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Murder in Normandy series
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1994-2004 (Creation)
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22 cm of textual material.
2019 photographic images.
62 video elements.
2 audio elements.
1 computer disk.
1 CD.
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In Murder in Normandy (1999), director David Paperny uses documentary and dramatic techniques to present the events of a little-known war crime involving the murder of 145 Canadian Prisoners of War by the infamous SS Hitlerjugend (Hitler Youth) during the Battle of Normandy. This ninety-minute production recreates the ensuing war-crimes trial of Kurt Meyer, a Nazi officer accused of ordering the execution, and examines why Canada's first-ever war crimes trial did little to redress the deaths. Murder in Normandy features interviews with Meyer's son Kurt Meyer Jr., former S.S. officer Hubert Meyer, Canadian veterans McGregor Scobie and Wady Lehmann, and Gregory Pollard, the nephew of a Canadian soldier killed during the war. Also included are interviews with UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour, former Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunals for Yugoslavia and Rwanda, and historian Howard Margolin, author of Conduct Unbecoming: The Story of the Murder of Canadian Prisoners of War in Normandy. Ann Medina narrates the film. In 2001, Paperny Films received a Silver Screen Award in the Films in History category at the US International Film and Video Festival for Murder in Normandy.
Series consists of a digital master tape, a set of video and audio elements and textual material relating to the development of the production.