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War Crimes Trials: Medical Case

Film | Digitized | Accession Number: 1994.119.1 | RG Number: RG-60.2300 | Film ID: 881

Overview

Description: (Munich 619 and 620) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 1 (Medical Case), Judgment and Sentencing, Nuremberg, Germany. MHSs, defendants enter the dock. Camera remains on defendants presiding judge hands down the following sentences:
Wilhelm Beiglboeck, fifteen years imprisonment
Herta Oberhauser, twenty years imprisonment
Fritz Fischer, life imprisonment
Hermann Becker-Freyseng, twenty years imprisonment
(Reel is silent from here on)
LS, MSs, Tribunal as sentences are read. Cut-ins, defendant Waldemar Hoven (death sentence). LS, counsel tables. CU, Judge Walter B. Beals reading sentence. LSs, MSs, spectators filing out of courtroom. LS, pan judges entering courtroom and taking their places.
Duration: 00:05:40
Date: Event: 1947 August 20
Production: 1947
Locale: Nuremberg, Germany
Credit: Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives & Records Administration
Contributor: Producer: United States. Army. Signal Corps.
Camera Operator: Stirk
Sound Contributor: Pottratz

Physical Details

Language: English Silent
Genre/Form: Unedited.
B&W / Color: Black & White
Image Quality: Good
Time Code: 08:20:28:00 to 08:26:08:00
Film Format: Master
Master 881 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Master 881 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Master 881 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Master 881 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation
Preservation 881 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 881 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 881 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 881 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small

Rights & Restrictions

Conditions on Access: 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

Keyword: COURTS/COURTROOMS CROWDS GERMANY JUDGES MEDICAL CARE MEDICAL PERSONNEL NAZI OFFICIALS NUREMBERG (SUBSEQUENT TRIALS) TRIALS WAR CRIMINALS/WAR CRIMES TRIALS

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.
Copied From: 35mm; b/w
Film Source: United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
File Number: Legacy Database File: 1955
Source Archive Number: 111 ADC 6566
Special Collection: Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive

Record last modified:: 2024-02-21 07:47:40
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