German General Walter Warlimont Visits Belfast

German General Walter Warlimont Visits Belfast

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Location

Belfast, Grand Central Hotel

Year

1966

Date

Production 07/10/1966

Length

15sec

Audio

mute

Format

16mm

black and white

Source

Funded by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland under the Archiving Scheme 2

Courtesy

Broadcasting Authority of Ireland, Department for Communities, ITV, UTV Archive

Rights Holder

ITV

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Description

German General Walter Warlimont visits Belfast to promote his book on World War II. This is filmed at Grand Central Hotel. 

Walter Warlimont (3 October 1894 – 9 October 1976) was a German staff officer during World War II. He served as deputy chief of the Operations Staff, one of departments in the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht (OKW), the Armed Forces High Command. Following the war, Warlimont was convicted in the High Command Trial and sentenced to life imprisonment as a war criminal. He was released in 1954. 

General Warlimont was in Belfast to promote his book, ‘Inside Hitler's Headquarters 1939–1945’.  

See an interview with General Warlimont in the link below. 

Credits

An Ulster Television Production.

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