Day 36 International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg (Set A)

Recorded Sound | Accession Number: 2019.401 | RG Number: RG-91.2381

Day 36 - Thursday, January 17, 1946. Mr. Menthon on crimes committed by the Germans.

Browse All

Day 36 International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg (Set A)

Click to enlarge

Date: 1946 January 17
Language: English
French
Genre/Form: Unedited.
Trial and arbitral proceedings.
Credit: Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of the International Court of Justice

Expand all

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.
Recorded Sound Source: International Court of Justice
Mémorial de la Shoah, Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine
File Number: Source Archive Number: 721A
Source Archive Number: 722A
Source Archive Number: 723A
Source Archive Number: 724A
Source Archive Number: 725A
Source Archive Number: 726A
Source Archive Number: 726A
Source Archive Number: 727A
Source Archive Number: 728A
Source Archive Number: 729A
Source Archive Number: 730A
Source Archive Number: 731A
Source Archive Number: 732A
Source Archive Number: 733A
Source Archive Number: 734A
Source Archive Number: 735A
Source Archive Number: 736A
Source Archive Number: 737A
Source Archive Number: 738A
Source Archive Number: 739A
Source Archive Number: 740A
Source Archive Number: 741A
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.
: Record last modified: 2022-07-28 22:05:02
This page: https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn713946

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).

Learn About The Holocaust

My Saved Research

Day 36 International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg (Set A)

Also in Archives of the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal