Barbie Trial -- Day 7 -- An expert testifies
Overview
- Description
- 13:40 President Cerdini calls the session to order; asks that the accused present himself; Barbie refuses to appear; Cerdini calls on the bailiff to compel the accused to appear
13:41 The bailiff reads the names of the witnesses scheduled to give testimony in the session; one witness has not yet arrived
13:41 Cerdini suspends the session while the bailiff goes to Barbie to compel him to appear
14:28 Cerdini calls the session to order; the bailiff reads Barbie's statement that he refuses to appear
14:30 Cerdini reads the Court's decision regarding the Defense's exception taken to an earlier judgement of Barbie, made by a military tribunal in 1954
14:36 The first witness, Rudolf Holtfort, is introduced and takes oath; the witness is a lawyer, born in Cologne
14:40 Holtfort explains that he is an expert in the history of the carrying out of the Final Solution against French Jews; in his role as a lawyer for the central police office of Cologne, he has examined and studied the documents that have now been admitted to Barbie's trial; he explains that in another similar trial, there was no question as to the authenticity of the photocopies of these documents.
14:45 Cerdini presents Holtfort with the original documents, and asks him to examine them and speak to their authenticity; Holtfort explains that these documents are authentic, given various details
15:03 End of tape - Film Title
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Proces de Klaus Barbie
- Duration
- 01:30:02
- Date
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Event:
1987 May 19
- Locale
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Lyon,
France
- Credit
- Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Institut National de L'Audiovisuel
- Contributor
-
Producer:
Daniel Borgeot
Subject:
Physical Details
- Language
- French
- Genre/Form
- Unedited.
- B&W / Color
- Color
- Image Quality
- Fair
- Time Code
- 13:29:52:00 to 14:59:54:00
- Film Format
- Master
Master 3963 Video: Betacam SP - color - PAL - large
Master 3963 Video: Betacam SP - color - PAL - large
Master 3963 Video: Betacam SP - color - PAL - large
Master 3963 Video: Betacam SP - color - PAL - large
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- Conditions on Access
- This archival media can only be accessed in a Museum reading room or other on-campus viewing stations.
- Copyright
- Institut National de L'Audiovisuel
- Conditions on Use
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- Copyright Holder
- Institut National de L'Audiovisuel
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Film Provenance
- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased this collection containing 185 hours of the Barbie Trial from the Institut National De L’Audiovisuel in Paris, France in July 2005.
- Note
- Abbreviated transcript with real time code idents available in departmental files.
- Copied From
- 3/4" Umatic SECAM
- Film Source
- Institut National de L'Audiovisuel
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 5852
Source Archive Number: 80032 [8 AV 33] - Special Collection
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Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 07:57:22
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