The Nazi plan

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Movie
German title The Nazi Plan - The Original American Film from 1945
Original title The Nazi plan
Country of production German Empire ,
USA
original language German partly with English subtitles
Publishing year 1945
length 194 minutes
Age rating FSK none
Rod
Director Ray Kellogg , other sources: George Stevens
script Budd Schulberg and Stuart Schulberg
production US Counsel for the Prosecution of Axis Criminality
music various
camera various
cut Robert Parrish ,
Robert Webb ,
John McLafferty ,
Joseph Zigman ,
Susie Shestopel
occupation

Archive material from the newsreel and the Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda from:

The Nazi Plan - The American Original Film from 1945 (original title: The Nazi Plan ) is a documentary produced by the US Counsel for the Prosecution of Axis Criminality 1945 , which was created from German archive material and used as evidence for the prosecution in the Nuremberg trial of major war criminals .

Emergence

The Nazi Plan was created from an uncommented compilation of German newsreels and film reports from the years 1921 to 1944 (according to other sources: 1918 to 1945) in the original sound and language, e.g. Some with English subtitles added later. A significant portion occupies a permanent over 40 minutes cut from Leni Riefenstahl's film Triumph of the Will over the NSDAP - the Nazi Party , a 1934th The documentary cut was made on behalf of the US Counsel for the Prosecution of Axis Criminality .

The Nazi Plan was launched in the Nuremberg Trials of Major War Criminals before the International Military Tribunal at the request of the United States Prosecution as part of their evidence (Document 3054 – PS, Exhibit US 167) on December 11, 1945 in a length of 194 minutes in the courtroom shown.

The aim was to highlight the Nazi propaganda machine as well as the war and human rights crimes of the Third Reich . Together with the documentary Nazi Concentration Camps, which was also presented as evidence at the Nuremberg trials, the film occupies a special position in film history because - as far as is known - for the first time moving images were used as evidence in a court case . Contemporary witnesses reported the enormous effect that the film had on the judges , the prosecutors and, last but not least, on the defendants .

The film

The film contains an opening credits read by the aforementioned Commander Kellogg:

This film will not be shown to the general public without permission of the War Department
THE NAZI PLAN
Produced and Directed by Ray Kellogg, Commander U.SNR
in Berlin Germany September - December 1945
Legal Supervision by James B. Donovan , Commander USNR
Search Teams Commanded by Budd Schulberg , Lieutenant USNR
Film Editors:
Robert Webb, Chief Petty Officer USNR,
Robert Parrish , Chief Petty Officer USNR,
John McLafferty
We are indebted to Col. Darryl F. Zanuck and Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation
For making this adapted German version possible. Office of the United States Chief of Counsel
A Twentieth Century Fox presentation.

The film is divided into four sections:

English original title:

  • Part 1 - The Rise of The NSDAP, 1921 to 1933
  • Part 2 - Acquiring Totalitarian Control Of Germany, 1933 to 1935
  • Part 3 - Preparation For Wars of Aggression, 1935 to 1939
  • Part 4 - Wars of Aggression, 1939 to 1944

German title:

Broadcast in Germany

First broadcast

It was not until the 60th anniversary of the end of the Nuremberg Trials that the full length 194-minute documentary with critical remarks and comments was broadcast on Bavarian television on October 2, 2006 with the approval of the National Archives .

Additionally, at the bottom of the picture:

“The Nazi Plan”
film by the US chief prosecutor in the Nuremberg
war crimes trial in 1945

permanently displayed.

more publishments

The film was shown on November 5, 2008 on the occasion of the seventieth anniversary of the Reichspogromnacht in the Nienburger Kulturwerk e. V. in Nienburg / Weser to the interested public and schoolchildren, moderated by the former director of the Lower Saxony Memorials Foundation, Mr. Wilfried Wiedemann.

Original film copies

The original of the film is now in the National Archives in Washington, DC.

Trivia

The Nazi Plan served as the basis for the film " Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today ".

See also

literature

  • NN: "Four Hour Film Show At Nuremberg", in: The Palestine Post (Jerusalem), Vol. 20, No. 5970, December 12, 1945
  • NN: "Accused 'Stars' View Film", in: The Palestine Post (Jerusalem), Vol. 20, No. 5971, December 13, 1945
  • Schulberg, Budd: "The Celluloid Noose", The Screen Writer, August, August 1, 1946
  • Fox, Stuart: Jewish Films in the United States. New York, NY: KG Hall, 1976
  • Gellert, Charles Lawrence: The Holocaust, Israel, and the Jews: Motion Pictures in the National Archives. Washington, DC: National Archives Trust Fund Board / National Archives and Records Administration, 1989
  • Warner, Gene: "Presenting 'Nazi Plan' on film", in: Buffalo News January 27, 2004
  • Kennicott, Philip: "Art of Justice: The Filmmakers at Nuremberg", in: Washington Post, November 29, 2005

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