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  1. March of Time -- outtakes -- Karl H. Frank: trial; execution by hanging

    LS courtroom during trial of Karl H. Frank. Shots of judges entering; spectators. Frank wearing headphones, listening to testimony. Frank stands before judges. Judge reads sentence. Frank listens. Various shots in courtroom. LS prison wherein Frank is held. LS gallows being erected; men work on construction of gallows. Crowds in prison courtyard to witness execution of Frank. MS newsreel camera on raised platform; newsreel men stand on top of car. LS crowd. LS Frank escorted by guards out of prison. Official reads pronouncement in Frank's presence. Crowd listening. MS three executioners on ...

  2. March of Time -- outtakes -- Drancy, France; Repatriation

    1252 K (07:01:12-07:04:00): Concentration Camp for Collaborationists, Drancy, France. LS entire courtyard. Traveling shots of people walking about in the courtyard. Shots taken from an auto. LS and MS people standing about. Shot looking up of girls leaning out of windows. Collaborationists filing through doorway escorted by ?? man. 1252 O (07:04:02-07:12:34): Repatriation of French War Prisoners and Civilians, Paris, France. French war prisoners wait on airfield. CU prisoner sitting at side of small tricolor. Close shots of prisoners waiting for planes; march toward planes and board some. C...

  3. March of Time -- outtakes -- Atrocities at Ohrdruf; Trial

    07:12:43-07:16:04 Atrocities at Ohrdruf, Germany. MS of civilians, and captured Nazi officials get off truck. CU German officer with a Red Cross armband on his sleeve near jeep. Pan shot of same officer joining other German civilians and officials outside slave labor camp. LS Germans tour camp, looking at bodies of dead inmates lying on ground. Germans listen as American officer reads atrocity story to them. CU officer reading. Closer shots of dead bodies. German official shakes head. American officer urges them enter shed containing other bodies. German officer with cross armband tries to ...

  4. March of Time -- outtakes -- Warsaw after liberation

    LS crossroads of main streets (Sikorski and Marszchalkowska streets) in Warsaw. In BG, wrecked buldings. MS policeman ruling traffic. Polish carts carrying bricks for rebuilding the city pass. In BG famous Poniatowski bridge. Same crossroads. In BG, temporary shops built since liberation. Female policeman directing traffic. A lorry carrying children towards devastated quarter of Warsaw. Cabs and lorries wait to cross pontoon-bridge on Vistula River. In FG, one of destroyed bridges. Cross bridge, side by side with pedestrians. LS sign in Polish: "The first Regiment of Pontooners to the popul...

  5. March of Time -- outtakes -- Clearing ruins/rubble of Warsaw

    LS ruins of Warsaw. In FG, Polish cart. German prisoners of war clearing the ruins of the Ghetto. German prisoners of war working on future tram line which will cross the ex-Ghetto as a prolongation of the main street of Warsaw. A detachment of the garrison of Warsaw marching among ruined houses with shovels on their shoulders. In FG, civilians working among rubbish. Soldiers marching and singing. Soldiers loading lorries with rubble. LS at sunset, ruins of highest concrete building in Warsaw. Men and women clearing the ruins of Warsaw.

  6. March of Time -- outtakes -- Clearing ruins/rubble of Warsaw

    Men demolishing parts of wrecked walls, still standing on Place Napoleon. LS and CU insert, sign with name of the future avenue dedicated "To the heroes of the Ghetto." A monument has been erected to their memory. LS the same surrounded by ruins. Men and women working on tram line crossing Ghetto. Old woman working on top of a heap of bricks. In FG wrecked buildings of Warsaw. LS German prisoners of war cleaning a street of the ghetto. LS ruins of the ghetto. Wrecked wall still standing draws a cross in the sky. Cement cross emerging out of a heap of bricks. Cart loaded with rubbish passing...

  7. Jewish refugees

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 17, No. 224. Release date, 04/08/1944. Montreal, Quebec, Canada. At railroad station, refugees getting off train, walking towards camera. Sign: "Canada... You." Welcomed by friends; getting into friends' cars; CU Jews getting into car, child, woman, man; CU baby in mother's arms.

  8. FDR; bombing of German cities; atrocities

    Part 1: scenes at St. Paul's Cathedral and at Notre Dame Cathedral where services are held honoring President Roosevelt at his death. Personages in London: Ambassador Winant, Adm. Stark, King Haakon VII, King Peter II, Queen Wilhelmina and Princess Juliana, King George VI, Queen Elizabeth, and Princess Elizabeth. In France: Ambassador Caffery and Gen. de Gaulle. Part 2: Hamburg, Essen, and other German cities are bombed. Part 3: 3rd Infantry division fights in Bromberg, and citizens of Frankfurt am Main come out of hiding. Part 4: investigation of atrocities at former German prison camps. G...

  9. British MPs investigate atrocities

    Part 3: British MPs Investigate Atrocities (06:40:03-06:43:12) Shows bodies of persons killed in German concentration camps and devices used for killing and torture. Camp officials are arrested. Shows the bodies of the mayor of Leipzig and his family who took poison to avoid arrest. Unrelated footage: Part 1: Allied Drives Split Germany; Part 2: Army Day in Coblenz

  10. Liberated POWs; atrocities; Berchtesgaden; troops

    Part 1: elements of the 5th and 8th Armies occupy Bologna, Italy. Gen. Mark Clark receives the German surrender. Part 2: French prisoners in Germany are liberated and return home. Part 3: Congressmen visit German prison camps and view evidences of atrocities. Part 4: Berchtesgaden is bombed. Joseph Goebbel's brother is shot as a spy. German prisoners. Russian and US troops meet at the Elbe. Shows Gen. Reinhardt.

  11. 20,000 Flay the Nazis

    Universal Newsreel, Vol. 10, No. 722, Part 2. Release date, 11/21/1938. Anti-Nazi speech (indoors) at Madison Square Garden, NYC. Shots of speakers at podium. CU, Dr. Harry F. Ward of Union Theological Seminary speaking. Wide shots of crowd; crowd cheering. Newsreel footage also includes the following parts: 02:00:54 Worldwide News Events 02:00:59 Port Washington, NY "New Amphibian Plane Tested" 02:01:35 London, England "Girls Train for War Duty" 02:02:49 "Xmas Tree Land" 02:03:32 London, England "Ancient Bike Stars at Show" 02:04:07 Cleveland, Ohio "New Stein-Carrying Mark Set"

  12. Taylor reads indictment at Medical trial; defendants

    (Munich 479) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 1 (Medical Case), Nuremberg, Germany. MLS, General Telford Taylor, in speaking of Rostock, Rose, Handloser, and Schroeder, states that they held eminent positions in international medicine. Backgrounds of some defendants given. Taylor reads indictment of Brandt, Handloser, Rostock, Schroeder, Rose, Romberg, Backer-Freysing, and Weltz, who speak to their lawyers during recess. Shot of Herta Oberhauser leaving courtroom. Taylor addressing the court. CU, board showing relations between government and defendants. CU of General ...

  13. Freezing experiments presented at Medical trial

    (Munich 480) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 1 (Medical Case), Nuremberg, Germany. MLS Prosecutor Alexander Hardy speaking of the freezing experiment reports. MLS, Hardy reads a letter from Sigmund Rascher who writes of his work and asks for captured Russians to be used for freezing experiments. MS, defendants in dock.

  14. Indictment of Milch at his trial; high presusure experiments

    (Munich 486) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 2 (Milch Case), Nuremberg, Germany, December 17, 1946. LS members of the tribunal enter. President states that the prosecutor may begin reading the indictment. MCU, defendant Gen. Erhard Milch. Unidentified prosecutor reading part of indictment which refers to Milch. Pan of Tribunal. Voice of prosecutor is heard speaking of the deaths of concentration camp victims in the high pressure experiments. Gen. Milch pleads not guilty. CU of Taylor and unidentified civilians.

  15. Lutz questioned at Medical trial

    (Munich 479) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 1 (Medical Case), Nuremberg, Germany. Prosecutor Alexander Hardy reads a letter from the Waffen SS to the Luftwafffe asking that Dr. Rascher be transferred to the SS. 02:14:40 Prosecutor James McHaney asks that Wolfang Lutz be called to the stand. Lutz is sworn in. McHaney questions Lutz about his medical career. Camera remains on defendants and lawyers as Lutz is examined. MS, three judges on bench.

  16. Judgment and sentencing at Medical trial

    (Munich 619) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 1 (Medical Case), Judgment and Sentencing, Nuremberg, Germany. The voice of Justice Walter Beals is heard reading the judgment. Cut-ins, defendants sitting in box as voice of Judge Beals gives summary as to why the defendants were tried and convicted. MLS, Judge Crawford reading judgment. Note: Siegfried Ruff, Weltz, Rostock, Blome, Romberg, Schaefer, and Pokorny were found not guilty.

  17. Gebhardt testifies at Medical trial

    (Munich 529) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 1 (Medical Case), Nuremberg, Germany. MS, defendant Karl Gebhardt testifies from witness stand. His counsel, Seidl Ratz, occasionally puts a question to the witness.

  18. Taylor speaks of experiments and rules of war at Medical trial

    (Munich 464) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 1 (Medical Case), Nuremberg, Germany. LS, Taylor tells of concentration camp victims being injected with epidemic jaundice and being used for sterilization experiments. Numerous healthy victims were injected with spotted fever virus. Experiments in cholera, typhus, and other infectious diseases were also conducted. Experimental patients were shot poisoned bullets. General Taylor accuses the defendants of violating the rules of war, the rules of the Geneva convention pertaining to prisoners of war.

  19. Taylor reads indictment during Medical trial; Gebhardt's background

    (Munich 529) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 1 (Medical Case), Nuremberg, Germany. Defendants file into docks. Taylor reads indictment. CU charts offered in evidence, as voice of Taylor is heard. Pan, defense cousel. Cut-ins, defendants listen to the address over headphones. (Munich 479) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 1 (Medical Case), Nuremberg, Germany. CU, Karl Gebhardt takes notes. Prosecutor James McHaney speaks of Karl Gebhardt. As camera remains on Gebhardt voice of prosecutor is heard giving details of defendant's background. Judges lis...

  20. Rostock interrogated at Medical trial

    (Munich 529) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 1 (Medical Case), Nuremberg, Germany. LS, MS, defendant Paul Rostock is interrogated by the prosecutor James McHaney.