Title:DEFENDANT ALFRED JODL IS CROSS-EXAMINED BY G D ROBERTS AT THE NUREMBERG TRIBUNAL [Allocated Title]
Film Number:NWT 65
Other titles:NUREMBERG WAR CRIMES TRIAL COVERAGE, 1946 [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Alfred Jodl is cross-examined, 6 and 7 June 1946.
Description: Associate trial counsel Colonel John Amen and executive trial counsel Thomas J Dodd (USA) listening. Shot from the top of the courtroom down shows G D Roberts (GB) at the speaker's stand with Sir David Maxwell Fyfe, Sir Hartley Shawcross and J M G Griffith-Jones in the background sitting at a table. Close up of Roberts reading a document concerning the deportation of Jews from Copenhagen, Denmark to the defendant Alfred Jodl in the witness stand. Jodl's answers are heard in translation. Roberts questions Jodl about the involvement of the Wehrmacht (army) in the deportation, especially of one watch battalion. Close up of Jodl answering. Shot from the back of the courtroom shows the defence counsel, court reporters, stenographers, officers of court, and some members of the prosecution counsel from behind. Jodl's voice is heard (this time without translation). Shot from the top of the courtroom. Jodl gives evidence towards the invasion of the German armed forces into Norway. Close up of Jodl, followed by a shot of the dock with Goering, Hess, von Ribbentrop, Keitel, Kaltenbrunner, Rosenberg, Frank, Frick, Streicher, Funk, on the back row Doenitz, Raeder, von Schirach, Sauckel, von Papen, Seyss-Inquart, Speer, von Neurath and Fritzsche. Shot of Jodl gives evidence concerning the attack on Yugoslavia.
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)
Lovell (Lieutenant) (Production individual)
Aborn (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: 1310 ft; Running time: 15 mins (ca)