Decision Board Trial: Fritz Kuhn
Creator(s)
- United States. Army. Signal Corps. (Producer)
- United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
Scope and Content
Decision Board Trial - Fritz Kuhn, Munich, Germany, February 14, 1949. MSs, CUs, Fritz Kuhn sitting in courtroom, looking at papers, talking to counsel. CU, book "Under Cover" by John Roy Carlson. MS, Kuhn seated at table talking to court. CU, prosecutor. Cut-ins, people in courtroom. CU, German papers with headlines. CU, article showing Bundsfuehrer Fritz Kuhn in San Francisco. Reporters in courtroom taking notes. Periodicals showing pictures of Kuhn at Bund meetings in America. MS, witness for prosecution, Mr. Wiedemann, former Consul General in San Francisco. MS, witness Mr. Krott, Ribbentrop's Foreign Office. CU, newspaper insert with picture of Kuhn and heading: "Go Back, Fight on, Hitler Bade Kuhn." Kuhn seated at table speaking to court. Chairman of Decision Board with two colleagues. Different periodicals showing Kuhn as Bund leader in America. Wiedemann taking his place in court and beginning to testify with constant interruptions by the defendant. Kuhn standing as he listens to the decision of court. Kuhn walking out of the building after being freed.
Note(s)
John Roy Carlson, an American citizen of Armenian birth (Avedis Boghos Derounian), was another witness at the Kuhn trial. He also appears in this film reel. For more information, see http://news.google.de/newspapers?id=3JcgAAAAIBAJ&sjid=RmgFAAAAIBAJ&pg=3553,4664475.
Subjects
- WAR CRIMINALS/WAR CRIMES TRIALS
- RIBBENTROP, JOACHIM VON
- GERMANY
- KUHN, FRITZ
- NAZI OFFICIALS
- PROSECUTORS
- SPECTATORS
- GERMAN-AMERICAN BUND
- TRIALS
- COURTS/COURTROOMS
- NEWSPAPERS
Places
- Munich, Germany
Genre
- Unedited.
- Film