Human skin used as evidence; Milch questioned at Nuremberg Trial

Film | Digitized | Accession Number: 2001.358.1 | RG Number: RG-60.2846 | Film ID: 2352

Overview

Description: 05:09:56 (Munich 26) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, February 1946. Pieces of human skin processed as leather are displayed on an easel in the courtroom while Russian prosecutor L N Smirnov addresses the Tribunal concerning this evidence. NOTE: Skin was reportedly removed from prisoners of a concentration camp in Koenigsberg, East Prussia.

05:14:07 (Munich 42) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, March 11, 1946. HAS, Prosecutor Robert H. Jackson interrogating Erhard Milch about officers' knowledge of Germany's preparedness for war. Milch keeps repeating that the officers had no knowledge and thought that other countries (i.e. Britain) were much better prepared than Germany. Jackson therefore asks him how long it took Germany to defeat Poland and France. HAS, Goering, Hess, and von Ribbentrop listening. HAS, prisoners in dock. MS, Justices Parker and Biddle. MLS, court reporters at table.
NOTE: This segment contains repeated cuts of bad quality.
Duration: 00:08:25
Date: Event: February-March 1946
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 German Russian
Genre/Form: Unedited.
B&W / Color: Black & White
Image Quality: Fair
Time Code: 05:09:56:00 to 05:18:21:00
Film Format: Master
Master 2352 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Master 2352 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Master 2352 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Master 2352 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation
Preservation 2352 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2352 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2352 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2352 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large

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Copyright: Public Domain
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Keyword: CONCENTRATION CAMPS COURTS/COURTROOMS GERMANY GOERING, HERMANN HESS, RUDOLF HUMAN REMAINS HUMAN SKIN JACKSON, ROBERT JUDGES MILCH, ERHARD NAZI OFFICIALS NUREMBERG (INTERNATIONAL MILITARY TRIBUNAL) PROSECUTORS REPORTERS RIBBENTROP, JOACHIM VON TRIALS WAR CRIMINALS/WAR CRIMES TRIALS

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: USHMM replaced the online streaming video with a file from NARA (digitized Digital Betacam tape) in August 2019.
Copied From: 35mm DNC; b/w
Film Source: United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
File Number: Legacy Database File: 3003
Source Archive Number: 111 ADC 5826
Special Collection: Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive