Day 2 International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg (Set A)

Identifier
irn648142
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2019.401
  • RG-91.2347
Level of Description
Item
Source
EHRI Partner

Scope and Content

Day 2 - Wednesday, November 21, 1945 - Lord Justice Lawrence confers with German defense counsel, Dr. Dix and Rosenberg's attorney, Dr. Ralph Thoma. The defendants plead "guilty" or "not guilty." Justice Robert H. Jackson (US) presents the opening statement.

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  • The United States Army Signal Corps produced two sets of verbatim audio recordings of the Nuremberg Trials outside of the courtroom in a studio. Set A (archived at the International Court of Justice in the Hague) consists of 1,942 double-sided black disc gramophone records with a cellulose trinitrate lacquer surface and aluminum core made by the Presto Recording Corporation. Set B (archived at the US National Archives and Records Administration in Washington, DC) consists of cardboard and aluminum gramophone discs. The two sets are not exact copies and generally stagger against each other, but sometimes have the same start or stop time corresponding to the beginning or end of a court session. The digitized and restored files made from Set A (ICJ) are much better quality than the files from Set B (NARA) which contain occasional audio distortion, especially at the beginning of a file, and skipping throughout.

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