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  1. 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.

  2. 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...

  3. 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.

  4. 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...

  5. 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

  6. 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.

  7. 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"

  8. 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 ...

  9. 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.

  10. 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.

  11. 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.

  12. 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.

  13. 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.

  14. 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.

  15. 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...

  16. 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.

  17. Rostock testifies during Medical trial

    (Munich 522) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 1 (Medical Case), Nuremberg, Germany. MS, Paul Rostock, one of the defendants, testifying in German. Occasionally a question is put to the witness by the defense counsel Dr. Pribilla. MS, Karl Brandt and other defendants in box. (Brandt is mentioned in Rostock's testimony).

  18. Rostock questioned at Medical trial; von Papen sentenced at Nuremberg trial

    (Munich 522) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 1 (Medical Case), Nuremberg, Germany. Dr. Pribilla questioning Rostock. HS, judges. Pan to Pribilla as voice of Rostock is heard. (Rostock is off-screen). 04:13:30 (Munich 523) Verdict Day at von Papen Trial, Nuremberg, Germany, February 24, 1947. SILENT. Von Papen walking down aisle in courtroom. Judges enter. Judge Sashs, presiding, brings the court to order. 01:15:09 Von Papen with his son, his attorney, and Dr. Sybil. EXT of Nuremberg Rathaus where trial was held. Von Papen stands and listens to verdict. Judge reads the...

  19. Herta Oberhauser questioned at Medical trial

    (Munich 542) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 1 (Medical Case), Nuremberg, Germany. LS, Herta Oberhauser is cross-examined by attorney. Witness is asked if she gave injections to patients to relieve their pain or to kill them. She received awards for her work with the sulphanilamide experiments. She is questioned by a defense attorney. Answers by witness are in German (translation is not provided).

  20. Statements from defendants at Medical trial

    War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 1 (Medical Case), Nuremberg, Germany. Defendants giving statements: Dr. Rose, Dr. Weltz, Schaefer, Hoven, Beiglbock, Oberhauser. Presiding Judge Beals announces that the evidence is concluded after 139 days of trial and that the Tribunal will now recess for three weeks before rendering a decision. Several prisoners shake hands with their attorneys.