War Crimes Trials: I.G. Farben Case - Opening Statement by Telford Taylor
Creator(s)
- United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
- United States. Army. Signal Corps. (Producer)
Scope and Content
War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 6 (I.G. Farben Case), Nuremberg, Germany. High angle medium-close views of defendants in dock as they are arraigned and individually asked if they've read the indictment and how they plead. Motion for continuance denied - judge at bench. American Prosecutor Telford Taylor to podium and begins: "The grave charges in this case have not been laid before the Tribunal casually.... It accuses them of wholesale enslavement, plunder and murder. ... There is no laughter in this case. Neither is there any hate."
Note(s)
NARA story card information is incorrect. Hilary Earl, CAHS fellow, identified this as trial footage of the I.G. Farben case, not the Einsatzgruppen case as indicated in the story card. See also Story 2916, Film ID 2368 for matching footage.
Subjects
- TRIALS
- WAR CRIMINALS/WAR CRIMES TRIALS
- NUREMBERG (SUBSEQUENT TRIALS)
- COURTS/COURTROOMS
- FACTORIES (I.G. FARBEN)
- TAYLOR, TELFORD
- GERMANY
Places
- Nuremberg, Germany
Genre
- Film
- Unedited.