Nuremberg Trial : Verdict

World in Film. Issue no. 71 (July 1947) "Nuernberger Prozess: Das Urteil" [Nuremberg Trial: The Verdict] Intertitle in German: "Vor dem internationalen militaergerichtshof in Nuernberg ging der groesste Prozess der geschichte zu ende. Er begann am 20 Nov 1945 und um fasste 403 oeffentliche sitzungen des Tribunals. Am 1 Okt 1946 erfolgte der urteilsspruch ging die 22 Angeklagten. Hier sind die aufnahmen der historischen schluss -" Pan EXT, Palace of Justice. VS, military police on guard in vicinity. Civilian and military personnel enter courthouse. Pan, defendants and court audience standing as Tribunal enters. Chief Justice Sir Geoffrey Lawrence reads from document. Pan, prosecution counsel. VS, Justices Francis Biddle, Henri Donnedeieu de Vabres speaking. MS, Hermann Goering, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Rudolf Hess. Cut-ins, various defendants in prisoners' dock. The Russian justices and Justice Birkett at bench. MS, US prosecutor Robert H Jackson at table. MS, Hess, von Ribbentrop, and Wilhelm Keitel. MS, Keitel and Ernst Kaltenbrunner. The judges take their turns in reading the sentences of the prisoners. MSs, Keitel, Kaltenbrunner, Alfred Rosenberg. Rosenberg and Hans Frank. MSs, Frank, Wilhelm Frick. Julius Streicher. Frick, Streicher, Walter Funk, Hjalmar Schacht. MS, Karl Doenitz and Erich Raeder. Chief Russian prosecutor Gen R A Rudenko at prosecution table. Thomas J Dodd and Sir Hartley Shawcross at prosecution table. MS, Alfred Jodl, Franz von Papen, Arthur Seyss-Inquart. Hans Fritzsche seated next to Constantin von Neurath. LS, door is closed by MP. Pan up to seal over doorway.