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  1. Barbie Trial -- Day 1 -- Opening statements

    14:52:00 Lawyer Ravez of the prosecution, makes his opening statement. He brings up the application of a law passed on December 12, 1964, article 639, concerning the Code of Criminal Procedure, concerning crimes against humanity. 15:01:00 Lawyer Ravez describes the events which happened to Mr. Robert Cohen during the Holocaust, which bring him to testify against Klaus Barbie. He was a 7 year old Jewish child when his parents were sent to Auschwitz. He was the only Jew to survive, out of the entire hotel. Living at L'Hotel de France in St. Claude. 15:08:00 Lawyer Nordmann asks the Presiding ...

  3. Selected records from the General Files of the Police for Foreigners

    Contains materials related to the observation, registration, and internment of foreigners in Belgium before, during and immediately after the war and to Belgian immigration policies. Also contains information on the control of alien registration and immigration by the Belgian Police for Foreigners.

  4. Edmund Friedel photograph collection

    The collection consists of 23 post-liberation photographs taken by Edmund Friedel [donor's brother] who was a member of the United States Army Medical Corps during World War II.

  5. Barbie Trial -- Day 5 -- Sealed documents are admitted into evidence

    18:26 President Cerdini oversees the public sealing of the documents admitted into evidence. 18:43 Cerdini calls a recess.

  6. Barbie Trial -- Day 5 -- Discussion of the UGIF and Izieu raids

    16:23 President Cerdini continues presenting an exhibit relating to the raid at the UGIF [Union générale des Israélites de France] in Lyon on February 9, 1943 16:25 A clerk reads a report signed by Barbie on the 11th of February 1943 16:29 Cerdini presents Barbie's reaction to being shown the report 16:31 Prosecution lawyer Klarsfeld gives further arguments relating to Barbie's report from February 11, 1943 16:34 Cerdini introduces into evidence a telegram sent by Barbie on February 11, 1943 16:35 Clerk reads the telegram 16:37 Jury examines the telegram (French translation), and Barbie's s...

  8. Radio as a propaganda tool during wartime

    Radio as a means of strengthening the community during wartime. Behind the scenes at a radio station. A woman checks on the progress of a record; a man and woman in white lab coats monitor wires in a large room filled with broadcast equipment. A man in a party uniform reads a message from a wife to her soldier husband. A large map of Europe hangs on the wall behind the man. Another man reads the war news into a microphone. A telex machine types out a news story. The camera pans downward, seemingly through the floors of the building to an orchestra playing on a lower floor. The scene changes...

  10. Barbie Trial -- Day 16 -- Two civil parties testify

    17:15 Defense attorney Vergès asks the civil party to comment on the responsibility of Barbie of the destination of the transport; discussion regarding the fact that the train's original destination was Drancy 17:17 Prosecutor Klarsfeld comments that the eventual destination of prisoners sent to Drancy was Auschwitz anyway, so whether or not Barbie gave the order for the August 11 transport to continue directly to Auschwitz, he knew that would be the inmates' eventual destination 17:18 Vergès critiques the prosecution, saying that they do not follow proper court proceedings when asking ques...

  11. Celebrating the opening of the new Reichstag; parades in Potsdam

    Celebrating the opening of the new Reichstag in Potsdam's Garrison Church on March 21, 1933 (film begins on Film ID 2775). Shows overpowering National Socialist propaganda. Goebbels staged this day as a device to win support from conservatives and to reassure Germans that the new Reich's Chancellor Hitler could be trusted. German intertitles (in quotation marks). "Der Tag von Potsdam 1933 II. Teil" "Reichskanzler Adolf Hitler und Vizekauzler von Papen" "Gott mitt uns" banner hanging across the street. Officials marching, including Hitler and von Papen. Hitler salutes at 01:00:35. More offic...

  12. American soldiers prepare a "propaganda bomb" to be dropped on German-occupied territory

    Newspapers and typewritten pages in French, English, Dutch, German, and other languages. The stories are about the positive turns the war has taken for the Allied forces. The next scene shows American soldiers loading a "bomb" with these leaflets. The men place a top on the "bomb" and fasten it shut.

  13. Barbie Trial -- Day 14 -- Witnesses testify; Written depositions are read

    15:00 Prosecutor Libman asks the witness, Mrs. Paulette Roche, to authenticate photos of children from Izieu, which were published in a book written by Prosecutor Klarsfeld 15:01 President Cerdini calls the next witness, Dr. Adolphe Waysenson, to the stand; the witness presents himself to the court and is sworn in 15:02 The witness testifies; he stayed with his two younger siblings in the children's home at Izieu from the end of summer of 1943 through the winter of 1944, while his parents hid; when his parents found secure shelter in the winter of 1944, they returned to Izieu to pick him up...

  15. Barbie Trial -- Day 12 -- Bailiff introduces witnesses; lawyers demand Barbie's presence in court; recess; Lanfranchi testifies

    Bailiff introduces witnesses who will testify on Day 12 (May 26, 1987); they stand before the court. The trial is suspended for ten minutes at 13:53:23; tape recording stops and skips to real time 14:03:12 where judges re-enter court. Lawyers plead for Klaus Barbie's presence in the courtroom. Jacques Verges, Barbie's attorney, demands that Barbie remain in prison which is his legal right. The judges recess to make a decision at 14:14:22 [14:24:05 real time]; tape recording stops again and skips to real time 14:48:52. The judges return to the courtroom and report that Barbie will be forced ...

  16. Rivka Avichail papers

    The papers consist of 28 photographs and one transit pass issued to Regine Gartenlaub [donor] relating to the experiences of Rivka Avichail before World War II and during World War II while she was in hiding.

  17. German officers confer on East Front

    Reel 2: 00:48:35 Large gathering of German military officers conferring in the field around a map. Soldiers resting by the side of the road. 00:49:35 Armored cars and tanks bear large "+" markings. 00:50:00 Side view of short general, two Iron Crosses on uniform. Others around him, including some in black Panzer troop uniforms. 00:50:13 Front view of high-ranking (short) man, possibly Gen. Heinrici (could also be von Kluge).

  18. Bombed rail cars; German military personnel meet in the field

    Military personnel moving a bomb in a train car, followed by several stacked bombs waiting in a rail yard. German personnel carrying luggage through a train yard. Panning shot of bombed out city with its rail yard. Overhead view of a crated bomb on an open train car. Several different shots of soldiers waiting in the rail yard, leaning on a bomb and unloading a bomb as people on a bridge watch. Shot of a damaged building, panned down to civilians waiting with loaded wagons on a long floating bridge. Panning shot of damaged buildings and coastline, followed by close-ups of the floating bridg...

  20. Barbie Trial -- Day 13 -- Witnesses testify

    The testimony of Mme. Léa Feldblum continues. She finishes answering a question posed by the President, Cerdini, before recounting her deportation to Birkenau and subsequent separation from the children she had accompanied from Izieu. She makes direct reference to Zlatin, the husband of Mme. Sabina Zlatin (maiden name Chwast), whose testimony was on May 27, 1987 (Film ID 3908). Feldblum discusses her life at Birkenau, the selection process led by Josef Mengele, and her liberation in 1945 by Russian troops. M. Rappaport, attorney for the prosecution, describes Feldblum's decision to voluntar...