War Crimes Trials: Medical Case; Tiergarten; Mauthausen Trials

Film | Digitized | Accession Number: 1996.167.1 | RG Number: RG-60.2376 | Film ID: 21

Overview

Description: Welt im Film, issue no. 79. December 9, 1946 "Beginning of Trials against German Doctors" Courtroom personnel stand as tribunal files in. Pan, courtroom. An American officer calls out names of chief defendants as camera pans the defendants in dock, including Karl Brandt, Siegfried Handloser, Paul Rostock, Schroeder, etc. Telford Taylor addressing court (no sound). HS, tribunal. 09:36:54 Karl Brandt standing, pleads not guilty. Handloser and Herta Oberhauser also plead not guilty.

Welt im Film, issue no. 52. "Tiergarten Plowed Up, Berlin" Pan of Tiergarten. British tractors help cultivate soil. Pan of Victory Column. Men and women till soil.

Welt im Film, issue no. 52. May 13, 1946 "Mauthausen Trials-Dachau" Dachau, Germany. The American Military Court pronounces death sentence on those responsible for the crimes committed at Mauthausen. Defendants: August Eigruber #13, Hans Hegenscheidt #26 (09:41:10), Klimowitsch #50, Hans Spatzenegger #60, and Zoller #61. Guards escort convicted men to their cells. Throughout these scenes court reporter Betty Fay can be seen documenting the trial.
Film Title: Welt im Film no. 79 and no. 52
Duration: -0:-0:-12
Date: Event: May-December 1946
Locale: Nuremberg, Germany
Berlin, Germany
Dachau, Germany
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: Newsreels.
B&W / Color: Black & White
Image Quality: Good
Time Code: 09:35:00:00 to 09:34:48:00
Film Format: Master
Master 21 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Master 21 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Master 21 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Master 21 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation
Preservation 21 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 21 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 21 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 21 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large

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Copyright: Public Domain
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Keyword: BRANDT, KARL COURTS/COURTROOMS DACHAU DOCTORS GERMANY MAUTHAUSEN MEDICAL CARE MEDICAL PERSONNEL NAZI OFFICIALS NUREMBERG (SUBSEQUENT TRIALS) PROSECUTORS SHOVELS SOLDIERS/MILITARY (AMERICAN) SOLDIERS/MILITARY (BRITISH) TAYLOR, TELFORD TRIALS WAR CRIMINALS/WAR CRIMES TRIALS WOMEN

Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Film Provenance: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased this from the National Archives and Records Administration in September 1996.
Copied From: 35mm; b/w
Film Source: United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
File Number: Legacy Database File: 1906
Source Archive Number: 111 ADC 10081
Special Collection: Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive