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Language of Description: English

  1. War Crimes Trials: Medical Case

    (Munich 488) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 1 (Medical Case), Nuremberg, Germany. Dr. Leo Alexander speaking in English describes a mutilating scar on Maria Kusmierczuk's leg. Kusmierczuk, a messenger in the Polish underground, received the wound at Ravensbrueck concentration camp. MCUs, prisoner's dock. Pan from defendants to Dr. Alexander. He examines Kusmierczuk as she sits on the stand. The doctor explains the leg wound. MS, doctor and Kusmierczuk as seen from the attorney's podium, shot of the attorney's back. More of Dr. Alexander, Kusmierczuk, and defendants.

  2. War Crimes Trials: Medical Case

    (Munich 488) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 1 (Medical Case), Nuremberg, Germany. SILENT: Judges enter courtroom. An unidentified woman who was a victim of the Ravensbrueck experiments on the stand, questioned by Dr. Alexander about the wound received at Ravensbrueck. She walks to dock and points out the defendants Gebhardt, Oberhauser, and Fischer. MLSs, defendants in dock. 10:13:02 SOUND: Polish survivor Jadwiga Dzido on the stand. Dr. Leo Alexander identifies the X-ray of Dzigo's leg and explains the nature of the medical experiment performed on her at Ravensbruec...

  3. War Crimes Trials: Justice Case & Pohl Case; Editors in Vienna

    10:19:09 (Munich 496) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 3 (Justice Case), Nuremberg, Germany, January 14, 1947. CUs, defendants: Barnickel, Engert, Lautz, Nebelimg, Schlegelberger, von Ammon, Cuhorst, Joel, Klemm, Mettgenberg, Oeschey, Petersen, Rothaug, Rothenberg, Altstoetter. Note: No coverage of the Pole Dr. Stenislas Pietrowski. (Munich 501) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 4 (Pohl Case), Nuremberg, Germany, February 4, 1947. CUs defendants: Oswald Pohl; August Frank; Georg Loerner; Heinz Karl Franzlau; Hans Loerner; Josef Vogt; Rudolph Scheid...

  4. War Crimes Trials: Medical Case

    (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.

  5. War Crimes Trials: Medical Case

    (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.

  6. War Crimes Trials: Medical Case, Rostock testifies

    (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).

  7. War Crimes Trials: Medical Case

    (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).

  8. War Crimes Trials: Flick Case

    (Munich 535) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 5 (Flick Case), Nuremberg, Germany, March 15, 1947. HASs, MSs, defendants enter courtoom and take their places in prisoners' dock. Entering in order are: Hermann Terberger; Bernhard Weiss; Konrad Kaletsch; Otto Steinbrinck; and Friedrich Flick. LSs, people in courtroom rise as judges William C. Christianson, Frank N. Richman, Charles B. Sears, and Richard D. Dixon enter. HAS, judges as the president asks that the prosecutor read the indictment. Prosecutor Thomas E. Ervin reading the indictment. Ervin states that workers wer...

  9. War Crimes Trials: Flick Case

    (Munich 543) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 5 (Flick Case), Nuremberg, Germany, 1947. Rear view, American prosecutor Telford Taylor reads the indictment and tells about the subjection of civilians and prisoners of war to slave labor. MS, Friedrich Flick, Otto Steinbrinck, and Konrach Kaletsch (right to left) listening to indictment.

  10. War Crimes Trials: Einsatzgruppen Case

    (Munich 638) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 9 (Einsatzgruppen Case), Nuremberg, Germany. Judge Michael A. Musmanno explains that defendants Otto Rasch and Eduard Strauch were arraigned separately due to illness that prevented them from being in court on September 15. Benjamin Ferencz, the Chief Prosecutor for the US, reads to the court the crimes for which the defendants are charged. HAS of defendants. US prosecutor John Glancy details the specific crimes of the defendants and provides examples from prosecution evidence. Shot of Brig. Gen. Telford Taylor. Glancy talk...

  11. War Crimes Trials: Medical Case

    War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 1 (Medical Case), Nuremberg, Germany. Judge Beals announces that the Tribunal has convened to hear last statements of the defendants of Case 1 and that the defendants do not have to make statements unless they desire to. Karl Brandt, once Hitler's personal doctor, makes his statement.

  12. War Crimes Trials: Malmedy

    (Munich 294) Malmedy War Crimes Trials, Dachau, Germany, July 11, 1946. Lt. Col. Burton J. Ellis concluding his summation. LS and LMS, defendant #22 reading his plea to the court. Army officer for the defense reads statement for a mitigation of verdict of one of the defendants. Col. Willis M. Everett, chief defense counsel, reading his final plea before closing of the court.

  13. War Crimes Trials: Malmedy, sentencing

    (Munich 298) Malmedy War Crimes Trials, Sentencing of Accused, Dachau, Germany, July 16, 1946. LS, spectators in courtroom. 1st Lt. Friedrich Crist sentenced to death by hanging. Maj Diefenthal receiving sentence of hanging. Gen. Sepp Dietrich receiving sentence of life imprisonment. PFC George Fleps sentenced to death. MS, defendants in dock as court president is heard sentencing Willi Heinz Hendel to death. PFC Joachim Hofman sentenced to death. PFC Friedel Kies sentenced to death. Mjaor Knittel sentenced to life imprisonment. Fritz Kraemer, Chief of Staff of the 6th SS Panzer, receiving ...

  14. Dr. Lutz testifies at medical trial

    (Munich 480) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 1 (Medical Case), Nuremberg, Germany. CU, defense counsel Dr. Wille. LS, Dr. Wolfgang Lutz testifying on stand. Pan of courtroom during testimony of Lutz.

  15. Walter Neff testifies at Medical trial re: pressure chamber

    (Munich 486) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 1 (Medical Case), Nuremberg, Germany. MLS, witness Walter Neff testifying. LS, defendants in prisoners' dock. LS, Neff identifies picture of pressure chamber which appears in a book. Upon questioning by the prosecutor, Neff identifies Dr. Bromberg, one of the defendants. Camera pans to prisoners' dock. MS, defendants including Bromberg seated in dock.

  16. War Crimes Trials: Medical Case

    (Munich 486) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 1 (Medical Case), Nuremberg, Germany. MS, rear view, Prosecutor James McHaney cross-examines Walter Neff. Neff admits that the high altitude experiments were conducted for the benefit of the Luftwaffe.

  17. War Crimes Trials: Medical Case

    (Munich 486) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 1 (Medical Case), Nuremberg, Germany. Continuation of Walter Neff testifying and identifying pictures in book of evidence. When asked whether experiments were made on prisoners other than those condemned to death, he answers in the affirmative. Neff admits that out of 70 prisoners who were not condemned to death, 40 died when they were used for experiments in the pressure chamber.

  18. War Crimes Trials: Medical Case

    (Munich 485) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 1 (Medical Case), Nuremberg, Germany. VAR, Walter Neff testifies on the use of prisoners in experiments.

  19. Indictment of Milch at his trial; high pressure 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.

  20. 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.