Nazi leaders tried for war crimes during Nuremberg trials in Germany. Justice Kravechenko of Soviet Union reads a statement from a bench. Prisoner's dock and courtroom as Sir Geoferry Lawrence speaks about Schutzstaffel, slave labor and experiments on human beings. The Tribunal adjourns and people stand to leave. Erich Raeder, Fritz Sauckel, Rudolf Hess, Hermann Goering, Joachim Von Ribbentrop in prisoner's dock. The Tribunal resumes again, the following day.
During Nuremberg trial Sir Geoffrey Lawrence gives away the final verdict and sentences Nazi leaders to death whereas some of them sentenced to imprisonment for life. Scenes of Adolf Hitler's rise to power, militarization of Germany and Nazi atrocities on masses.
The Nuremberg Trials in Nuremberg, Germany after the conclusion of World War 2. Official cars passing on roads guarded by policemen. A signboard on a barricade on a road reads 'Stop, Halt'. A court building with Allied flags displayed on the fence of the building. A few men and women entering through the gate to the court. Guards at the entrance gate. A motorcyclist is stopped at the entrance by a guard. The guard standing with a gun. The defendants, Nazi officials, climbing up the steps to the court room. Russian, French and British officials seated in the courtroom during the trial. A judge lists the inhuman activities and atrocities of the Nazi leaders for which they are being tried. Flashback views from concentration camps: An emaciated prisoner at a camp. Bodies of exterminated prisoners laid on the ground in a camp. Bodies of tortured prisoners lying on the ground. Nazi officials seated in the courtroom listening to the proceedings. Guards standing behind the Nazi chiefs seated in a cubicle. The judge, seated with other officials, reading from a document. Other officials seated in the courtroom. Piles of paper strewn on the floor of the courtroom after the end of a day's proceedings. The people in the courtroom listen to Sir Geoffrey Lawrence as he pronounces sentences including death by hanging for Goering, life imprisonment for Hess, death by hanging for Joachim von Ribbentrop and for Streicher. Nazi officials listen to the verdict, 11 of them would be hanged till death, 6 of them would be jailed and 3 would be acquitted. Other Nazi officials listen to the verdict. Guards standing behind them. Men on a platform prepare for a Nazi official's hanging. Brief gallows scene at end of clip of an unidentified war criminal being hanged.
U.S. Constabulary force troopers on duty at the Kaster Bridge in Wiesbaden, Germany. The Kasteler Bridge (General Patch Bridge) across the Rhine River connects the U.S. and the French Zones. The troopers and German policemen inspect the vehicles crossing the bridge. A vehicle is inspected. Examination of the papers of the pedestrians. U.S. , French and German policemen examine the papers of bicycle riders nearing the bridge. Vehicles are examined as they cross the bridge.
U.S. Constabulary force troopers on duty at the Kaster Bridge in Wiesbaden, Germany. The Kaster Bridge across the Rhine River connects the U.S. and the French Zones. The troopers and German policemen examine vehicles crossing the bridge. The police examines people loaded on a truck. Examination of papers of pedestrians and the vehicles over the bridge. The Rhine River in the background.
Registry of the U.S. CIC (Counter intelligence Corps) in Frankfurt, Germany. A runner enters the door of the registry. A sign on the door : "Central Personalities Index". The runner comes to fetch file card of a suspect. A card being drawn from a file. A teletype room girl sends a message to field agents.