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Post-WWII - 1947, Germany: Nuremberg War Crimes Trials, Judgement & Sentencing, Case No.1, The Medical Trial. 20Aug47

Reel Number: 221152-05

Color: Black and White

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1947,1940s

Country: Germany

Location: Nuremberg

TC Begins: 09:17:02

TC Ends: 09:27:39

Duration: 00:10:37

Post-WWII - 1947, Germany: Nuremberg War Crimes Trials, Judgement & Sentencing, Case No.1, The Medical Trial. 20Aug47 Slate: Sentencing 20Aug. Last 700 (ft?). Case #1 Cameraman Stirk. Sound Potratz. 09:17:10 High Angle (HA) Hitler’s personal physician Karl Brandt into dock, flanked by MPs; given headset, puts on & listens to sentencing: “Karl Brandt, Military Tribunal One has found & adjudged you guilty of war crimes, crimes against humanity, & membership in an organization judged criminal by the International Military Tribunal...Military Tribunal One sentences you, Karl Brandt, to death by hanging, and may God have mercy on your soul”. Brandt removes headset & adjusts hair then led away. 09:18:18 Siegfried Handloser, Medical Inspector of German Army, into dock & sentenced to life imprisonment. 09:19:22 Oskar Schroeder, Lieutenant General of Medical Services, sentenced to life imprisonment. 09:20:14 Karl Genzken, Chief of Waffen-SS Medical Dept., sentenced to life imprisonment. 09:21:10 Karl Gebhardt, personal physician to Himmler, sentenced to death by hanging. 09:21:57 Rudolf Brandt, personal assistant to Himmler, sentenced to death by hanging. 09:22:51 Joachim Mrugowsky, Chief Hygienist of the Reich, sentenced to death by hanging. 09:23:43 Helmut Poppendick, SS Colonel, sentenced to 10 years imprisonment. 09:24:34 Wolfram Sievers, SS Colonel & Director of the Institute for Military Scientific Research, sentenced to death by hanging. 09:25:30 Gerhard Rose, Brig. Gen. of Medical Services for Luftwaffe, sentenced to life imprisonment. 09:26:19 Viktor Brack, SS Colonel & Chief Admin. Officer in Chancellery, sentenced to death by hanging. 09:27:10 Hermann Brecker-Freyseng, Personal Admin. Officer to Himmler, into dock - reel ends abruptly before sentencing completed. Post-WW2; War Criminals; Nazi Doctors; Capital Punishment; Military Court; Germany; 1940s; NOTE: Good sound & picture.

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