Overview
- Description
- War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, November 20, 1945. "Attention! Tribunal" MSs, Tribunal enters courtroom. MLS, German attorney makes statement to court and Lord Justice Geoffrey Lawrence is heard advising the defendants that they may consult with their lawyers. Justice Lawrence stresses that provisions according to Article 24 will be followed by the court. Apparently, this refers to the fact that the defendants could plead "guilty" or "not guilty," but otherwise would not be allowed to make any statements. The defense had complained that the defendants had only been informed about this two days previously and did not have time to prepare. 02:24:00 A fifteen minute recess is granted by Justice Lawrence. MSs, Rudolf Hess standing in dock during adjournment. MSs, Wilhelm Keitel, with his back to the camera, speaks to Fritz Sauckel. Alfred Rosenberg sits beside him. MS, group of lawyers conferring during adjournment. 02:27:09 MLS, Hermann Goering stands up and starts to read a statement to the court. The voice of Justice Lawrence interrupts, saying that the defendants are not permitted to read statements but are to plead guilty or not guilty: "You are not entitled to address the Tribunal." MLS, Goering, Hess, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Keitel, Rosenberg, Julius Streicher, Walter Funk, Hjalmar Schacht, Franz Von Papen, Konstantin Neurath and Hans Fritzsche, one by one, plead not guilty. 02:30:58 MLS, Goering again rises to make statement, but is warned by the court. Rear view, chief Prosecutor Robert H. Jackson starts opening address. "The privilege of opening the first trial in history for the crimes against the people of the world is a grave responsibility. The wrongs which we seek to condemn and punish have been so calculated, so malignant and so devastating that civilization cannot tolerate their being ignored because it cannot survive their being repeated..." (excerpt of opening address) 02:32:51 "...four great nations..."
- Duration
- 00:10:57
- Date
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Event:
11/20/1945
- Locale
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Nuremberg,
Germany
- Credit
- Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives & Records Administration
- Contributor
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Producer:
United States. Army. Signal Corps.
Physical Details
- Genre/Form
- Unedited.
- B&W / Color
- Black & White
- Image Quality
- Fair
- Time Code
- 02:21:58:00 to 02:32:55:00
- Film Format
- Master
Master 2278 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Master 2278 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Master 2278 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Master 2278 Video: One Inch - NTSC- Preservation
Preservation 2278 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2278 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2278 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2278 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
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- 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
- COURTS/COURTROOMS FRITZSCHE, HANS FUNK, WALTHER GERMANY GOERING, HERMANN HESS, RUDOLF JUDGES KALTENBRUNNER, ERNST KEITEL, WILHELM NAZI OFFICIALS NEURATH, CONSTANTIN VON NUREMBERG (INTERNATIONAL MILITARY TRIBUNAL) PAPEN, FRANZ VON RIBBENTROP, JOACHIM VON ROSENBERG, ALFRED SAUCKEL, FRITZ SCHACHT, HJALMAR STREICHER, JULIUS TRIALS WAR CRIMINALS/WAR CRIMES TRIALS
Administrative Notes
- 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
- 00:22:13-00:33:21
Timecodes starting with 02: refer to the Master and User (VHS) copies. Timecodes starting with 00: refer to the Protection (Beta SP) copy.
Tape previously considered NURM 2.
Duplicate footage on Film ID 163, Story 364. - Film Source
- United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 2176
Source Archive Number: 111 ADC 5523 - Special Collection
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Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 08:04:47
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