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Postwar devastation; opening of Nuremberg Trial; early Nazi party history, events, leaders

Film | Digitized | Accession Number: 2006.350.1 | RG Number: RG-60.4293 | Film ID: 2756

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    Postwar devastation; opening of Nuremberg Trial; early Nazi party history, events, leaders

    Overview

    Description
    Part 1 of GERMAN language version [corresponds to NARA reels 1 & 2]

    "Europa 1945" Panorama of war devastation: buildings and cities laid to waste, rubble, mother climbing out of trap door shelter with naked baby in arms, people in hunger and despair emerge from shelters, children running down steps, clambering for food, poverty, homeless people, begging for food, weeping woman. "Nuremberg 21 November 1945" EXT and INT Nuremberg Palace of Justice. CU, document announcing trial and listing the accused. Seating of International Military Tribunal. Chief US prosecutor, Robert H. Jackson presents the opening statement and Count 1 of the indictment (a conspiracy to commit war crimes and crimes against peace and humanity). Mostly rear views of Jackson speaking: "triumph of justice over vengeance...four mighty nations...meeting greatest menace of our times." Various shots of courtroom, judges, prosecutor, stenographer, defendants. MSs, CUs, defendants' faces. Pan, prisoners' dock. Germans walk past open graves with flowers, sort through rubble. Children desperately seek food in buckets, woman eats from garbage, mob scenes, women shouts viciously in crowd (voiceover of Jackson speaking in court). Jackson continues with the reading of Count 1 at Nuremberg trial. HS, in court, prisoners' dock. CU, "Mein Kampf," text superimposed. In Munich, burgeoning Nazi party, following the lead of Adolf Hitler, instigate street riots with the aim of gaining the highest degree of control over the Germans by any means. HAS, mobs/crowds running through wide street, chaos. Nazis marching with flag, elite members posing on stairway, more marching. Goebbels at desk, on telephone, in leather coat shouting. Nazis parading, Germans heiling. Hitler. Nazis on horseback rushing down street. Newspaper headlines. Torchlight parade at night. Bookburning. Hans G., former official of the Berlin police administration, testifies concerning his investigation of the Reichstag fire. CUs, Goering in dock. Remains of Reichstag fire, MLS, firefighters with hose. German delegates leave the League of Nations, and Germany embarks on a policy to strengthen its military. German armaments, industry. Gen. Werner Edward Fritz von Blomberg announces universal military conscription. CU, legal document. Military training, goosestepping. Spring 1936: German troops entering Rhineland, tanks/horses crossing bridge. Goosestepping troops parade through Nuremberg (voice of Hitler in BG). November 1937: Secret meeting with Nazi elite concerning the German question and the annexation of Austria. CU, minutes of meeting. In court, Jackson speaking, "...this meeting set the stage for Nazi expansion." Berchtesgaden meeting with Hitler, Austrian chancellor Schuschnigg, foreign minister of Austria Guido Schmidt, and other Nazi elite (some on trial). In court, Schmidt testifies concerning Hitler's decision to annex Austria (translated into English). Nazis, Hitler Youth marching.
    Duration
    00:18:02
    Date
    Production:  1948
    Locale
    Nuremberg, Germany
    Munich, Germany
    Credit
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, gift of Thomas P. Headen
    Contributor
    Compiler: Pare Lorentz
    Compiler: Stuart Schulberg
    Producer: Information Services Division, OMGUS

    Physical Details

    Language
    German
    Genre/Form
    Documentary.
    B&W / Color
    Black & White
    Image Quality
    Poor
    Time Code
    01:00:00:00 to 01:18:02:00
    Film Format
    • Master
    • Master 2756 Film: positive - 16 mm - sound - composite print
      Master 2756 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - small
      Master 2756 Film: positive - 16 mm - sound - composite print
      Master 2756 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - small
      Master 2756 Film: positive - 16 mm - sound - composite print
      Master 2756 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - small
      Master 2756 Film: positive - 16 mm - sound - composite print
      Master 2756 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - small
    • Preservation
    • Preservation 2756 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
      Preservation 2756 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
      Preservation 2756 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
      Preservation 2756 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

    Administrative Notes

    Film Provenance
    Lt. Col. Thomas P. Headen obtained the films in 1945 as the Chief Information Branch officer in charge of the United States Army Occupation Military Government (OMG) in Bremen, Germany. Twelve 16mm film reels were donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum by Lt. Col. Headen's son (of the same name) in February 1997.
    Note
    See departmental files for English language transcript of film narration

    See Film ID 67 and 2388, and Film ID 2794 for additional copies of this film obtained from different archives. See Film ID 2749 to 2758 for the remaining reels of this film in English and German donated by Mr. Headen. See Film ID 67 and 2749 [Stories 2412, 2413, and 4289] for duplicate footage of this particular segment of the film.

    Copyright: While this film is a production of the US government and is therefore in the public domain, it contains German newsreel footage, the rights to which are held by the German state archive (Bundesarchiv) through their agent, Transit Film. Researchers should exercise caution when using newsreel clips from this film, and consider clearing the rights with Transit, especially if broadcast in Europe.

    This is a documentary about the war crimes trial administered by the International Military Court of Justice in Nuremberg against the main Nazi war criminals from November 14, 1945 to October 1, 1946. The film documents footage of the trial from the prosecutor's opening to the verdict. The dramaturgy includes a chronological account of the founding of the National Socialist state, the unleashing of the world war, and the Nazi crimes against humanity and is accompanied with historical footage. This material is occasionally only used for illustration and does not necessarily portray the facts being commented upon. The film is also called "Nuremberg."
    Film Source
    Thomas P. Headen
    File Number
    Legacy Database File: 4591
    Record last modified:
    2024-02-21 07:51:57
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