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Doctor and Gestapo prisoner testifies at Nuremberg Trial

Film | Digitized | Accession Number: 2001.358.1 | RG Number: RG-60.2809 | Film ID: 2343

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    Doctor and Gestapo prisoner testifies at Nuremberg Trial

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    Description
    (Paris 489) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, January 11, 1946. Thomas J. Dodd, US prosecution, introducing witness Dr. Franz Blaha. Dodd reads Dr. Blaha's signed affidavit telling of his career as head of a hospital in Czechoslovakia and his experiences as a Gestapo prisoner. The affidavit reveals that the Germans used healthy prisoners for various medical experiments. If the prisoners did not die in the experiments they were later killed.

    Additional trial footage missing from NARA original documentation:
    (Lieutenant Breshnen?) Prosecutor (from behind) reads an affidavit of someone defending Schacht. He quotes from a document saying that Schacht warned both British and Americans about the Nazis, and disapproved with basically everything the Nazis were doing. Prosecutor quotes: "Dr. Schacht always played both sides of the defense....If the Nazis are not stopped, they were going to ruin Germany and the rest of the world. He predicted that the Nazis would inevitably plunge Europe into war...." But Schacht also continued to lend his services to the Nazis on the basis of opportunity. He stated in 1935 that Germany would acquire new colonies, if necessary by force. Prosecutor brings up a document out of affidavit by S.R. Fuller Jr., together with transcript of a conversation between him and Schacht at the American Embassy in Berlin on September 23, 1935. He quotes a statement by Schacht about Germany's need for colonies. (View of the defendants, Schacht, etc.) He helped Hitler build up a Wehrmacht that would help Germany to reign more Lebensraum.
    Duration
    00:10:34
    Date
    Event:  1946 January 11
    Locale
    Nuremberg, Germany
    Credit
    Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives & Records Administration
    Contributor
    Producer: United States. Army. Signal Corps.

    Physical Details

    Language
    English German Czech
    Genre/Form
    Unedited.
    B&W / Color
    Black & White
    Image Quality
    Fair
    Time Code
    05:32:01:00 to 05:42:35:00
    Film Format
    • Master
    • Master 2343 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
      Master 2343 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
      Master 2343 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
      Master 2343 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
    • Preservation
    • Preservation 2343 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
      Preservation 2343 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
      Preservation 2343 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
      Preservation 2343 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large

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    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.

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    Administrative Notes

    Film Provenance
    The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased this from the National Archives and Records Administration in September 2001.
    Note
    See Story 2928, Film ID 2371 for duplicate footage.
    Copied From
    35mm MPPC; b/w
    Film Source
    United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
    File Number
    Legacy Database File: 2961
    Source Archive Number: 111 ADC 5716
    Record last modified:
    2024-02-21 07:43:37
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