Overview
- Description
- (Munich 323) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, July 27, 1946. MS, brief, Chief British prosecutor Sir Hartley Shawcross making final plea for conviction (speech only partly recorded). HMS, showing left side of prisoners' dock - Goering, Jodl, and others speaking with their attorneys during recess. HMS, von Papen and Seyss-Inquart during recess. 01:50:15 HS, MLS, MS Shawcross making his final plea for conviction of the defendants. 01:50:49 "12 million men, women, and children have died thus, murdered in cold blood." 01:51:07 "What right has any man to mercy who has played a part, however indirectly, in such a crime?" Pan of courtroom to prisoners' dock, including Goering, von Ribbentrop, Keitel, Kaltenbrunner, Rosenberg, Doenitz, Sauckel as Shawcross is heard reading a witness account of SS murdering Jews from Dubno. Defendants chatting. HMLS, Prosecutor Jackson, Dodd, and others seated at table; Shawcross in left FG is speaking. CUs, Shawcross delivering account. HMS, another pan of defendants in dock during Shawcross's speech.
- Duration
- 00:07:40
- Date
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Event:
1946 July 27
- Locale
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Nuremberg,
Germany
- Credit
- Accessed at United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of National Archives & Records Administration
- Contributor
-
Producer:
United States. Army. Signal Corps.
Physical Details
- Language
- English
- Genre/Form
- Unedited.
- B&W / Color
- Black & White
- Image Quality
- Good
- Time Code
- 01:48:50:00 to 01:56:30:00
- Film Format
- Master
Master 2277 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Master 2277 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Master 2277 Video: One Inch - NTSC
Master 2277 Video: One Inch - NTSC- Preservation
Preservation 2277 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2277 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2277 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
Preservation 2277 Video: Betacam SP - NTSC - large
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
- ATROCITIES COURTS/COURTROOMS DODD, THOMAS J. DOENITZ, KARL GERMANY GOERING, HERMANN JACKSON, ROBERT JEWS JODL, ALFRED KALTENBRUNNER, ERNST KEITEL, WILHELM NAZI OFFICIALS NUREMBERG (INTERNATIONAL MILITARY TRIBUNAL) PAPEN, FRANZ VON PROSECUTORS RIBBENTROP, JOACHIM VON ROSENBERG, ALFRED SAUCKEL, FRITZ SEYSS-INQUART, ARTHUR SHAWCROSS, HARTLEY SS (SCHUTZSTAFFEL) TRIALS WAR CRIMINALS/WAR CRIMES TRIALS
Administrative Notes
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Film Provenance
- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum purchased the collection from the National Archives and Records Administration in 1988. The footage was obtained as research for the Museum's Permanent Exhibition audiovisual monitors on the War Crimes Trials in Nuremberg.
- Note
- 00:48:51-00:56:30
Timecodes starting with 01: refer to the Master and User (VHS) copies. Timecodes starting with 00: refer to the Protection (Beta SP) copy.
Tape previously considered NURM 1. - Film Source
- United States. National Archives and Records Administration. Motion Picture Reference
- File Number
- Legacy Database File: 2173
Source Archive Number: 111 ADC 6091 - Special Collection
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Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive
- Record last modified:
- 2024-02-21 08:04:47
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