Barbie Trial -- Day 9 -- A previous expert witness asks to give additional testimony and is questioned; a witness testifies
Overview
- Description
- 13:40 President Cerdini opens the hearing; asks for the accused to present himself; Barbie refuses to appear
13:41 Cerdini asks a bailiff to summon Barbie
13:41 Another bailiff reads the list of witnesses set to appear; identifies those who are absent
13:44 Cerdini suspends the hearing until the bailiff returns from summoning Barbie at the jail
14:05 Cerdini resumes the hearing; the clerk reads the bailiff's report; Barbie refuses to appear
14:08 Cerdini reads a decree stating that the trial will continue in Barbie's absence
14:09 German Attorney General Streim, a previous witness, asks to give additional testimony
14:10 Streim explains that there are two concurrent trials currently in process in Munich, both of which involve Barbie and the Lyon Gestapo, in particular officer Barthelemus, and in which Barbie's extradition was discussed; Streim and Vergès trade comments on Germany's failure to extradite Barbie from Bolivia, and on France's eventual successful extradition
14:26 Vergès questions Streim as to the involvement of Flak Battalion 958 in the Izieu raid; Streim explains that the unit was based in St. Cloud, and Vergès is doubtful
14:28 Prosecutor Nordmann asks Streim to discuss the controversy surrounding Barbie's second identity as Klaus Altmann, and challenges associated with his trial given the second identity
14:33 Cerdini presents a new witness, Victor Sullaper, and he is sworn in
14:35 The witness describes his experience at the UGIF on the day of the raid (February 9, 1943); he recounts first-hand the events of the raid; the means by which he was able to escape, though his brother did not and was sent to Auschwitz
14:41 President Cerdini asks the witness to specify the timing of the raid, its duration, and the identities of others who were let go from the raid without an arrest, as he was
14:46 Defense attorney Vergès questions the witness as to the identities of others who were stopped but not arrested, but the witness cannot remember
14:48 Cerdini presents another witness, Michel Thomas, and he is sworn in
14:48 The witness is stunned at Barbie's absence, and remarks on his sadness that he will not face Barbie in court; the witness testifies to his activity in the French resistance in Lyon, as a member of the American armed forces who liberated Dachau, and as a member of the CIC (Counter-Intelligence Corps) in Germany following the end of the war; the CIC employed Barbie following the witness' departure from the organization in 1947
14:55 The witness recounts his escape from the Milles deportation camp in September 1942, his subsequent arrival in Lyon in order to recruit Resistance members, and his presence at the UGIF on the day of the raid in February 1943, where he had gone to recruit young Jews into the Resistance
15:02 End of tape - Film Title
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Proces de Klaus Barbie
- Duration
- 01:21:14
- Date
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Event:
1987 May 21
- Locale
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Lyon,
France
- Credit
- Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Institut National de L'Audiovisuel
- Contributor
-
Producer:
Daniel Borgeot
Subject:
Physical Details
- Language
- French
- Genre/Form
- Unedited.
- B&W / Color
- Color
- Image Quality
- Fair
- Time Code
- 13:39:14:00 to 15:00:28:00
- Film Format
- Master
Master 3972 Video: Betacam SP - color - PAL - large
Master 3972 Video: Betacam SP - color - PAL - large
Master 3972 Video: Betacam SP - color - PAL - large
Master 3972 Video: Betacam SP - color - PAL - large
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- This archival media can only be accessed in a Museum reading room or other on-campus viewing stations.
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- Institut National de L'Audiovisuel
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Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Film Provenance
- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased this collection containing 185 hours of the Barbie Trial from the Institut National De L’Audiovisuel in Paris, France in July 2005.
- Note
- Abbreviated transcript with real time code idents available in departmental files.
- Copied From
- 3/4" Umatic SECAM
- Film Source
- Institut National de L'Audiovisuel
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 5861
Source Archive Number: 80041 [8 AV 42] - Special Collection
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Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
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- 2024-02-21 07:57:25
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