Title:DEFENDANT WILHELM KEITEL IS CROSS-EXAMINED BY DAVID MAXWELL FYFE AT THE NUREMBERG TRIBUNAL [Allocated Title]
Film Number:NWT 42
Other titles:NUREMBERG WAR CRIMES TRIAL COVERAGE, 1946 [Allocated Series Title]
Summary:
Description: Long shot from the back of the courtroom shows the defence counsel, stenographers, court reporters, several officers of court, the bench with the judges Volchkov, Nikitchenko, Birkett, Lawrence, Biddle, Parker, de Vabres and Falco. At the speaker's stand is deputy chief prosecutor Sir David Maxwell Fyfe questioning Wilhelm Keitel, former Field Marshal of the armed forces. Close shot of the table for the American prosecution counsel showing chief prosecutor Robert Jackson and executive prosecutor Thomas Dodd. Maxwell Fyfe questions Keitel on the killing of war prisoners in the prisoner's camp Stalag Luft III where 50 imprisoned members of the RAF were shot after an attempt to escape. Defence counsel Dr Otto Nelte addresses the Tribunal making an objection on the documents . Close up of the judges Birkett, Lawrence, Biddle, de Vabres and Falco talking. Lawrence then explains that the questioning would be correct.
Alternative Title:NUREMBERG WAR CRIMES TRIAL COVERAGE, 1946 [Allocated Series Title]
