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Motion Picture MP2002-98

Screen Gems Collection (outtakes from the television series “Decision:  The Conflicts of Harry S. Truman”)

Administrative Information

Footage
72 feet
Running Time
2 minutes 2 seconds
Film Gauge
35mm
Sound
sound
Color
Black & White
Produced by
Screen Gems in association with Ben Gradus
Restrictions
Unrestricted
Description

Harry S. Truman discusses the need for trials following the German atrocities, and the terrible stain on the German people after World War II. Sound only.

Date(s)
ca.
1961 - 1963

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Moving Image Type
Screen Gems

Shot List

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Reel 1

0:00   Mr. Truman speaks, with occasional direction from Ben Gradus. Harry S. Truman discusses the need for trials following German atrocities in World War II. He speaks of the terrible stain on the German people, the horror of the atrocities. “Future generations needed to understand what it really meant.” Mr. Truman mentions piled up bodies, and starving children.
1:21   Mr. Gradus asks Mr. Truman to tell what the leaders should get. Mr. Truman replies that the leaders should get punishment equal to the atrocities, but not without a trial. They should not be rounded up and shot, like Stalin wanted to do. Eventually we got the trials, but we had a hard time getting them. This was probably used in preparation for MP80-3, “Execution Without Trial.”