DEFENCE WITNESSES (ON BEHALF OF VON RIBBENTROP) ARE QUESTIONED AT THE NUREMBERG TRIBUNAL [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: DEFENCE WITNESSES (ON BEHALF OF VON RIBBENTROP) ARE QUESTIONED AT THE NUREMBERG TRIBUNAL [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: NWT 31
  • Other titles: DEFENDANT HERMANN GOERING IS QUESTIONED BY GENERAL RUDENKO AT THE NUREMBERG TRIBUNAL [Allocated Title] NUREMBERG WAR CRIMES TRIAL COVERAGE, 1946 [Allocated Series Title]
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  • Description: The witness Ernst Wilhelm Bohle enters the witness stand and takes his oath; the shot also shows two members of the US Military Police, several officers of court and court reporters. The witness is asked questions by defence counsel Dr Fritz Sauter. Shot showing the criminal dock with Hermann Goering, Rudolf Hess, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Wilhelm Keitel, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Alfred Rosenberg, Hans Frank, Wilhelm Frick, Julius Streicher, Walter Funk, Hjalmar Schacht. On the back row are Karl Doenitz, Erich Raeder, Baldur von Schirach, Fritz Sauckel, Alfred Jodl, Franz von Papen, Artur Seyss-Inquart, Albert Speer, Constantin von Neurath and Hans Fritzsche. Among the defence counsel are Otto Kranzbühler, Kurt Kauffmann, Robert Servatius, Egon Kubuschok, Hanns Marx and Alfred Seidl. Shot from the backside of the room shows the tables of the prosecution counsel from behind. The witness Karl Emil Stroelin enters the witness stand and takes his oath. Shot showing defence counsel Dr Sauter asking questions and reading a document. CU of Stroelin. A wide shot of the courtroom shows the tables of the prosecution teams of the USSR and France from behind, the defence counsel, the simultaneous interpreters, the speaker's stand, the witness Stroelin, several officers of court and court reporters and the bench with the judges. Shot of the prosecution tables. At the table of the prosecution counsel from the USA sits the chief of counsel, Robert H Jackson, and executive trial counsel Thomas J Dodd. At the table of the counsel from the USSR sits the deputy chief prosecutor Colonel Pokrovsky and the assistant prosecutor N D Zorya. Among the British prosecution counsel are chief prosecutor Sir Hartley Shawcross and Professor Lauterbach. The witness Adolf von Steengracht is questioned by defence counsel Dr Martin Horn on the role of Joachim von Ribbentrop. Shot shows dock, guarded by members of the US Military Police. A wider shot shows the prosecution tables the bench with the judges, the witness stand with Hermann Goering, several officers of court, court reporters and the interpreters. At the table of the prosecution counsel from Britain there are Sir David Maxwell Fyfe and Mr. G D Roberts. The chief prosecutor of the USSR, General R A Rudenko questions Goering. Shot of Goering talking about Adolf Hitler's position in hierarchy and his role as Führer. Shot of defence counsels Dr Fritz Sauter and Dr Alfred Thoma. Shot of Goering talking about his attitude towards the racial theories. Dock with the reaction of Goering's testimony. Defence counsels Dr Robert Servatius, Dr Hanns Frank, Dr Egon Kubuschok, Dr Hans Laternser who hands Hanns Frank a piece of paper. Shot of the desk from behind with the chief prosecutor of the French Republic, M. Auguste Champetier de Ribes. End of cross-examination with people getting up their seats and leaving. Dr Fritz Sauter at the desk making an inquiry on a document, Sir David Maxwell Fyfe getting up and objecting it.
  • Alternative Title: DEFENDANT HERMANN GOERING IS QUESTIONED BY GENERAL RUDENKO AT THE NUREMBERG TRIBUNAL [Allocated Title] NUREMBERG WAR CRIMES TRIAL COVERAGE, 1946 [Allocated Series Title]
  • Colour: B&W
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  • Object_Number: NWT 31
  • Sound: Sound
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM (NWT 31)
  • Featured Period: 1946-1975
  • Production Date: 1946-03-22
  • 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) Klappert (Lieutenant) (Production individual)
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  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Sound Soundtrack language: German Title language: Russian Subtitle language: French
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 2 Footage: 2000 ft
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