Goering testifies at Nuremberg Trial

Identifier
irn1002249
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2001.358.1
  • RG-60.2837
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • German
Source
EHRI Partner

Creator(s)

  • United States. Army. Signal Corps. (Producer)
  • United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference

Scope and Content

(Munich 47) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, March 13, 1946. Defendants, defense counselors, and Chief Prosecutor Robert H. Jackson listening to Goering testifying. Goering testifies that he supervised all concentration camps until 1934. Pan from Goering talking to defendants listening intently. LS, interpreters' box with several people speaking into microphones as Goering testifies. Goering talks about very harsh policing measures taken at the time, especially charges that prisoners were beaten and mistreated. The case of Ernst Thaelmann comes up, who complained to Goering personally to have been beaten in interrogations.

Subjects

  • COURTS/COURTROOMS
  • NUREMBERG (INTERNATIONAL MILITARY TRIBUNAL)
  • TRIALS
  • NAZI OFFICIALS
  • WAR CRIMINALS/WAR CRIMES TRIALS
  • GOERING, HERMANN
  • GERMANY
  • BEATINGS
  • JACKSON, ROBERT
  • CONCENTRATION CAMPS

Places

  • Nuremberg, Germany

Genre

  • Film
  • Unedited.
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