I'm reading the book Nuremberg Trials. According to the book, a video is said to have been shown, during the trials, that depicts events occurring in the concentration camps. Was this somehow released, or leaked to the public? If so, where can I see the video?
2007-09-22 19:59:16 · 3 answers · asked by Mike the Venerable 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
~It wasn't a 'video'. They didn't exist at the time. However, movies were taken at various camps when they were liberated. Some of that footage was used by Justice Robert Jackson on behalf of the prosecution. There are many sites on-line where you can view the films, not to mention the innumerable other sources, starting with your library, where you can find them.
Bear in mind that in watching the films, you must remember the difference between the concentration camps and the extermination camps. The concentration camps were simply an adaptation of the US Indian reservations and British concentration camps of the Boer Wars, from which Himmler and Heydrich developed their ideas. The extermination camps were another animal and there are probably no legitimate films of what went on there.
2007-09-22 20:16:01 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Some of the actual footage is shown in the film JUDGMENT AT NUREMBERG (which is not about the first round of trials [Göring, Speer, etc.] but is a work of fiction about the trials of 4 judges the next year [the Nuremberg trials went on for years]). People under 40 or even 50 have grown up with Holocaust footage to the extent it no longer has any shock value, but for many people that movie was the first time many had seen this footage; many felt it was "grotesque" and fake special effects.
Link to Judgment at Nuremberg (available through Netflix or for order- one of the best non-action based movies you'll ever see about war or about ethics) below. Also below is a link to some of the archived government owned movies that would have been shown.
2007-09-22 20:36:22 · answer #2 · answered by Jonathan D 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think you need to re-read your book - during the Nuremberg Trials (1945 - 1949) the technology of video, and video tape, did not even exist. Ampex introduced their first 2" quadruplex video recorder in 1956. Obviously, it could only have been a film...
Look under director Alan Renais for his 1955 film 'Night and Fog."
2007-09-22 22:10:48 · answer #3 · answered by WMD 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋