PROSECUTION WITNESSES JACOB GRIGORIEV AND EUGENE KIVELISHA ARE QUESTIONED BY COLONEL SMIRNOV AT THE NUREMBERG TRIBUNAL [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: PROSECUTION WITNESSES JACOB GRIGORIEV AND EUGENE KIVELISHA ARE QUESTIONED BY COLONEL SMIRNOV AT THE NUREMBERG TRIBUNAL [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: NWT 19
  • Other titles: NUREMBERG WAR CRIMES TRIAL COVERAGE, 1946 [Allocated Series Title]
  • Summary: Testimony of two Russian witnesses, Jacob Grigoriev and Dr Eugene Alexandrovich Kivelisha.
  • Description: I. Shot of the judges Lieutenant-Colonel A F Volchkov and Major-General I T Nikitchenko (USSR), The Right Honourable Sir Geoffrey Lawrence and the Honourable Sir William Norman Birkett (GB), Judge John J Parker and Mr Francis Biddle (USA), officers of court and court reporters: the witness Jacob Grigoriev is sworn in by Sir Geoffrey Lawrence. Grigoriev gives evidence on the life in the occupied territories after the German invasion. Close Shot of the witness being questioned by a member of the Soviet prosecution counsel. Close Up of the judges Volchkov, Nikitchenko and Birkett. Long Shot of the audience listening. Close Up of a woman watching with binoculars. II. Assistant Prosecutor of the Soviet prosecution counsel, Chief Counsellor of Justice, L N Smirnov, at the desk questioning witness Eugene Alexandrovich Kivelisha. Close Up of the witness. Wide shot of the court room showing the criminal dock, the defence counsel, the witness, court reporters, officers of court, the stenographer and the judges Volchkov, Nikitchenko, Birkett and Lawrence. The Deputy Chief Prosecutor of the USSR, Colonel Y V Pokrovsky, standing at the desk questioning the witness. Dr Kivelisha is handed a photograph upon which he comments; Close Up of the witness with the judges Volchkov and Nikitchenko and several officers of court. Defence counsel Dr. Otto Laternser at the speaker's stand asking the witness about the treatment of the prisoners of war by the Germans. Shot of the audience listening, and of the tables of the prosecution teams: Robert H Jackson (Chief of Counsel for the USA), Lieutenant-Colonel J M G Griffith-Jones MC, and G D Roberts KC (GB), Chief Prosecutor General R A Rudenko, Deputy Chief Prosecutor Colonel Y V Pokrovsky, Assistant Prosecutor N D Zorya (USSR). The witness is discharged, everyone gets up and leaves the court room.
  • Alternative Title: NUREMBERG WAR CRIMES TRIAL COVERAGE, 1946 [Allocated Series Title]
  • Colour: B&W
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  • Object_Number: NWT 19
  • Sound: Sound
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM (NWT 19)
  • Featured Period: 1946-1975
  • Production Date: 1946-02-26
  • Production Country: United States of America
  • Production Details: International War Crimes Tribunal (Production sponsor) United States Army Signal Corps, 3264th Signal Service Company (Production company) Stallings (Production individual)
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  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Sound Soundtrack language: Russian Title language: German Subtitle language: English
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 2 Footage: 1500 ft
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