Title:DEFENCE WITNESSES JOSEF BUEHLER (ON BEHALF OF FRANK) AND HANS BERND GISEVIUS (ON BEHALF OF FRICK) AT THE NUREMBERG TRIBUNAL [Allocated Title]
Film Number:NWT 49
Other titles:NUREMBERG WAR CRIMES TRIAL COVERAGE, 1946 [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Examination of the witnesses Dr Josef Buehler (23 April) and Hans Bernd Gisevius (24 April).
Description: Shot from the back of the courtroom showing the defence counsel, the simultaneous interpreters, court reporters, stenographers, officers of court, the speaker's stand and the witness stand. Defence counsel Dr Alfred Seidl questions witness Dr Josef Buehler on resettlements of the populations in Lithuania. Shot of the prisoners' dock showing Wilhelm Keitel, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Alfred Rosenberg, Hans Frank (wearing dark glasses), Wilhelm Frick, Julius Streicher, Alfred Jodl, Franz von Papen, Artur Seyss-Inquart, Albert Speer, Constantin von Neurath and Hans Fritzsche. In front of them the defence counsel Otto Kranzbühler, Robert Servatius and Alfred Seidl can be seen. CU of Rosenberg, Frank, Frick, von Papen, Seyss-Inquart, Speer and von Neurath, followed by CU of Goering, Hess, von Ribbentrop, Raeder, von Schirach and Sauckel.
Shot of witness Hans Bernd Gisevius, former member of the Gestapo (secret police), as he enters the witness stand and is sworn in. CU of the witness being questioned by Dr Otto Pannenbecker. He gives evidence about the situation of the police in 1932 and 1933 and on the Nazi policy towards its opponents. Shot of the judges entering the courtroom and sitting down. Gisevius is still in the witness stand. Dr Dix stands and the speaker's stand.
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)
Klappert (Lieutenant) (Production individual)
Blakely (Production individual)
