Press Conference; Hadamar Murder Trial

Film | Digitized | Accession Number: 2001.358.1 | RG Number: RG-60.3211 | Film ID: 2507

Overview

Description: Welt im Film. Issue no. 93 01:07:14 General McNarney's Press Conference. Gen. Joseph T. McNarney holds press conference in Berlin at which German journalists participate for the first time. Cut-ins, German newspapermen taking notes.

01:08:08 Hadamar Mass Murder Trial. INTs, Frankfurt Provincial Court. 27 doctors, nurses, and attendants who participated in the mass killings of 70,000 people are on trial. MCUs many of those on trial. Prosecutor explains method by which disappearance of victims was accomplished. Cut-ins prisoners and others in courtroom.
Film Title: Welt im Film no. 93
Duration: 00:02:26
Date: Event: 1947
Production: 1947
Locale: Frankfurt, Germany
Berlin, Germany
Credit: Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives & Records Administration
Contributor: Producer: United States. Army. Signal Corps.
Producer: Welt im Film Newsreel
Biography: The Welt im Film [World in Film] newsreel series was produced by the American and British military governments to support the denazification campaign in Germany and Austria. Screening was compulsory in cinemas in the American and British zones of Germany until the late 1940s.

Language: German
Genre/Form: Newsreels.
B&W / Color: Black & White
Image Quality: Fair
Time Code: 01:07:14:00 to 01:09:40:00
Film Format: Master
Master 2507 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Master 2507 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Master 2507 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Master 2507 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation
Preservation 2507 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2507 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2507 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2507 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large

Conditions on Access: You do not require further permission from the Museum to access this archival media.
Copyright: Public Domain
Conditions on Use: The Welt Im Film [World in Film] German newsreel issues copied from the US National Archvies and Records Administration (NARA) contain United States Army Signal Corps footage or other Allied forces material which is in the public domain or to which noone can claim copyright. Researchers should clear rights through the Imperial War Museums at film@iwm.org.uk if the desired Welt Im Film excerpt or soundtrack has clear British origin.

Keyword: CONFERENCES COURTS/COURTROOMS DOCTORS EUTHANASIA GERMANY HADAMAR INSTITUTE JOURNALISTS MEDICAL PERSONNEL NURSES PRESS RACIAL SCIENCE 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 2001.
Note: Issue originally reviewed 11 August 1947.

Film ID 895 does not contain this story; the tape was mislabeled at the lab. The correct original number for the last story (01:19:25 to 01:28:10) on Film ID 895 is 111 ADC 1685 and the subject is "Burma Bound." It is not cataloged as a story in this database.
Copied From: 35mm b/w print
Film Source: United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
File Number: Legacy Database File: 4
Source Archive Number: 111 ADC 1758
Special Collection: Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive