Nazi atrocities; Nuremberg Trial proceedings
Creator(s)
- United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
- Stuart Schulberg (Compiler)
- Information Services Division, OMGUS (Producer)
- Pare Lorentz (Compiler)
Scope and Content
Reel 6: 1933 boycott of Jewish shops in Berlin, storefronts defaced, chanting crowd and SA men (scenes may be longer than usual with an additional chant). Nazi speaking. "Jude" painted on window. 05:48:03 Goering reading document to crowd, Nazi elite in FG (speech translated to English). 05:48:25 Round-ups, confusion, women and men pushed through Nazi crowd. Soft focus amateur footage of Lvov attack on Jews: unclothed women driven past, old man lying on ground, more naked women, hands up, terrified, women clutch own necks, women dragged by hair on ground. 05:48:51 Courtroom scene, prosecution at stand re: secret Stroop report about the Warsaw ghetto. Ghetto beatings, pushing men, harassment. Buildings bombed, burning, representing Warsaw ghetto. Chaos in streets. Man being pulled out of sewer. Tanks in streets, chaos. SS men beating man on street, Riga, Latvia: man dragged over cobblestones. 05:50:05 Courtroom scene, re: Final Solution. Hoess's testimony, Hoess on stand. Survivors exiting Auschwitz during liberation [footage portrayed as selection and line to gas chamber]. Children show tattoos. Prisoner uniforms hanging, gas chambers/showers/disinfection. Naked survivors (men) sitting inside chamber [portrayed as pre-gas chamber, pretending to die as mysterious hand allows "gas" into the chamber]. Piles of corpses. CUs, loot in storage, personal effects, gold removed from victims' teeth. Corpses from Bergen Belsen carried from truckbed to grave, dumped into pit, prepared for mass burial at liberation. 05:52:40 Courtroom scenes: prosecution rests and defense begins. Piles of documents. MSs, German lawyers preparing defense. Testimonies and questioning of Streicher, Kaltenbrunner, Rosenberg, Raeder, and Keitel. Various shots of courtroom, court reporters, prosecution, judges, prisoners' dock, etc.
Note(s)
Copyright: While this film is a production of the US government and is therefore in the public domain, it contains German newsreel footage, the rights to which are held by the German state archive (Bundesarchiv) through their agent, Transit Film. Researchers should exercise caution when using newsreel clips from this film, and consider clearing the rights with Transit, especially if broadcast in Europe. See duplicate footage of roundups at start of this reel on Film ID 402. See Stories 2413-2417, Film ID 67 and Stories 3007-3008, Film ID 2388 and Story 4326, Film ID 2794 and Film IDs 2749-2758 for additional reels of this film. See Story 4291 for duplicate footage of this reel. Video transfer ident at head of each reel mistakenly labels this "Nuremburg." NARA records and correct spelling are "Nuremberg." Belsen footage in this version runs 60 seconds. The Headen Collection (German version) is also 60 seconds. The Univ. of Wisconsin (Pare Lorentz) version seems to be c. 56 seconds.
This is a documentary about the war crimes trial administered by the International Military Court of Justice in Nuremberg against the main Nazi war criminals from November 14, 1945 to October 1, 1946. The film documents footage of the trial from the prosecutor's opening to the verdict. The dramaturgy includes a chronological account of the founding of the National Socialist state, the unleashing of the world war, and the Nazi crimes against humanity and is accompanied with historical footage. This material is occasionally only used for illustration and does not necessarily portray the facts being commented upon. The film is also called "Nuremberg."
Subjects
- UNIFORMS
- BURIALS
- GERMANY
- JEWS
- BARBED WIRE
- NUREMBERG (INTERNATIONAL MILITARY TRIBUNAL)
- BERGEN-BELSEN
- CHILDREN
- MASSACRES
- POGROMS
- AUSCHWITZ
- GOERING, HERMANN
- DESTRUCTION
- NAZI OFFICIALS
- COURTS/COURTROOMS
- WARSAW GHETTO
- GRAVES
- STARS OF DAVID
- GOLD
- STREETS
- HITLER, ADOLF
- WAR CRIMINALS/WAR CRIMES TRIALS
- WOMEN
- BEATINGS
- SA (STURMABTEILUNG)
- KEITEL, WILHELM
- TANKS
- LOOTING
- GHETTOS
- VICTIMS' PROPERTY
- HOESS, RUDOLF
- CONCENTRATION CAMPS
- CONCENTRATION CAMPS (LIBERATION)
- GAS CHAMBERS
- POLAND
- CORPSES
- ROUNDUPS
- TEETH
- SHOWERS
- PITS
- TRUCKS
- COBBLESTONES
- BOYCOTTS
- TRIALS
- ATROCITIES
- RAEDER, ERICH
- TATTOOS
- DOCUMENTS
- FIRES
- BUSINESSES
- STREICHER, JULIUS
- KALTENBRUNNER, ERNST
- PROSECUTORS
- ROSENBERG, ALFRED
- SURVIVORS
- JUDGES
- MASS GRAVES
Places
- Lviv (Lvov), Poland
- , Ukraine
- Auschwitz, Poland
- Berlin, Germany
- Nuremberg, Germany
- Riga, Latvia
Genre
- Documentary.
- Film