Title:DEFENDANT HJALMAR SCHACHT IS CROSS-EXAMINED BY ROBERT H JACKSON AT THE NUREMBERG TRIBUNAL [Allocated Title]
Film Number:NWT 55
Other titles:NUREMBERG WAR CRIMES TRIAL COVERAGE, 1946 [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: US Chief Prosecutor Robert H Jackson cross-examines of Hjalmar Schacht.
Description: Defendants in the dock talking to their attorneys before the trial begins. Shot of chief prosecutor of the USSR, General Rudenko, sitting at a table. Close up of chief prosecutor of the USA, Robert H Jackson, talking to Colonel Mays, Marshal of Court (?). Shot of the dock: everybody rises when the judges come in. Prosecutor Jackson goes to the speaker's stand and takes his headphones; the shot also shows deputy chief prosecutor Sir David Maxwell Fyfe from behind, court reporters, officers of court and members of the defence counsel. Jackson cross examining defendant Hjalmar Schacht in the witness stand; close up of Schacht when he explains his comment "we are falling in the hands of criminals", saying he meant Hitler, Himmler, Bormann, Goering, Heydrich and von Ribbentrop. Close up of von Ribbentrop in the dock listening to Schacht. Close shot of Jackson. Schacht in the witness stand identifies people on photographs.
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)
Klappert (Lieutenant) (Production individual)
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Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W
Sound format: Sound
Soundtrack language: English
Title language: German
Technical Details: Format: 35mm
Number of items/reels/tapes: 1
Footage: 997 ft; Running time: 11 mins (ca)
