Taylor speaks of experiments and rules of war at Medical trial

Identifier
irn1001166
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1996.167.1
  • RG-60.2359
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
Source
EHRI Partner

Creator(s)

  • United States. Army. Signal Corps. (Producer)
  • United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference

Scope and Content

(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.

Note(s)

  • Duplicate footage on Film ID 889, Story 2324.

Subjects

  • MEDICAL EXPERIMENTS
  • NUREMBERG (SUBSEQUENT TRIALS)
  • POWS
  • GERMANY
  • MEDICAL CARE
  • COURTS/COURTROOMS
  • DOCTORS
  • PROSECUTORS
  • PRISONERS
  • MEDICAL PERSONNEL
  • NAZI OFFICIALS
  • TAYLOR, TELFORD
  • TRIALS
  • WAR CRIMINALS/WAR CRIMES TRIALS

Places

  • Nuremberg, Germany

Genre

  • Film
  • Unedited.
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