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biographical history: James B. Donovan. United States Navy Commander. Associate Prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials, where he coordinated and presented all Nazi films at the trials. General Counsel to OSS. Negotiated the exchange of Bay of Pigs prisoners with Fidel Castro as an independent lawyer under backdrop of the missile crisis, securing the freedom of nearly 10,000 people. Portrayed by Tom Hanks in"Bridge of Spie". George Stevens (December 18, 1904 – March 8, 1975) was an American film director, producer, screenwriter and cinematographer. During World War II, Stevens joined the U.S. Army Signal Corps and headed a film unit from 1943 to 1946 under General Eisenhower. His unit shot footage documenting D-Day — including the only Allied European Front color film of the war — the liberation of Paris and the meeting of American and Soviet forces at the Elbe River, as well as horrific scenes from the Duben labor camp and the Dachau concentration camp. Stevens also helped prepare the Duben and Dachau footage and other material for presentation during the Nuremberg Trials. In 2008, his footage was entered into the U.S. National Film Registry by the Librarian of Congress as an"essential visual recor" of World War II. United States Navy Lieutenant E. R. Kellogg certifies motion pictures of Nazi concentration camps in an affidavit presented in the"Nazi Concentration Camp" film by the Americans as evidence during the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg. Kellogg had expertise in motion picture and photographic techniques through his employment with Twentieth Century Fox Studios in California from 1929 to 1941. He attests that he has thoroughly examined the concentration camp liberation films of the Army Signal Corps and found them to be unaltered, genuine, and true copies of the originals in the U.S. Army Signal Corps vaults.
has beginning date: 1945-01-01
has end date: 1945-12-31
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identifier: irn1000258
note: "Nazi Concentration Camp" was compiled as evidence and shown at the Nuremberg Trials as Prosecution Exhibit #230. The film was produced for the U.S. Counsel for Prosecution of Axis Criminality in 1945. It was directed by Navy Cmdrs. James B. Donovan and E. Ray Kellogg. George C. Stevens was responsible for directing the photography and filming of the concentration camps as liberated by Allied forces. The film has also been called"Concentration Camps in Germany, 1939-194".
note: The USHMM also contains a 16mm film print of"Nazi Concentration Camp" from National Audiovisual Center that has not been transferred. Refer to RG-60.6955 for a better version of this film from the Nuremberg Archives at ICJ. The USHMM also owns each subject separately, ordered by a US Army Signal Corps number: Reel 1) Leipzig, Penig: 111 ADC 8569 - RG-60.2006 & RG-60.2285; Reel 2) Ohrdruf, Hadamar: 111 ADC 8568 - RG-60.2329; Reel 3) Breendonck, Hanover, Arnstadt: 111 ADC 8570 - RG-60.0852 & RG-60.2041 & 111 ADC 10260 - RG-60.2438; Reel 4) Mauthausen, Nordhausen: 111 ADC 8571 - RG-60.0124 & RG-60.0125 & 111 ADC 10261 - RG-60.2439; Reel 5) Buchenwald, Dachau: 111 ADC 8552 - RG-60.0840 & 111 ADC 10262 - RG-60.2440; Reel 6) Belsen: 111 ADC 8553 - RG-60.0856. Original unedited segments are located on: 1) Arnstadt: 111 ADC 3961 - RG-60.0005; 2) Nordhausen: 111 ADC 3961 - RG-60.0005; 3) Dachau: 111 ADC 4468 - RG-60.0008; 4) Penig: 111 ADC 9756 - RG-60.2437.
scope and content: There are breaks between reels. The film begins with titles and affidavits attesting to the authenticity of the film material to follow. A quote from Robert Jackson is followed by affidavits from George Stevens and E. R. Kellogg. Both affidavits are shown on the screen as they are read aloud. An animated maps shows the locations of the largest prison and concentration camps in Germany and occupied Europe. 01:04:27 Title on screen:"Leipzig Concentration Cam" [Leipzig-Thekla, a sub-camp of Buchenwald]. Long shots of the camp while the narrator tells of the political prisoners who were burned to death or shot there. Former prisoners tell the story of the atrocity to an American soldier. Close-ups of a prisoner who burned to death while the narrator says that 200 starving prisoners were lured into a wooden buidling which was then set on fire. Bodies of those electrocuted on the fence as they tried to escape -- gruesome shots. Russian women, liberated from slave labor, view the corpses. 01:05:42 Title on screen:"Penig Concentration Cam" [a sub-camp of Buchenwald]. Exteriors and interiors of the camp. Female Hungarian prisoners. American medics examine the survivors, who are very ill. American soldiers remove ill people from barracks with stretchers. The survivors are taken to a hospital formerly used by the Luftwaffe, where Nazi doctors are ordered to treat them. Women survivors smile up from their stretchers. 01:09:11 Title on screen:"Ohrdruf Concentration Cam" [a sub-camp of Buchenwald]. Americans talk with camp survivors. Eisenhower, Bradley, and Patton tour the camp. They see torture devices, corpses. The narrator quotes Eisenhower's statement to the congressional delegation that toured the camp. Eisenhower views the crematory made from railway tracks."Prominent Nazi party member" and a"Nazi medical Majo" arrive on a truck and are forced to tour the camp with Colonel Hayden Sears. The Nazis are forced to enter the woodshed to view the corpses. The"medical Majo" is es…
title: War Crimes Commission: Concentration Camps