THE VERDICT, NUREMBERG TRIAL Part 1

Description

Summary: Pan ext, Palace of Justice. VS, military police on guard in vicinity. Civilian and military personnel enter courthouse. Pan, defendants and court audience standing as Tribunal enters. Chief Justice Sir Geoffrey Lawrence reads from document. Pan, prosection counsel. VS, Justices Francis Biddle, Henri D de Vabres speaking. MS, Hermann Goering, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Rudolf Hess. Cut-ins, various defendants in prisoners' box. The Russian justices and Justice Birkett at bench. MS, US prosecutor Robert H Jackson at table. MS, Hess, von Ribbentrop, and Wilhelm Keitel. MS, Keitel and Ernst Kaltenbrunner. The judges take their turns in reading the sentences of the prisoners. MSs, Keitel, Kaltenbrunner, Alfred Rosenberg. Rosenberg and Hans Frank. MSs, Frank, Wilhelm Frick. Julius Streicher. Frick, Streicher, Walter Funk, Hjalmar Schacht. MS, Karl Doenitz and Erich Raeder. Chief Russian prosecutor Gen R A Rudenko at prosecution table. Mr Thomas J Dodd and Sir Hartley Shawcross at prosecution table. MS, Alfred Jodl, Franz von Papen, Arthur Seyss-Inquart. Hans Fritzsche seated next to Constantin von Neurath. LSD door is closed by MP. Pan up to seal over doorway.

Collection

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer

Series

Moving Images Relating to Military Activities