Barbie Trial -- Day 10 -- Two witnesses testify
Overview
- Description
- 17:57 The witness, Mr. Stourdze, describes the evacuation of Auschwitz in January 1945 on foot to Gleiwitz, and then by coal train to Mauthausen and Oranienburg; the witness was then sent to Flossenburg, where there were inmates of several concentration camps; they were forced under scalding water for 20 minutes, and then made to stand outside naked in the bitter cold for three hours; the witness stayed for two weeks before being transferred again, to Regensburg, where he worked constructing a runway for a jet engine factory; Hermann Göring arrived and inspected the facility, which was riddled with lice and typhus; the facility was bombed and many inmates died; those who survived were forced to reconstitute the corpses of the dead, to prove that no one had run away
18:01 In April 1945, the inmates were evacuated from Regensburg to Dachau, on foot, about 120 km; the American Army liberated Dachau two weeks after his arrival
18:03 President Cerdini asks the witness to explain his conviction that Barbie was responsible for his deportation
18:06 Prosecutor Klarsfeld asks the court to examine a sealed document, signed by Barbie in August 1943, in order to establish Barbie's location as Lyon at the time of Mr. Stourdze's arrest
18:12 A French translation of the document is read aloud for the record; Cerdini presents Barbie's reaction to the document, which had been presented to him on two occasions; he claimed in both instances to not recognize the signature as his
18:15 Prosecutor Klarsfeld asks the court to compare the signature to the signature on another document signed by Barbie
18:17 The clerk reads a French translation of the second document for the record; when Barbie was presented with this document, he recognized the signature as his own
18:20 President Cerdini calls a new witness to the stand, Henri Troussier; Mr. Troussier is a civil party in the case
18:22 The witness was called to join the STO (Service du Travail Obligatoire) in 1942, in Germany; he refused, and entered into the Resistance instead; he was personally arrested by Barbie, and took him to the St. Claude school building in Lyon, where three fellow Resistants were already being held
18:26 Mr. Troussier was taken, following an interrogation by Barbie, to the Montluc prison by car; he was interrogated a second time by Barbie, and then deported to Compiègne, Buchenwald, and finally Gross Rosen; the witness describes seeing Barbie beating a small girl in the basement of the Gestapo headquarters
18:29 President Cerdini asks the witness to give precision as to his quarters within Montluc, and as to how he was able to identify Barbie as responsible for his deportation
18:31 Prosecutor Santet, Mr. Troussier's counsel, comments that he wishes his client had the opportunity to face Barbie; Santet and Troussier discuss Barbie's comment that Troussier was a, 'dirty Jew,' though he was a Roman Catholic and Barbie arrested him knowing he was a Resistant; Santet comments on Mr. Troussier's reconnaissance of a photograph of Barbie as his interrogator in the winter of 1945-1946
18:39 Prosecutor Cohendy asks the witness to discuss specifics of his transport to Buchenwald and his arrival there
18:43 President Cerdini suspends the hearing - Film Title
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Proces de Klaus Barbie
- Duration
- -9:-12:-7
- Date
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Event:
1987 May 22
- Locale
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Lyon,
France
- Credit
- Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Institut National de L'Audiovisuel
- Contributor
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Producer:
Daniel Borgeot
Subject:
Physical Details
- Language
- French
- Genre/Form
- Unedited.
- B&W / Color
- Color
- Image Quality
- Fair
- Time Code
- 17:57:01:00 to 08:44:54:00
- Film Format
- Master
Master 3980 Video: Betacam SP - color - PAL - large
Master 3980 Video: Betacam SP - color - PAL - large
Master 3980 Video: Betacam SP - color - PAL - large
Master 3980 Video: Betacam SP - color - PAL - large
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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.
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- Film Source
- Institut National de L'Audiovisuel
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 5869
Source Archive Number: 80050 [8 AV 51] - Special Collection
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Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
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- 2024-02-21 07:57:27
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