Overview
- Description
- (Munich 479) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 1 (Medical Case), Nuremberg, Germany. Opening statement, American trial and American judges. LS shot of courtroom from above. Judges enter, MLS 4 judges. Defendants answer one by one. President of the Tribunal states that as names are called, they will rise and answer questions. Karl Brandt, Paul Rostock, Oskar Schroeder, Rose, Pokorny, Oberhauser, Handloser, Ruff, Fritz Fischer, Blome, Sievers, Brock, Becker-Freysing, Weltz, Romberg, and 4 others. MS, Gen. Telford Taylor tells of "nameless dead...These wretched people were not even treated as humans...anonymous millions...whose fate is a hideous blot on pages of human history." MLS high angle "...It is far more important that these incredible events be established by clear and public proof so that no one can ever doubt that they were fact and not fable, and that this court...as the voice of humanity stamp these acts and the ideas which engendered them as barbarious and criminal." LS, spectators, "[defendants] didn't kill for personal enrichment or in hot blood. Some...may be sadists who killed and tortured for sport, but they are not all perverts. They are not ignorant men...are trained physicians and...distinguished scientists." Taylor pleads that these crimes do not go unpunished.
- Duration
- 00:10:35
- Date
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Event:
1946 December 09
Production: 1946 December 10
- Locale
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Nuremberg,
Germany
- Credit
- Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives & Records Administration
- Contributor
-
Producer:
United States. Army. Signal Corps.
Physical Details
- Genre/Form
- Unedited.
- B&W / Color
- Black & White
- Image Quality
- Good
- Time Code
- 00:00:54:00 to 00:11:29:00
- Film Format
- Master
Master 20 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Master 20 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Master 20 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Master 20 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small- Preservation
Preservation 20 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 20 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 20 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 20 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
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- Copyright
- Public Domain
- Conditions on Use
- To the best of the Museum's knowledge, this material is in the public domain. You do not require further permission from the Museum to reproduce or use this material.
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Film Provenance
- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased this from the National Archives and Records Administration in September 1996.
- Note
- Trial transcripts available in the departmental files.
- Copied From
- 35mm b/w print
- Film Source
- United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 45
Source Archive Number: 111 ADC 6290 - Special Collection
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Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 07:47:20
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