Day 13 International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg (Set B)
Scope and Content
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.
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
- Recorded Sound
- Trial and arbitral proceedings.
- Unedited.