Judgement delivered on Frank, Frick, Streicher, Doenitz, Raeder at Nuremberg Trial

Identifier
irn1002757
Language of Description
English
Alt. Identifiers
  • 2002.541.1
  • RG-60.3616
Level of Description
Item
Languages
  • English
  • French
  • Russian
Source
EHRI Partner

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Scope and Content

Sentencing of Nazi Leaders at Nuremberg, Nuremberg, Germany, 1 October 1946. Justice Francis Biddle (US) reading part of judgement on Hans Frank: "a willing and knowing participant in the use of terrorism in Poland; in the economic exploitation of Poland in a way that led to the deth by starvation of a large number of people; in the deportation to Germany as slave laborers of over a million Poles; and in a program involving the murder of at lest three million Jews. Conclusion: The Tribunal finds that Frank is not guilty on Count One but guilty under Counts Three and Four of the indictment." 04:40:50 Justice Henri de Vabres (French) reading tribunal's conclusion on the case of Wilhelm Frick. 04:42:38 MCU of Julius Streicher listening to Justice Sir Geoffrey Lawrence (British). MS, Justice Lawrence reads Tribunal's conclusion on Streicher's case, guilty on count four. 04:44:10 Justice Biddle states that the tribunal's conclusion on the case of Schacht is not guilty. 04:45:55 de Vabres reading portions of judgment on Karl Doenitz in French: guilty on counts three and four. Raeder's verdict declared in Russian. MS, Karl Doenitz, Erich Raeder, Baldur von Schirach. MS, Prosecutor General R A Rudenko (Russian) at table.

Note(s)

  • See Story 3610, Film ID 2528 for footage of the same scenes but from different angles. Here, the camera focuses on the judges rather than the defendants.

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