Archives of the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn616417
• English
• 1945
• Updated 7 months ago

7 reels. This Soviet-made film was screened on February 19, 1946 on the 62nd day of the Nuremberg Trial and submitted as evidence relevant to the indictment for "crimes against humanity." The one-hour film with voiceover commentary shows visual evidence of the extermination camps of Auschwitz and Majdanek and appeals to spectators' emotions by emphasizing individual victims. The central argument of the film is that the Germans were the executioners of peaceful Soviet citizens. At the time, it made a very strong impression on both the accused and press. The film is a re-edited compilation of...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn616438
• English
• 1946
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This Soviet-made film submitted at Nuremberg on February 21, 1946 concentrates on damage to architecturally important Russian buildings, especially churches and monasteries, as well as the destruction of places of historical interest linked to Russian writers and composers. There are no images of the synagogues that the Nazis ruined or defiled.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn616439
• English
• 1941-1945
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This Soviet-made film submitted at Nuremberg on February 22, 1946 concentrates on destruction in Russian cities, including Smolensk, Soltsky, Vyazma, Gzhatsk, Vishnevets, Yukhnov, Epifan, Holm, Bottom, Staraya Russa, and Velikie Luki.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn616440
• English
• 1945
• Updated 7 months ago

This Soviet-made film submitted at Nuremberg on February 26, 1946 includes photo montage of German atrocities in Yugoslavia.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn616441
• English
• 1945
• Updated 7 months ago

"Nazi Concentration Camps" was compiled as evidence and shown at the Nuremberg Trials on November 29, 1945 as Prosecution Exhibit #230. It contains film evidence of Nazi atrocities at the concentration camps of Leipzig, Penig, Ohrdruf, Hadamar, Breendonck, Hanover, Arnstadt, Nordhausen, Mauthausen, Buchenwald, Dachau, and Belsen. The film was produced for the U.S. Counsel for Prosecution of Axis Criminality in 1945. It was directed by Navy Cmdrs. James B. Donovan and E. Ray Kellogg. George C. Stevens was responsible for directing the photography and filming of the concentration camps as lib...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn616442
• English
• 1945
• Updated 7 months ago

"The Nazi Plan" was shown as evidence at the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg on December 11, 1945. It covers the activities and policies of the Nazi Party in Germany from 1921 to 1944, particularly as reflected in the speeches of Adolf Hitler and the pageantry associated with the Party. The four-hour film was compiled by Budd Schulberg and other military personnel, under the supervision of Navy Commander James Donovan. The compilers took pains to use only German source material, including official newsreels and other German films (1919-45). It was put together for the US Counse...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn617525
• English
• 1943
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This French film of 1943 was commissioned by Nazi Germany's propaganda ministry within occupied France. It is notable as the last film to be directed by Paul Riche (pseudonym of Jean Mamy), an ex-Mason. The film virulently denounces Freemasonry, parliamentarianism, and Jews as part of Vichy's drive agains them and seeks to prove a Jewish-Masonic plot. On France's liberation, the film's writer, producer, and director were purged for collaborating with the Nazis. This very short excerpt (39 seconds) contains the opening title sequence and a newspaper headline regarding President Roosevelt.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn648141
• English
• Updated 7 months ago

Day 1 - Tuesday, November 20, 1945 - Lord Justice Lawrence opens the session. Sidney Alderman (US) reads the indictment. Pierre Mounier (FR) and Charles Gerthoffer (FR) continue reading the indictment. Capt. V. V. Kuchin (USSR) continues reading the indictment. The British delegation reads the appendices.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn648142
• English
• Updated 7 months ago

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.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn698957
• English
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Day 3 - Thursday, November 22, 1945 - Justice Jackson opens the session. Mr. Albrecht presents charts of the Nazi Partry and the Reich Governemnt. Major Frank Wallis presents documents of the case known as the Common Plan.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn698958
• English
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Day 4 - Friday, November 23, 1945 - Session opens with Dr. Otto Nelte (Counsel for Defendant Keitel). Major Frank Wallis reads documents of the case known as the Common Plan. Dr. Alfred Seidl (Counsel for Defendant Frank) presents an objection and asks the proceedings be postponed. Col. Storey states that documentation will be provided to the Court and the Defense Counsel. Dr. Robert Servatius (Counsel for Defendant Sauckel) makes a motion to obtain documents. Mr. Thomas J. Dodd (Executive Trial Counsel for the United States) presents the economic preparation for aggressive war. Mr. Alderma...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn698959
• English
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Day 5 - Monday, November 26, 1945 - Dr. Fritz Sauter (Counsel for Defendant Von Ribbentrop) opens the session. Justice Jackson discusses the production and use of documents in the German language. Mr. Alderman presents on the case of aggressive war.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn698960
• English
• Updated 7 months ago

Day 6 - Tuesday, November 27, 1945 - Justice Jackson opens the session. Mr. Alderman presents on the case of aggressive war.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn698961
• English
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Day 7 - Wednesday, November 28, 1945 - Alderman presents on the case of aggressive war.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn698962
• English
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Day 8 - Thursday, November 29, 1945 - Alderman presents on the case of aggressive war. Dodd presents film on evidence of Nazi atrocities within concentration camps.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn702507
• English
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Day 9 - Friday, November 30, 1945 - Colonel John Amen argues with the German defense council over whether to call witness Erwin von Lahousen to the stand, with von Lahousen eventually being allowed to testify. Col. Amen interrogates von Lahousen. The Russian prosecutor, Roman Rudenko, begins to interrogate von Lahousen. As Rodenko is asking “Of course in Poland. Well, sabotage and what else?”, audio skips to Dr. Gunther von Rohrscheidt speaking as counsel for Rudolf Hess, speaking towards his mental state. Tribunal begins to ask counsel questions. Trial adjourns with a statement by Hess, st...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn702508
• English
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Day 10 - Saturday, December 1, 1945 - Tribunal decides that Rudolf Hess is competent enough to stand trial. Prosecution continues to question. Cross-examination of witness Lahousen by German defense.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn702509
• English
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Day 11 - Monday, December 3, 1945 - Sidney J. Alderman, Prosecutor from the United States, begins to outline Nazi aggression in Czechoslovakia. This takes up almost the entirety of the day, save for a brief moment when Dr. Otto Stahmer, representing the German defense, objects to the use of an affidavit written by Gottlob Berger, a motion which is upheld by the tribunal. Alderman discusses the circumstances around the German occupation of Czechoslovakia, such as the Nazi’s ultimate goal of occupying all of Czechoslovakia, not just the Sudetenland, and Fall Grün, the planned German invasion ...

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn702510
• English
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Day 12 - Tuesday, December 4, 1945 - Hartley Shawcross, chief prosecutor for the British, speaks about German plans for the invasion of Poland, Germany’s eventual annexation of Poland and Danzig (note that Soviet involvement in the invasion is never mentioned), as well as the eventual German invasion of the majority of Europe and Operation Barbarossa. Towards the end of the day, Sidney Alderman is given the chance to finish his statement made the day before, which he does.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• irn702511
• English
• Updated 7 months ago

Day 13 - Wednesday, December 5, 1945 - Sidney Alderman continues from where he left off the previous day, mentioning how the German annexation of Czechoslovakia violated certain parts of the Treaty of Versailles, as well as Germany’s intent to make the area “Lebensraum”. Sir David Maxwell Fyfe, lead prosecutor for the British, goes over the various treaties that Germany broke, specifically the sections of the Treaty of Versailles it violated. J.M.G. Griffith, Junior Counsel for Britain, begins to describe the development of plans to attack Poland and to a lesser extent Britain.