Sentencing of Nazi Leaders at Nuremberg Part 1

Description

Summary: MS, Hermann Goering, Baldur von Schirach, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Wilhelm Keitel, Alfred Jodl, Rudolf Hess, sitting in prisoners' dock listening to testimony. Hess taken ill leaves prisoners' dock. Shots of English and US prosecution tables. Scenes of Justice Kravechenko, Russian Justice, reading statement from bench. Pan of prisoners' dock and courtroom as voice of Justice Sir Geoffrey Lawrence (British) is heard speaking about the SS, Slave Labor and experiments on human beings. The SS was able to procure funds for human experiments from the government. The extermination of the Jews was carried out by the SS.. Court adjourns. MS of Erich Raeder, Fritz Sauckel, Hess, Goering, von Ribbentrop, in dock. Justice Francis Biddle in speaking of von Ribbentrop declares that the latter merely stated he acted as a rubber stamp for Adolf Hitler's ideas. The tribunal however, finds him guilty on all counts. Camera on prisoners' dock as Justice Lawrence speaks about the defendant, Ernst Kaltenbrunner.

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities