Overview
- Description
- (Munich 47) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, March 13, 1946. LS, showing left side of prisoners' dock; all defendants listen attentively to testimony of Gen. Albert Kesselring. MS, Chief US Prosecutor Robert H. Jackson seated at a table taking notes. LSs, MLSs, Ludwig Babel, defense counselor, questions Gen. Kesselring. Kesselring first talks about the air attack on Coventry, the distribution of aims and the calculations of the likelihood of missing them. He says he was happy about the "choice" Coventry because it was actually a military target, and not some civilian one. He is then questioned about "Wehrpolitische Lehrgaenge" (political courses for Wehrmacht members). He then talks about the connection between concentration camps and the brutal methods there, the connection to the secret police, his opinion on the German police state (he said he thought of it as something abnormal for Germany to have a state within the state). He cannot remember any of his own actions that would have aimed at preventing such a police state, but stresses that usually he was concerned only with his specific resort and the tasks connected to that. He says he has no particular recollection of hearing about the anti-Jewish riots in November 9/10, and the Goering decree afterwards fining the Jewish community for the damage. He is questioned about his time as a commander in the East (Poland/Russia): He says he was not aware of the order to disregard the The Hague stipulations with regard to the treatment of POWs. MSs, MLSs, Hermann Goering, Rudolf Hess, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Wilhelm Keitel, Fritz Sauckel, and Baldur von Schirach listening from the dock. LS, translators' bench; an MP stands in FG.
Note: The US prosecution attempts to prove that the witness did nothing toward eliminating a police state in Germany. Testimony is in German. - Duration
- 00:10:46
- Date
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Event:
1946 March 13
- 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
- Genre/Form
- Unedited.
- B&W / Color
- Black & White
- Image Quality
- Good
- Time Code
- 01:00:44:00 to 01:11:30:00
- Film Format
- Master
Master 2375 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Master 2375 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Master 2375 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Master 2375 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large- Preservation
Preservation 2375 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2375 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2375 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2375 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
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Keywords & Subjects
- Keyword
- ATTACKS CONCENTRATION CAMPS COURTS/COURTROOMS GAULEITER GERMANY GOERING, HERMANN HESS, RUDOLF JACKSON, ROBERT KEITEL, WILHELM KESSELRING, ALBERT KRISTALLNACHT MILITARY OFFICERS NAZI OFFICIALS NUREMBERG (INTERNATIONAL MILITARY TRIBUNAL) POWS PROSECUTORS RIBBENTROP, JOACHIM VON SAUCKEL, FRITZ SCHIRACH, BALDUR VON SCHOOLS TRIALS WAR CRIMINALS/WAR CRIMES TRIALS WEHRMACHT (GERMAN ARMY)
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 FGMC; b/w
- Film Source
- United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 3123
Source Archive Number: 111 ADC 5801 - Special Collection
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Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 07:48:42
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