Defendants at Medical trial; Welt Im Film: Berchtesgaden and US diplomats in Stuttgart

Identifier
irn1001177
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 1996.167.1
  • RG-60.2370
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
  • German
Source
EHRI Partner

Creator(s)

  • Welt im Film Newsreel (Producer)
  • United States. Army. Signal Corps. (Producer)
  • H. Hewitt (Camera Operator)
  • United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference

Biographical History

The Welt im Film [World in Film] newsreel series was produced by the American and British military governments to support the denazification campaign in Germany and Austria. Screening was compulsory in cinemas in the American and British zones of Germany until the late 1940s.

Scope and Content

War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 1 (Medical Case), Nuremberg, Germany. Scenes of defendants Genzken, Blome, and Rose making their statements. CU, judge. 00:05:45 Welt Im Film. Obersalzberg Today (CAD) Pan, ruins of Berchtesgaden. Bomb damaged Berghof. INTs of the Berghof's air raid shelter. Pan and shots, the countryside showing the damaged country home of former Nazi officials. Martin Bormann's villa totally destroyed. The damaged SS barracks. American soldiers and some civilians enter the underground shelter of Hitler's Eagles Nest. View of the mountains. Byrnes in Stuttgart (CAD) Secretary of State James F Byrnes and Senators Tom Connally and Arthur H Vandenberg at railroad station in Stuttgart. Gen Joseph T McNarney introduces Byrnes. LS, audience. Byrnes speaking regarding America wanting a lasting peace that will enable Germany to take its place among the nations of the world. Ambassador Robert Murphy and Senator Vandenberg sitting on platform. CU, Byrnes speaking. Audience applauding.

Note(s)

  • Trial transcripts available in the departmental files.

Subjects

  • DESTRUCTION
  • RUINS
  • GERMANY
  • NUREMBERG (SUBSEQUENT TRIALS)
  • DOCTORS
  • MEDICAL PERSONNEL
  • COURTS/COURTROOMS
  • TRAIN STATIONS
  • MEDICAL CARE
  • RUBBLE
  • BERGHOF
  • MOUNTAINS
  • TRIALS
  • BERCHTESGADEN
  • WAR CRIMINALS/WAR CRIMES TRIALS
  • NAZI OFFICIALS
  • BORMANN, MARTIN
  • SPEECHES
  • SOLDIERS/MILITARY (AMERICAN)

Places

  • Nuremberg, Germany
  • Stuttgart, Germany
  • Obersalzberg, Germany
  • Berchtesgaden, Germany

Genre

  • Film
  • Unedited.
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