Portions of a damaged film. Excerpted from original shown during the Nuremburg trials and submitted as "Exhibit USA 280." Nuremberg trial transcripts of 13 December, 1945 include the following excerpted descriptions of the footage spoken by U.S. Commander William J. Donovan: "This is a strip of motion pictures taken, we believe, by a member of the S.S., and captured by the United States military forces in an S.S. barracks near Augsburg, Germany...We have not been able to establish beyond doubt in which area these films were made...The film offers undeniable evidence, made by Germans themselves, of almost incredible brutality to Jewish people in the custody of the Nazis, including German military units. It is believed by the prosecution that the scene is the extermination of a ghetto by Gestapo agents, assisted by military units...This film was made on an eight millimetre home camera...The pictures obviously were taken by an amateur photographer...it is burned...This is a silent film....I wish to...direct the Tribunal's attention to certain of the scenes. Scene 2: A naked girl running across the courtyard. Scene 3: An older woman being pushed past the camera, and a man in S.S. uniform standing at the right of the scene. Scene 5: A man with a skull-cap and a woman are manhandled. Scene 14: A half naked woman runs out of the crowd. Scene 15: Another half-naked woman runs through the house. Scene 16: Two men drag an old man out. Scene 18: A man in German military uniform, with his back to the camera, watches. Scene 24: A general shot of the street, showing fallen bodies and naked women running. Scene 32: A shot of the street, showing five fallen bodies. Scene 37: A man with a bleeding head is hit again. Scene 39: A soldier in German military uniform, with a rifle, stands by as a crowd concentrates on a man coming out of the house. Scene 44: A soldier with a rifle, in German military uniform, walks past a woman clinging to a torn blouse. Scene 45: A woman is dragged by her hair across the street.
Congressional inspection of Displaced Persons Camp in Eschwege, Germany in the year after World War 2 ended in Germany. Congressman Frank L Chelf, Kentucky; consultant to congress man Walter M Basterdman and others along with press photographers visit the refugee camps. A herd of pigs inside one of the camps. The visiting party walks out of one of the camp and observe others. A crowd of people watch them. Dignitaries visit various houses and camps and talk to each other. A burnt Quonset hut in the camp.
The Nuremberg Trials for World War II war crimes, at Nuremberg in Germany. Judge Musmanno questions the defendants at the court. The defendants called one after the other answer the questions of the judge and prosecutors at the court. The defendants continue pleading 'not guilty' at the court. The judge recesses the court.
Dramatized play of court of Old King Neptune aboard ship Saint Clara in Lima, Peru, during the 1938 Pan-American Conference (akin to the U.S. Navy ritual for sailors crossing the equator for the first time). Governor Landon seen with delegates to the Pan-American party at Lima. Court members and King Neptune during the court. Spectators watch the event. Correspondents throw most of the courtiers into water.
Former British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden arrives in New York to attend the National Association of Manufacturers. Anthony Eden disembarks from a ship at New York harbor. A huge crowd welcomes him. He addresses the National Association of Manufacturers and says that the State was made for man and not man for the State.
First Lady Mrs Franklin D Roosevelt at a painting raffle from Jack Benny, radio and screen comedian in New York. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and Hollywood movie stars look on the paintings. Mrs Roosevelt lends a helpful hand to Jewish refugees from Germany (fleeing persecution early in World War 2), buying the first chance painting. Jack Benny and Mrs Roosevelt talk while others look on.
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