Day 4 International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg (Set B)
Scope and Content
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. Alderman presents on the case of aggressive war.
Note(s)
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. Full text transcripts and related documents of trial proceedings are available online via the Avalon Project. See "Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal: Proceedings Volumes (The Blue Set).
Subjects
- Nuremberg Trial of Major German War Criminals, Nuremberg, Germany, 1945-1946.
Genre
- Unedited.
- Trial and arbitral proceedings.
- Recorded Sound