as they are called. They give their names, former rank and age, and are assigned numbers. CU, Brig Gen Josiah T. Dalbey calls out names of the accused. MCU, court interpreter, US soldier, speaking.

  8. War Crimes Trials: Malmedy

    (Munich 164) Malmedy War Crimes Trials, Dachau, Germany, May 16, 1946. LS, courtroom, a prosecutor reads indictment. LS, prisoners filing into courtroom and taking their seats. Members of the Tribunal take their places. MLS, four unidentified judges at bench. Brig Gen Josiah T. Dalbey reading part of the indictment. Capt Benjamin N Narvid, defense counselor, speaking to the court, prisoners in BG. Pan, LS, spectators and prisoners take their seats. LSs, Court personnel and spectators rise as judges enter. LS, prosecution starts its case. Defendants in prisoners' dock.

  9. War Crimes Trials: Malmedy; Welt im Film: trade unions & children learning English

    05:01:12 (Munich 167) Malmedy War Crimes Trials, Dachau, Germany, May 24, 1946. MS, defense counselor talks to the court about the "Bill of Particulars." VS, prosecutor quotes in part Hitler's order to his commanders to disregard Geneva rules as to the treatment of Allied prisoners in the coming "Battle of the Bulge." He goes on to tell how the "German soldiers sang the Sword and Blood song thus releasing them from any regulation as to the treatment of prisoners." 05:05:36 (M-2139) Welt im Film, "Hamburg: Gewerkschaften im Aufbau" [Trade Unions in Hamburg, Germany], July 1946. At outdoor ce...

  10. War Crimes Trials: Malmedy

    (Munich 174) Malmedy War Crimes Trials, Dachau, Germany, May 20, 1946. Former Lt. Virgil P. Lary, Jr. takes the stand and tells how his unit was captured and how many of the US soldiers were massacred. CU, Lt. Col. Barton J. Ellis, Chief Prosecutor, questioning Lary. MCU, Col. Ellis. MS, Lary demonstrates how the first two shots were fired by one of the defendants and walks to prisoner's dock and points out George Fleps (No. 14) as the man who killed the American prisoner.

  11. War Crimes Trials: Malmedy

    (Munich 250) Malmedy War Crimes Trials, June 21, 1946. MCU, Lt. Col. Ellis interrogating witness Joachim Peiper (#42). Col. Ellis hands Peiper document and asks if the signature is his. Peiper answers in the affirmative. Peiper answers Col Ellis's questions concerning PWS.

  12. War Crimes Trials: Malmedy

    (Munich 176) Malmedy War Crimes Trials, Dachau, Germany, May 21, 1946. Kenneth E. Kingston, former American officer, tells how he and his unit surrendered and how some of the soldiers were massacred. Kingston is questioned by Lt. Robert E. Byrne, US prosecutor. K. Ahrens, another former soldier, testifying about his surrender and how US soldiers were killed. Pointer on map indicates the route which Ahrens' unit followed. MS, Capt Ralph Shumacker, prosecution counselor, questions Ahrens.

  13. War Crimes Trials: Malmedy

    (Munich 258) Malmedy War Crimes Trials, Dachau, Germany, June 27, 1946. SEQ: Capt. Raphael Schumacher conducting the cross-examination of Franz Sievers (#59). Sievers explaining the circumstances under which his statement was written. MLS, Capt. Schumacher reading statement. CU, Sievers speaking.

  14. Judge Brand & T. Taylor open Krupp case; defendants

    War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 10 (Krupp Case), Nuremberg, Germany, December 8, 1947. Profile shot of presiding judge James T. Brand opening the Krupp case. LS, defendants in dock. Alfred Krupp von Bohlen und Halback is on the far left followed by Loeser, Houdremont, Mueller, Janssen, Pfirsch, Ihn, and Everhardt. MS, Gen Telford Taylor, chief prosecutor, making the opening statement telling on what counts the defendants are guilty. Taylor gives a brief history of the Krupp concern and a resume of the Krupp family until the outbreak of WWI.

  15. War Crimes Trials: Einsatzgruppen Case

    (Munich 638) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 9 (Einsatzgruppen Case). US assistant prosecutor John Glancy reading prosecution's opening statement and discussing the evidence against the four units of the Einsatzgruppen. He specifically addresses the crimes of Adolf Ott (Commander of Sonderkommando 7b of Einsatzgruppe B), Waldemar Klingelhoefer (Leader of Vorkommando Moscow of Einsatzgruppe B), and Franz Six (Leader of Vorkommando Moscow of Einsatzgruppe B). Einsatzgruppe C killed 80,000 people. Glancy specifically refers to the crimes of Erwin Schulz (Leader of Einsat...

  16. War Crimes Trials: I.G. Farben Case

    Otto Ohlendorf testifying, most likely in Munich. Ohlendorf talks about his work in the SD-Inland and his role as leader of Einsatzgruppe D. Brief shot of Telford Taylor. This is likely footage of Case 6, the I.G. Farben Case.

  17. War Crimes Trials: Einsatzgruppen Case

    07:19:44 No date. MS, defendants in prisoner's dock. Last statements in case. Unknown attorney speaking about admitting film footage captured at Krupp Works and brought back to Germany from England by Bernard Fall, a member of the prosecution, into evidence. This is NOT the Einsatzgruppen trial. 07:21:47 (Munich 673) War Crimes Trials, Case 9 (Einsatzgruppen Case), 14 February 1948. MS dock and defendants talking. Shot of Ohlendorf. LS, Tribunal. CU, Judge Michael A. Musmanno addressing the court about the procedure of presenting evidence and closing arguments. Brig. Gen. Telford Taylor, He...

  18. War Crimes Trials: Einsatzgruppen Case

    (Munich 673) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 9 (Einsatzgruppen Case). Chief of the OCCWC, Telford Taylor, sums up the prosecution's case against former members of Einsatzgruppen. Presiding Judge Michael Musmanno instructs defense counsel that they may reply to the summation. Recess called. Ohlendorf, as the number one defendant, reads his final plea into the record seeking to justify his behavior. Bureaucratic language. At the end, brings in God, human error, split between East and West. 08:06:40 to 08:11:36

  19. War Crimes Trials: Medical Case

    (Munich 619 and 620) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 1 (Medical Case), Judgment and Sentencing, Nuremberg, Germany. MHSs, defendants enter the dock. Camera remains on defendants presiding judge hands down the following sentences: Wilhelm Beiglboeck, fifteen years imprisonment Herta Oberhauser, twenty years imprisonment Fritz Fischer, life imprisonment Hermann Becker-Freyseng, twenty years imprisonment (Reel is silent from here on) LS, MSs, Tribunal as sentences are read. Cut-ins, defendant Waldemar Hoven (death sentence). LS, counsel tables. CU, Judge Walter B. Beals ...

  20. US airlift; German law; Attlee; Pres. Morrison; Marshall Plan; Wilhelmstrasse Trial (Ministries Case)

    World in Film issue no. 205: 08:11:54 "10,000 Tonnen in 24 Stunden: Der Rekordtag der Luftbruecke" 10,000 tons a day, Record for Airbridge. US airlift 08:13:00 "Frankfurt: Einigung ueber das Grundgesetz" Agreement on German Basic Law. World in Film issue no. 198: 08:14:02 "Attlee in Berlin" World in Film issue no. 204: 08:16:04 "Lord Praesident Morrison in Deutschland" Lord President Morrison in Germany. Dr Reuter and Gen Robertson and others in BG. MS, Morrison signing the Golden Book of the city of Berlin. Sequence: Morrison and party watching steel processing in Ruhr plant. 08:17:19 "Ein...