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Sentencing of Nazi Leaders at Nuremberg, Nuremberg, Germany, October 1946. MS, Justice Kravenchenko (Russian) speaking about the defendant Arthur Rosenberg. LS, of Tribunal as one of the Russian Justices speaks. Pan, from Tribunal to prosecution tables and press section. MS, Justice Volkhoff speaking.

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Sentencing of Nazi Leaders at Nuremberg, Nuremberg, Germany, October 1946. HMS, Fritz Sauckel, German Labor Leader, listening to Justice Francis Biddle giving a resume of his career. Justice Biddle says that Sauckel is responsible for the deportation of some 5 million people into labor camps, and he was informed about the dire conditions there. He seems not to have taken any initiative to alleviate the situation for these workers. HS, MS as Biddle reads the tribunal's verdict on Sauckel: guilty on counts three and four in the indictment. HMS of Justice Sir Geoffrey Lawrence (British) declar...

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Sentencing of Nazi Leaders at Nuremberg, Nuremberg, Germany, October 1946. (Note: First 200 feet is dark and out of focus.) MS, Tribunal as Justice Geoffrey Lawrence speaks of the formation of the Nuremberg Tribunal for the trying of Nazi war leaders. Pan of courtroom as voice of Justice Lawrence is heard reading the prospectus of the Nuremberg Charter. He then describes how evidence was gathered. MS, Chief US Prosecutor Robert H Jackson, sitting at table.

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Sentencing of Nazi Leaders at Nuremberg, Nuremberg, Germany, October 1946. MLS, and MS, prisoners as verdict against Hans Frank is read. Frank is guilty under counts three and four [screen goes black for a few seconds]. There is a dispute with Himmler mentioned about the type of legal system in Germany. Shots of defendants as French Justice speaks about Wilhelm Frick (in French). Frick is guilty under counts two, three, and four, providing the political history, then saying that he knew about the systematic murder of old, weak, sick people, but did not take action to stop it. Justice Geoffr...

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Sentencing of Nazi Leaders at Nuremberg, Nuremberg, Germany, October 1946. MS, Rudolf Hess, ill in dock. Joachim von Ribbentrop sympathizes. HS, Hess leaves dock. HS, MS, von Ribbentrop speaking to the other defendants after announcement of his guilt. HS, MSs, Justice Francis Biddle reviewing the case of von Ribbentrop (as latter listens.) Biddle enumerates Ribbentrop's actions and participation in important decision-makings, states what he claims in his defense, but in conclusion, states that the court finds Ribbentrop guilty under all 4 counts. Justice Henri de Vabres reading the verdict ...

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Sentencing of Nazi Leaders at Nuremberg, Nuremberg, Germany, October 1946. Justice Sir Geoffrey Lawrence tells of Robert Ley committing suicide and Alfred Krupp unable to attend trial for his physical and mental condition (similar to Story 2611 but from a different perspective). Jackson gives summary of what prosecution claims and demands. French Justices Henri de Vabres and Robert Falco reading statements from bench. [The sound is partly gone, sketchy, four totally different scenes, partly in French before Biddle explains the Charter.] MS of Justice Francis Biddle speaking of the Nuremberg...

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Verdicts delivered on Nazi Leaders at Nuremberg IMT, Nuremberg, Germany, October 1946. MLS of prisoners dock as Justice reads conclusions on the cases of Joachim von Ribbentrop, Wilhelm Keitel, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Hans Frank, Alfred Rosenberg, Wilhelm Frick, Julius Streicher, and Walter Funk: Unidentified defendant (in Russian): ? Ribbentrop: Guilty on all 4 counts (the main foreign policy advisor to Hitler & Ambassador to Britain) Keitel (in French): Guilty on all 4 counts (no attenuating circumstances accorded) [screen goes black] Kaltenbrunner: Guilty under counts 3 and 4 Rosenberg ...

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Judgments rendered on Nazi Leaders at Nuremberg IMT, Nuremberg, Germany, 30 September 1946. Pan of courtroom from tribunal to prisoners' dock. LS, prisoners' dock and their attorneys sitting in FG as Justice Sir Geoffrey Lawrence reads from the Nuremberg Charter. MSs, Hermann Goering, Rudolf Hess, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Karl Doenitz, Erich Raeder. MS, Wilhelm Keitel, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Alfred Rosenberg. Albert Speer and Fritz Sauckel sitting behind them. MS, Alfred Jodl, Hans Frank, Franz von Papen, Wilhelm Frick. Pan, von Papen, Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Julius Streicher, Speer, Walter Funk...

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Verdicts rendered on Nazi Leaders at Nuremberg IMT, Nuremberg, Germany, 30 September 1946. Russian Justice, Justice Francis Biddle, and Justice Geoffrey Lawrence stating conclusions of the tribunal on Constantin von Neurath and Albert Speer. Speer: Guilty under counts 3, 4 (only the beginning and end of his verdict are audible). Von Neurath (in French) (sound cut off). Fritzsche: Not guilty under the indictments, because he was subordinate to Goebbels and Dietrich. LS, courtroom as Justice Lawrence states that any appeal of the defendants to the Control Council for clemency must be lodged w...

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Judgment delivered at Nuremberg IMT, Nuremberg, Germany, 30 September 1946. MHS, British Justice Birkett, British Chief Justice Sir Geoffrey Lawrence, US Justices Francis Biddle and John J Parker reading statement about the formative days of the Nazi Party, including the failure of the first Munich Putsch, etc. CU, Justice Lawrence. MS, Franz von Papen, and Arthur Seyss-Inquart in dock. MS, Justices Biddle and Parker. HS, CU, Birkett reading about the beginning of the NSDAP in Germany.

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Sentencing of Nazi Leaders at Nuremberg, Nuremberg, Germany, October 1946. Shot of dock as Justice Francis Biddle gives the Tribunal's conclusion on Hjalmar Schacht: not guilty under the indictment because his influence was not established beyond doubt. More footage of defendants, defendants' lawyers, as Justice reads conclusions of the tribunal on the prisoners: Schacht: Not guilty Doenitz (in French): Guilty under counts 3 and 4 Raeder (in Russia): Guilty under count 4 Sauckel: Guilty under counts 3 and 4 Jodl (in French): ?? (verdict not audible) Von Papen: Not guilty Unidentified defend...

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SOUND ONLY. Sentencing of Nazi Leaders at Nuremberg, Nuremberg, Germany, October 1946. Decisions reached on how the charges will be grouped. Description of Heinrich Himmler and the operations of the Gestapo.

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Sentencing of Nazi Leaders at Nuremberg, Nuremberg, Germany, October 1946. NOTE: Here, the actual sentences for the defendants are read, but there was a court ruling that no filming and photographs were allowed during the announcement. So the voice of judge is heard, no pictures, white screen,. SOUND ONLY. Sentences pronounced by tribunal: Arthur Seyss-Inquart: Death (02:08:54) Albert Speer: 20 years (02:08:18) Constantin von Neurath: 15 years (02:09:45) Martin Bormann: Death in absentia (02:10:06) 02:10:27 British Justice Geoffrey Lawrence registers dissent of the Soviet Justice on the ver...

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Sentencing of Nazi Leaders at Nuremberg, Nuremberg, Germany, October 1946. NOTE: Here, the actual sentences for the defendants are read, but there was a court ruling that no filming and photographs were allowed during the announcement. So the voice of judge is heard, no pictures, white screen, SOUND ONLY. Continuation of sentences pronounced by tribunal. 02:17:15 Hermann Wilhelm Goering: Death 02:18:08 Rudolf Hess: Life imprisonment 02:18:34 Joachim von Ribbentrop: Death 02:19:01 Wilhelm Keitel: Death 02:19:33 Ernst Kaltenbrunner: Death 02:20:00 Alfred Rosenberg: Death 02:20:34 Hans Frank: ...

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Sentencing of Nazi Leaders at Nuremberg, Nuremberg, Germany, October 1946. NOTE: Here, the actual sentences for the defendants are read, but there was a court ruling that no filming and photographs were allowed during the announcement. So the voice of judge is heard, no pictures, white screen, SOUND ONLY. Soviet voice at start, re. Funk. Adjournment for 10 minutes. "Hello, recording. Hello, recording." 02:25:40 Continuation of sentences pronounced by tribunal: 02:25:45 Hans Fritzsche: Not guilty Martin Bormann (fragment) 02:26:30 Resume of Goering's career in the Nazi Party. US Justice Fran...

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Judgment rendered at Nuremberg IMT, Nuremberg, Germany, October 1946. MSs, Hermann Goering, Rudolf Hess, Joachim von Ribbentrop. British Justice Sir Geoffrey Lawrence speaking of Goering. British prosecution table showing Sir Hartley Shawcross and Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe. Shot of Fritz Sauckel. MS, Shawcross and Thomas J Dodd, US Executive Trial Counselor. MS, Karl Doenitz, Erich Raeder, Baldur von Schirach. MS, CUs, Justice Birkett continuing the reading of the aggressions of the German Army. MS, Maxwell-Fyfe at table.

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World in Film. Issue no. 71 (July 1947) "Nuernberger Prozess: Das Urteil" [Nuremberg Trial: The Verdict] Intertitle in German: "Vor dem internationalen militaergerichtshof in Nuernberg ging der groesste Prozess der geschichte zu ende. Er begann am 20 Nov 1945 und um fasste 403 oeffentliche sitzungen des Tribunals. Am 1 Okt 1946 erfolgte der urteilsspruch ging die 22 Angeklagten. Hier sind die aufnahmen der historischen schluss -" Pan EXT, Palace of Justice. VS, military police on guard in vicinity. Civilian and military personnel enter courthouse. Pan, defendants and court audience standing...

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• 1947
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World in Film. Issue no. 117 (1947) 03:23:14 "Buchenwald Trial, The Sentence." Title: "Prozess Buchenwald: Das Urteil." Entrance to the courthouse at Dachau where the trial is being held. INTs, courtroom showing judges and spectators. Former General of the Waffen SS, Josiah Prinze zu Waldeck, is the first to hear his sentence. All 31 defendants were found guilty. Ilse Koch, the only woman defendant, is sentenced to life imprisonment. CU, Ilse Koch. Herman Pister is sentenced to death by hanging. 03:24:49 "Sun Observatory, Wendelstein, Bavarian Alps," Wendelstein, Germany: LS, the observator...

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World in Film. Issue no. 43 (1948) 03:30:14 "NUREMBERG AND MAUTHAUSEN." Mauthausen trial: March -- May 1947. Title: "Zwei Prozesse: Nuernberg und Mauthausen." LS, Chief US Prosecutor Robert H Jackson speaking. Pan, prisoners box showing Hermann Goering, Rudolf Hess, at first trial. German voice over Jackson's, as he details how "a thousand Kaltenbrunners," "a thousand Saukels," etc - were at work within the Nazi organizations. MCUs, Gruber, Grand, Green, SS men standing trial. Pan of Mauthausen criminals. Seated in court, they are compelled to remove shoe laces, etc. to prevent suicide atte...

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• 1945
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World in Film. Issue no. 20 (1940-1949) 03:39:08 "Last Fight Pictures from the Pacific." British Naval and air units at sea. HS, US convoy under way. Admiral Rawlings, British officer being transported from his ship at sea via breech buoy to an American ship alongside. GSAP pictures of Japanese land installation being strafed. MS, Admiral William F Halsey aboard ship speaking to group of men in fire control room. LSs, American battleship's guns firing at shore in the battle of the Honshu Sea. Scenes aboard US battleship of ammunition being sent to upper deck. 03:42:40 "Soldiers become Farm ...