Overview
- Description
- Reel 7: Courtroom scenes, questioning various defendants, showing various views of the courtroom and trial proceedings. Questioning Jodl and von Ribbentrop. Prosecutor asks Goering: "Do you still say that neither Hitler nor you knew of the policy to exterminate the Jews?" Goering: "I already had said that not even approximately did I know to what degree this thing took place." Prosecutor: "You did not know to what degree, but you knew there was a policy which aimed at the liquidation of the Jews?" Goering: "No, not liquidation of Jews, only knew that certain perpetrations had taken place." Prosecutor cross-examining Speer. Final statements of defendants. Frank, "I myself speaking from the very depths of my sentiments...say this: now that I have gained a last insight into all that which has been committed in the way of dreadful atrocities, I feel a terrible guilt within me." Funk, "...When measures of terror and violence against Jews were put to me, I suffered a nervous breakdown...I feel ashamed and guilty." Final statements of Schirach, Schacht, Speer: "The tremendous danger contained in this totalitarian system only became really clear the moment we were approaching the end....This trial must contribute to the prevention of such distorted wars in the future and to the establishment of principles of human cooperation." Final statements of Keitel, Frank, and Fritzsche. The defense and prosecution sum up their arguments.
- Film Title
-
Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today
- Duration
- 00:07:00
- Date
-
Event:
1945-1946
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
- Good
- Time Code
- 08:00:41:00 to 08:07:41:00
- Film Format
- Master
Master 2388 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Master 2388 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Master 2388 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Master 2388 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small- Preservation
Preservation 2388 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 2388 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 2388 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
Preservation 2388 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - small
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
- COURTS/COURTROOMS FRANK, KARL HERMANN FRITZSCHE, HANS FUNK, WALTHER GERMANY GOERING, HERMANN JEWS JODL, ALFRED JUDGES KEITEL, WILHELM NAZI OFFICIALS NUREMBERG (INTERNATIONAL MILITARY TRIBUNAL) PROSECUTORS RIBBENTROP, JOACHIM VON SCHACHT, HJALMAR SCHIRACH, BALDUR VON SPEECHES SPEER, ALBERT TRIALS WAR CRIMINALS/WAR CRIMES TRIALS
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 2001.
- 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 ID 2749-2758 for additional reels of this film. See Stories 4290 and 4301 duplicate footage of this reel.
See departmental files for English language transcript of film narration for Reel 7.
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 DNC; b/w
- Film Source
- United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 3473
Source Archive Number: 111 M 7596 R7 - Special Collection
-
Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 07:53:28
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