"Nuremberg" Andrew Wendland Hand Signed 3X5 Picture Card COA

Description: Up for auction "Nuremberg" Andrew Wendland Hand Signed 3X5 Picture Card. This item is certified authentic by Todd Mueller Autographs and comes with their Certificate of Authenticity.ES-6777E BAY CITY — Silence with occasional gasps crept across the audience inside the State Theatre Tuesday night as black-and-white images of terror and the monsters responsible played on the big screen. It was no Hollywood horror flick but the 1947 documentary “Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today” it was just as gruesome in parts depicting the Holocaust and wartime atrocities. It was shown to a packed house of more than 350 people, some of them World War II veterans, as part of a national tour. One of those veterans viewing the film actually was shown on the screen several times. Andrew Wendland, 85, was in that courtroom 65 years ago. He was an 18-year-old white-helmeted guard, standing close to the Nazi defendants as they testified. Moments before the show began, Wendland was introduced to a young man who also was connected not only to the people in the film, but to Wendland personally. Doug Danitz of West Branch is the great-grandson of Grand Admiral Karl Donitz, one of the prisoners Wendland was guarding and remembers a number of conversations with him in the prison. Another member of the audience who was introduced prior to the showing was Tommy Anderson, son of the late Teddie C. Anderson Sr., of Bay City, who also was a white-helmeted guard of the top Nazis during the trial. The movie, originally commissioned by the War Department, was made to be shown in Germany to prove to the people that the horrendous acts committed by orders of their leaders actually occurred. It shows evidence submitted in the courtroom during the trial and the Nazi leaders admitting to much of it in their own words. A copy was placed in the National Archives in 1971 where it remained until researchers found it seven years ago, said Sandra Schulberg, who restored the film and is taking it around the country. She is the daughter of Stuart Schulberg, the film’s original director. “It is wonderful to see so many people here and this is a beautiful theater,” Schulberg said as she introduced the film. Organizers who helped bring the film to Bay City say donations and ticket sales should be more than enough to pay for showing the film and theater costs and any money left over will go to the Bay County Veterans Council to help veterans needing assistance. Donations still are being accepted. Danitz, whose family name changed from Donitz because of harassment and embarrassment, was born and raised in Buffalo, N.Y., and lived in New Jersey before moving to West Branch about four years ago. He spoke briefly to the audience describing some of the problems he’s faced having such a notorious relative. He said there are groups who target extended families of World War II Nazis, watching them and reporting on them. He said he has encountered some in the past. “It is a source of shame,” he said of being related to Admiral Donitz. “I don’t share my feelings often about this.” “There are some who believe Donitz — head of the German Navy from 1943 to the end of the war — should not have been included as a war criminal,” Schulberg said, noting American Admiral Chester Nimitz sent a letter to that effect supporting Donitz to the tribunal judges hearing the case. Those in the audience shifted uncomfortably in their seats as they viewed Nazi-made newsreel footage depicting the prisoners in camps and some being gassed during mass killings. Those images were shown during the trial which led to convictions against 21 of the 24 defendants.

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