Overview
- Summary
- Videotape testimony of Ralph G., who was born in Youngstown, Ohio in 1903. He recalls being one of the few Jews at law school in Oklahoma; military service beginning in 1941; joining the staff at the subsequent Nuremberg Trials in November 1946; visiting refugee camps near Nuremberg; prosecuting the industrialist, Friedrich Flick and Hitler's Reich Press Chief, Otto Dietrich; the unprecedented argument in Dietrich's trial that Nazi propaganda was a military weapon; interaction with chief prosecutor Telford Taylor; housing Rezső Kasztner in their villa; visiting Vienna and Salzburg with him; visiting Lidice, Paris, and Nantes; and returning to the United States in October 1948. Mr. G. notes German spectators at the trials harassed concentration camp survivors after they testified; the defendants not acknowledging wrongdoing or accepting responsibility; and the trials awakening his interest in Judaism. He shows photographs, documents, and memorabilia.
- Published
- New York, N.Y. : A Living Memorial to the Holocaust-Museum of Jewish Heritage, 1991
- Interview Date
- October 31, 1991.
- Locale
- Nuremberg (Germany)
Lidice (Czech Republic)
Nantes (France)
Paris (France)
Vienna (Austria)
Salzburg (Austria) - Cite As
- Ralph G. Holocaust Testimony (HVT-3112). Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, Yale University Library.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Copies
- 2 copies: 3/4 in. dub; and 1/2 in. VHS with time coding.
- Physical Description
- 1 videorecording (2 hr., 11 min.) : col
Keywords & Subjects
- Subjects
- Nazi propaganda. Video tapes. Men. World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, Jewish. World War, 1939-1945--Participation, American. World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Jewish. Nuremberg War Crime Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, 1946-1949. Nuremberg (Germany) Lidice (Czech Republic) Nantes (France) Paris (France) Vienna (Austria) Salzburg (Austria) Oral histories (document genres) G., Ralph,--1903- Flick, Friedrich,--1883-1972,--defendant. Dietrich, Otto,--1897-1952. Taylor, Telford. Kasztner, Rezső Rudolf,--1906-1957. Flick, Friedrich,--1883-1972.
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
- Special Collection
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Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
- Link to Yale University Library Catalog:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4290657
- Record last modified:
- 2018-06-04 13:27:00
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/hvt4290657
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