Concentration camp evidence presented at Nuremberg Trial

Film | Digitized | Accession Number: 1993.177.1 | RG Number: RG-60.2421 | Film ID: 2277

Overview

Description: (Paris 443) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany. LSs, RVs, prosecutor Thomas J. Dodd presents evidence on Mauthausen, Gusen, Ebensee, Buchenwald, and Auschwitz. Mentions the court screening of the film "Nazi Concentration Camps." 01:21:59 CU, Mauthausen graphic at front. Map and images. 01:23:16 Close rear view of Dodd speaking. 01:24:01 The shrunken head of a victim is presented as evidence (no CUs). 01:25:19 Dodd: "We have no idea how many died in concentration camps....Nazi conspirators were generally meticulous record keepers. But the records collected here are quite incomplete....Occasionally we find a death book." MSs, Rudolf Hess, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Wilhelm Keitel, and Ernst Kaltenbrunner listening to Dodd. LS, dock.
Duration: 00:06:21
Date: Event: 12/13/1945
Locale: Nuremberg, Germany
Credit: Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives & Records Administration
Contributor: Producer: United States. Army. Signal Corps.

Language: English
Genre/Form: Unedited.
B&W / Color: Black & White
Image Quality: Good
Time Code: 01:20:27:00 to 01:26:48:00
Film Format: Master
Master 2277 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Master 2277 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Master 2277 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Master 2277 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Preservation
Preservation 2277 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2277 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2277 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2277 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large

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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.

Keyword: AUSCHWITZ BUCHENWALD CONCENTRATION CAMPS COURTS/COURTROOMS DODD, THOMAS J. EBENSEE FILMS GERMANY HESS, RUDOLF HUMAN REMAINS HUMAN SKIN KALTENBRUNNER, ERNST KEITEL, WILHELM MAUTHAUSEN NUREMBERG (INTERNATIONAL MILITARY TRIBUNAL) PROSECUTORS RIBBENTROP, JOACHIM VON TRIALS WAR CRIMINALS/WAR CRIMES TRIALS

Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Film Provenance: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased the collection from the National Archives and Records Administration in 1988. The footage was obtained as research for the Museum's Permanent Exhibition audiovisual monitors on the War Crimes Trials in Nuremberg.
Note: 00:20:34-00:26:54

Timecodes starting with 01: refer to the Master and User (VHS) copies. Timecodes starting with 00: refer to the Protection (Beta SP) copy.

Tape previously considered NURM 1.
Film Source: United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
File Number: Legacy Database File: 2170
Source Archive Number: 111 ADC 5602
Special Collection: Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive