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  1. von Manstein questioned by Telford Taylor at Nuremberg Trial

    (Munich 343) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, August 10, 1946. MS, Brig. Gen. Telford Taylor questioning former Field Marshal von Manstein about the Commissar Order.

  2. Questioning former SA; Shawcross' summation at Nuremberg Trial

    13:37:59 (Munich 357) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, August 15, 1946. Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe, Deputy Chief British Prosecutor, questioning Max Guettner, former SA official. 13:41:39 (Munich 327) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, July 29-30, 1946. Sir Hartley Shawcross summing up for the British prosecution. MS, members of the Russian prosecution at table. MS, Thomas J. Dodd and Robert H. Jackson at table.13:43:23 Camera in shot. MS, Justice Francis Biddle and Justice John J. Parker at bench.

  3. Funk cross-examined by Thomas Dodd at Nuremberg Trial re: confiscated money and loot

    (Munich 357) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, August 15, 1946. Thomas J. Dodd of the US prosecution cross examining Walther Funk about loot taken from concentration camp prisoners and money from conquered countries. Funk calls some of these figures absurd and others he denies knowledge of. Dodd asks Funk about his relationship with Oswald Pohl. He asks Dodd how he could know nothing about the "strange deposit" of gold teeth in the Reichbank.

  4. Funk testifies at Nuremberg Trial

    (Munich 359) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, August 15, 1946. Walther Funk testifying under questioning of his lawyer, Dr. Fritz Sauter.

  5. Nuremberg Trial

    (Munich 348) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, August 12, 1946. Former Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt enters courtroom and is sworn in at the witness stand by Chief Justice Geoffrey Lawrence. Von Rundstedt is cross-examined by British prosecutor Peter Calvocoressi.

  6. Nuremberg Trial; War Crimes Trials in Tokyo

    14:15:00 (Munich 366) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, August 20, 1946. (English and German) MS, Justices Francis Biddle and John J. Parker at bench, Biddle is dozing. MS, Hermann Goering and Joachim von Ribbentrop. MS, Erich Raeder, Fritz Sauckel in dock. HAS of Fritz Sauter questioning witness. HAS, US prosecutor Thomas J. Dodd cross-examining Walther Funk (not in scene). 14:20:18 War Crimes Trials, Tokyo, Japan, August 12, 1946. (English) . Mr. John Goetee, a US newspaperman who spent twenty years in China, continues describing his education, background, and work involving politica...

  7. Funk cross-examined by Thomas Dodd at Nuremberg Trial

    (Munich 366) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, August 20, 1946. MCU, US prosecutor Thomas J. Dodd cross-examines Walther Funk. Funk is heard answering. MS, Dr. Fritz Sauter, counselor for Funk, at speaker's stand. MCU, British prosecutor Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe questions Hermann Goering. Goering is heard replying to questions.

  8. Defendants' closing statements at Nuremberg Trial

    (Munich 378) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, August 31, 1946. Short excerpts from the final speeches of defendants Fritz Sauckel, Alfred Jodl, Franz von Papen, Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Albert Speer, Constantin von Neurath, and Hans Fritzsche.

  9. Final speeches of defendants at Nuremberg Trial

    (Munich 378) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, August 31, 1946. Short excerpts from the final speeches of defendants Hermann Goering, Rudolf Hess, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Wilhelm Keitel, and Ernst Kaltenbrunner. Defendants talking to each other during adjournment.

  10. War Crimes Trials: Malmedy; various scenes of the Nuremberg Trial

    16:00:40 (Munich 263) Malmedy War Crimes Trials, Dachau, Germany, June 27, 1946. Different shots of Capt. Raphael Schumacher questioning former Lt. Heinz Tomhardt. MS, visiting newspaper men seated in courtroom. 16:04:41 (Munich 211 and 222) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, July 1946. (silent) LS, defendants in prisoners' dock. CU, assistant British prosecutor at table. CU, an American prosecutor at table. MS, Gen. Telford Taylor. MS, Sir Maxwell-Fyfe speaking to colleague. MS, showing part of the interpreters' bench. Pan to prisoners' dock. Two defense lawyers conversing during reces...

  11. March of Dimes drive; War Crimes Trials: Buchenwald

    16:10:46 The March of Dimes Drive in the 88th Infantry Div, Italy, February 7 (6?), 1947. MS, enlisted man and officer counting money received for drive. CU, Major's hand handling script. Thermometer showing Division progress in drive. Group at American Red Cross: One enlisted man drops money into wishing well. Maj Gen Bryant E. Moore, Commanding General, 88th Inf Div, receiving check from Maj Chirico. CU, sign: "Blue Devils" showing March of Dimes campaign. 16:13:48 (Munich 541) Buchenwald Trial, Dachau, Germany, April 12 (11?), 1947. LS, MS, war crimes courthouse at Dachau. CU, sign: "War...

  12. War Crimes Trials: Buchenwald

    (Munich 541) Buchenwald Trial, Dachau, Germany, April 12, 1947. Spectators enter courtroom. LS, attorneys are administered oath by the Military Tribunal. At 16:20:42 U.S. Army Major Carl Everett Whitney, Jr hands papers to the tribunal and begins speaking. Major Whitney was assigned as attorney for the defense. Pan, prisoners in the dock, including Ilse Koch at 16:22:01. Scenes of the trial. LS, prisoners pleading to the indictment. One defendant hides his face with a card.

  13. War Crimes Trials: Flick Case

    (Munich 545) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 5 (Flick Case), April 19, 1947. MLS, defendants rise as their names are called: Friedrich Flick, Otto Steinbrinck, Odilo Burkart, Konrad Kaletsch, Bernhard Weiss, Hermann Terberger. Defendants Flick, Steinbrinck, Burkart, and Weiss pleading to the indictment. Other two defendants not pictured with sound. Gen. Lucius D. Clay seated in prosecution section of the courtroom. Silent, cut-in shots of defendants in dock.

  14. War Crimes Trials: I.G. Farben Case : Arraignment

    War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 6 (I.G. Farben Case), Nuremberg, Germany, August 14, 1947. HAS of Tribunal as the presiding judge announces roll call. 16:37:12 Roll Call, Name and response, to 16:38:02. Telford Taylor, Counsel for US prosecution, announcing to the court that the defendant Max Brueggermann is ill in a hospital near Dusseldorf. It is suggested to the Tribunal that his trial be put off indefinitely. Taylor also announces that the defendants Karl Wurster and Carl Lautenschlaeger are not present due to illness. 16:40:57 View of defendants. As the defendant...

  15. War Crimes Trials: I.G. Farben Case

    (Munich 617) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 6 (I.G. Farben Case), Nuremberg, Germany. Shots of defendants pleading "not guilty" to the indictment. The defendants rise and plead to charges in the following order: Carl Krauch, Hermann Schmidt, Georg von Schnitzler, Fritz Gajewski, Heinrich Hoerlein, August von Knierien, Fritz ter Meer, Ernst Buergin, Paul Haefliger, Max Ilgner, Friedrich Jaehne, Hans Kuehne, Walter Duerrfeld, Heinrich Gottineau. The other defendants standing trial but not answering to pleas are visible in the prisoners' dock: Christian Schneider, Otto ...

  16. War Crimes Trials: I.G. Farben Case - Opening Statement by Telford Taylor

    War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 6 (I.G. Farben Case), Nuremberg, Germany. 17:12:16 High angle Med close views of defendants in dock as they are arraigned and individually asked if they've read the indictment and how they plead. To 17:13:06 Motion for continuance was denied - judge at bench. 17:15:30 Taylor to podium and begins: The grave charges in this case have not been laid before the Tribunal casually.... It accuses them of wholesale enslavement, plunder and murder. ... There is no laughter in this case. Neither is there any hate.

  17. War Crimes Trials: Krupp Case; Speech for Army Day

    17:22:43 (Munich 662) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 10 (Krupp Case), Nuremberg, Germany, December 16, 1947. LS, witness box with Georg Hayn, witness. MS, defendants talking with counsel among whom are Alfred Krupp, Loeser, Houdremont, Mueller, Janssen, Pfirsch, Ihn, and Eberhardt. CU, Judge Edward F. Carter. Gen. Telford Taylor, chief prosecutor, addressing the Tribunal. MS, German defense counsel at lectern. 17:26:22 Maj Gen Hubener's Speech for Army Day 1947, March 1947. Speech by Gen. Clarence R. Hubener. (Transcript available with original captions at NARA).

  18. War Crimes Trials: Milch Case

    (Munich 669) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 2 (Milch Case), Nuremberg, Germany. Off-screen voice of unidentified attorney addressing the court in German. The defendants (German generals of the High Command) filing into the courtroom. MLS, the Tribunal. Chief Justice making the opening speech. Brig. Gen. Telford Taylor, the chief prosecutor, reading the indictment against the defendants.

  19. War Crimes Trials: Tokyo; Einsatzgruppen Case

    17:42:38 War Crimes Trials, Tokyo, Japan, January 14, 1948. MS, Mrs. Yasuko Konoye is sworn in. After asking Mrs. Konoye to identify herself, British prosecutor Mr. Comyns-Carr reads the witness's statement. Brooks and Logan makes objections to the document being presented. 17:47:14 (Munich 673) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 9 (Einsatzgruppen Case), Nuremberg, Germany, February 13, 1948. Brig. Gen. Telford Taylor reading his summation. (Very pale image; very brief. No views of defendants)

  20. Persecution of Jews 1933-1945

    Pre-title sequence: Bookburning in Berlin, Joseph Goebbels speaking. 09:02:58 View of bodies stacked with wood for burning, and Heinrich Heine quote. 09:03:11 Film title: DER GELBE STERN: Ein Film ueber die Judenverfolgung 1933 - 1945. Events of January 30, 1933, when Adolf Hitler is named Chancellor of Germany. NSDAP (Nazi Party) organization, new members, SA marching in streets. S.A. Heim [Sturmabteilung headquarters] 09:05:09 Joseph Goebbels speaks at Sportpalast in Berlin, against the lying Jewish press etc. This preceded Hitler's first speech as Chancellor, February 10. 09:05:53 Still ...