Overview
- Description
- 2009 restoration by Schulberg Productions with English subtitles. The film "Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today" is the official documentary of the International Military Tribunal held in Nuremberg from November 21, 1945 to October 1, 1946. It is set in the Nuremberg courtroom and recreates the case against the Nazi high command using German documents, photographs, and moving pictures. The film was completed by Stuart Schulberg and his editor, Joseph Zigman, in the spring of 1948, and premiered in Stuttgart in November of that year. For political reasons the film was subsequently suppressed by the U.S. Department of War (the entity that ordered its production) in all countries except Germany. As a result, the negative was lost or destroyed, few prints remain, and it has rarely been shown publicly.
Sandra Schulberg and Josh Waletzky created the first complete 35mm picture and sound restoration of this historic film in 2009. The restoration uses original sound recordings from the trial and allows audiences to hear Justice Robert H. Jackson's famous opening and closing statements to the Tribunal, the voices of the English, Russian, and French prosecutors, and testimony from the German defendants and their defense attorneys. The film ends with Jackson's stirring words - "Let Nuremberg stand as a warning to all those who would plan and wage aggressive war"- which makes "Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today" startlingly contemporary. - Duration
- 01:18:00
- Date
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Event:
1945-1946
Production: 2009
- Locale
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Nuremberg,
Germany
- Credit
- Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Schulberg Productions
- Contributor
-
Producer:
Sandra Schulberg
Producer: Josh Waletzky
Physical Details
- Genre/Form
- Documentary.
- B&W / Color
- Black & White
- Image Quality
- Good
- Film Format
- Master
Master 2918 Film: positive - 35 mm - sound - mono track - release print
Master 2918 Video: DVD - NTSC
Master 2918 Film: positive - 35 mm - sound - mono track - release print
Master 2918 Video: DVD - NTSC
Master 2918 Film: positive - 35 mm - sound - mono track - release print
Master 2918 Video: DVD - NTSC
Master 2918 Film: positive - 35 mm - sound - mono track - release print
Master 2918 Video: DVD - NTSC
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- This archival media can only be accessed in a Museum reading room or other on-campus viewing stations.
- Copyright
- Schulberg Productions
- Conditions on Use
- Contact Schulberg Productions at sschulberg@aol.com for permission to reproduce and use this footage.
- Copyright Holder
- Schulberg Productions
Keywords & Subjects
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Film Provenance
- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased an English-subtitled 35mm film copy of the 2009 restoration of "Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today" from Schulberg Productions in January 2010.
- Note
- The labwork was completed at Du Art productions and LVT laser subtitling in New York City.
- Film Source
- Schulberg Productions
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 5447
- Special Collection
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Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 08:00:20
- This page:
- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn1004528
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- Terms of Use
- This record is not digitized and cannot be downloaded online.
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