The U.S. film project on the Nuremberg Trial of the major war criminals: a contribution to the political culture in post war Germany.

该研究项目的第二阶段将特别考虑到有关美国军事情报机构（战略情报局，OSS）在关于针对主要战犯的纽伦堡审判的电影项目中的作用的调查结果。纳粹战争罪行的视听表现及其对美国民事和陆军当局采取的起诉和前瞻性措施的贡献是研究的重点。目前的研究项目揭示了有关特勤局对电影项目贡献的程度和种类的不可预测和未记录的发现。OSS启动了“战争罪行项目”，其规模远比文献中描述的要大，它是起诉战争罪行系统的一部分。当局还主要参与设计法庭，为其配备媒体技术，并负责审判的视听传统。除此之外，很明显，美国当局的占领和外国政治视野比战后德国的直接任务更为深远。在美国的电影政策以及审判的视听传统中，也可以观察到长期的影响。这个电影项目创造了一个可持续的审判可视化，并培养了主角的形象。由OSS系统收集的电影证据已经成为纳粹罪行的标志，并影响了关于国家社会主义，大屠杀的讨论，以及关于启动国际刑法的讨论。根据这些研究结果，有必要扩大我们的研究，以考虑到这些新的事实。

The second phase of the research project will especially take into account findings concerning the role of the U.S. military intelligence service (Office of Strategic Services, OSS) in the film project on the Nuremberg Trials against the major war criminals. The audio visual representation of Nazi war crimes as well as their contribution to prosecution and forward-looking measures taken by the U.S. civil and Army authorities are in the focus of research. The current research project revealed unpredictable and undocumented findings concerning the extent and variety of the secret service's contribution to the film project. In a far bigger scale than described in the literature, the OSS - launching the 'War Crimes Project' - was part of the system for the prosecution of war crimes. The authority was also essentially engaged in designing the court room, in equipping it with media techniques and was responsible for the audio visual tradition of the trial. Apart from this it also became apparent that the occupation and foreign political horizon of U.S. authorities was more far-reaching than the immediate tasks in post war Germany. Long term effects could be observed as well in the U.S. film policy as well as in the audio visual tradition of the trial. The film project created a sustainable visualization of the trial and fostered images of its protagonists. Film evidence, which were systematically collected by the OSS have become icons of the Nazi crimes and impact on discussions about National Socialism, the holocaust but also about initiating international criminal law. According to these research results it is necessary to expand our study in order to take into account these new facts.