Overview
- Description
- "Belsen Death Camp Leaders Meet Justice." Four British soldiers guarding door. CU, SS camp guards arriving for trial and climbing out of a truck. VCU, Josef Kramer. Crowds behind barriers in street. SS woman, including Irma Grese (the "bitch of Bergen-Belsen") and Juana Bormann, climbing out of truck. Filing into courtroom. Numbers hanging on defendants. Soldiers/military seated, Fritz Klein. Hundreds of corpses laid out in rows on ground.
Newsreel footage also includes the following parts:
01:32:31 "Sailing Ship 'Danmark' Goes Home Again"
01:33:44 "14 Marines and Sailors Win Highest Award"
01:34:38 "Allied Undersea Demolition Teams Aided Invasion"
01:36:58 "Secretary Byrnes Reports on London Meeting"
01:39:17 "Admiral Nimitz is Hailed in Washington" - Film Title
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Belsen Death Camp Leaders Meet Justice
- Duration
- 00:01:15
- Date
-
Event:
September-November 1945
- Locale
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Bergen-Belsen,
Germany
Lueneberg, Germany
- Credit
- Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives & Records Administration
- Contributor
-
Producer:
United News Company
Producer: United States Office of War Information
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Genre/Form
- Newsreels.
- B&W / Color
- Black & White
- Image Quality
- Good
- Time Code
- 01:38:01:00 to 01:39:16:00
- Film Format
- Master
Master 905 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Master 905 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Master 905 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Master 905 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large- Preservation
Preservation 905 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 905 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 905 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 905 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
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- 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 from the National Archives and Records Administration in September 1994.
- Note
- United News Contents Sheets available in departmental files.
- Copied From
- 35mm; b/w; composite; print
- Film Source
- United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 111
Source Archive Number: 208 UN 176 - Special Collection
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Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 07:45:40
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