Overview
- Description
- Summary: This is a documentary about the war crimes trial administered by the International Military Court of Justice in Nuremberg against the main Nazi war criminals from November 14, 1945 to October 1, 1946. The film documents footage of the trial from the prosecutor's opening to the verdict. The dramaturgy includes a chronological account of the founding of the National Socialist state, the unleashing of the world war, and the Nazi crimes against humanity and is accompanied with historical footage. This material is occasionally only used for illustration and does not necessarily portray the facts being commented upon. The film is also called "Nuremberg."
For a more detailed description of each reel, refer to catalog records for USHMM Film IDs 67, 2388, and 2749 to 2758.
This version includes the extra shot of nurses and Mogilev gassing. - Film Title
-
Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today
- Duration
- 01:10:00
- Date
-
Production:
1948
- Locale
-
Nuremberg,
Germany
- Credit
- Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of The Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research
- Contributor
-
Compiler:
Pare Lorentz
Compiler: Stuart Schulberg
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Genre/Form
- Documentary.
- B&W / Color
- Black & White
- Image Quality
- Fair
- Film Format
- Master
Master 2794 Video: DVD - NTSC
Master 2794 Video: DVD - NTSC
Master 2794 Video: DVD - NTSC
Master 2794 Video: DVD - NTSC- Preservation
Preservation 2794 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2794 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2794 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2794 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
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.
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Film Provenance
- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased this film in December 2004 from The Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research, Film and Photo Archive at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, Wisconsin.
- Note
- There are no burn-in time codes on the VHS.
See departmental files for English language transcript of film narration for Reels 1, 2, 7, and 8.
See Stories 2413-2417, Film ID 67 and Stories 3007-3008, Film ID 2388 and Story 4326, Film ID 2794 and Film IDs 2749-2758 for additional reels of this film.
Bergen-Belsen sequence in this version runs c. 56 seconds, whereas in the Headen/German version and NARA version the sequence runs 60 seconds.
Details from Dr. Albert Widmann's 1967 trial in Stuttgart include his personal description of actions corresponding to the scene of gassing by vehicle exhaust, in the company of Arthur Nebe, and the presence of one male Soviet doctor and two female Soviet doctors (in German-occupied territory in the vicinity of Mogilev, Belarus, in mid-September 1941). Widmann also mentions the presence of a "Polizeigeneral" and several SS officers of varying ranks. See "Archives of the Holocaust: An International Collection of Selected Documents" Vol.22, edited by Henry Friedlander and Sybil Milton. - Copied From
- 16mm, b/w (3 reels)
- Film Source
- The Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 4614
- Special Collection
-
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 08:07:16
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- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn1003779
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