U-boat officer questioned, "Der Stuermer" photos shown at Nuremberg Trial
Creator(s)
- United States. Army. Signal Corps. (Producer)
- United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
Scope and Content
(Paris 503) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, January 14, 1946. LS, courtroom. Chief Justice Geoffrey Lawrence stops the German counselor attempting to read a written statement of Admiral Karl Doenitz. LS, Peter Josef Heisig, a U-boat officer, is questioned by German counsel. MLS, Heisig sworn in and testifies. British prosecutor Col. H. Phillimore questions the witness. Inserts, various pages of Julius Streicher's articles in "Der Stuermer" showing pictures of alleged Jewish ritual murders of boys, men, and women (images are medieval art reproduced in newspaper dated May 1939).
Subjects
- NAVY (GERMAN)
- NUREMBERG (INTERNATIONAL MILITARY TRIBUNAL)
- STREICHER, JULIUS
- STUERMER, DER (NEWSPAPER)
- NAZI OFFICIALS
- DOENITZ, KARL
- COURTS/COURTROOMS
- TRIALS
- JUDGES
- NEWSPAPERS
- WAR CRIMINALS/WAR CRIMES TRIALS
- PROPAGANDA (ANTI-JEWISH)
- GERMANY
- ANTISEMITISM
Places
- Nuremberg, Germany
Genre
- Unedited.
- Film
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