Overview
- Description
- (Paris 476) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, January 4, 1946. Defense counselors for Baldur von Schirach, Franz von Papen, and Alfred Rosenberg question Walter Schellenberg, the Chief of Security Police and SD (in German). Schellenberg confirms that Kaltenbrunner was his immediate superior from January 1943 until the end of the war. Answering the question of the defense counsel, he says that he never talked to Kaltenbrunner about "the Jewish question" or important issues of Nazi doctrine, so he can only defer Kaltenbrunner's personal views on these from a few personal observations and some random remarks of Kaltenbrunner. With regard to concentration camps, Schellenberg is asked whether he can confirm that Kaltenbrunner asked Himmler to be released from his responsibilities in this respect so he could concentrate on the improvement of the secret police. Schellenberg does not confirm that, and adds that factual information to his disposal speak for the contrary. He specifies that in one instance, he himself had managed to get approval not to evacuate concentration camps, Kaltenbrunner turned to Hitler (bypassing Himmler) and effected a turn around in this policy, and thus also violated pledges to international diplomats (and thus binding declarations) given by Germany earlier. Von Papen's defense counsel asks Schellenberg concerning his visit to Ankara in 1943 (German embassy), his criticism of German foreign policy and his demand to have a closer link to the Catholic church. Schellenberg confirms this and von Papen's reaction at the time, that this would only be possible in the event of a complete revision of the German "Kirchenpolitik." He is then being questioned about the responsibilities and tasks of the SD [tape ends].
- Duration
- 00:11:00
- Date
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Event:
1946 January 04
- 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
- Language
- German
- Genre/Form
- Unedited.
- B&W / Color
- Black & White
- Image Quality
- Fair
- Time Code
- 06:19:45:00 to 06:30:45:00
- Film Format
- Master
Master 2373 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Master 2373 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Master 2373 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Master 2373 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large- Preservation
Preservation 2373 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2373 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2373 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2373 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
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- Copyright
- Public Domain
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Keywords & Subjects
- Keyword
- CHURCHES CONCENTRATION CAMPS COURTS/COURTROOMS GERMANY HIMMLER, HEINRICH JEWS KALTENBRUNNER, ERNST NUREMBERG (INTERNATIONAL MILITARY TRIBUNAL) PAPEN, FRANZ VON POLICE (GERMAN) ROSENBERG, ALFRED SCHELLENBERG, WALTER SCHIRACH, BALDUR VON SS (SCHUTZSTAFFEL) 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 2001.
- Copied From
- 35mm MPC; b/w
- Film Source
- United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 3117
Source Archive Number: 111 ADC 5692 - Special Collection
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Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 08:07:25
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