Overview
- Description
- Reel 1: "Europe 1945" Panorama of war devastation: buildings and cities laid to waste, rubble, mother climbing out of trap door shelter with naked baby in arms, people in hunger and despair emerge from shelters, children running down steps, clambering for food, poverty, homeless people, begging for food, weeping woman. 05:03:01 "Nuremberg 21 November 1945" EXT and INT Nuremberg Palace of Justice. CU, document announcing trial and listing the accused. Seating of International Military Tribunal. 05:04:26 Chief US prosecutor, Robert H. Jackson presents the opening statement and Count 1 of the indictment (a conspiracy to commit war crimes and crimes against peace and humanity). Mostly rear views of Jackson speaking: "triumph of justice over vengeance...four mighty nations...meeting greatest menace of our times." Various shots of courtroom, judges, prosecutor, stenographer, defendants. MSs, CUs, defendants' faces. Pan, prisoners' dock. Germans walk past open graves with flowers, sort through rubble. Children desperately seek food in buckets, woman eats from garbage, mob scenes, women shouts viciously in crowd (voiceover of Jackson speaking in court).
- Film Title
-
Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today
- Duration
- 00:08:18
- Date
-
Event:
1945
Production: 1948
- Locale
-
Nuremberg,
Germany
- Credit
- Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives & Records Administration
- Contributor
-
Compiler:
Pare Lorentz
Compiler: Stuart Schulberg
Producer: Information Services Division, OMGUS
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Genre/Form
- Documentary.
- B&W / Color
- Black & White
- Image Quality
- Mixed
- Time Code
- 05:00:45:00 to 05:09:03:00
- Film Format
- Master
Master 67 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Master 67 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Master 67 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Master 67 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large- Preservation
Preservation 67 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 67 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 67 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 67 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- You do not require further permission from the Museum to access this archival media.
- Copyright
- Public Domain
- Conditions on Use
- To the best of the Museum's knowledge, this material is in the public domain. You do not require further permission from the Museum to reproduce or use this material.
Keywords & Subjects
- Keyword
- BABIES BEGGING BOMBINGS CHILDREN CITIES COURTS/COURTROOMS CROWDS DESTRUCTION DOCUMENTS FOOD GERMANS GERMANY GOEBBELS, JOSEPH GRAVES HESS, RUDOLF JACKSON, ROBERT JUDGES KEITEL, WILHELM MARCHING NAZI OFFICIALS NUREMBERG (INTERNATIONAL MILITARY TRIBUNAL) PARADES PROSECUTORS REFUGEES RUBBLE RUINS TRIALS WAR CRIMINALS/WAR CRIMES TRIALS WOMEN
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Film Provenance
- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased this from the National Archives and Records Administration in September 1998.
- Note
- Copyright: While this film is a production of the US government and is therefore in the public domain, it contains German newsreel footage, the rights to which are held by the German state archive (Bundesarchiv) through their agent, Transit Film. Researchers should exercise caution when using newsreel clips from this film, and consider clearing the rights with Transit, especially if broadcast in Europe.
See Stories 2413-2417, Film ID 67 and Stories 3007-3008, Film ID 2388 and Story 4326, Film ID 2794 and Film IDs 2749-2758 for additional reels of this film. See Stories 4289 and 4300 duplicate footage of this reel.
See departmental files for English language transcript of film narration for Reel 1.
Video transfer ident at head of each reel mistakenly labels this "Nuremburg." NARA records and correct spelling are "Nuremberg."
This is a documentary about the war crimes trial administered by the International Military Court of Justice in Nuremberg against the main Nazi war criminals from November 14, 1945 to October 1, 1946. The film documents footage of the trial from the prosecutor's opening to the verdict. The dramaturgy includes a chronological account of the founding of the National Socialist state, the unleashing of the world war, and the Nazi crimes against humanity and is accompanied with historical footage. This material is occasionally only used for illustration and does not necessarily portray the facts being commented upon. The film is also called "Nuremberg." - Copied From
- 35mm; b/w
- Film Source
- United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 158
Source Archive Number: 111 M 7596 R1 - Special Collection
-
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 07:51:35
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