Title:DEFENCE COUNSEL MARTIN HORN MAKES FINAL PLEA FOR JOACHIM VON RIBBENTROP AT THE NUREMBERG TRIBUNAL [Allocated Title]
Film Number:NWT 68
Other titles:NUREMBERG WAR CRIMES TRIAL COVERAGE, 1946 [Allocated Series Title]
Summary:
Description: I. Shot of the prisoner's dock before the day's proceedings begin: Goering, Hess, von Ribbentrop, Raeder, von Schirach and Keitel talking to each other. A military policeman looks at the camera. Defence counsel Dr Alfred Thoma walks by, Fritz Sauckel is led in the courtroom by a policeman. The defendants assembled in the dock: Goering, Hess, von Ribbentrop, Keitel, Kaltenbrunner, Rosenberg, Frank, Frick, Streicher, Funk, Schacht, Doenitz, Raeder, von Schirach, Sauckel, Jodl, von Papen, Seyss-Inquart, Speer, von Neurath and Fritzsche. In front of them the attorneys Egon Kubuschok and Alfred Seidl can be seen. Shot from the back of the courtroom shows defence counsel Martin Horn (for von Ribbentrop) at the speaker's stand. He is making the last plea for von Ribbentrop, claiming that it was Hitler alone who did the major decisions concerning foreign relations, war and peace and that he needed more a "foreign secretary" than a "foreign minister". He states that von Ribbentrop would be no "independent head". (Close up of von Ribbentrop.)
II. Shot of the prisoners in the dock, taking their break; Kaltenbrunner eating a sandwich. Hess and von Ribbentrop talking. Close shots of Martin Horn, von Ribbentrop and prosecutor Maxwell Fyfe (GB).
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)
