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keywords: post-wwii, nuremberg trials, war atrocities, crimes against humanity, war atrocities in poland, mass graves, auschwitz commandant rudolf hoss

Synopsis: The Nuremberg Trials for Nazi war crimes against humanity during WWII with scenes of testimony of GeneralMajor Erwin von Lahousen of German Military Intelligence on the extermination of Polish military officers and other targeted individuals, war atrocities in Poland, mass graves, destruction of the village Oradour sur Glane France, Ardeatine Caves Massacre in Italy, Czech Village of Lidice burned to the ground, Auschwitz Commandant Rudolf Hoss testifies and more...(read more)

  • Date: 1945
  • Duration: 00:09:01
  • Sound: Yes
  • Color: Monochrome
  • Type: Public Domain
  • Language: English
  • Location: Germany, Europe
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Nuremberg Reel-5

Testimony of Generalmajor Erwin von Lahousen, Section II Chief in the Abwehr, the German Military Intelligence Service as to a conference in Hitler's train (brief image) attended by Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, head of the Abwehr and member of the German Resistance and the Reich Minister for Foreign Affairs von Ribbentrop. At that conference Canaris protested to the planned extermination of the Polish Intelligence, Polish Nobility, and Clergy.

Flashback to the methods of extermination and results of the Nazi policies in the Polish region. Shows automobile exhaust used as gas for gas chamber, starving Polish prisoners, burning homes and buildings. Shows Hans Frank, Nazi Governor of occupied Poland. Flashback images piles of dead bodies, mass graves, hanging body. German atrocities were not confined to Poland, scenes of dead bodies of French citizens and destruction of the village of Oradour sur Glane France, town of Bande Belgium more dead bodies, and in Italy the Ardeatine (Ardeantine) Caves Massacre of 320 Italian civilians murdered or executed by the Nazis. Sign on Italian building "Catacombe di San Callisto". Shows entry into cave. CU of document listing names of Italian victims killed. Shows men removing corpses from the Ardeatine (Ardeantine) cave. Shows the Czech village of Lidice that was burned and leveled by the youth of the German Schutzpolizei.

Rudolf Hoss, commander of concentration camp at Auschwitz testifies. Flashback Auschwitz cremation chambers, prison barracks, Russian prisoners lined up at fence at Auschwitz, various scenes of Auschwitz concentration camp. Medical experiments carried out by the Nazis, gruesome scenes of dead bodies. Slave labors at work in Germany, policy of Nazi plunder in occupied countries, livestock confiscated. Scenes of German citizens that were too old to work, lame, insane were called “useless eaters” and were murdered.