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  1. Eichmann Trial -- Session 113 -- Prosecution continues summing up

    Session 113. Near-empty courtroom. Eichmann and Dr. Servatius attempt to talk over the private microphone line. Eichmann motions that it's not necessary. 00:05:43 Judges enter. They open Session 113. The Attorney General Hausner submits translated copies of his summing up. 00:08:54 Hausner says that he will say a few words regarding the proof as presented in the testimonies of the witnesses as well as various documents already discussed. Questions of the honesty of the witnesses, as well as the possibility of corroboration, are raised by the Judges. Hausner answers these in turn. 00:19:44 H...

  2. Eichmann Trial -- Session 114 -- Closing statement of the Defense

    Session 114. Servatius addresses each of the accounts upon which Eichmann is indicted and explains why, in his view, Eichmann is not guilty. This tape begins with Count 8. Servatius states that it must be rejected because it would be retroactive prosecution. 00:03:23 Dr. Servatius addresses Count 7, saying that the theft of property is not a crime against humanity in any of the definitions given by other courts. He then says that Eichmann did not enrich himself with any of this property, and thus would be innocent of the international agreement concerning theft of property established after...

  3. Eichmann Trial -- Session 114 -- Closing statement of the Defense

    Session 114. Eichmann's empty booth. Eventually he enters and sits down. 00:10:13 Judges enter. The Judges open Session 114. Attorney General Hausner says that he has prepared a list of precedents mentioned in his closing statement. Dr. Servatius then submits the written copy of his closing statement. Dr. Servatius says that the accusations of Hausner, if true, would be worthy of a monument to Jew-haters, saying that Eichmann was some superman able to commit all of these atrocities. Instead, he says, it was the top brass that decided that Eichmann would be the scapegoat for their actions. 0...

  4. Eichmann Trial -- Session 114 -- Closing statement of the Defense

    Session 114. Dr. Servatius speaking in German. 00:01:04 Tape is interrupted, time code resets. 00:00:27 Tape begins again in the same place. 00:01:11 Tape is interrupted, and restarts with Counts 1-4. Servatius addresses Count 4, preventing the births of Jews. He says that this implicates Eichmann in the actual sterilization of people, when he had no knowledge of these activities (duplicate footage from Tape 2231). Servatius raises evidence that shows that Eichmann did not give the orders for gassing, and that nothing shows that he gave the order for sterilizations. 00:08:49 Count 3, the bo...

  5. Eichmann Trial -- Session 114 -- Closing statement of the Defense

    Session 114. The Judges say they are ready to hear the summing up by the Defense. Dr. Servatius says that the accusations of the Attorney General Hausner, if true, would be worthy of a monument to Jew-haters, saying that Eichmann was some superman able to commit all of these atrocities. Instead, he says, it was the top brass that decided that Eichmann would be the scapegoat for their actions (duplicate footage from Tape 2232). 00:04:18 Tape jumps, and the Judges enter the courtroom and tell Dr. Servatius to continue his summing up. Servatius comes to the main count of the case, the charge o...

  6. Eichmann Trial -- Session 114 -- Courtroom and closing statement of the Defense

    Session 114. Dr. Servatius sits. The Judges are not in the courtroom. 00:05:19 Judges enter and tell Dr. Servatius to continue. 00:06:03 Tape jumps. Dr. Servatius talks about the skeletons that Eichmann gave, saying that the entire request is peculiar. He refutes the accusations of Einsatzgruppen shootings with affidavits, as well as the cooperation of Eichmann with the Einsatzgruppen in the Baltics and the Soviet Union. 00:11:03 Dr. Servatius admits that Eichmann was in charge of deportations and relocations of Jews, but had no idea that death was the fate of these Jews. They were shot by ...

  7. Eichmann Trial -- Session 114 -- Closing statement of the Defense

    Session 114. The courtroom is empty, and people mill about. 00:05:26 Judges enter, telling Dr. Servatius to continue. He speaks in German, the tape is interrupted before it is translated. 00:08:06 Tape jumps, Servatius says that Geshke and Winkelmann had precedence over Eichmann where relevant. Servatius says that the SS orders were meant to be followed, regardless of Eichmann's orders. 00:10:29 Tape is interrupted by a slate. The implementation of the extermination is questioned. Servatius says that orders did not arrive through Eichmann's office, and any complaints, if there were any, wen...

  8. Eichmann Trial -- Session 114 -- Closing statement of the Defense

    Session 114. Dr. Servatius says that Eichmann did not have a position that would allow him to become part of the higher order of leadership. He says that the Prosecution has attempted to make him a key figure in the execution when he is not. The accusations of making decisions about the extermination are then challenged, saying that he only saw orders that were nearly completely decided. The charges of conspiracy must be dropped on this evidence, he says. 00:11:09 Servatius says that the implementation of the deportations was left to Eichmann, but all of his underlings, as well as the Gesta...

  9. Eichmann Trial -- Session 114 -- Servatius's closing statement and end of trial

    Session 114. Dr. Servatius talks about the Israeli law concerning Nazis and their collaborators. 00:03:01 Retroactivity of law is discussed. He accuses the London Statute of being created, tailor-made, to condemn the defeated Nazis, and as such, should not apply. 00:06:44 Tape jumps. The President of Court is handed a paper, he looks at it, then thanks Dr. Servatius. Attorney General Hausner is granted time to make a statement considering the written material. He asks for a few days to form his argument. Last minute documents concerning the summing ups of both sides are handed in to the cou...

  10. Ice skating in Berlin

    MLS & LS of people ice skating in Friedrichsheim Park, Berlin.

  11. Soviet soldiers captured in Finland

    Dead bodies (Soviets) in the snow. Bundled up Soviet prisoners/soldiers coming out of forest. The narration states that the Soviets have given up their resistance. Close ups of Soviets' faces, including a man with Asian features, who is eating something. One of the men's face is blackened, perhaps by frostbite?

  12. German soldiers in USSR

    German scouts surround and investigate a farm which is found to be abandoned. Riflemen aim at the house while others investigate. Snow on the ground.

  13. German soldiers in mud, Eastern Front, Russia

    German soldiers unhitch horse from wagon, take wagon. Looting? Soldiers, horses, wagons struggling on muddy road. Soldier whips a horse, wheels get stuck, horses fall over. Mud.

  14. German officers roundup hospital staff and patients

    German officers gather hospital staff and patients outside hospital. MCU, all standing around, emotionless mood. Some wounded men. Germans interrogate one man.

  15. German town; market, airstrip, BDM

    WS, two men in field. Market. Woman with pigs. Plowing/farming scenes. HAS market. Farming. CU, soldier guarding building. Soldiers marching, parade. Fighting sequences at Army Day celebration. Train passing castle in FG in Eisenach. EXT, building with clock and sign, "Haupteingang." Street scenes. CUs, INT, men at work in Leica factory in Wetzlar. River with barge passing. Freight train, long, sustained, round curve near the Rhine River. Farming on mountainside, picking grapes. Several BDM girls throw javelins, do calisthenics in yard at Zinnowaldschule in Berlin. School/camp behind girls....

  16. Newsreel clips: Einstein speech; Emigration; Jewish refugees in England and Australia; Palestine

    An assembled reel of news clips from Chronos, including: (1) Albert Einstein speech in English. (2) Arrivals and departures. Jews in the Palastinamt [Palestine Office] in Berlin, applying for emigration (see Photo Archives worksheet 64121 for still of this scene). (3) 01:06:59 HAS, refugees, journey by boat, CUs. (4) 01:07:15 Newsreel "Britain receives more of Hitler's refugees" Children. (5) 01:07:43 "Jewish refugee children" [Movietonews] shows Kindertransport arriving in England. (6) St. Louis ship (7) 01:08:27 "Jewish refugees reach Sydney" [Movietonews] Jews arrive on the ship SS Aoran...

  17. German trials of resisters during the WWII

    05:12:14 Paris, April 1942: A trial of members of the French resistance movement by the German military court. The 23 accused were executed on April 17 and 18, 1942. CUs of bombs and weapons. CU of Andre Kirschen, the son of Romanian Jews, who was not sentenced to death because of a German Military Law that prohibited execution at his young age (15 years old). 05:13:30 Simone Schloss (Jew) beheaded in Cologne on July 2, 1942. 05:13:57 (sound in German) Berlin 1944: People's court trial of the plotters of the Hitler assassination attempt, held in the Supreme Court of Berlin, under Judge Frei...

  18. Deportations, various locations; Himmler near Minsk

    05:15:34 Title: DEPORTATION 05:15:39 Balti, Romania. Deportation of Bessarabian Jews guarded by a few Romanian soldiers. Low shot as they pass over wooden footbridge. Medium close shots of people on the move, with bundles, children, etc. Long line curving into the distance, open field. 05:16:16 Unnidentified location: shot surreptitously from interior, through window. Woman shoved by German. 05:16:31 German deportees arrive in Warsaw Ghetto, "Aufnahmelager", 05:17:05 People gathered at the Killesberg assembly point in Stuttgart railroad station in 1943. They will be deported to Riga. 05:17:...

  19. Liberation scenes

    05:17:59 Title: LIBERATION Allied camera teams from Russia, Britain, and the US filmed the liberation of the camps from 1944-1945. 05:18:04 Various camps. Bones. Passports, scissors, shoes, eyeglasses, zyklon B canisters. 05:19:06 Majdanek. 05:19:32 Mauthausen: Corpses on ground. Emaciated survivor walking, posing next to barbed wire fence. People in uniforms, grabbing potatoes from truck. Inmates offer food to liberators. Woman kisses hands of liberating soldier. 05:20:38 Bergen-Belsen: Bodies lying out in rows. Civilians tour camp. Women bury the dead. Bulldozer covers mass grave. 05:21:2...

  20. Oranienburg Camp

    Scenes of concentration camp in its early days. Group shot of inmates, who wear civilian clothes. Hilfspolizei with armband guards them. Inmates work at outdoor tables, scrubbing clothing. They participate in forced exercise. Eat meals, etc.