Overview
- Description
- (Paris 528) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, January 28, 1946. Dr. Hans Marx, defense counselor, questions Marie-Claude Vaillant Couturier. His questions are in German and answered in French. Dr. Marx asks the witness if her testimony is based on how she personally experienced things. She answers that it is based on her personal experience but has been confirmed through others. 08:02:50 Lord Justice Geoffrey Lawrence asks the defense counselors if any others wish to question the witness. LS, MS two witnesses, Dr. Jean Weith and Dr. Vic Dupont. 08:04:08 Dr. Weith enters the witness box and reports that yes, some prisoners had to sign a declaration upon liberation that they would never tell about what they saw in the camp, but contacts between prisoners and the surrounding population were so frequent and the flames from the crematorium so obvious, that it could not possibly have been kept a secret what was going on (he speaks in German). 08:06:02 Close view of witness Dr. Weith, he refers to Mauthausen. 08:07:38 Dr. Dupont takes the stand and testifies in French. 08:07:55 Dr. Dupont talks about the classification of prisoners (social, religious, nationality, etc. - including Jews and Roma) and extermination. He also talks of his most tragic experience: when 16 children were deported to Auschwitz to be gassed, because they knew exactly what awaited them.
- Duration
- 00:08:42
- Date
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Event:
1946 January 28
- Locale
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Nuremberg,
Germany
- Credit
- Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives & Records Administration
- Contributor
-
Producer:
United States. Army. Signal Corps.
Physical Details
- Genre/Form
- Unedited.
- B&W / Color
- Black & White
- Image Quality
- Good
- Time Code
- 08:00:40:00 to 08:09:22:00
- Film Format
- Master
Master 2346 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Master 2346 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Master 2346 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Master 2346 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large- Preservation
Preservation 2346 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2346 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2346 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2346 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
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- You do not require further permission from the Museum to access this archival media.
- Copyright
- Public Domain
- Conditions on Use
- To the best of the Museum's knowledge, this material is in the public domain. You do not require further permission from the Museum to reproduce or use this material.
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- 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
- See Photo Archive W/S 57422 for the Auschwitz mug shot photograph of Marie Claude Vaillant Couturier (no. 31685). Marie was born on March 11, 1912 in Paris. She arrived in Auschwitz on January 24, 1943. The photograph belongs to Panstwowe Muzeum Auschwitz-Birkenau w Oswiecimiu.
- Copied From
- 35mm DNC; b/w
- Film Source
- United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 2973
Source Archive Number: 111 ADC 5772 - Special Collection
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Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 07:43:38
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