Sentencing Ribbentrop, Keitel, Kaltenbrunner, Rosenberg at Nuremberg Trial

Film | Digitized | Accession Number: 2002.541.1 | RG Number: RG-60.3611 | Film ID: 2527

Overview

Description: Sentencing of Nazi Leaders at Nuremberg, Nuremberg, Germany, October 1946. MS, Rudolf Hess, ill in dock. Joachim von Ribbentrop sympathizes. HS, Hess leaves dock. HS, MS, von Ribbentrop speaking to the other defendants after announcement of his guilt. HS, MSs, Justice Francis Biddle reviewing the case of von Ribbentrop (as latter listens.) Biddle enumerates Ribbentrop's actions and participation in important decision-makings, states what he claims in his defense, but in conclusion, states that the court finds Ribbentrop guilty under all 4 counts. Justice Henri de Vabres reading the verdict (in French) of Wilhelm Keitel: Guilty under count four. Shot of Keitel as he listens to tribunal's conclusion on his case. Shot of Ernst Kaltenbrunner as Justice Sir Geoffrey Lawrence (British) tells of the Kaltenbrunner's career in the SS. Tribunal's conclusion is that Kaltenbrunner is guilty on counts three and four. MS, Alfred Rosenberg as his case is reviewed (sound is not audible here, very bad and weak).
Duration: 00:10:17
Date: Event: 1946 October 01
Locale: Nuremberg, Germany
Credit: Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives & Records Administration
Contributor: Producer: United States. Army. Signal Corps.
Camera Operator: Roberts

Language: English French
Genre/Form: Unedited.
B&W / Color: Black & White
Image Quality: Fair
Time Code: 03:41:55:00 to 03:52:12:00
Film Format: Master
Master 2527 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Master 2527 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Master 2527 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Master 2527 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation
Preservation 2527 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2527 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2527 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2527 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large

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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.

Keyword: COURTS/COURTROOMS GERMANY HESS, RUDOLF JUDGES KALTENBRUNNER, ERNST KEITEL, WILHELM NAZI OFFICIALS NUREMBERG (INTERNATIONAL MILITARY TRIBUNAL) RIBBENTROP, JOACHIM VON ROSENBERG, ALFRED SS (SCHUTZSTAFFEL) TRIALS WAR CRIMINALS/WAR CRIMES TRIALS

Legal Status: Permanent Collection
Film Provenance: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased this from the National Archives and Records Administration in May 2002.
Note: See also Story 3606, Film ID 2527 for footage of the same scene of Ribbentrop verdict but from a different perspective.
Copied From: DBVT; b/w
Film Source: United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
File Number: Legacy Database File: 3765
Source Archive Number: 111 ADC 10010
Special Collection: Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive