Jackson speaks about Nazi organizations at Nuremberg Trial

Film | Digitized | Accession Number: 1993.177.1 | RG Number: RG-60.2423 | Film ID: 2277

Overview

Description: (Munich 16) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany. HS, Front view, a defense attorney, Dr. Martin Horne, speaking to Tribunal. Horne repeats the request of the defense to admit Winston Churchill as a witness - the court had already decided against that before the defense could bring it up. 01:39:43 LHSs, MSs, US Chief Prosecutor Robert H. Jackson delivers the prosecution's case against certain organizations in the Nazi Government and emphasizes their criminality. 01:43:29 Jackson says, "A thousand little Fuehrers dictated, a thousand imitation Goerings strutted, a thousand Schirachs incited the youth...." Jackson states that the work of these organizations was to incite a "mob spirit" in the German people and details their violence and terrorism. Jackson discusses Ohlendorf's testimony of wholesale murder states that the SS, unmercifully and with malice, killed five million Jews. 01:47:43 "These crimes with which we deal, are unprecedented, first because of the shocking number of victims. They are even more shocking and unprecedented because of the large number of people who united their efforts to perpetrate them....They developed a contest in cruelty and a competition in crimes...."
Duration: 00:10:39
Date: Event: 1946 February 28
Locale: Nuremberg, Germany
Credit: Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives & Records Administration
Contributor: Producer: United States. Army. Signal Corps.

Language: English German
Genre/Form: Unedited.
B&W / Color: Black & White
Image Quality: Fair
Time Code: 01:38:00:00 to 01:48:39:00
Film Format: Master
Master 2277 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Master 2277 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Master 2277 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Master 2277 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Preservation
Preservation 2277 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2277 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2277 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2277 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large

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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.

Keyword: ATROCITIES COURTS/COURTROOMS GERMANS GERMANY JACKSON, ROBERT JEWS NAZI OFFICIALS NAZI PARTY NUREMBERG (INTERNATIONAL MILITARY TRIBUNAL) OHLENDORF, OTTO PROSECUTORS SPEECHES SS (SCHUTZSTAFFEL) TRIALS WAR CRIMINALS/WAR CRIMES TRIALS

Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Film Provenance: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased the collection from the National Archives and Records Administration in 1988. The footage was obtained as research for the Museum's Permanent Exhibition audiovisual monitors on the War Crimes Trials in Nuremberg.
Note: 00:38:08-00:48:45

Timecodes starting with 01: refer to the Master and User (VHS) copies. Timecodes starting with 00: refer to the Protection (Beta SP) copy.

Tape previously considered NURM 1.
Film Source: United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
File Number: Legacy Database File: 2172
Source Archive Number: 111 ADC 5817
Special Collection: Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive