Memorandum to the Planning Committee / From : Commander Donovan
- Author:
- James B. Donovan, Commander, USNR
- Print Source:
- Nuremberg, Germany: International Military Tribunal, 1945-11-19
- Publication Info:
- Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Law Library
- Volume:
- 018
- Subdivision:
- Subdivision 56 / Planning Committee
- Section:
- 56.03 (J.B.D. memo to PC)
- Description:
- English, 6 p.
- Witness:
- Not applicable
- Other names:
- Schwartz; Colonel Dostert; Goebbels; Hans Frank; Lt. Jack Taylor
- Other dates:
- 14 November 1945; 23 November 1945; 1 December 1945
- Abstract:
- Pursuant to his responsibility for the Visual Presentation component of the United States' case, James B. Donovan has composed this informative summary account of the creation of visual evidence (charts and exhibits) and film evidence for use in the trial. The memo describes how the evidentiary charts, trial exhibits, and atrocity films have been made and the manner in which they will be presented. Most of the account (pp. 3-6) pertains to the film evidence, which includes films produced by the Office of U.S. Chief of Counsel as well as authenticated SS-films that have not been altered by the OCC (Donovan recounts the contents of the latter). Donovan explains how and when he will use these films in Court, subject to the approval of the Planning Committee. He also notes that Defense Counsel will preview these films in the presence of relevant personnel of the OCC, himself among the latter. This document is a typewritten carbon copy of very good to excellent quality on thin, stable paper.
- Keywords:
- Visual evidence, Motion picture evidence, Evidentiary Charts, Trial Exhibits, Concentration Camp film (OCC production), SS films Concentration camps, Warsaw Ghetto, Mauthausen, Buchenwald, Persecution of Jews, Trial of July 20 Plotters (film), People's Court, The Nazi Plan (film)