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  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  6. 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.

  9. 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.

  11. 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.

  13. 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...

  14. 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...

  15. 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.

  16. General Harpe, 12th Panzer Div. in action in Smolensk, Vitebsk region

    Reel 2: 00:00:00 Brief shot of a German soldier on guard through a wrought iron fence. German soldiers drive down a city street in an open-top car, pull over and consult a map while looking at the various streets. Next shot shows a soldier painting an arrow on a makeshift sign set up in the street (with 12th Panzer Division symbol, Y in a circle). The car full of soldiers continues and pulls in front of a building; soldiers walk in the street amid military vehicles. A house is engulfed in flames at night, dark silhouettes watch. German tanks and trucks wait in a hilly field as the camera pa...

  18. Drawing

  19. Drawing

  20. French market; American soldiers at bar

    VS, EXT, buildings, amphitheater, civilians, local market. VS, rubble, buildings in ruin. Sign in French at Cafe reads: "Bar Americain" American soldiers are at the bar with local civilians, mainly women. Civilians, male and female, walking through the streets of the unidentified town. People ride by on bicycles. More shots of destroyed, bombed out buildings.