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Nazi crimes: early gassing; corpses; camp atrocities; forced labor; Nuremberg Trial proceedings

Film | Digitized | Accession Number: 2006.350.1 | RG Number: RG-60.4291 | Film ID: 2758

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    Nazi crimes: early gassing; corpses; camp atrocities; forced labor; Nuremberg Trial proceedings

    Overview

    Description
    Part 3 of ENGLISH language version [corresponds to NARA reels 5 & 6] Excludes extra shot of nurses and Mogilev gassing. Courtroom scene, Russian prosecutor Gen. Rudenko at podium speaking about Canaris and Hans Frank describing Nazi policies and methods for exterminating Poles and others. Goering, Hitler, and other Nazi officials in a meeting. Pan, hut with thatched roof. CU pipes from a German police car bearing a license plate POL-28545 and a German police truck with license POL-51628 (as well as military unit markings: 7 circle-with-flag IX). Apparently metal piping is directed into the brick work of a small brick building, in an area that appears to be a bricked up window or door. Projected against the wall is what appears to be the shadow of a man in uniform. Five emaciated men pass on an open farm cart/wagon to a wooded location; a tall naked emaciated man and two emaciated children (different from those seen first) are led by a man and a woman in white lab coats to the building. Small red cross appears on man's white coat sleeve. The man and woman (purportedly Soviet doctors) put blankets around the patients' shoulders as they are led toward the building (and over a child lying on the cart). A uniformed man - probably German - is visible in the background, along the fence, watching the scene. CU car and pipes connecting the car exhaust to the building. [Scene is consistent with descriptions of September 1941 experimental killings by Einsatzgruppe B of patients from a local asylum in the area of Mogilev, Belarus. Corresponding still images were used in evidence at the trial of Albert Widmann.] Courtroom scene, screen visible to left of witness/defendant on stand. Pan, buildings burning, shadows of soldiers. Courtroom scene, Gen. Rudenko at podium. CU, Frank, document. Corpses, different views, piles of bodies, one hanging. Oradour-sur-Glane, France. Destruction, wrecked buildings, bodies laid out on sidewalk (covered in white). These might be the actual victims of Oradour, there seem to be French flags lying by the corpses on the pavement. Destroyed castle. Woman standing by graves. Bande, Belgium, bodies in room, piled up. San Callisto caves, Italy. Pan down, CU, list of hostages. Pile of bodies. Lidice, Czechoslovakia, destroyed town. Courtroom scene, prosecutor at podium. Buildings on fire. German labor corps (Arbeitsdienst) men line up with shovels, marching. LS, town in ruins. Men with pick-axes, construction, rubble dumped from small railway carts, Nazi officials watch men at work. Courtroom scene, prosecutor speaking about concentration camps. Hoess testifies re: Auschwitz. HAS, EXT barracks of Auschwitz, crematoria, women survivors in bunks inside barracks. MCU, survivors standing behind barbed wire, blankets wrapped around shoulders. Huge pile of luggage, CUs of belongings. "Arbeit Macht Frei" sign. INT hospital beds with survivors, legs slowly extended by doctor, more ill survivors. Narration re: medical experiments, including lowering the body temperature, injecting the body with poisons and infectious diseases, and subjecting the body to high altitude pressure chambers. CUs corpses with numbers, battered bodies, CUs faces. 05:44:23 In court, French prosecutor concludes charges of indictment for Counts 3 and 4. Prisoners' dock. CU, memo of Fritz Sauckel about Nazi policies of slave labor. Scenes of forced labor, groups of men marched down street, MS street scene, men being frisked, checking ID at a gate, men constructing train tunnel. Courtroom scene. At farm, Goering walking towards hut, herding cows, sheep. In court, CU, Frick in prisoners' dock. CUs, survivors of medical experiments in hospital, some examined by doctors. Aerial shot, cemetery, graves with crosses. Men getting off truck with shovels, being forced to dig in a large field, German officer in command. 01:09:01 1933 boycott of Jewish shops in Berlin, storefronts defaced, chanting crowd and SA men (scenes may be longer than usual with an additional chant). Nazi speaking. "Jude" painted on window. Goering reading document to crowd, Nazi elite in FG (speech translated to English). Round-ups, confusion, women and men pushed through Nazi crowd. Soft focus amateur footage of Lvov attack on Jews: nude women driven past, old man lying on ground, more naked women, hands up, terrified, women clutch own necks, women dragged by hair on ground. Courtroom scene, prosecution at stand re: secret Stroop report about the Warsaw ghetto. Ghetto beatings, pushing men, harassment. Buildings bombed, burning, representing Warsaw ghetto. Chaos in streets. Man being pulled out of sewer. Tanks in streets, chaos. SS men beating man on street, Riga, Latvia: man dragged over cobblestones. Courtroom scene, re: Final Solution. Hoess's testimony, Hoess on stand. Survivors exiting Auschwitz during liberation [footage portrayed as selection and line to gas chamber]. Children show tattoos. Prisoner uniforms hanging, gas chambers/showers/disinfection. Naked survivors (men) sitting inside chamber [portrayed as pre-gas chamber, pretending to die as mysterious hand allows "gas" into the chamber]. Piles of corpses. CUs, loot in storage, personal effects, gold removed from victims' teeth. Corpses from Bergen Belsen carried from truckbed to grave, dumped into pit, prepared for mass burial at liberation. Courtroom scenes: prosecution rests and defense begins. Piles of documents. MSs, German lawyers preparing defense. Testimonies and questioning of Streicher, Kaltenbrunner, Rosenberg, Raeder, and Keitel. Various shots of courtroom, court reporters, prosecution, judges, prisoners' dock, etc.
    Duration
    00:18:00
    Date
    Production:  1948
    Locale
    Nuremberg, Germany
    Riga, Latvia
    Berlin, Germany
    Lviv (Lvov), Poland
    Ukraine
    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
    English
    Genre/Form
    Documentary.
    B&W / Color
    Black & White
    Image Quality
    Poor
    Time Code
    01:00:00:00 to 01:18:00:00
    Film Format
    • Master
    • Master 2758 Film: positive - 16 mm - sound - composite print - B-wind
      Master 2758 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - small
      Master 2758 Film: positive - 16 mm - sound - composite print - B-wind
      Master 2758 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - small
      Master 2758 Film: positive - 16 mm - sound - composite print - B-wind
      Master 2758 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - small
      Master 2758 Film: positive - 16 mm - sound - composite print - B-wind
      Master 2758 Video: Digital Betacam - NTSC - small
    • Preservation
    • Preservation 2758 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
      Preservation 2758 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
      Preservation 2758 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
      Preservation 2758 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

    Keyword
    ATROCITIES AUSCHWITZ AUTOMOBILES BARBED WIRE BARRACKS BEATINGS BELARUS (BELORUSSIA) BELGIUM BERGEN-BELSEN BOYCOTTS BUILDINGS BURIALS BUSINESSES CARTS/WAGONS CHILDREN COBBLESTONES CONCENTRATION CAMPS CONCENTRATION CAMPS (LIBERATION) CONSTRUCTION CORPSES COURTS/COURTROOMS CREMATORIA CZECHOSLOVAKIA DESTRUCTION DOCTORS DOCUMENTS EINSATZGRUPPEN EUTHANASIA FARMERS/FARMING FIRES FORCED LABOR FRANCE FRANK, HANS GAS (POISON) GAS CHAMBERS GAS VANS GERMANY GHETTOS GOERING, HERMANN GOLD GRAVES HITLER, ADOLF HOESS, RUDOLF HOSPITALS ITALY JEWS JUDGES KALTENBRUNNER, ERNST KEITEL, WILHELM LABOR LIDICE (ATROCITY) LOOTING LUGGAGE MARCHING MASS GRAVES MASSACRES MEDICAL EXPERIMENTS MEDICAL PERSONNEL MENTALLY ILL NAZI OFFICIALS NUREMBERG (INTERNATIONAL MILITARY TRIBUNAL) PITS POGROMS POLAND POLICE (GERMAN) POWS PROSECUTORS RAD (GERMAN LABOR SERVICE) RAEDER, ERICH ROSENBERG, ALFRED ROUNDUPS RUINS SA (STURMABTEILUNG) SHOVELS SHOWERS SOLDIERS/MILITARY SOLDIERS/MILITARY (GERMAN) SOVIET UNION SS (SCHUTZSTAFFEL) STARS OF DAVID STREETS STREICHER, JULIUS SURVIVORS TANKS TATTOOS TEETH TRIALS TRUCKS UNIFORMS VICTIMS' PROPERTY WAR CRIMINALS/WAR CRIMES TRIALS WARSAW GHETTO WOMEN

    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 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 2794 and 2754 [Stories 4326 and 4295] for duplicate footage of this particular segment of the film, including an extra shot of Mogilev gassing. See Film ID 67 [Stories 2416] for duplicate footage excluding the extra shot.

    Details from Dr. Albert Widmann's 1967 trial in Stuttgart include his personal description of actions corresponding to the scene of gassing by vehicle exhaust, in the company of Arthur Nebe, and the presence of one male Soviet doctor and two female Soviet doctors (in German-occupied territory in the vicinity of Mogilev, Belarus, mid-September 1941). Widmann also mentions the presence of a "Polizeigeneral" and several SS officers of varying ranks. See "Archives of the Holocaust: An International Collection of Selected Documents" Vol.22, edited by Henry Friedlander and Sybil Milton.

    Film Summary: 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: 4594
    Record last modified:
    2024-02-21 08:03:56
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