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Day 9 International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg (Set A)

Recorded Sound | Digitized | Accession Number: 2019.401 | RG Number: RG-91.2354

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    Day 9 International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg (Set A)

    Overview

    Description
    Day 9 - Friday, November 30, 1945 - Colonel John Amen argues with the German defense council over whether to call witness Erwin von Lahousen to the stand, with von Lahousen eventually being allowed to testify. Col. Amen interrogates von Lahousen. The Russian prosecutor, Roman Rudenko, begins to interrogate von Lahousen. As Rodenko is asking “Of course in Poland. Well, sabotage and what else?”, audio skips to Dr. Gunther von Rohrscheidt speaking as counsel for Rudolf Hess, speaking towards his mental state. Tribunal begins to ask counsel questions. Trial adjourns with a statement by Hess, stating that he had faked memory loss as part of a tactical move.
    Date
    Recorded:  1945 November 30
    Credit
    Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of the International Court of Justice

    Physical Details

    Language
    English German

    Rights & Restrictions

    Conditions on Access
    You do not require further permission from the Museum to access this archival media.
    Copyright
    International Court of Justice
    Conditions on Use
    Researchers must obtain permission from the International Court of Justice to copy and use any of the sound and film recordings in this collection. Contact the Library of the Court at library@icj-cij.org.

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    Administrative Notes

    Recorded Sound Provenance
    The archives of the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal were entrusted to the International Court of Justice by a decision of the Tribunal on October 1, 1946. The archives were transported to the Peace Palace, where representatives of the Tribunal and the staff of the Court took delivery of them on March 14, 1950. The Nuremberg Archives consist of the films presented as evidence during the trial, written documents, and gramophone disc recordings of the hearings. The UN, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and the Memorial de la Shoah, cooperatively digitized the film, audio, and microfilm components of the Nuremberg Archives in an agreement signed in July 2017. The 4,370 digital transfers from the original 16" aluminum Presto Instantaneous Discs were received in two batches (December 2018 and September 2019).
    Recorded Sound Notes
    The United States Army Signal Corps produced two sets of verbatim audio recordings of the Nuremberg Trials outside of the courtroom in a studio. Set A (archived at the International Court of Justice in the Hague) consists of 1,942 double-sided black disc gramophone records with a cellulose trinitrate lacquer surface and aluminum core made by the Presto Recording Corporation. Set B (archived at the US National Archives and Records Administration in Washington, DC) consists of cardboard and aluminum gramophone discs. The two sets are not exact copies and generally stagger against each other, but sometimes have the same start or stop time corresponding to the beginning or end of a court session. The digitized and restored files made from Set A (ICJ) are much better quality than the files from Set B (NARA) which contain occasional audio distortion, especially at the beginning of a file, and skipping throughout.

    Technical note: Discs 171A, 172A, 173A, and 174A are missing and were not digitized. It appears that either the disc was not delivered to the ICJ or there was a technical issue at the time of recording. According to the information provided from the gramophone disc inventory (the “Index to Electrical Transcriptions of International Military Tribunal”, H-5192), the discs contain:
    Disc 171A - German witness questioned by Russian counsel
    Disc 172A - German witness questioned by Russian counsel and French counsel
    Disc 173A - German witness questioned by American and Russian counsels
    Disc 174A - Defense counsel for Hess. Part 1
    Recorded Sound Source
    International Court of Justice
    Mémorial de la Shoah, Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine
    File Number
    Source Archive Number: Disc 157A
    Source Archive Number: Disc 158A
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    Source Archive Number: Disc 180A
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    2024-02-21 07:28:32
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