War Crimes Trials: Malmedy; Welt im Film: trade unions & children learning English

Film | Digitized | Accession Number: 1994.119.1 | RG Number: RG-60.2290 | Film ID: 878

Overview

Description: 05:01:12 (Munich 167) Malmedy War Crimes Trials, Dachau, Germany, May 24, 1946. MS, defense counselor talks to the court about the "Bill of Particulars." VS, prosecutor quotes in part Hitler's order to his commanders to disregard Geneva rules as to the treatment of Allied prisoners in the coming "Battle of the Bulge." He goes on to tell how the "German soldiers sang the Sword and Blood song thus releasing them from any regulation as to the treatment of prisoners."

05:05:36 (M-2139) Welt im Film, "Hamburg: Gewerkschaften im Aufbau" [Trade Unions in Hamburg, Germany], July 1946. At outdoor ceremony, Col. Armetage, British Military Government restores free Trade Unions and Union building to the people of Hamburg. VS, Paul Bebert, formerly a prisoner in a Nazi concentration camp, speaks to the crowd, then mounts scaffold and with hammer and chisel destroys swastika on facade of building.

05:08:28 (M-2139) Welt im Film, "Wien: Volksschule auf Neuen Wegen" [Elementary School Teaches English], Vienna, Austria, July 11, 1946. VS, Austrian children in classroom reciting their first lines of newly learned English.
Duration: 00:08:51
Date: Event: May 24-July 11, 1946
Locale: Dachau, Germany
Hamburg, Germany
Vienna, Austria
Credit: Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives & Records Administration
Contributor: Producer: United States. Army. Signal Corps.
Producer:

Language: English German
Genre/Form: Unedited.
B&W / Color: Black & White
Image Quality: Good
Time Code: 05:01:12:00 to 05:10:03:00
Film Format: Master
Master 878 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Master 878 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Master 878 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Master 878 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation
Preservation 878 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 878 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 878 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 878 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.

Keyword: AUSTRIA CHILDREN COURTS/COURTROOMS DACHAU GERMANY MALMEDY (ATROCITY) NAZI OFFICIALS PRISONERS PROSECUTORS SCHOOLS SPEECHES SURVIVORS SWASTIKAS TEACHERS TRIALS WAR CRIMINALS/WAR CRIMES TRIALS

Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Film Provenance: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased this from the National Archives and Records Administration in September 1994.
Copied From: 35mm; b/w
Film Source: United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
File Number: Legacy Database File: 1945
Source Archive Number: 111 ADC 5969
Special Collection: Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive