Day 20 International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg (Set A)

Recorded Sound | Accession Number: 2019.401 | RG Number: RG-91.2365

Day 20 - Friday, December 14, 1945. More on the persecution of Jews, including statements by the German defense counsel for Kaltenbrunner, Justice Jackson, Justice Lawrence, Gen. Rudenko, and the British and French prosecution teams. Maj. Walsh continues the case on the persecution of Jews and presents a film. Capt. Harris makes the case for the persecution of Poles and Czechs.

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Day 20 International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg (Set A)

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Date: 1945 December 14
Language: English
German
Genre/Form: Unedited.
Trial and arbitral proceedings.
Credit: Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of the International Court of Justice

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Topical Term: Nuremberg Trial of Major German War Criminals, Nuremberg, Germany, 1945-1946.
Legal Status: Permanent Collection
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: Issues with track 387A appear to be the result of a technical issue at the time of recording.
Recorded Sound Source: International Court of Justice
Mémorial de la Shoah, Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine
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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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Also in Archives of the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal

Digital copies of the audio, film, and paper components of the Archives of the International Military Tribunal of Nuremberg. The original materials include: 1,942 cut gramophone discs of audio recordings of the hearings of the IMT; 37 rolls of 35mm nitrate films used as evidence during the trial; and 269,093 pages of documents (exhibits submitted to the Tribunal; trial briefs; minutes; lists).

American film about Nazi atrocities at concentration camps shown at Nuremberg Trials

Film

"Nazi Concentration Camps" was compiled as evidence and shown at the Nuremberg Trials on November 29, 1945 as Prosecution Exhibit #230. It contains film evidence of Nazi atrocities at the concentration camps of Leipzig, Penig, Ohrdruf, Hadamar, Breendonck, Hanover, Arnstadt, Nordhausen, Mauthausen, Buchenwald, Dachau, and Belsen. The film was produced for the U.S. Counsel for Prosecution of Axis Criminality in 1945. It was directed by Navy Cmdrs. James B. Donovan and E. Ray Kellogg. George C. Stevens was responsible for directing the photography and filming of the concentration camps as liberated by Allied forces.

Nazi Plan: 4-hour American film about the Nazi Party shown at Nuremberg Trials

Film

"The Nazi Plan" was shown as evidence at the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg on December 11, 1945. It covers the activities and policies of the Nazi Party in Germany from 1921 to 1944, particularly as reflected in the speeches of Adolf Hitler and the pageantry associated with the Party. The four-hour film was compiled by Budd Schulberg and other military personnel, under the supervision of Navy Commander James Donovan. The compilers took pains to use only German source material, including official newsreels and other German films (1919-45). It was put together for the US Counsel for the Prosecution of Axis Criminality and the US Office of the Chief Counsel for War Crimes. The film was received in evidence as IMT exhibit USA-167. The film consists of four parts: Part I: The rise of the NSDAP, 1921-1933 Part II: Acquiring totalitarian control of Germany, 1933-1935 Part III: Preparation for wars of aggression, 1935-1939 Part IV: Wars of aggression, 1939-1944

French propaganda film

Film

This French film of 1943 was commissioned by Nazi Germany's propaganda ministry within occupied France. It is notable as the last film to be directed by Paul Riche (pseudonym of Jean Mamy), an ex-Mason. The film virulently denounces Freemasonry, parliamentarianism, and Jews as part of Vichy's drive agains them and seeks to prove a Jewish-Masonic plot. On France's liberation, the film's writer, producer, and director were purged for collaborating with the Nazis. This very short excerpt (39 seconds) contains the opening title sequence and a newspaper headline regarding President Roosevelt.

Soviet film on damage to Russian cultural heritage shown at Nuremberg Trials

Film

This Soviet-made film submitted at Nuremberg on February 21, 1946 concentrates on damage to architecturally important Russian buildings, especially churches and monasteries, as well as the destruction of places of historical interest linked to Russian writers and composers. There are no images of the synagogues that the Nazis ruined or defiled.

Soviet film on destruction in Russian cities shown at Nuremberg Trials

Film

This Soviet-made film submitted at Nuremberg on February 22, 1946 concentrates on destruction in Russian cities, including Smolensk, Soltsky, Vyazma, Gzhatsk, Vishnevets, Yukhnov, Epifan, Holm, Bottom, Staraya Russa, and Velikie Luki.

Photographs of atrocities in Yugoslavia shown at Nuremberg Trials

Film

This Soviet-made film submitted at Nuremberg on February 26, 1946 includes photo montage of German atrocities in Yugoslavia.

Soviet film of atrocities shown at Nuremberg Trials

Film

7 reels. This Soviet-made film was screened on February 19, 1946 on the 62nd day of the Nuremberg Trial and submitted as evidence relevant to the indictment for "crimes against humanity." The one-hour film with voiceover commentary shows visual evidence of the extermination camps of Auschwitz and Majdanek and appeals to spectators' emotions by emphasizing individual victims. The central argument of the film is that the Germans were the executioners of peaceful Soviet citizens. At the time, it made a very strong impression on both the accused and press. The film is a re-edited compilation of footage collected by the Soviet film team over four years (primarily used for propagandistic ends in wartime Soviet newsreels and documentaries). It was prepared in emergency by the Soviet prosecution team and minister of cinema following the projection of Nazi Concentration Camps presented by the Americans on November 29, 1945. Begins with CUs of evidentiary documents. Atrocities, corpses, women weeping, Soviet soldiers. Exhumation of mass grave, Russians weeping. Corpses at camp.Human remains. Doctors, exhumation, skulls. Human remains at camp, beach. Reburying children in coffins, women weeping. Watchtower, barbed wire, corpses. Gravesite in forest. Fires. Klooga: corpses, CU of victim with number and Star of David. Lublin, INTs corpses. Civilians view bodies and camp barracks. MS, survivors. Aerial views of Majdanek, barracks. Skulls and bones, crematorium. Victims' belongings (shoes, passports, etc.) Pan of survivors behind barbed wire. Aerial views of Auschwitz, maps, women in bunks, barbed wire, emaciated corpses, survivors in striped uniforms. Twins walking between barbed wire fences at Auschwitz, children show tattooed numbers to camera. Zyklon B cans. Demonstration at gallows. Mass gravesite. Doctors examine baby. MSs, victims' clothing, shoes. More victims' belongings, hair. Doctors examining survivors, interviewing nurses. Cemetery. Decapitated bodies, guillotine. Corpses in coffins. Torture instruments.

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