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War Crimes Trials: I.G. Farben Case - Opening Statement by Telford Taylor

Film | Accession Number: 2001.358.1 | RG Number: RG-60.2909 | Film ID: 2366

War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 6 (I.G. Farben Case), Nuremberg, Germany.
High angle medium-close views of defendants in dock as they are arraigned and individually asked if they've read the indictment and how they plead. Motion for continuance denied - judge at bench. American Prosecutor Telford Taylor to podium and begins: "The grave charges in this case have not been laid before the Tribunal casually.... It accuses them of wholesale enslavement, plunder and murder. ... There is no laughter in this case. Neither is there any hate."


Duration
00:10:49
Date
Event:  1947 August 27
Locale
Nuremberg, Germany
Language
English
Genre/Form
Unedited.
Credit
Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives & Records Administration
 
Record last modified: 2022-07-28 22:03:09
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