Session 114. Dr. Servatius sits. The Judges are not in the courtroom. 00:05:19 Judges enter and tell Dr. Servatius to continue. 00:06:03 Tape jumps. Dr. Servatius talks about the skeletons that Eichmann gave, saying that the entire request is peculiar. He refutes the accusations of Einsatzgruppen shootings with affidavits, as well as the cooperation of Eichmann with the Einsatzgruppen in the Baltics ...

Bibliographical references included in notes (pages 36-37). 39 pages ; 23 cm

(Paris 487) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, January 3, 1946. Rear view of US Col. Amen cross examining Otto Ohlendorf. Ohlendorf talks about the type of command structure and "task sharing during operations" between the Einsatzgruppen and the Army Command (Security Police - Army Command - Einsatzgruppenkommando). The Army command could give orders in specific situations, there was a liaison ...

Karl Kretschmer was Obersturmführer with Einsatzgruppe 4a (Babi Yar) and wrote an infamous letter to his wife and children about the killings. In this hidden camera interview, Kretschmer is very reluctant to talk. Lanzmann asks about Babi Yar and Kretschmer says he wasn't there. He says he doesn't remember what his letter said since he doesn't have them any more. Kretschmer says he was struck by the ...

Narrates the basic history of the Holocaust, including such aspects as the Einsatzgruppen, ghettos, transports, the SS, medical experiments, resistance, escapes, and war crimes trials.

An introduction to the history of the Holocaust, analyzing its causes. Deals with the discrimination against Jews in Germany between 1933-39, Jewish emigration between 1933-41, Aryanization, the deprivation of rights, the Wannsee Conference, and the implementation of the Final Solution: the massacres perpetrated by Einsatzgruppen, the ghettoization, the deportations, and the industrialized mass murder ...

The Gottschalk family correspondence consists of correspondence from the Gottschalk family of Libau (Liepaja), Latvia, in the period before, during, and after the Holocaust. Includes correspondence to Agnes Arnsdorff, who had immigrated to Palestine from her family from 1937-1941, and after 1944. Most of the family was murdered by the Einsatzgruppen in December 1941.

Collectie 270c: Proces Eichmann

Consists of the booklets issued for Nuremberg Military Tribunals no. 7 (the "Hostages Trial", or "The United States vs. Wilhelm List, et. al.") and Military Tribunal no. 9 (the "Einsatzgruppen Trial" or "The United States vs. Otto Ohlendorf, et. al"). The booklets list the defendants and the charges against them. These documents were originally the properly of Michale Hauptman (Michael Wakefield), ...

Hilary Earl donated her interview with Benjamin Ferencz to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in September 2021.

Footage and photographic stills of Kalevi-Liiva concentration/extermination camp in Estonia, including shots of a crematorium, barbed wire, Arbeit Macht Frei sign, victims (survivors?). Documents with names Ralf Gerriets and Jan Viik. City scenes. Trial footage, witnesses testify, photographic stills of atrocities presented as evidence, including Einsatzgruppen? acts, pits with corpses, decapitated ...

Includes bibliographical references (pages 863-864) and indexes. 891 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.

Geschichte des Bestandsbildners Himmler als Chef der Deutschen Polizei dehnte zwischen 1938 bis 1943 seine Befehlsgewalt auf alle angegliederten und besetzten Gebiete aus; ein direkter Instanzenzug bestand vom Reichsführer-SS und seinen Hauptämtern über die regionalen Höheren SS- und Polizeiführer (auch Höchste SS- und Polizeiführer) zu den Befehlshabern der Sicherheitspolizei und des SD sowie den ...

Rolf Wartenberg (1912-1996) was born in Berlin, Germany to Ernst and Hedwig Wartenberg. He immigrated to the United States, joined the United States Army, and trained at Camp Ritchie. He served as the lead interrogator on the Einsatzgruppen trial. Hannah Schiller was born in 1921 in Berlin. Her mother, Rosa Oleynick, was born on October 21, 1890 in Slutzk, Belarus and studied medicine in Koenigsberg, ...

1. Aufl. 503 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Excerpt from "Genocide" documentary film. Still photos and archival footage fade into one another. Immigration. Refugees. Einstein on boat. 06:21 Chamberlain. Boycott. Newspaper headlines. Kristallnacht (the audio recording of C. Brook Peters reporting the events of Kristallnacht was recreated for the film - it is NOT an original radio broadcast) Destruction of synagogues. Newspaper headlines. Propaganda ...

Contains two bound volumes sent to the donor's family in 1950 by Judge Michael Musmanno of Pittsburgh, PA, who had served as a judge at the Einsatzgruppen Trial (part of the subsequent Nuremberg trials) in Nuremberg, Germany, in 1948. The first volume is his concurring opinion in the case of "United States vs. Oswald Pohl, et.al.," the second is "Opinion and Judgment of the Tribunal," Case No. 9, 8 ...

A comprehensive survey of the Nuremberg Trials by the jurist and member of the prosecution staff, focusing especially on the SS Einsatzgruppen and their involvement in the murder of the Jews of Europe. Discusses the background to the Holocaust, incitement to pogroms, racial propaganda and the specific roles of the Gestapo and the SS in the extermination. also includes reports of the trials of concentration ...

Walter Stahlecker's second report and Karl Jäger's report on the actions of Einsatzgruppen A and local collaborators in Lithuania (October 1941-February 1942).

Sessions 6, 7 and 8. Begins during Attorney General Hausner's opening speech. He describes the terrible conditions inflicted upon the Jews in concentration camps. There is a blip at 00:04:42 and then Hausner continues his description by quoting eyewitness accounts of Nazi violence. There is another blip at 00:08:50 and the prosecutor refers to the extermination of Galician Jewry; he states, "The accused, ...

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1. Aufl. 795 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm

01:14:31 (Munich 339) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, August 10, 1946. Unidentified German officer is interrogated by Chief Justice Geoffrey Lawrence (latter is not seen). 01:16:13 (Munich 343) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, no date. Former Field Marshal von Manstein is cross-examined by US prosecutor Brig. Gen. Telford Taylor. Von Manstein is specifically questioned about the Einsatzgruppen ...

Surveys Nazi persecution of Jews and other groups, particularly the racial legislation, forced sterilizaton (including medical experiments in mass sterilization in Auschwitz), and the "euthanasia" program. Notes that the methods used to murder the mentally and physically handicapped were later applied to Jews. States that the known detention and death centers numbered 10,005 and divides them into 16 ...