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

    Session 113. Attorney General Hausner is interrupted by the President of Court asking about the Lidice Children. Hausner begins describing the deportation of these children. He retells the testimony of Krumey, who was remorseful about his role. He continues to refute the statements of Eichmann saying that he had no role in this, that there were multiple meanings of special treatment, and that he knew nothing . 00:10:00 The exact wording of the law concerning membership in illegal groups is read, condemning Eichmann. Precedents are discussed. Hausner emphasizes that the law makes no distinct...

  2. Eichmann Trial -- Session 113 -- Prosecution continues summing up and courtroom

    Session 113. Attorney General Hausner argues to the Judges that the precedents set prior to the Eichmann Trial can be used to indict Eichmann without charges of conspiracy, and rather his actions should be seen as corroboration with conspiracy (duplicate footage from Tape 2226). 00:07:11 Session 113 is adjourned, the Judges leave. Various shots of the crowd leaving the courtroom.

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

    Session 113. Attorney General Hausner enumerates the things that Eichmann is accused of. He says that the victims cannot be compensated and can never be the same as they were before the war (duplicate footage from Tape 2225). He says that these actions (crimes against humanity) will never be forgotten. He specifies the different versions of robbery committed by the Nazis and says that they are all bad. 00:12:38 Hausner reads the precedent where a German says that he was only following orders with regard to robbing Jews, and that he was only working within the framework of the government. Ha...

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

    Session 113. Attorney General Hausner names all of the people who would have to be lying in order for Eichmann to be telling the truth. He provides numerous examples of how this would have to be true. 00:06:59 Hausner says that Eichmann has shown his intelligence and stature through all of the cross-examinations, and has given evasive excuses as answers to all questions. He insists that Eichmann knew of the anti-Semitic policies of National Socialism, and that his claims of writing in the heat of the moment are bunk. 00:16:35 He says that Eichmann would not have stopped within the Third Rei...

  5. 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...

  6. 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...

  7. 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...

  8. 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...

  9. 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...

  10. 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 ...

  11. 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...

  12. 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...

  13. 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...

  14. Ice skating in Berlin

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

  15. 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?

  16. 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.

  17. 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.

  18. 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.

  19. 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....

  20. 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...