WORLD PICTORIAL NEWS NO 241 [Main Title]
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- Title: WORLD PICTORIAL NEWS NO 241 [Main Title]
- Film Number: WPN 241
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- Summary: "They Shall Be Brought to Justice and Punished" Churchill - [Nuremberg Trials].
- Description: I. 'NUREMBERG TRIALS.' Quote from Winston Spencer Churchill appears on screen "They shall be brought to justice and punished." Interior footage taken in the courtroom of the Palace of Justice in Nuremberg shows the opening of the first war crimes trial. Camera pans over the defendants seated in the dock who include Hermann W Goering, Rudolf Hess, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Wilhelm B J G Keitel, Alfred Rosenberg, Hans Frank, Wilhelm Frick, Julius Streicher, Walther Funk, Hjalmar Schacht, Karl Doenitz, Erich Raeder, Baldur von Schirach, Fritz Sauckel, Alfred Jodl, Franz von Papen, Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Albert Speer, Konstantin von Neurath and Hans Fritzsche. The court rises as the judges enter. Brief close-up footage shows British judges, Lord Justice Lawrence and Norman Birkett. Justice R H Jackson reads the indictment. Goering and Hess listen. Camera pans across the courtroom to show the judges' panel who include Major-General IT Nikitchenko, Lieutenant-Colonel A F Volchkov, Birkett, Lawrence, Frances H Biddle, Judge J J Parker, Professeur Henri Donnedieu de Vabres and Robert Falco. The defendants put on their translation headphones. A dispute arises over defendants' consultation facilities with council which leads to the court being adjourned for fifteen minutes. Hess and Goering confer with the defence council as United States (US) military police watch attentively. Goering attempts to make a speech in German but is prevented from doing so. He is shown pleading "Not Guilty". The German defendants plead "Not Guilty" (The pleas of Frank, Doenitz, Raeder, Schirach, Sauckel, Jodl are not shown). Goering stands up and seeks to gain the attention of the judges' panel by clicking his fingers, but is told he may not speak. Jackson begins his speech for the US prosecution, Goering and Hess listen.
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- Colour: B&W
- Digitised: Yes
- Object_Number: WPN 241
- Sound: Sound
- Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
- Featured Period: 1939-1945
- Production Date: 1945-12-17
- Production Country: GB
- Production Details: Ministry of Information, Middle East (Production sponsor) World Pictorial News (Production company) Martin, Charles (Production individual) Noble, Robert (Production cast)
- Personalities, Units and Organisations: Göring, Hermann Wilhelm (person) Hess, Rudolf Walter Richard (person) Ribbentrop, Joachim von (person) Keitel, Wilhelm Bodewin Gustav (person) Rosenberg, Alfred (person) Frank, Hans (person) Frick, Wilhelm (person) Streicher, Julius (person) Funk, Walther (person) Schacht, Hjalmar Horace Greeley (person) Doenitz, Karl (person) Raeder, Erich Johann Albert (person) Schirach, Baldur von (person) Sauckel, Fritz (person) Jodl, Alfred (person) Papen, Franz von (person) Seyss-Inquart, Arthur (person) Speer, Albert (person) Neurath, Konstantin von (person) Fritzsche, Hans (person) Biddle, Francis Beverley (person) Birkett, Norman (person) Donnedieu de Vabres, Henri (person) Falco, Robert (person) Jackson, Robert Houghwout (person) Lawrence, Geoffrey (person) Nikitchenko, Iona T (person) Parker, John J (person) Volchkov, Alexander F (person)
- Keywords: law and order, German - judicial process (object name) Allied Occupation of Germany & War Crimes Trials & Nuremberg Trials & 20/11/1945 (event)
- Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Sound Soundtrack language: English Title language: English Subtitle language: Arabic
- Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 834 ft; Running time: 9 mins
- HD Media:Yes
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