War Crimes Trial: Dostler testifies
Creator(s)
- Knechtel (Camera Operator)
- United States Army Signal Corps (Producer)
- United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
Scope and Content
LT GEN ANTON DOSTLER, GERMAN WAR CRIMINAL TRIAL, Palace of Justice, Rome, Italy. Gen. Dostler testifies through his interpreter about checking higher command to determing if these American soldiers came under the Fuehrerbefehl order. In learning that they did, and that he was ordered to have the men shot, he instructed his chief of staff to carry out the order.
Subjects
- COURTS/COURTROOMS
- DOSTLER, ANTON
- SHOOTINGS
- POWS (AMERICAN)
- SOLDIERS/MILITARY (GERMAN)
- WAR CRIMINALS/WAR CRIMES TRIALS
Places
- Rome, Italy
Genre
- Film
- Unedited.
This description is derived directly from structured data provided to EHRI by a partner institution. This collection holding institution considers this description as an accurate reflection of the archival holdings to which it refers at the moment of data transfer.