Title:DEFENDANT HERMANN GOERING IS CROSS EXAMINED BY ROBERT H JACKSON AND DAVID MAXWELL FYFE [Allocated Title]
Film Number:NWT 29
Other titles:NUREMBERG WAR CRIMES TRIAL COVERAGE, 1947 [Allocated Series Title]
Summary:Cross-examination of Hermann Goering by Robert Jackson and Sir David Maxwell Fyfe.
Description:Shot of the criminal dock with 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 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. In front of them are members of the defence counsel including Otto Kranzbühler, Robert Servatius, Kurt Kauffmann, Hanns Marx and Alfred Seidl. The voices of chief prosecutor Robert Jackson (USA) and Hermann Goering in the witness stand are heard. Jackson asks about aspects of the persecution of the Jews, Goering mentions as responsible persons Joseph Goebbels and Heinrich Himmler. A wide shot from the back of the room shows the defence counsel, the court reporter, officers of court, prosecutor Jackson, Goering in the witness stand and the bench with the judges. Goering confirms that he had proclaimed the Nuremberg Laws as President of the Reichstag. CU of Goering in the witness stand. Deputy chief prosecutor Sir David Maxwell Fyfe (GB) questions Goering on the turning over of escaped Russian prisoners of war to the secret police (Gestapo). Shot showing empty speaker's stand with microphone; another shot (from the top of the room) shows the judges Volchkov, Nikitchenko, Birkett, Lawrence, Biddle, Parker, De Vabres and Falco. Chief prosecutor of the USA, Robert Jackson, at the speaker's stand. Behind him, there is the table of the counsel for the prosecution of Great Britain showing Sir David Maxwell Fyfe, Colonel H J Phillimore, G D Roberts, chief prosecutor Sir Hartley Shawcross and junior counsel Lieutenant-Colonel Griffith-Jones. At the table of the prosecution team of the USSR, deputy chief prosecutor Pokrovsky and assistant prosecutor Zorya can be seen. Close up of prosecutor Jackson, behind him executive trial counsel Thomas J Dodd (USA) sits at a table.
Alternative Title:NUREMBERG WAR CRIMES TRIAL COVERAGE, 1947 [Allocated Series Title]
Colour:B&W
Digitised:Yes
Object_Number:NWT 29
Sound:Sound
Access Conditions:IWM
Film: IWM (NWT 29)
Featured Period:1945-1989
Production Date:-1946-03
Production Country:American
Production Details:International War Crimes Tribunal
United States Army Signal Corps, 3264th Signal Service Company
Klappert (Lieutenant)
Lovell (Lieutenant)
Personalities, Units and Organisations:
Keywords:
Physical Characteristics:Colour format: B&W
Sound format: Sound
Soundtrack language: German
Soundtrack language: English
Technical Details:35mm
Number of items/reels/tapes: 2
Footage: 1400 ft; Running time: 15 mins (ca.)
