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War Crimes Trials: Medical Case - Taylor explains medical experiments in indictment

Film | Digitized | Accession Number: 1994.119.1 | RG Number: RG-60.2286 | Film ID: 876

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    War Crimes Trials: Medical Case - Taylor explains medical experiments in indictment

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    Description
    (Munich 479) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 1 (Medical Case), Nuremberg, Germany. Brig. General Telford Taylor continues the reading of the indictment and tells of the torture and death of concentration camp inmates during the so-called "scientific experiments." HS, MS defendants in the prisoners' dock. Pan of the courtroom from defendant to Gen. Taylor reading the indictment. 04:11:06 "The victims who did not die in the course of such experiments, surely wished that they had. A long report written in July 1942 by Rascher, and by the defendants Ruff and Romberg, describes an experiment on a former delicatessen clerk, who was given an oxygen mask and raised in the chamber to an atmospheric elevation of over 47,000 feet, at which point the mask was removed and a parachute descent was simulated. The report describes the victim's reactions-"spasmodic convulsions," "agonal convulsive breathing," "clonic convulsions and groans," "yells aloud," "convulses arms and legs," "grimaces, bites his tongue," "does not respond to speech," "gives the impression of someone who is completely out of his mind."" Taylor indicts particular defendants and continues a long sustained descriptive statement about "medical" experiments and procedures. He quotes directly from Nazi documents submitted as evidence. Pan of dock and courtroom as Taylor speaks about high and low pressure experiments, freezing experiments, rewarming experiments of Romani women and children at Ravensbrueck, and "dry" cold experiments.
    Duration
    00:10:55
    Date
    Event:  1946 December 09
    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
    Genre/Form
    Unedited.
    B&W / Color
    Black & White
    Image Quality
    Good
    Time Code
    03:18:25:00 to 03:29:20:00
    Film Format
    • Master
    • Master 876 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
      Master 876 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
      Master 876 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
      Master 876 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
    • Preservation
    • Preservation 876 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
      Preservation 876 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
      Preservation 876 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
      Preservation 876 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.

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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 1994.
    Note
    Trial transcripts available in the departmental files.
    Duplicate footage on Film ID 2280, Story 2436.
    Film Source
    United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
    File Number
    Legacy Database File: 1941
    Source Archive Number: 111 ADC 6288
    Record last modified:
    2024-02-21 07:48:46
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