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  1. Day 192 International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg (Set A)

    1. Archives of the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal

    Day 192 - Thursday, August 1, 1946. German counsel: Dr. Karl Best and Dr. Merkel. Witness Karl Heinz Hoffmann. Justice Biddle and the Russian prosecution. German counsel for the SD.

  2. Day 162 International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg (Set A)

    1. Archives of the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal

    Day 162 - Monday, June 24, 1946. Constantin von Neurath and his German defense counsel.

  3. Day 95 International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg (Set A)

    1. Archives of the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal

    Day 95 - Saturday, March 30, 1946. German defense counsel questioning von Ribbentrop. Justice Lawrence and Sir Maxwell-Fyfe comment.

  4. Day 203 International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg (Set A)

    1. Archives of the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal

    Day 203 - Wednesday, August 14, 1946. Witness Max Juettner and British prosecutor Sir Maxwell-Fyfe.

  5. Lammers & Wielen questioned at Nuremberg Trial

    20:10:05 (Munich 94) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, April 8, 1946. Mostly empty courtroom, camera set up on tripod in corner, sound test heard. Dr. Alfred Seidl, defense counselor for Hess, questions Hans Heinrich Lammers, member of the German Secret Cabinet, who is a witness for Keitel. 20:12:45 (Munich 96) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, April 10, 1946. HAS, Dr. Alfred Seidl questions Hans Heinrich Lammers, member of the German Secret Cabinet. Pan from Seidl to Goering, Hess, and Ribbentrop in dock. CU, Dr. Otto Stahmer, defense counselor for Goering. HAS, Tribunal; Chief J...

  6. Ferencz discusses war crimes and Yugoslavia

    Canadian Broadcasting Company, Prime Time News. Yugoslavia: War Crimes Tribunal. Discussion among host, Benjamin Ferencz, and Major General Lewis Mackenzie, United Nations Commander in Sarajevo, about the legal and political problems of establishing an international war crimes tribunal in Yugoslavia. Ferencz speaks about the precedents of Nuremberg: 1) war crimes; 2) crimes against humanity; and 3) crimes against peace. He relates the two experiences, declaring the existence of war crimes in Yugoslavia. Ferencz argues that it should be simple to obtain conviction in Yugoslavia as overwhelmi...

  7. Hostages Case (or Southeast Case): sentencing of German Generals active in S.E. Europe

    (Munich 676) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings - Hostages Trial #7, Nuremberg, Germany, February 1948. Sentencing Southeast Generals. HAS, tribunal as Judge Charles F. Wennerstrum announces that sentencing will now be imposed. First two generals - List and Kuntze - are given lifetime imprisonment. Former Generals Rendulic, Dehner, Speidel, Leyser, Felmy, Lanz are identified by name and sentenced; Foertsch and Geitner are freed. This case is also known as the "Southeast Case" because the defendants were all German generals leading troops in southeastern Europe during the Balka...

  8. Prosecutors, Keitel testifes at Nuremberg Trial

    (Munich 86) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, April 6, 1946. CU, Dr. Otto Nelte, Wilhelm Keitel's attorney, addressing court. CU, British prosecutor Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe taking notes. CU, US prosecutor Thomas J. Dodd. MS stenographers at work in the courtroom. CU, Justice Henri Donnedieu de Vabre (France). MCU, British Army men in courtroom. MS, Keitel testifying. Pan to Russian prosecutor Gen. Rudenko at stand. Pan to US prosecution table, back to Keitel. LS, Rudenko questioning Keitel. Pan from court stenographers to witness. MS, Justices Lawrence, Biddle, and Parker on bench. MS, ...

  9. Gisevius testimony at Nuremberg Trial; Streicher sworn in

    (Munich 128) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, April 26, 1946. Continuation of Hans Bernhardt von Gisevius testifying under questioning by US Chief Prosecutor Robert H. Jackson. Pan from prisoners' dock to Jackson and Gisevius. Gisevius talks about the torture and murder of thousands of prisoners and the confiscation of civilian property by the Gestapo. MSs, prisoners' dock showing Wilhelm Keitel, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, and Franz von Papen. 19:18:37 LSs, Julius Streicher is sworn in and questioned by his attorney, Dr. Hans Marx. Chief Justice Geoffrey Lawrence is heard saying to Streiche...

  10. Dodd presents evidence at Nuremberg Trial

    (Munich 386) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany. HSs, MSs Thomas J. Dodd of the American prosecution, tells of the great mass of evidence presented during the trial and the criminal tendencies of the Gestapo, SA, SS. HS Col. Andrus, Provost Marshal, speaking to prisoners in dock at end of session. HS prisoners conversing after the court adjourns; Col. Andrus is standing at the left.

  11. Landsberg Hangings

    (Munich 191) Hangings at Landsberg, Germany, May 28, 1946. Bodies of hanged men are set in coffins and coffins are stacked in yard. One coffin is labelled "Niedermayer Engelbert". Niedermayer was a crematoria worker at Dachau. Soldier adjusts rope on scaffold. German civilian hangman speaking to American officers. 22:03:28 Klaus (or Claus) Karl Schilling is escorted up the steps of the scaffold. He faces the camera and speaks briefly before he is hanged. Schilling was a physician who deliberately infected inmates with malaria at Dachau. Another man is executed. Otto Moll is executed in the ...

  12. Statements from defendants at Medical trial

    War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 1 (Medical Case), Nuremberg, Germany. Defendants giving statements: Dr. Rose, Dr. Weltz, Schaefer, Hoven, Beiglbock, Oberhauser. Presiding Judge Beals announces that the evidence is concluded after 139 days of trial and that the Tribunal will now recess for three weeks before rendering a decision. Several prisoners shake hands with their attorneys.

  13. Witness Franz Blaha testifies at Nuremberg Trial

    War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, January 11, 1946. Dr. Franz Blaha testifying on stand and being cross examined by several defense attorneys. Blaha testifies that in his autopsies, he found several to have died of suffocation, these were high French officers and priests, all well-fed people who had been brought to Dachau in plain clothes. They did not have contact to other prisoners. One defense attorney questions his responding truthfully, asks if he testified the same in his affidavit, asks if Blaha was given information on how the defendants were seated in the court room and if he ...

  14. March of Time -- outtakes -- Nuremberg Trial: Walter Funk on stand

    Cross examination of Walter Funk. MS in courtroom at Nuremberg Trial as Walter Funk, president of the Reichsbank, is cross examined by US Prosecutor Thomas Dodd. Closer shot of Funk in witness chair guarded by MP, answering questions. Another LS of courtroom as Funk is on stand, questions by Dodd are about the loot taken from concentration camp prisoners and conquered countries and put into the Reichsbank of which Funk had complete charge, and about which Funk denies any knowledge (regular sound). "Wouldn't you have had to know about the 1,000 wagons of textiles that...had been shipped....c...

  15. War Crimes Trials: Flick Case

    (Munich 535) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 5 (Flick Case), Nuremberg, Germany, March 15, 1947. HASs, MSs, defendants enter courtoom and take their places in prisoners' dock. Entering in order are: Hermann Terberger; Bernhard Weiss; Konrad Kaletsch; Otto Steinbrinck; and Friedrich Flick. LSs, people in courtroom rise as judges William C. Christianson, Frank N. Richman, Charles B. Sears, and Richard D. Dixon enter. HAS, judges as the president asks that the prosecutor read the indictment. Prosecutor Thomas E. Ervin reading the indictment. Ervin states that workers wer...

  16. Selected records of the Court of the First Instance in Żyrardów Sąd Grodzki w Żyrardowie (Sygn. 21)

    Records of criminal cases involving offenses committed by Jews.

  17. Goering concludes testimony at Nuremberg Trial

    (Munich 47) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, March 14, 1946. Hermann Goering continues talking about how he saw himself, and his role in the system. This is a very elaborate and long statement about his convictions, which began in Story 2947. 01:40:42 On concluding this part of the testimony, Goering rises and the rest of the court does the same. Goering under guard walks to the prisoners' dock and talks to Keitel and several others. Prisoners conversing and leaving the courtroom. (silent:) Goering leaving prisoners' dock and taking the stand. Defense counselor talking to Goering.

  18. "Der Stuermer", Gestapo prisoner testifies, & forced labor discussed at Nuremberg Trial

    07:00:40 (Paris 489) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, January 11, 1946. Inserts, hands turning pages of "Der Stuermer." LS of courtroom as Chief Justice Geoffrey Lawrence adjourns court. LS, MSs, defendants talking to their lawyers during recess. MLS, Dr. Franz Blaha appearing as a witness. Dr. Blaha was arrested when Germany invaded Czechoslovakia in March 1939, held in a Gestapo prison without trial for two years, and sent to Dachau in April 1941. He tells how the Germans forced Russian children to work as slave laborers, and that nearly 60 percent of them died of tuberculosis withi...

  19. Funk cross-examined by Thomas Dodd at Nuremberg Trial re: confiscated money and loot

    (Munich 357) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, August 15, 1946. Thomas J. Dodd of the US prosecution cross examining Walther Funk about loot taken from concentration camp prisoners and money from conquered countries. Funk calls some of these figures absurd and others he denies knowledge of. Dodd asks Funk about his relationship with Oswald Pohl. He asks Dodd how he could know nothing about the "strange deposit" of gold teeth in the Reichbank.

  20. March of Time -- outtakes -- Pierre Laval trial

    The trial of Pierre Laval, former head of the Vichy government in France. Views of the interior of the crowd in the courtoom, including civilian spectators. Laval's attorney, Albert Naud, is also shown. A group of attorneys or judges enter the courtroom and are seated. One of them is Attorney General Mornet, who is shown seated alone at a high desk framed by two lamps. Naud is shown standing and reading from a sheet of paper, then speaking with Laval. Laval's other attorney, Jacques Baraduc, is shown speaking. Shots of Laval listening to the proceedings, then speaking angrily. He speaks at ...