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  1. Confiscated art and chart discussed at Nuremberg Trial

    (Paris 453) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, December 12, 1945. Robert G. Storey tells of the vast quantities of objects of art confiscated by the Nazis. As evidence he presents 39 volumes listing the seized art. MLS, judges examining catalogs (Justice Robert Falco (France) is the only judge seen). Storey claims that if all art objects seized by the Nazi were cataloged they would fill 350 to 400 volumes. The lights are turned off in the courtroom as slides are shown (presentation not filmed). LS, Storey explaining chart on wall showing advancement from Hitler Youth to SS. CU, chart on...

  2. Ohlendorf testifies at Nuremberg Trial re. Kaltenbrunner, SS and SD

    (Paris 486) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, January 3, 1946. Col. Amen (US) introduces Otto Ohlendorf. Chief US Prosecutor Robert H. Jackson administers the oath to the witness. Ohlendorf explains to the court the positions held in the SS and SD by Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Miller, and Eichmann as he looks at the organization chart on the wall. Ohlendorf describes the command structures, etc. generally.

  3. Jodl questioned at Nuremberg Trial

    (Munich 211 and 222) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, July 1946. Alfred Jodl is questioned on the stand by an assistant British prosecutor. MS, Maj. Gen. William H. Gill in courtroom. MS, Jodl answering questions. LS, profile view of justices on bench. MS, US soldier and civilians in press gallery.

  4. von Neurath testimony at Nuremberg Trial

    (Munich 262) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, June 25, 1946. HAS, MS, Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe questioning von Neurath about a statement he made. MS, von Neurath speaking to his attorney. MS, von Neurath speaking about the said memorandum. MS, Justice Biddle asking von Neurath about Himmler. MS, Justice Nikitchenko asking von Neurath a question. MS, Koedle speaking from the witness box. Different shots of justices in their chambers.

  5. Hangings; Russian Correspondents at Nuremberg Trial

    Hangings. 10:07:34 (Paris 494) Trip of the Russian Correspondents to Germany, January 12, 1946. Russian correspondents accompanied by American officers walking around factory yards and interviewing foremen and workmen. Cars bearing the group enter gates at Bad Tolz. Party on tour of grounds and buildings. Group interviews a German woman at window of her home. MS, Russian taking notes. LS, group on grounds of Heidelberg University. Party entering Bucholz prison. Group watches military execution by hanging of a German accused of murdering unarmed American prisoners. MS, group getting into thr...

  6. Nuremberg Trial

    (Munich 348) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, August 12, 1946. Former Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt enters courtroom and is sworn in at the witness stand by Chief Justice Geoffrey Lawrence. Von Rundstedt is cross-examined by British prosecutor Peter Calvocoressi.

  7. Funk testifies at Nuremberg Trial

    (Munich 359) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, August 15, 1946. Walther Funk testifying under questioning of his lawyer, Dr. Fritz Sauter.

  8. Field Marshal von Paulus testifies at Nuremberg Trial

    (Paris 552) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, February 13, 1946. MLSs, ex-Field Marshal von Paulus on the witness stand. MS, defendants in prisoners' dock. LSs, three defense counselors speaking in the courtroom (one is Dr. Fritz Sauter, talking in German). Attorney questions von Paulus about his strong reserves "against such an enterprise" ("gegen ein solches Vorhaben", probably referring to an attack on Russia). Von Paulus testifies his reserves were of a military as well as a moral nature and were shared also by Generalstabschef Halder, his direct superior, to whom he talked about t...

  9. French and Soviet prosecutors' summary at Nuremberg Trial

    (Munich 327) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, July 29-30, 1946. Charles Dubost, assistant French prosecutor, delivering the closing pages of his summation. MS, Dubost is congratulated by Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe, Thomas J. Dodd, and others after his speech. Justice Geoffrey Lawrence is heard introducing Lt. Gen. R A Rudenko of the Russian prosecution to deliver the first part of his summation.

  10. Sketching defendants documents, map at Nuremberg Trial

    22:25:18 (Paris 386) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, November 27, 1945. CU, cartoonist sketches Walther Funk and Wilhelm Frick. MLS of prisoners' dock, visible are: Albert Speer, Constantin Neurath, Hans Fritzsche, Franz von Papen, Hermann Goering, Rudolf Hess, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Wilhelm Keitel, Alfred Rosenberg. MLS, MS, Erich Raeder's counsel makes plea to Tribunal, complaining about receiving documents presented by the prosecution too late. The list of documents the defense uses, which had been handed out the previous day, were partly incomplete, and therefore made the defens...

  11. Bach-Zelewski testifies at Nuremberg Trial

    (Paris 488) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, January 7, 1946. MS, Hermann Goering, Rudolf Hess, Joachim von Ribbentrop, and Wilhelm Keitel in prisoners' dock as Col. Telford Taylor addresses the Tribunal. MS, witness Eric von dem Bach-Zelewski testifying in German. MLS, rear view, Russian prosecutor Col. Pokrovsky cross examines Bach-Zelewski, regarding Einsatzgruppe B. Questions are asked in Russian; witness answers in German. Alfred Jodl's counselor, Dr. Franz Exner, questions Bach-Zelewski. Questions and answers are in German. Another defense counselor, Dr. Kraus, questions the wit...

  12. War Crimes Trials: Milch Case

    (Munich 544) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 2 (Milch Case), Sentencing of Gen. Erhard Milch, Nuremberg, Germany, April 17, 1947. LS, judges entering the courtroom. HAS, Chief Justice reading the verdict, recessing court, and exiting from courtroom. Pan from judges to Milch being removed from the courtroom. MS, judge handing recorder sentence of the Tribunal. Silent cut-ins of the Tribunal. Pan of portion of courtroom. Tribunal entering courtroom and court rising. Judge reading the verdict.

  13. Schellenberg questioned at Nuremberg Trial by Defense Counsel, re. Kaltenbrunner and "the Jewish Question"

    (Paris 476) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, January 4, 1946. Defense counselors for Baldur von Schirach, Franz von Papen, and Alfred Rosenberg question Walter Schellenberg, the Chief of Security Police and SD (in German). Schellenberg confirms that Kaltenbrunner was his immediate superior from January 1943 until the end of the war. Answering the question of the defense counsel, he says that he never talked to Kaltenbrunner about "the Jewish question" or important issues of Nazi doctrine, so he can only defer Kaltenbrunner's personal views on these from a few personal observations and...

  14. Maps of aggression presented at Nuremberg Trial

    (Paris 386) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, November 27, 1945. MLS, Sydney Alderman of the US prosecution staff speaks of German aggression in Europe between 1938 and 1939, refers to maps which are posted in the court. MCUs, four charts outlining territorial aggression of Germany during 1938 to 1939. MS, Alderman addresses Tribunal. MS, some of the defendants' attorneys seated in front of the prisoners' dock. Rear views, Alderman reading an English transcription of Hitler's condemnation of the Versailles Treaty.

  15. Goering testifies at Nuremberg Trial

    (Munich 47) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, March 13, 1946. LS, Hermann Goering testifies about the violent opposition in Germany to the formation of the Nazi Party. MLS, prisoners in dock as Goering is heard talking about the Hitler Putsch. Pan from prisoners' dock to Goering on stand. Pan, prisoners in dock as Goering testifies that Hitler was to be the supreme leader of the new government and not in a secondary position.

  16. 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...

  17. Kivilsha & Grigorjov testify at Nuremberg Trial

    23:11:07 (Munich 13) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, February 26, 1946. LSs, Eugene Kivilsha, Red Army physician, testifying on stand identifies a photograph presented to him. (The witness and counsel speaking in Russian.) LSs, Dr. Hans Laternser, defense counsel for the German General Staff and OKW, questions the witness in German. LS, audience attending trials. MLSs, prosecution staff in courtroom. LS, court adjourns; judges file out. 23:16:09 (Munich 14) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, no date (silent). HSs, Tribunal as witness Jacob Grigorjov testifies. HSs, Eugene Kivilsh...

  18. Goering testifies at Nuremberg Trial

    (Munich 47) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, March 13, 1946. Defendants, defense counselors, and Chief Prosecutor Robert H. Jackson listening to Goering testifying. Goering testifies that he supervised all concentration camps until 1934. Pan from Goering talking to defendants listening intently. LS, interpreters' box with several people speaking into microphones as Goering testifies. Goering talks about very harsh policing measures taken at the time, especially charges that prisoners were beaten and mistreated. The case of Ernst Thaelmann comes up, who complained to Goering personally...

  19. Final pleas of defendants at Nuremberg Trial

    (Munich 297) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, July 12-13, 1946. HAS, Dr. Otto Nelte, lawyer for Keitel, reading the defendant's final plea. MS, Justices Parker, de Vabre, and Falco. MS, several stenographers taking notes. Dr. Hans Marx, lawyer for Streicher, reading the defendant's final plea. MS Streicher listening. MS, Justices de Vabre and Falco at bench. MS, Justices Biddle and Parker. MS, Justices Birkett and Lawrence. MS, Russian prosecutor Rudenko at table.

  20. Final speeches of defendants at Nuremberg Trial

    (Munich 378) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, August 31, 1946. Short excerpts from the final speeches of defendants Hermann Goering, Rudolf Hess, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Wilhelm Keitel, and Ernst Kaltenbrunner. Defendants talking to each other during adjournment.