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  1. Funk cross-examined by Thomas Dodd at Nuremberg Trial

    (Munich 366) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, August 20, 1946. MCU, US prosecutor Thomas J. Dodd cross-examines Walther Funk. Funk is heard answering. MS, Dr. Fritz Sauter, counselor for Funk, at speaker's stand. MCU, British prosecutor Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe questions Hermann Goering. Goering is heard replying to questions.

  2. Case against Hans Frank presented at Nuremberg Trial

    (Paris 490) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, January 10, 1946. Rear views, Lt. Col. Baldwin of the US prosecution presenting the case against Hans Frank, making reference to several of Frank's diary entries about the appropriation of Polish grain for use in Germany. LS, prisoners' dock during recess as some of the defendants talk to their attorneys. MS, Hermann Goering, Alfred Rosenberg, Walther Funk, and Fritz Sauckel talking during recess. The defendants eat as they talk. MS showing left side of prisoners' dock during trial session. 06:29:32 Re. "resettlement" and "dispossession of ...

  3. Communist female prisoner testifies at Nuremberg Trial

    (Paris 528) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, January 28, 1946. Marie-Claude Vaillant Couturier, Communist member of the French National Assembly, testifies. The witness speaks about being a prisoner of the Germans and the maltreatment of Jews in concentration camps. She describes the procedures of selection etc. at the arrival of transports in the camp. Women in good health conditions in their 20s and 30s, as well as twins, were taken aside for experiments. She says she does not know what they did with them, apart from taking blood and measuring them. She says that the people were ver...

  4. Sutzkever (Yiddish writer) and Szmaglewska (Polish underground member) testify at Nuremberg Trial

    (Munich 15) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, February 27, 1946. MLSs, Abraham Sutzkever, a witness who spent two years in a ghetto and joined the partisans in Lithuania. MSs, Chief Justice Sir Geoffrey Lawrence and Justice Francis Biddle making notes at the bench. LS, Justice Lawrence questions Sutzkever. MLS, Seweryna Szmaglewska testifying through an interpreter. The witness was active in the Polish underground.

  5. Case against M. Bormann and A. Seyss-Inquart at Nuremberg

    (Paris 508) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, January 16, 1946. LS, MS, rear view, Lt. Harris, USN, prosecution counselor, addressing the tribunal and presenting the case against Martin Bormann, specifically on the lynching of US airmen. LS, MS, Lt. Henry Valpey Atherton, US Army, prosecution counselor, presenting the case against Arthur Seyss-Inquart.

  6. Karl Bodenschatz testifies at Nuremberg Trial for Goering's defense

    (Munich 35) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, March 8, 1946. LSs, MLSs, Karl Bodenschatz, former member of the Reich Air Ministry in 1935, is cross-examined by US Chief Prosecutor Robert H. Jackson. The witness speaks of two elderly Jews who had helped Goering when he was wounded in the 1923 putsch attempt in Munich. Jackson in subsequent testimony traps him into admitting that they were arrested simply because they were Jews (20:33-20:34). LSs, prisoners' dock and attorneys seated in front of dock. Pan from dock to Bodenschatz testifying.

  7. War Crimes Trials: Milch Case

    (Munich 669) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 2 (Milch Case), Nuremberg, Germany. Off-screen voice of unidentified attorney addressing the court in German. The defendants (German generals of the High Command) filing into the courtroom. MLS, the Tribunal. Chief Justice making the opening speech. Brig. Gen. Telford Taylor, the chief prosecutor, reading the indictment against the defendants.

  8. Translators at work at Nuremberg Trial

    (Munich 211 and 222) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, July 1946. CU, Wac? wearing earphones seated in visitors' gallery. LS, translation section during court session. MS, British officer and two women of the translation section in courtroom. CU, women translators giving answers of witness in English. MS, girl translator giving answers in French. CU, male interpreter speaking in French. MS, group of women; one is translating in Russian. CU, another Russian woman translator speaking into microphone. CU, German translator's section at work.

  9. British and French prosecutors' final speeches at Nuremberg Trial

    (Munich 327) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, July 29-30, 1946. Partial coverage of Chief British Prosecutor Sir Hartly Shawcross' final speech. Pan, Prosecutor for the Provisional Government of the French Republic, August Champetier de Ribes, starting the introduction of his final speech. Pan from de Ribes speaking to defense tables and back to de Ribes.

  10. Details on the career of Hess at Nuremberg

    (Paris 543) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, February 7, 1946. Col. Griffith-Jones, British prosecutor, giving a resume of the career of Rudolph Hess. MS, prisoners' dock as Hess and others listen to Col. Griffith-Jones.

  11. Jodl interrogated at Nuremberg Trial

    05:17:48 (Munich 216) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, June 7, 1946. British prosecutor G B Roberts interrogates Alfred Jodl. His answers are translated and heard in English. MS, Jodl on stand, as Roberts reads an article on Norway from document book 7. Jodl speaks about the invasion of Norway. LS, prisoners' dock showing MPs in BG and FG. 05:23:18 (Munich 221) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, June 10, 1946. Dr. Gustav Steinbauer, Seyss-Inquart's attorney, speaking (translated into English). MCU, Seyss-Inquart being sworn in. MS, Seyss-Inquart is questioned by Dr. Steinbauer. MS...

  12. Nuremberg Trial: von Papen

    (Munich 244) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, June 18-19, 1946. LS, Tribunal as Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe questions von Papen. Maxwell-Fyfe interrogates von Papen. MCU, Fritz Sauckel appears to be very nervous sitting in the dock.

  13. Taylor remarks on German High Command at Nuremberg Trial

    (Paris 488) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, January 7, 1946. Telford Taylor of the US prosecution makes opening remarks to the court. He states that he will show that the High Command Group of the German Army had a major part in the commission of war crimes and atrocities. CU, chart of the Wehrmacht from 1938-1945. 04:46:38-04:47:54 Taylor reads to the Tribunal directly from orders signed by Hitler which discuss the purported actions of allied "commandos": "From captured orders it is divulged that they [the commandos] are directed not only to shackle prisoners, but also to kill defen...

  14. Von Ribbentrop interrogated at Nuremberg Trial

    (Munich 79) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, April 2, 1946. LSs, Dr. Alfred Seidl, Hess's lawyer, questions Joachim von Ribbentrop on details of the Russian-German treaty. CUs, von Ribbentrop responds. MSs, Justices Lawrence, Birkett, and Biddle. MSs, Chief Justice Lawrence questions von Ribbentrop. LSs, MSs, CUs, Chief British Prosecutor Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe questions von Ribbentrop about Hitler's policy toward the Sudetenland and Czechoslovakia and about a meeting he attended that described Hitler's desire to wipe Czechoslovakia from the map of the world. CUs, von Ribbentrop. LSs,...

  15. Goering testifies; Luxembourg occupation discussed at Nuremberg Trial

    02:09:59 (Munich 53) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany. 03/18/1946 MLSs, defense attorney asks Hermann Goering, "What orders had you given to take care of property found in occupied countries?" Goering says that all Army commanders received their orders directly from him concerning what was to be done with property found in occupied countries. Dr. Horn, counsel for Ribbentrop, asks Goering whether Hitler concerned himself with the details of foreign policy. 03/18/1946 LS, rear view, Chief Prosecutor Robert H. Jackson (US) interrogates Goering. Goering expounds on the Fuehrerprinzip. Jac...

  16. Doctor and Gestapo prisoner testifies at Nuremberg Trial

    (Paris 489) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, January 11, 1946. Thomas J. Dodd, US prosecution, introducing witness Dr. Franz Blaha. Dodd reads Dr. Blaha's signed affidavit telling of his career as head of a hospital in Czechoslovakia and his experiences as a Gestapo prisoner. The affidavit reveals that the Germans used healthy prisoners for various medical experiments. If the prisoners did not die in the experiments they were later killed. Additional trial footage missing from NARA original documentation: (Lieutenant Breshnen?) Prosecutor (from behind) reads an affidavit of someone de...

  17. Soviet Prosecutor Rudenko addressing Nuremberg Trial

    (Paris 545) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, February 8, 1946. Rear views of Chief Russian Prosecutor Lt. Gen. R A Rudenko addressing the courtroom (in Russian). Note: There are no shots completely showing Rudenko's face.

  18. Case against von Papen at Nuremberg Trial; Gen. Patton's grave

    10:20:02 (Paris 519) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, January 23, 1946. MCU, Martin Horne, the defense counselor for Ribbentrop, speaking for Hess's counselor. Major John Harcourt Barrington, British prosecutor, presenting case against von Papen. 10:24:27 (Paris 522) Sec of War Patterson Decorates Gen Patton's Grave, Luxembourg, January 24, 1946 (silent). CU, cross over grave with name "George S. Patton Jr." LS, grave decorated with flowers. CU, sign, "American Cemetery, Hamm, Luxembourg." LS, Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson places wreath on Gen. Patton's snow-covered grave. MS, ...

  19. Milch interrogated by Jackson at Nuremberg Trial

    (Munich 43) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, March 12, 1946. HAS, Chief US Prosecutor Robert H. Jackson interrogating Erhard Milch about conferences and meetings with officials. Milch speaks in German. Pan from Jackson to prisoners' dock, then from Jackson to Tribunal. MS, Goering, Hess, von Ribbentrop, and Keitel. Pan to MCU of Justices Francis Biddle and John Parker. Pan to Justices Parker, Henri de Vabre, and Robert Falco. CU, British prosecutors at table. MS, four Russian prosecutors at table. MS, Keitel, Raeder, Schirach, Sauckel, Kaltenbrunner, and Rosenberg. MS, defense counsel...

  20. von Manstein questioned by Telford Taylor at Nuremberg Trial

    (Munich 343) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, August 10, 1946. MS, Brig. Gen. Telford Taylor questioning former Field Marshal von Manstein about the Commissar Order.