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• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1001408
• English
• 1946
• Updated 1 year ago

(Munich 164) Malmedy War Crimes Trials, Dachau, Germany, May 16, 1946. LS, court in session as member of the Commission calls defendants for recital of their names and background. Gen Sepp Dietrich is called and he gives his name and age. MS, Dietrich answers questions of the Commission. Defendants Fritz Kramer, PJ Ochmann, Joachim Peiper, Hermann Priess, and Wolfgang Richter rise as they are called. They give their names, former rank and age, and are assigned numbers. CU, Brig Gen Josiah T. Dalbey calls out names of the accused. MCU, court interpreter, US soldier, speaking.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1001409
• English
• 1946
• Updated 1 year ago

(Munich 164) Malmedy War Crimes Trials, Dachau, Germany, May 16, 1946. LS, courtroom, a prosecutor reads indictment. LS, prisoners filing into courtroom and taking their seats. Members of the Tribunal take their places. MLS, four unidentified judges at bench. Brig Gen Josiah T. Dalbey reading part of the indictment. Capt Benjamin N Narvid, defense counselor, speaking to the court, prisoners in BG. Pan, LS, spectators and prisoners take their seats. LSs, Court personnel and spectators rise as judges enter. LS, prosecution starts its case. Defendants in prisoners' dock.

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• irn1001410
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05:01:12 (Munich 167) Malmedy War Crimes Trials, Dachau, Germany, May 24, 1946. MS, defense counselor talks to the court about the "Bill of Particulars." VS, prosecutor quotes in part Hitler's order to his commanders to disregard Geneva rules as to the treatment of Allied prisoners in the coming "Battle of the Bulge." He goes on to tell how the "German soldiers sang the Sword and Blood song thus releasing them from any regulation as to the treatment of prisoners." 05:05:36 (M-2139) Welt im Film, "Hamburg: Gewerkschaften im Aufbau" [Trade Unions in Hamburg, Germany], July 1946. At outdoor ce...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1001411
• English
• 1946
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(Munich 174) Malmedy War Crimes Trials, Dachau, Germany, May 20, 1946. Former Lt. Virgil P. Lary, Jr. takes the stand and tells how his unit was captured and how many of the US soldiers were massacred. CU, Lt. Col. Barton J. Ellis, Chief Prosecutor, questioning Lary. MCU, Col. Ellis. MS, Lary demonstrates how the first two shots were fired by one of the defendants and walks to prisoner's dock and points out George Fleps (No. 14) as the man who killed the American prisoner.

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• irn1001412
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(Munich 250) Malmedy War Crimes Trials, June 21, 1946. MCU, Lt. Col. Ellis interrogating witness Joachim Peiper (#42). Col. Ellis hands Peiper document and asks if the signature is his. Peiper answers in the affirmative. Peiper answers Col Ellis's questions concerning PWS.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1001413
• English
• 1946
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(Munich 176) Malmedy War Crimes Trials, Dachau, Germany, May 21, 1946. Kenneth E. Kingston, former American officer, tells how he and his unit surrendered and how some of the soldiers were massacred. Kingston is questioned by Lt. Robert E. Byrne, US prosecutor. K. Ahrens, another former soldier, testifying about his surrender and how US soldiers were killed. Pointer on map indicates the route which Ahrens' unit followed. MS, Capt Ralph Shumacker, prosecution counselor, questions Ahrens.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1001414
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(Munich 258) Malmedy War Crimes Trials, Dachau, Germany, June 27, 1946. SEQ: Capt. Raphael Schumacher conducting the cross-examination of Franz Sievers (#59). Sievers explaining the circumstances under which his statement was written. MLS, Capt. Schumacher reading statement. CU, Sievers speaking.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1001415
• English
• 1947
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War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 10 (Krupp Case), Nuremberg, Germany, December 8, 1947. Profile shot of presiding judge James T. Brand opening the Krupp case. LS, defendants in dock. Alfred Krupp von Bohlen und Halback is on the far left followed by Loeser, Houdremont, Mueller, Janssen, Pfirsch, Ihn, and Everhardt. MS, Gen Telford Taylor, chief prosecutor, making the opening statement telling on what counts the defendants are guilty. Taylor gives a brief history of the Krupp concern and a resume of the Krupp family until the outbreak of WWI.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1001416
• English
• 1947
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(Munich 638) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 9 (Einsatzgruppen Case). US assistant prosecutor John Glancy reading prosecution's opening statement and discussing the evidence against the four units of the Einsatzgruppen. He specifically addresses the crimes of Adolf Ott (Commander of Sonderkommando 7b of Einsatzgruppe B), Waldemar Klingelhoefer (Leader of Vorkommando Moscow of Einsatzgruppe B), and Franz Six (Leader of Vorkommando Moscow of Einsatzgruppe B). Einsatzgruppe C killed 80,000 people. Glancy specifically refers to the crimes of Erwin Schulz (Leader of Einsat...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1001417
• English
• 1947
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Otto Ohlendorf testifying, most likely in Munich. Ohlendorf talks about his work in the SD-Inland and his role as leader of Einsatzgruppe D. Brief shot of Telford Taylor. This is likely footage of Case 6, the I.G. Farben Case.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1001418
• English
• 1948
• Updated 1 year ago

07:19:44 No date. MS, defendants in prisoner's dock. Last statements in case. Unknown attorney speaking about admitting film footage captured at Krupp Works and brought back to Germany from England by Bernard Fall, a member of the prosecution, into evidence. This is NOT the Einsatzgruppen trial. 07:21:47 (Munich 673) War Crimes Trials, Case 9 (Einsatzgruppen Case), 14 February 1948. MS dock and defendants talking. Shot of Ohlendorf. LS, Tribunal. CU, Judge Michael A. Musmanno addressing the court about the procedure of presenting evidence and closing arguments. Brig. Gen. Telford Taylor, He...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1001419
• English
• 1948
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(Munich 673) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 9 (Einsatzgruppen Case). Chief of the OCCWC, Telford Taylor, sums up the prosecution's case against former members of Einsatzgruppen. Presiding Judge Michael Musmanno instructs defense counsel that they may reply to the summation. Recess called. Ohlendorf, as the number one defendant, reads his final plea into the record seeking to justify his behavior. Bureaucratic language. At the end, brings in God, human error, split between East and West. 08:06:40 to 08:11:36

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• irn1001420
• English
• 1947
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(Munich 619 and 620) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 1 (Medical Case), Judgment and Sentencing, Nuremberg, Germany. MHSs, defendants enter the dock. Camera remains on defendants presiding judge hands down the following sentences: Wilhelm Beiglboeck, fifteen years imprisonment Herta Oberhauser, twenty years imprisonment Fritz Fischer, life imprisonment Hermann Becker-Freyseng, twenty years imprisonment (Reel is silent from here on) LS, MSs, Tribunal as sentences are read. Cut-ins, defendant Waldemar Hoven (death sentence). LS, counsel tables. CU, Judge Walter B. Beals ...

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• irn1001421
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World in Film issue no. 205: 08:11:54 "10,000 Tonnen in 24 Stunden: Der Rekordtag der Luftbruecke" 10,000 tons a day, Record for Airbridge. US airlift 08:13:00 "Frankfurt: Einigung ueber das Grundgesetz" Agreement on German Basic Law. World in Film issue no. 198: 08:14:02 "Attlee in Berlin" World in Film issue no. 204: 08:16:04 "Lord Praesident Morrison in Deutschland" Lord President Morrison in Germany. Dr Reuter and Gen Robertson and others in BG. MS, Morrison signing the Golden Book of the city of Berlin. Sequence: Morrison and party watching steel processing in Ruhr plant. 08:17:19 "Ein...

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• irn1001422
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(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.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1001423
• English
• 1946
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(Munich 277) Malmedy War Crimes Trials, Dachau, Germany, July 9, 1946. Harry Tome of the prosecution being cross-examined concerning the beating of German prisoners during their interrogation at Schwabisch Hall. Capt. Raphael Schumacher, of the prosecution being cross-examined. MCU, Lt. Col. Burton J Ellis cross-examining Schumacher.

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• irn1001424
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(Munich 632) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 4 (Pohl Case), Nuremberg, Germany, September 22, 1947. HS, Judges bench. Chief Justice Robert M. Toms declares that the Tribunal is ready to hear the statements of the defendants. Defendants Oswald Pohl, August Frank, Heinz Karl Fanslau, George Loerner, Erwin Tschentscher, and Rudolf Scheide read their statements to the court. Karl Sommer and Hermann Pook read their statements.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1001425
• English
• 1947
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(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.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1001426
• English
• 1947
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(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...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn1001427
• English
• 1947
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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...