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Post-WWII - 1946, Germany: Nuremberg War Crimes Trials, Human Medical Experiments. 09Dec46

Reel Number: 221802-09

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1946,1940s

Country: Germany,USA

Location: Nuremberg

TC Begins: 19:11:08

TC Ends: 19:19:11

Duration: 00:08:03

NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk Post-WWII - 1946, Germany: Nuremberg War Crimes Trials, Human Medical Experiments. 09Dec46 MUNICH No. 478. 09Dec46 American lawyer Telford Taylor at lectern reading, SOF: Opening Statement for the United States of America, Trial 1 - Medical Case. Summarizing indictment / presentation: “It includes the 3 defendants who are not doctors... Re Hitler exercising his authority & military medical services of various branches. High Angle / HA of Taylor w/ press & public spectators (?) behind. 19:17:25 Pan to judges listening. VO continuing: “..the science of how most rapidly to kill prisoners & subjugated peoples in large numbers. This case & these defendants have created this gruesome question for the lexicographer. For the moment we will christen this macabre science fantatology - the science of producing death....supplied the techniques for genocide, a policy of the Third Reich exemplified in the euthanasia program & in the wide-spread slaughter of Jews, Gypsies, Poles & Russians. This policy of mass extermination could not have been so effectively carried out w/o the active participation of German medical scientists.” 19:18:21 “I will now take up the experiments themselves. 2 or 3 of them I will describe rather fully but most of them will be treated in summary fashion as Mr. McHaney will be presenting detailed proof of each. The first of the high altitude experiments: Subparagraph A of paragraph 6 of the indictment: The experiments known as High Altitude, or low pressure, experiments were carried out at the Dachau concentration camp in 1942. According to the proof, the original proposal that such experiments be carried out on human beings originated in the Spring of 1941 w/ a doctor Sigmund Rascher.” Ends abruptly. Post-WW2; Doctors’ Trial; Scientific Research; Experimentation; Crimes Against Humanity; Anthropological Purposes; Nazi Experiments; Horrors; Mustard Gas; Diseases; Atrocities; Atrocity; Euthanasia; NOTE: Partial or entire sold at per reel rate. FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk

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