DeptName
Documents

IDNO
2297

OtherNumber
86/19/1

ItemName
Private Papers of Marie Georgine

ObjectType
Private Papers

ShortSummary
Ts transcript (141pp) of long detailed letters written in the form of a journal by an English born nun at an Ursuline Convent near Wespelauer, Belgium, August 1914 - December 1918, providing a dramatic chronicle of events at the Convent during the war and covering the billeting of Belgian soldiers, coping with the refugees that succeeded them, the arrival of the German Army and subsequent life under the Occupation with excellent references to civilian conditions, prohibitions, reprisals and atrocities in the district carried out by the military authorities and the treatment of Belgian and non-Belgian nuns and clerics.

MakerName
Marie Georgine

Style
Reverend Mother

Weighting
1

SubThemeTag
WarCrimes

WebStatus
published

UncatTransferDate
23/06/2006 12:46:31

URLEncodedDeptName
Documents

Access
Unrestricted

DeptName
Documents

IDNO
2323

OtherNumber
93/11/1

ItemName
Private Papers of S G Champion

ObjectType
Private Papers

ShortSummary
Collection of miscellaneous official and semi-official papers relating to the work of Nos 1 and 2 War Crimes Investigation Teams during the period 1944 - 1945, comprising: cyclostyled copy of No 1 WCIT's interim report on atrocities committed at Bergen-Belsen and other concentration camps, April 1945 (30pp, ts) and related papers, including depositions by eyewitnesses; carbon copy (2pp, ts) of a `medical appreciation' of Belsen camp by Lieutenant Colonel J A D Johnston RAMC, April 1945; carbon copy (1p, ts) of a nominal roll of personnel of No 1 WCIT, 1945; a folder of various low-level papers relating to No 2 WCIT, including correspondence and handwritten notes concerning the sinking of the CAP ARCONA and other vessels in Neustadt Bay, May 1945 (circa 25pp), and a copy of the `Regulations for the Trial of War Criminals' (5pp, ts).

MakerName
Champion

Forenames
S G

Style
Lieutenant Colonel

Weighting
1

SubThemeTag
WarCrimes

WebStatus
published

UncatTransferDate
23/06/2006 12:46:31

URLEncodedDeptName
Documents

Access
Unrestricted

DeptName
Documents

IDNO
2869

OtherNumber
Misc 172 (2640)

ObjectType
Miscellaneous Documents

ShortSummary
Collection of papers relating mainly to the investigation of alleged atrocities committed by the German occupation forces on the Channel Islands during the Second World War, comprising: official correspondence on the subject originating with the Judge Advocate General's office, May - August 1945 (circa 30pp, ts/ms); witness statements (30pp, ts) concerning ill-treatment and murder, particularly of Russian POWs employed on the islands; a copy of 21 Army Group Administrative Instruction No 104 concerning the investigation of atrocities and the prosecution of war criminals, May 1945 (14pp, ts), together with a sample War Criminal Arrest Report and a CROWCASS Detention Report.

Weighting
1

SubThemeTag
WarCrimes

WebStatus
published

UncatTransferDate
23/06/2006 12:46:31

URLEncodedDeptName
Documents

Access
Unrestricted

DeptName
Documents

IDNO
6371

OtherNumber
97/7/1

ItemName
Private Papers of H D Turrall

ObjectType
Private Papers

ShortSummary
Papers relating to his service as Officer Commanding, British War Crimes Executive (European Section), at the International Military Tribunal Nuremberg during 1945 - 1946, comprising: information brochure (12pp ts) issued by the BWCE(ES) containing the names and signatures of the Judges and their Alternates, seating and floor plan of the courtroom and brief details of the defendants (two photographs showing the Judges and defendants have been inserted); letters (19pp ts/ms) received by Turrall during 1946, mostly expressing appreciation of his services at Nuremberg or of a personal nature, notably from Judges Norman Birkett and Francis Biddle, the Attorney General Sir Hartley Shawcross, Sir David Maxwell Fyfe, Brigadier (later Sir) Norman Gwatkin, Leslie Hore Belisha, General Sir Ronald Adam and A L Easterman of the World Jewish Congress (European Division); and a laissez-passer (1p ts), dated December 1945, signed by Turrall.

MakerName
Turrall

Forenames
H D

Style
Colonel

Weighting
1

SubThemeTag
WarCrimes

WebStatus
published

UncatTransferDate
23/06/2006 12:46:31

URLEncodedDeptName
Documents

Access
Unrestricted

DeptName
Documents

IDNO
7950

OtherNumber
German Misc 23 (184)

ObjectType
Miscellaneous Documents

ShortSummary
Translated transcription (15pp ts) of a captured diary kept by a German Army officer of the 178th Regiment, XII (Saxon) Corps, 9 August - 22 September 1914, describing his unit's activities and his own impressions during the advance through Belgium into northern France, with particular reference to atrocities committed by German troops against the civilian population (actions he increasingly condemns); it is possible that this document was circulated for propaganda purposes, and may be `doctored'.

RelatedIWMItems
Held at IWM Duxford.

Weighting
1

SubThemeTag
WarCrimes

WebStatus
published

UncatTransferDate
23/06/2006 12:46:31

URLEncodedDeptName
Documents

Access
Unrestricted

DeptName
Documents

IDNO
9215

OtherNumber
Misc 79 (1210)

ObjectType
Miscellaneous Documents

ShortSummary
Ts account (2pp) being a translation of a Japanese eyewitness description of an unknown Allied airman's execution on 29 March 1943 in accordance with the Bushido code; a vivid but harrowing account, it is probably a document used in evidence at a war crimes trial, possibly that of Komai, the executioner in the account.

Weighting
1

SubThemeTag
WarCrimes

WebStatus
published

UncatTransferDate
23/06/2006 12:46:31

URLEncodedDeptName
Documents

Access
Unrestricted

DeptName
Documents

IDNO
9902

OtherNumber
FO 648

ItemName
Foreign Documents of Far East International Military Tribunal,

ObjectType
Foreign Documents

ShortSummary
Records of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East, held in Tokyo between April 1946 and December 1948 to try representatives of the wartime Japanese governments and armed forces on war crimes charges, comprising: 27 volumes of the published transcripts of Proceedings in Open Session and associated records, with name and subject index (THE TOKYO WAR CRIMES TRIAL, ed. R J Pritchard & S M Zaide, Garland Publishing, New York 1981 - 1987); bound copies of the original cyclostyled record of proceedings, prosecution and defence summations, court exhibits not included in the published series, and related records (held under Public Record Office references FO 648/1-160); record of proceedings in the Case of United States of America against Hiroshi Tamura and Soemu Toyoda (held under Public Record Office references FO 648/161-187).

MakerName
International Military Tribunal,

Forenames
Far East

RelatedIWMItems
See typed list for FO 648. THESE RECORDS ARE HELD AT IWM DUXFORD.

Weighting
1

SubThemeTag
WarCrimes

WebStatus
published

UncatTransferDate
23/06/2006 12:46:31

URLEncodedDeptName
Documents

Access
Unrestricted

DeptName
Documents

IDNO
9903

OtherNumber
FO 645

ItemName
Foreign Documents of Nuremberg International Military Tribunal,

ObjectType
Foreign Documents

ShortSummary
Records of the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, November 1945 - October 1946, documenting the trial of leading representatives of the Nazi regime on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity, comprising: 43 volumes of the published transcripts of daily Proceedings in Open Session and selected court exhibits, with name and subject index (TRIAL OF THE MAJOR WAR CRIMINALS BEFORE THE INTERNATIONAL MILITARY TRIBUNAL, IMT Nuremberg 1947 - 1949); cyclostyled copies of the trial transcripts, prosecution and defence documents, court exhibits (incomplete series), and interrogation reports on defendants and witnesses (held under Public Record Office references FO 645/1-350).

MakerName
International Military Tribunal,

Forenames
Nuremberg

RelatedIWMItems
See typed list for FO 645. THESE RECORDS ARE HELD AT IWM DUXFORD.

Weighting
1

SubThemeTag
WarCrimes

WebStatus
published

UncatTransferDate
23/06/2006 12:46:31

URLEncodedDeptName
Documents

Access
Unrestricted

DeptName
Documents

IDNO
9904

OtherNumber
FO 646

ItemName
Foreign Documents of Nuremberg United States Military Tribunals,

ObjectType
Foreign Documents

ShortSummary
Records of the United States Military Tribunals at Nuremberg, November 1946 - February 1948, documenting the trial on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity of representatives of Nazi organisations which were not specifically dealt with by the preceding International Military Tribunal, comprising: circa 280 volumes of cyclostyled transcripts of daily Proceedings in Open Session in the cases of USA vs Karl Brandt et al (`Medical Case'), Field Marshal Erhard Milch (`Milch/Luftwaffe Case'), Josef Altstoetter et al (`Justice Case'), Oswald Pohl et al (`Pohl Case'), Friedrich Flick et al (`Flick/Industrialist Case'), Karl Krauch et al (`I G Farben/Industrialist Case'), Field Marshal Wilhelm List et al (`Hostage Case'), Ulrich Greifelt et al (`Rasse und Siedlungshauptamt/RuSHA Case'), Otto Ohlendorf et al (`Einsatzgruppen Case'), Alfried Krupp et al (`Krupp/Industrialist Case'), Ernst von Weizsaecker et al (`Ministries Case'), and Field Marshal Wilhelm von Leeb et al (`High Command Case') (held under Public Record Office references FO 646/1-279); incomplete series of defence and prosecution documents for the twelve cases (held under Public Record Office references FO 646/280-483).

MakerName
United States Military Tribunals,

Forenames
Nuremberg

RelatedIWMItems
See typed list for FO 646; a nominal index to defendants and witnesses is also available, as is a 16-volume series of Interrogation Summaries. THESE RECORDS ARE HELD AT IWM DUXFORD.

Weighting
1

SubThemeTag
WarCrimes

WebStatus
published

UncatTransferDate
23/06/2006 12:46:31

URLEncodedDeptName
Documents

Access
Unrestricted

DeptName
Documents

IDNO
9905

OtherNumber
FO 647

ItemName
Foreign Documents of Europe Miscellaneous Trials,

ObjectType
Foreign Documents

ShortSummary
5 volumes of cyclostyled transcripts of Proceedings in Open Session of a British Military Tribunal in Venice, February - May 1947, in the trial of Field Marshal Albert Kesselring on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity (held under Public Record Office references FO 647/1-5); also miscellaneous records concerning other trials, notably those of General Alexander von Falkenhausen and of the industrialist Hermann Roechling (held under Public Record Office reference FO 647/6).

MakerName
Miscellaneous Trials,

Forenames
Europe

RelatedIWMItems
See typed list for FO 647.THESE RECORDS ARE HELD AT IWM DUXFORD. See also the papers of Lieutenant Colonel P M Marjoribanks-Egerton, which contain an incomplete series of court exhibits for the Kesselring trial.

Weighting
1

SubThemeTag
WarCrimes

WebStatus
published

UncatTransferDate
23/06/2006 12:46:31

URLEncodedDeptName
Documents

Access
Unrestricted

DeptName
Exhibits

IDNO
INS 4356

ItemName
badge, Star of David

ObjectType
badge

IndexPeople
Dalberg, Rosa
Buchtal, Rosa

FullSummary
The Yellow Star was worn by Rosa Dalberg in the Netherlands prior to going into hiding with false papers. Her ID cards are held in the Department of Documents.

RelatedIWMItems
DOCS

RelatedImageFile
INS_004356.jpg

Weighting
1000
900

SubThemeTag
WarCrimes

UncatTransferDate
30/06/2006 11:14:35

URLEncodedDeptName
Exhibits

FormatDescription
Jood is printed on the yellow star of David

Access
On display at IWM North

DigitalAsset
Y

IWMImageOwned
Y

DeptName
Exhibits

IDNO
EPH 2517

ItemName
suicide phial (cyanide) & concealment

ObjectType
misc

IndexPeople
Pohl, Oswald (SS Obergruppenfuhrer)

IndexUnits
DE.O & SS

FullSummary
The phial allegedly belonged to SS Obergruppenfuhrer Oswald Pohl. Pohl was born in Duisberg 1892. Served as a paymaster in the German navy. Joined the Nazi Party in 1926 and quickly advanced in its ranks, in 1933 he was instructed to build up the SS administration by Himmler. At the end of the war he was in charge of the WVHA which was responsible for the concentration camps and the SS industrial enterprises, answerable only to Himmler. After the war Pohl was finally tracked down as 'Lugwig Gniss' registered as a gardener, working for a farmer in Armsen. According to Michael O'Mara's 'The Secret Hunters' (London, 1986) the investigators 'main concern was to carry out an arrest without permitting Pohl to use a cyanide capsule which so many of the senior Nazis carried with them.' Pohl was later tried and hanged at Landsberg prison.

Weighting
1

SubThemeTag
WarCrimes

UncatTransferDate
30/06/2006 11:14:35

URLEncodedDeptName
Exhibits

FormatDescription
The container holds a phial of cyanide, and is made from two German 7.92 mm cartridge cases. Z 1939 XI is engraved on the base of the cartridge case.

Access
Access restrictions may apply

DeptName
Exhibits

IDNO
WEA 2149

ProductionDate
1999

ItemName
club, handmade

ObjectType
concussive weapon

IndexPlaces
YU & Kosovo

IndexUnits
GB.A & Household Cavalry Regt, Sqn D

FullSummary
This weapon was found in a police station, during the NATO intervention in Kosovo. It was presented to the museum by D Squadron, The Household Cavalry Regt, who served as part of the KFOR intervention force between 12 June and 29 October 1999.

RelatedIWMItems
UNI, EQU, FIR, FLA, MUN, SUR

RelatedImageFile
WEA_002149.jpg

Weighting
1000
900

SubThemeTag
WarCrimes

UncatTransferDate
30/06/2006 11:14:35

URLEncodedDeptName
Exhibits

FormatDescription
A homemade weapon, comprising nuts and bolts screwed into steel tubing, with cellulose tape forming a 'handle'.

Access
On display at IWM North

DigitalAsset
Y

IWMImageOwned
Y

DeptName
Exhibits

IDNO
WEA 2150

ProductionDate
1999

ItemName
knuckleduster

ObjectType
concussive weapon

IndexPlaces
YU & Kosovo

IndexUnits
GB.A & Household Cavalry Regt, Sqn D

FullSummary
This weapon was found in a police station, during the NATO intervention in Kosovo. It was presented to the museum by D Squadron, The Household Cavalry Regt, who served as part of the KFOR intervention force between 12 June and 29 October 1999.

RelatedIWMItems
UNI, EQU, FIR, FLA, MUN, SUR

RelatedImageFile
WEA_002150.jpg

Weighting
1000
900

SubThemeTag
WarCrimes

UncatTransferDate
30/06/2006 11:14:35

URLEncodedDeptName
Exhibits

FormatDescription
This weapon is homemade, having been roughly cast from an extemporized mould.

Access
On display at IWM North

DigitalAsset
Y

IWMImageOwned
Y

DeptName
Film

IDNO
MGH 464

ProductionDate
1970

ItemName
HIROSHIMA NAGASAKI AUGUST 1945 [Main]

IndexPlaces
Japan

ShortSummary
Documentary showing the aftermath of the two atomic bombs dropped on Japan.

FullSummary
The film used in this documentary was withheld by US authorities for 25 years. It includes footage of the widespread devastation of the two cities and ghastly footage taken in the hospitals where doctors are applying dressings to those suffering from radiation burns. The soundtrack includes facts and figures about the extent of the destruction and accounts of the atomic explosions written by some of those who survived them.

ContextDescription
Remarks: the visual content of some of the footage used is absolutely appalling and is quite unwatchable.
Noted as a "CMC Production" - ie produced by the Center for Mass Communication at Columbia University.
Viewing copy only - not available for production use.

Duration
16 mins

Format
P 1/16/A

Colour
B&W

Sound
comopt

NumberOfParts
1

Dimensions
564 ft

ProductionCompany
Center for Mass Communication, Columbia University

ProductionTeam
Barnouw, Erik: producer
Bartz, Geoff: associate editor
Van Dyke, Barbara M: associate producer
Ronder, Paul: film editor
Johnson, Linea: music effects
Schukraft, Terrill: music effects
Ronder, Paul: script

ProductionCast
Ronder, Paul: narrator
Oshima, Kazuko: narrator

ProductionCountry
USA

Language
English

LanguageMainTitles
English

LanguageSubtitles
None

RelatedIWMItems
"Case History of the film HIROSHIMA-NAGASAKI, AUGUST 1945" by Erik Barnouw, held in the Film and Video Archive.

OtherReferences
Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television Vol 2 No 1 1982 "The Hiroshima-Nagasaki Footage: A Report" by Erik Barnouw

Weighting
500

SubThemeTag
WarCrimes

UncatTransferDate
30/06/2006 09:20:43

URLEncodedDeptName
Film

Access
NON-IWM

DeptName
Film

IDNO
GWY 733

ProductionDate
4/1943

ItemName
I SKOGEN VID KATYN [Main]
IM WALD VON KATYN [translation]

IndexObjects
religion, Christianity - ceremonial, Polish
religion, Christianity - ceremonial, Russian
ceremonies, Russian - event-related: reinterment of massacre victims
casualties, Russian dead - civilian: [abuse]
casualties, Russian graves - mass
propaganda, German - inflammatory: anti-Soviet

IndexPeople
Koslowski
Smorawinski (General)

IndexPlaces
Russia & Katyn
Russia & Vinnitsa

IndexUnits
DE.A
PL.A

ShortSummary
Mass graves of Polish officers in Katyn Forest and Russians at Vinnitsa in the Ukraine are Europe's final warning against Bolshevism.

FullSummary
Film moves from the Dnieper and the houses where the OGPU killers "held wild orgies" to the mass graves of 12,000 Poles now uncovered at Katyn. Some of the disinterred corpses have sand in their windpipes, others bound wrists and bullet holes in the neck. Personal effects facilitate identification of corpses, including General Smorawinski's. 1940 OGPU massacre of these Polish POWs, said by Stalin to have become Soviet citizens, is confirmed by members of a European Commission including ex-President Koslowski, former Polish Army colleagues and representatives of the European press who visit the site. A mass is read. Meanwhile European experts visiting Vinnitsa have confirmed that the Soviet Russians liquidated countless thousands of their fellow citizens. Relatives look on as corpses are disinterred and identified by bibles and Tsarist mementos before reburial in a mass grave consecrated by Bishop Gregory. German officer heils before laying a wreath. Commentary warns that Katyn and Vinnitsa show the real face of Bolshevism which is nothing other than a Jewish organisation for the annihilation of all culture and civilisation in Europe and the whole world.

ContextDescription
Documentation/associated material: another version in Swedish with a different commentary is held as GWY 750.

Duration
13 mins

Format
P 1/35/N

Colour
B&W

Sound
comopt

NumberOfParts
2

Dimensions
1134 ft

ProductionCountry
Germany

Language
Swedish

LanguageMainTitles
Swedish

LanguageSubtitles
None

OtherReferences
shotsheet

Weighting
500

SubThemeTag
WarCrimes

UncatTransferDate
01/11/2006 05:50:21

URLEncodedDeptName
Film

Access
IWM-GERMAN

DeptName
Film

IDNO
ITN 183

ProductionDate
10/5/1967

ItemName
ROVING REPORT NO 68 [1. VIETNAM - HILL 881 2. STOCKHOLM TRIBUNAL] [1967] [Main]

ShortSummary
Report in two sections.

FullSummary
1. Report on the final stages of the 12 day battle for Hill 881 which dominates the infiltration route from North Vietnam to the South. Determined stand by well-equipped and disciplined enemy troops leads some US Marines to think that Communists are supported by Chinese advisers and troops. Against a background of firing, a Colonel describes the fighting in his sector. Marines eventually regained the high ground at a cost of 200 men, one tenth the estimated enemy casualty figure. 2. Attack on the Vietnam War Crimes Tribunal, described as a lengthy exercise in propaganda which has found the USA guilty of aggression before the evidence has been heard. Peter Weiss and the "uncompromisingly left-wing" Sartre speak during the first session which uses the evidence of four Vietnamese witnesses, including a boy burnt by napalm, to prove that the USA is bombing civilian targets. Reporter rejects the contention of Ralph Schoenman (secretary to Bertrand Russell) that the FNL is fighting an occupier as the Poles fought the Germans, and agrees with Swedish Premier Tage Erlander who says that the Tribunal can only increase feelings of hatred and will not help negotiations.

Duration
23 mins

Format
P 1/16/A

Colour
B&W

Sound
comopt

NumberOfParts
1

Dimensions
818 ft

ProductionCompany
Independent Television News (Vietnam story by ABC)

ProductionCast
North, Don: reporter (ABC, Vietnam)
Gall, Sandy: reporter (Stockholm)

ProductionCountry
GB

Language
English

LanguageMainTitles
English

LanguageSubtitles
None

Weighting
500

SubThemeTag
WarCrimes

UncatTransferDate
30/06/2006 09:20:43

URLEncodedDeptName
Film

Access
NON-IWM

DeptName
Film

IDNO
WIF 192

ProductionDate
28/1/1949

ItemName
WELT IM FILM NO 192 [Main]

FullSummary
I. After-effects of blizzard in American West. Railway snow ploughs; farmers digging out animals; deer become tame through hunger. Snow even hits California (snow-covered palm and orange trees)
II. "Nachrichten aus Deutschland." a. US Governor of Württemberg-Baden, C Lafollette, returns to USA; replaced by General Charles P Gross. b. Retirement of Bishop Wurm of Württemberg, and installation of his successor Martin Haug; Wurm is succeeded as head of Evangelical Church Council by Bishop Dibelius of Berlin. c. Radio Munich is handed over to civilian control, becoming Bayerischer Rundfunk; General Hays and Van Wagoner hand license to Alois Lippl.
III. Conclusion of the Tokyo war crimes trial: Tojo hears death sentence.
IV. Good film of the production of tyres in Germany.
V. "Fashion horoscope": summer fashion shows.
VI. USA changes Secretary of State. Marshall resigns on grounds of health, followed by Dean Acheson. Stock film of Acheson, praise for his abilities from Marshall in an interview.
VII. Maiden voyage (Southampton-New York) of the liner «Caronia».
VIII. Frankfurt: a bear is taken on city 'excursion' by its keeper.

Duration
13 mins

Format
P 1/35/N

Colour
B&W

Sound
comopt

NumberOfParts
1

Dimensions
1147 ft

ProductionCountry
Allied Military Government

Language
German

LanguageMainTitles
German

LanguageSubtitles
None

Weighting
500

SubThemeTag
WarCrimes

UncatTransferDate
30/06/2006 09:20:43

URLEncodedDeptName
Film

Access
IWM

DeptName
Film

IDNO
WPN 241

ProductionDate
17/12/1945

ItemName
WORLD PICTORIAL NEWS NO 241 [Main]

IndexEvents
Allied Occupation of Germany & War Crimes Trials & Nuremberg Trials & 20/11/1945

IndexObjects
law and order, German - judicial process

IndexPeople
Goering, Hermann W
Hess, Rudolf
Ribbentrop, Joachim von
Keitel, Wilhelm B J G
Rosenberg, Alfred
Frank, Hans
Frick, Wilhelm
Streicher, Julius
Funk, Walther
Schacht, Hjalmar H G
Doenitz, Karl
Raeder, Erich
Schirach, Baldur von
Sauckel, Fritz
Jodl, Alfred
Papen, Franz von
Seyss-Inquart, Arthur
Speer, Albert
Neurath, Konstantin von
Fritzsche, Hans
Biddle, Francis H
Birkett, Norman
Donnedieu de Vabres, Henri (Professeur)
Falco, Robert
Jackson, Robert H
Lawrence, Geoffrey
Nikitchenko, I T (Major-General)
Parker, John J
Volchkov, A F (Lieutenant-Colonel)

ShortSummary
"They Shall Be Brought to Justice and Punished" Churchill - [Nuremberg Trials].

FullSummary
I. 'NUREMBERG TRIALS.' Quote from Winston Spencer Churchill appears on screen "They shall be brought to justice and punished." Interior footage taken in the courtroom of the Palace of Justice in Nuremberg shows the opening of the first war crimes trial. Camera pans over the defendants seated in the dock who include Hermann W Goering, Rudolf Hess, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Wilhelm B J G Keitel, Alfred Rosenberg, Hans Frank, Wilhelm Frick, Julius Streicher, Walther Funk, Hjalmar Schacht, Karl Doenitz, Erich Raeder, Baldur von Schirach, Fritz Sauckel, Alfred Jodl, Franz von Papen, Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Albert Speer, Konstantin von Neurath and Hans Fritzsche. The court rises as the judges enter. Brief close-up footage shows British judges, Lord Justice Lawrence and Norman Birkett. Justice R H Jackson reads the indictment. Goering and Hess listen. Camera pans across the courtroom to show the judges' panel who include Major-General IT Nikitchenko, Lieutenant-Colonel A F Volchkov, Birkett, Lawrence, Frances H Biddle, Judge J J Parker, Professeur Henri Donnedieu de Vabres and Robert Falco. The defendants put on their translation headphones. A dispute arises over defendants' consultation facilities with council which leads to the court being adjourned for fifteen minutes. Hess and Goering confer with the defence council as United States (US) military police watch attentively. Goering attempts to make a speech in German but is prevented from doing so. He is shown pleading "Not Guilty". The German defendants plead "Not Guilty" (The pleas of Frank, Doenitz, Raeder, Schirach, Sauckel, Jodl are not shown). Goering stands up and seeks to gain the attention of the judges' panel by clicking his fingers, but is told he may not speak. Jackson begins his speech for the US prosecution, Goering and Hess listen.

Duration
9 mins

Format
P 1/35/N

Colour
B&W

Sound
comopt

NumberOfParts
1

Dimensions
834 ft

ProductionSponsor
Ministry of Information, Middle East

ProductionCompany
World Pictorial News

ProductionTeam
Martin, Charles: film editor

ProductionCast
Noble, Robert: commentary

ProductionCountry
GB

Language
English

LanguageMainTitles
English

LanguageSubtitles
Arabic

OtherReferences
English script

Weighting
500

SubThemeTag
WarCrimes

UncatTransferDate
30/06/2006 09:20:43

URLEncodedDeptName
Film

Access
IWM

DeptName
Film

IDNO
MGH 3441

ProductionDate
1916 (ca)

ItemName
[PUBLIC EXECUTION BY HANGING OF UNIDENTIFIED PRISONERS, FIRST WORLD WAR] [Allocated]

ShortSummary
Public hanging, probably in Serbia (later Yugoslavia) during the First World War, of three male prisoners in civilian clothes.

FullSummary
Small prison house; an officer comes out followed by armed guard of soldiers with three civilian male prisoners; two of them appear to be brothers. They are put into an open truck. The next scene is of a gallows in a large field. The three condemned men stand by their scaffolds. A small crowd of police, soldiers, officers and Orthodox priests stand around while the sentence is read out. In the background a large crowd watches from a low hill, kept back by troops. In between a horse grazes. A priest followed by an officer speaks to the condemned, a man takes photographs and another (journalist ?) makes notes. Next shot of condemned standing on tables below nooses. Each man is executed in succession. Executioners tug on the men's legs to ensure they are dead. Crowds leave scene. A group of women in black is singled out by the camera which suggests that they may be the widows.

ContextDescription
Summary: identification is based exclusively on visual content of reel, which had no known provenance. Date stock of Kodak film acquired by IWM was 1925, so provisional dating of film to First World War is only an assumption.

Duration
5 mins

Format
P 2/35/A

Colour
B&W

Sound
Silent

NumberOfParts
1

Dimensions
310 ft

ProductionCountry
Serbia (?)
Yugoslavia (?)

LanguageMainTitles
None

Weighting
500

SubThemeTag
WarCrimes

UncatTransferDate
08/01/2009 05:50:22

URLEncodedDeptName
Film

Access
NON-IWM

DeptName
Film

IDNO
MGH 3998

ProductionDate
1944

ItemName
SCENES FROM THE GREEK TRAGEDY 1941-1944 [main, translation]

ShortSummary
Amateur titled record filmed by Angelos Papanastassiou of events in Athens during the German and Italian occupation shows German entry, starvation victims, Greek defiance, Italians disarmed, Greeks publicly hung and burial of other atrocity victims.

ContextDescription
Summary: Angelos Papanastassiou (1897-1953) attended the Greek Naval Academy with King Paul I of the Hellenes, and later started the first battery factory in the Balkans. He also attended the Berlin Olympics (1936) as a spectator. The titled film was screened to an invited audience in Athens on 21 November 1945 and was later shown as evidence in the Hostages Trial against Generallfeldmarschall Wilhelm List and Others in Case No. 47 at the US Military Tribunal at Nuremberg (1948).

Duration
30 mins

Format
P 1/16/A

Colour
B&W

Sound
Silent

NumberOfParts
3

Dimensions
1200 ft

ProductionTeam
Papanastassiou, Angelos: cameraman

ProductionCountry
Greece

Language
None

LanguageMainTitles
Greek

LanguageSubtitles
Greek

OtherReferences
ANGELOS' FILM (1999), directed by Peter Forgács, traces the Papanastassiou family history, interweaving Angelo's record of Athens during the Axis Occupation with home movie film of his daughter Loukia (born 13/12/1941).

Weighting
500

SubThemeTag
OccupationAndResistance
WarCrimes

UncatTransferDate
30/06/2006 09:20:43

URLEncodedDeptName
Film

Access
NON-IWM

DeptName
Film

IDNO
UNT 475

ProductionDate
9/1994
7/10/1994 (tx)

ItemName
WAR CRIMES TRIBUNAL [Main]
[UNITED NATIONS TELEVISION (UNTV) ZAGREB COLLECTION] [Allocated Series Title]

ShortSummary
United Nations television programme shot in The Hague: includes an interview with the prosecutor of the International War Crimes Tribunal, Mr Richard Goldstone.

Duration
7 mins 5 secs

Format
Beta-SP

NumberOfParts
1

ProductionTeam
Foster, Leigh: producer

ProductionCountry
UN

Language
English (Tape Code A)
Croatian (Tape Code C)
Serbian (Tape D)

RelatedIWMItems
UNTV Programme No 21
UNT 475 X

OtherReferences
UNTV script file (as WAR CRIMES TRIBUNAL)

Weighting
500

SubThemeTag
WarCrimes

UncatTransferDate
30/06/2006 09:20:43

URLEncodedDeptName
Film

DeptName
Film

IDNO
COI 3

ProductionDate
1945

ItemName
ATROCITIES FOUND IN GERMAN CAMPS [Main]
CAMERA REPORT ON ATROCITIES FOUND IN GERMAN CAMPS [alternative]

IndexObjects
casualties, German dead - civilian: [abuse]
casualties, German dead [disposal]
casualties, German dead [relics]
casualties, German graves - mass
prisoners of war, British - repatriation

IndexPeople
Eisenhower, Dwight D
Kramer, Josef

IndexPlaces
Germany & Arnstadt, Thuringia <concentration camp>
Germany & Belsen, Lower Saxony <concentration camp>
Germany & Buchenwald, Thuringia <concentration camp>
Germany & Gardelegen, Saxony-Anhalt <concentration camp>
Germany & Göttingen, <concentration camp>
Germany & Hadamar, Hesse <concentration camp>
Germany & Holzen <concentration camp>
Germany & Kaunitz <concentration camp>
Germany & Leipzig, Saxony <concentration camp>
Germany & Nordhausen, Thuringia <concentration camp>
Germany & Ohrdruf, Thuringia <concentration camp>
Germany & Schwarzenfeld, Bavaria <concentration camp>
Germany & Ziegenheim, <concentration camp>

ShortSummary
Film indicating the horrors discovered by the advancing Allies at thirteen concentration and prison camps.

FullSummary
Ohrdruf: Eisenhower visits camp; punishment beating technique demonstrated; local civilians forced to view corpses. Ziegenheim: Russian and Polish inmates; one day's bread-and-gruel ration. Kaunitz: mass graves; prisoner's tattooed number; wounds treated. Holzen: condition of inmates. Schwarzenfeld: German civilians disinter bodies from mass graves for medical examination and "decent" burial. Göttingen: emaciated British POWs who "marched 900 miles from Poland"; two days' food shown. Hadamar: interrogation of clerk, commandant and doctor; exhuming bodies for examination. Arnstadt: tented camp for Russians and Poles; guard-dog's kennel; corpses of inmates. Belsen: starving inmates; SS guards (men and women) and Commandant Kramer under guard. Gardelegen: the barn burned by the SS to kill 150 people held inside as Allies closed in; the sole survivor. Leipzig: another fire massacre; corpses on ground, in wire. Nordhausen: living prisoners share bunks with corpses of dead fellow-inmates; survivors are carried to ambulances, civilians carry out dead. Buchenwald: survivors and dead; crematoria; visit of US Congress delegation. Map of Germany shows camp locations.

ContextDescription
Access: film originally marked "restricted". However, the same visual material, accompanied by a German soundtrack of (even) more explicit anti-Nazism, was shown in occupied Germany as issue no. 5 of the AMG newsreel WELT IM FILM (held as WIF 5), so the restriction presumably lapsed.

Duration
20 mins

Format
P 1/35/N

Colour
B&W

Sound
comopt

NumberOfParts
2

Dimensions
1775 ft

ProductionCompany
Office of War Information, Overseas Branch

ProductionCountry
USA

Language
English

LanguageMainTitles
English

LanguageSubtitles
None

OtherReferences
shotsheet

Weighting
500

SubThemeTag
WarCrimes

UncatTransferDate
30/06/2006 09:20:43

URLEncodedDeptName
Film

Access
To be established

DeptName
Film

IDNO
MGH 2843

ProductionDate
1937

ItemName
[JAPANESE ATROCITIES IN NANKING] [Allocated]

ShortSummary
Amateur film shot by John Magee, of the American Episcopal Mission in China, showing the Japanese attack on Nanking (Nanjing) and examining subsequent Chinese civilian casualties.

FullSummary
REEL 1: LS glimpses of Japanese bombers. LS of smoke pall from fires in Hsiakwan, the Communications Ministry, and buildings deliberately fired by Chinese troops. LS of refugees fleeing the city. High angle LS of Japanese troops advancing along a city street. MLS taken from an interior, showing crowds of Chinese civilians under guard (prior to removal for mass executions), and supplicant women. MLS of seated Chinese attending an open-air service in a refugee camp. The latter part of the film is mainly a review of "Civilian victims of military brutality". Representative casualties include: (1) Pregnant woman bayoneted whilst resisting rape. MS puffy, battered face. Medic exhibits abdominal puncture wounds. (2) Child bayoneted in abdomen. High angle MS of nude corpse. (3) MCU of wound from traumatic amputation of ear. (4) Man extensively burned after soaking in gasoline. (5) Woman suffering from severance of neck muscles by an attempted decapitation. (7) High angle MS of massacred family. Title declares that one of the women was killed "in a particularly horrible fashion". REEL 2: (Same sequence as John Magee's typescript description for his Film 5) High-angle view towards improvised market in Refugee Zone of Nanking, 15 February 1938; Japanese Army blimp (balloon) is visible overhead, for observation/artillery ranging purposes against Chinese guerrilla activity still continuing two months after Japanese occupation of city. View of bare back of Chinese woman, wounded and raped by Japanese, and now recovering at Mission Hospital. View of Wu Chang Teh, of the Nanking Police Force, after escape from Japanese massacre of Chinese, 5 February 1938. Chinese carry wounded on stretchers along country road towards Emergency Hospital outside Nanking, 17 February 1938. Interior views in Dispensary of wounded Chinese civilians waiting for attention. Chinese female nurse or doctor tends wounded, with badly mutilated limbs, including one Chinese soldier who escaped burning by Japanese. Bayonet scars on woman's head, man's groin and baby boy's bottom. (John Magee's Film 6 Scenes 1-5): Corpses of Chinese soldiers, with hands tied, executed by Japanese and deposited in country pond. Dead Szechuanese soldiers lying on country road near Nanking. (John Magee's Film 7): Fifteen-year old Chinese girl standing beside Mission Car marked with Red Cross sticker: first raped, then taken to barracks used as brothel by Japanese Army before being released by Chinese-speaking Japanese officer who sends her to Ginling College. Small tanks and charettes of Japanese Army. A woman, shot by the Japanese, being brought to the Mission Hospital by car. Japanese poster on a Chinese house states, ' Return to your houses! We will give you rice to eat! Believe in the Japanese army! You will be saved and helped!' View of a Chinese house where the family, including children, were raped and murdered. (John Magee's Film 8): The family of Cook Liu, showing injuries inflicted by the Japanese: 65 year-old Mrs Yu with burns, Tsu aged 14, with bullet wound in his leg, Wang P'ei hsiang showing injuries received from a sword, Mrs Hsai aged 24, with her children escaped after being raped, Mrs Ts'ai's injuries to her back and legs after being bayoneted. (John Magee's Film 9) A farmer named Ho with burns, after being set fire to by the Japanese. Scenes at Ginling College Refugee Camp (the first refugees arrived December 8) for women and children. Leaving the College Chapel. Washing clothes. Signing a petition to present to the Japanese for the return of husbands and sons. A Chinese scholar writes on behalf of those who are illiterate. The gymasium turned into a dormitory. Women queuing for vaccinations.

ContextDescription
Remarks: Nanking was occupied on 13 December 1937 by elements of the Japanese 10th Army (6th, 18th, 114th Divisions and the Kunisaki Detachment commanded by Lieutenant General Heisuke Yanagawa). The Chinese estimate that 100,000 of the population died in the ensuing massacre.

Duration
31 mins

Format
P 1/16/A

Colour
B&W

Sound
Silent

NumberOfParts
2

Dimensions
737 ft

ProductionTeam
Magee, John: cameraman

ProductionCountry
GB

Language
None

LanguageMainTitles
None

LanguageSubtitles
English

OtherReferences
See the article by T P Shao in the Historical Journal of Film Radio and Television Volume 15 Number 3 August 1995 'John Magee's Documentary Footage of the Massacre in Nanjing, China, 1937-1938' and Magee's extensive notes held in microfiche form in the same issue.

Weighting
500

SubThemeTag
OccupationAndResistance
WarCrimes

UncatTransferDate
08/01/2009 05:50:22

URLEncodedDeptName
Film

Access
IWM

DeptName
Printed Books

IDNO
96 / 1641

ProductionDate
1991

ItemName
Gypsies and the Holocaust
a bibliography and introductory essay

SubTitle
2nd. ed.

IndexPlaces
Europe
Romanies
Europe

IndexConcepts
bibliographies of war crimes, atrocities
gypsies
alleged and actual atrocities committed against gypsies in europe
alleged and actual atrocities committed against romanies in europe
the holocaust in europe
holocaust, europe
bibliographies and catalogues
social groups
breaches of international law
atrocities
crimes against humanity
bibliographies
library catalogues

FullSummary
[Printed materials]
Pbk

ContextDescription
Pbk

NumberOfParts
xxxiv, 68p.
map, plan

Dimensions
28

MakerName
by Gabrielle Tyrnauer

MakerInfo
TYRNAUER, GABRIELLE
MONTREAL INSTITUTE FOR GENOCIDE STUDIES

ProductionCompany
Concordia University

ProductionCountry
Montreal, Quebec

Weighting
1

SubThemeTag
WarCrimes

UncatTransferDate
30/06/2006 09:47:44

URLEncodedDeptName
PrintedBooks