Overview
- Description
- (Munich 479) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 1 (Medical Case), Nuremberg, Germany. Brig. General Telford Taylor continues the reading of the indictment and tells of the torture and death of concentration camp inmates during the so-called "scientific experiments." HS, MS defendants in the prisoners' dock. Pan of the courtroom from defendant to Gen. Taylor reading the indictment. 04:11:06 "The victims who did not die in the course of such experiments, surely wished that they had. A long report written in July 1942 by Rascher, and by the defendants Ruff and Romberg, describes an experiment on a former delicatessen clerk, who was given an oxygen mask and raised in the chamber to an atmospheric elevation of over 47,000 feet, at which point the mask was removed and a parachute descent was simulated. The report describes the victim's reactions-"spasmodic convulsions," "agonal convulsive breathing," "clonic convulsions and groans," "yells aloud," "convulses arms and legs," "grimaces, bites his tongue," "does not respond to speech," "gives the impression of someone who is completely out of his mind."" Taylor indicts particular defendants and continues a long sustained descriptive statement about "medical" experiments and procedures. He quotes directly from Nazi documents submitted as evidence. Pan of dock and courtroom as Taylor speaks about high and low pressure experiments, freezing experiments, rewarming experiments of Romani women and children at Ravensbrueck, and "dry" cold experiments.
- Duration
- 00:10:55
- Date
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Event:
1946 December 09
- Locale
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Nuremberg,
Germany
- Credit
- Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives & Records Administration
- Contributor
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Producer:
United States. Army. Signal Corps.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Genre/Form
- Unedited.
- B&W / Color
- Black & White
- Image Quality
- Good
- Time Code
- 03:18:25:00 to 03:29:20:00
- Film Format
- Master
Master 876 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Master 876 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Master 876 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Master 876 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small- Preservation
Preservation 876 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 876 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 876 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 876 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
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- 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.
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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 1994.
- Note
- Trial transcripts available in the departmental files.
Duplicate footage on Film ID 2280, Story 2436. - Film Source
- United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 1941
Source Archive Number: 111 ADC 6288 - Special Collection
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Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
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- 2024-02-21 07:48:46
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