German Aeronautical technicians working at a aircraft materials testing laboratory in Germany, before World War 2. A pair of technicians use a fluoroscope on metal. The fluoroscope showing stress pattern in piece of material bed tested. A sheet metal being strain tested by scientists. A technician pulls chains. Sheet material shattering with characteristic diagonal folds.
United States soldiers capture Koblenz, Germany during World War II . Aerial view of the city of Coblenz. A bridge over a stream. A soldier talks on the radio. Soldiers load shells for firing. A destroyed bridge. Soldiers cross the stream and enter the city. German soldiers surrender. United States soldiers and tanks move down the streets. Dead German soldier lay on the ground. Soldiers move through ruins and take cover. A soldier fires from within a destroyed building. A sniper in prone position aims from amongst the rubble.
The Einsatzgruppen Case in Nuremberg, Germany war crimes trials after World War 2. Judge Michael A. Musmanno announces that three defendants are to be arraigned separately because they were ill when the remainder of the prisoners were arraigned. The prosecutor, Ben Ferencz, makes his opening speech in which he says that the court is not looking for vengeance but rather a plea of humanity to law.
The Einsatzgruppen Case in Nuremberg, Germany. General Telford Taylor in a courtroom. A member of the prosecution reads in part the description of the mass murders committed by the Einsatzgruppen. He also describes how the displaced persons, or DPs, were put into a van and gassed to death. One Einsatzgruppen detachment while making a report states that 121, 817 Jews were killed and that at one place they arrested all Jews over 16 and with an exception of the doctors and the elders all of them were executed. The leader of Einsatzgruppen reports that 15,000 Jews were executed in Schrewindt.
The Einsatzgruppen Case in Nuremberg, Germany, following World War 2. The chief defendant in trial in the case, Otto Ohlendorf, tells his story on the witness stand, relating that the records indicate where his Nazi German death squad group put to death more than 90,00 persons. Mr. James E Heath, prosecution lawyer questions Otto Ohlendorf about the 90,000 killings by Einsatzgruppen. Judge Michael A. Mussmanno makes a statement related to the above talks.
The Einsatzgruppen Case in Nuremberg, Germany. The member of prosecution reads the indictment. Prisoner Otto Ohlendorf gives reports that the group of corpses were first buried in the snow and then later buried by the Army. Einsatzgruppen Case reports the extermination of Jews by the death squad after the capture of Kiev. Report goes on to say that not only the Jews were considered politically dangerous but others such as Russians, Georgians, Poles etc. were also considered to have Bolshevistic tendencies. Otto Ohlendorf, the commander of the Einsatzgruppen death squad unit destroyed over 90,000 Jews. One Einsatzgruppen killed 700 people.
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