About the crimes committed by the SS in Belarus in 1941-44.
On October 15, 1962, the trial of former SS officers accused of crimes committed by them in Belarus in 1941-44 began in the city of Koblenz. The FRG government did not allow Soviet lawyers to participate in the trial. This film was being prepared for presentation to the court as a document proving the crimes committed by the defendants.
On October 15, 1962, in Koblenz, Germany, the trial of former SS officers accused of exterminating Soviet and foreign citizens in Minsk began. Newsreel. Street views of Minsk. Destroyed houses. German patrols check documents. Photographs of hanged people. Corpses. Burning and charred villages. Views of concentration camps in populated areas: Maly Trostinets, Ozarichi, Minsk ghetto. Surviving witnesses tell of the atrocities of the fascists.
Yuri Levitan talks about criminals and the crimes they committed in Belarus in 1941-44 (synchronously).
German wartime newspapers reporting on the atrocities of the fascists, who were free and working in the FRG before the trial.
Photograph of the main defendant, former SS Hautsturmführer Georg Heuser – short.
Minsk street – general (from the top).
Landscaped boulevard, passers-by on the boulevard – general, wed.
Newsreel from 1941-1945: Minsk destroyed and burned by the fascists – general.
PNR (from an airplane).
Armed fascists on the streets of occupied Minsk.
German patrols check the documents of local residents.
Photographs taken by SS men on the streets and squares of Minsk.
Doctor Akimova tells how the Nazis exterminated patients in the Minsk colony for the mentally ill (synchronously).
The bathhouse where the Nazis exterminated patients.
Newsreel from 1941-1945: A sign reading "Order Service" in Russian and German on the gates of the camp in the village of Maly Trostyanets near Minsk.
A fence made of intertwined barbed wire under voltage - general, cf.
The remains of people burned in the Trostyanets camp - cf.
A monument to those burned on Trostyanets field - kr.
A monument to the victims of the Nazis, erected at the site of their death - general.
Nikolai Ivanovich Valakhanovich, who miraculously survived the camp, talks about the atrocities of the Nazis in Trostyanets (synchronously).
Newsreel from 1941-1945: A burning barn - general.
Bonfires of the corpses of murdered prisoners are burning.
Soviet soldiers who liberated Minsk from the fascist occupiers are standing by the dying fires.
The state commission is drawing up a report at the scene of the fascist crime.
Soviet soldiers at the site of the Ozarichi camp on a frozen swamp, where people were exterminated by order of the Wehrmacht.
Corpses are lying around.
Soviet soldiers are helping people, carrying tortured and hungry people out of the train car.
Rescued children are lying on hospital beds - Wed, kr.
A panorama of the barbed wire fence at the death camp.
German document signed by Heuser "To Operation Hornunch" - a battalion order dated February 15, 1943 on the destruction of the local population and housing.
Newsreel 1941-1945: Fascists on motorcycles rush through the village - general.
Destroying homes.
Huts are burning.
Corpses of adults and children in the destroyed village.
Fascists walk with rolled up sleeves after Operation Hornung.
Women are crying.
Telegram on the results of Operation Fritz to the Chief of the Security Police and SD of Minsk from Wilke.
Newsreel 1941-1945: People are led along the road, the feet of prisoners are walking - medium, small.
Fascists drive off a herd of cows, herd piglets into cars.
A freight train leaves, loaded with stolen goods.
Pages from Wilke's personal diary, where the criminal deeds of his battalion are recorded.
Newsreel 1941-1945: Civilians flee from the village into the forest.
The village is burning.
Dead people lie there.
A sign with the inscription "Valasich".
The village of Valasich.
A resident of the village, Pelageya Artemovna Parkhimovich, talks about the brutal reprisals of the fascists against the villagers (synchronously).
Graves where the dead people are buried.
Newsreel 1941-1945: A burnt village - general.
A woman among the ashes.
Newsreel 1946: At the trial in Minsk, Sonderführer of the Bobruisk commandant's office Burkhard talks about his participation in the crimes (synchronously).
Monument to 200 Soviet citizens burned alive by the Nazi occupiers in 1941-1945 - general, average.
A resident of the village of Dory, Vasily Denisyuk, tells with tears in his eyes about the atrocities of the fascists.
A plan of the European ghetto in Minsk.
Newsreel from 1941-1945: A fascist patrol in the European ghetto.
A panorama of a house surrounded by barbed wire in the ghetto.
A German document about special trains with displaced persons (about European Jews).
A prisoner of the Dachau camp, Austrian Schlesinger, tells about the transportation of Jews from Dachau to the Minsk ghetto for extermination (synchronously).
A document about the transportation of Jews, signed by Heuser.
A document about the extermination of Jews in the ghetto, signed by Strauch in 1943.
Monument to the Jews exterminated in the Minsk ghetto – cf.
Former teacher Levina at the monument.
Flowers at the foot of the monument – cf.
Levina talks about the ghetto and the atrocities of the fascists (synchronously).
Photograph of the ghetto executioner, SD worker Rübe.
Document on the resettlement of Jews, signed by Stauch.
Document on the administrations of the Jewish ghettos, signed by Dr.
Vialon.
Page of the newspaper "Die Welt" with an article about Vialon.
Page of the magazine "Der Spiegel" with a photograph of Vialon.
Newsreel from 1941-1945: People on the gallows, corpses of shot people.
People stand by a pit with the corpses of Belarusians, Russians, Jews.
Weeping women.
Photographs of the fascists.
War criminal Globke walks down the street of a German city.