Title:DEFENDANT FRANZ VON PAPEN IS QUESTIONED BY EMIL KUBUSCHOK AT THE NUREMBERG TRIBUNAL [Allocated Title]
Film Number:NWT 67
Other titles:NUREMBERG WAR CRIMES TRIAL COVERAGE, 1946 [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Testimony of former Weimar Republic Chancellor Franz von Papen.
Description: Shot from the back left side of the room shows the defence counsel from behind, and the witness stand with Franz von Papen, the former Chancellor and Vice Chancellor under Hitler and ambassador in Vienna and Turkey. Panning shot shows the bench with the judges Volchkov, Nikitchenko, Birkett, Lawrence, Biddle, Parker, de Vabres and Falco and defence counsel Dr Egon Kubuschok who is standing at the speaker's stand. Dr Kubuschok is questioning Franz von Papen; the latter comments on the situation in July 1932, when he was Chancellor of the Weimar Republic. He states that he feared a putsch from the Prussian police and the communists and saw the only solution in a cooperation with the NSDAP. Close up shots of Kubuschok, Thomas J Dodd (USA), stenographers.
Alternative Title:NUREMBERG WAR CRIMES TRIAL COVERAGE, 1946 [Allocated Series Title]
Production Details: International War Crimes Tribunal (Production sponsor)
United States Army Signal Corps, 3264th Signal Service Company (Production company)
Sargent (Production individual)
Aborn (Production individual)
