Prosecutor Thomas Dodd addresses the Nuremberg Trials courtroom regarding a song allegedly published by Baldur Von Schirach for the Hitler Youth in Nuremberg, Germany. Mr Dodd reads from a document and questions Von Schirach about anti-religious, anti-clergy, anti-church songs published for Hitler Youth before and during World War 2. Mr Dodd presents the diary of Minister of Justice to Von Schirach. Dr Fritz Sauter and an unidentified U.S. officer give the diary to Von Schirach after the latter testified. Dr Sauter examines his client Von Schirach.
During Nuremberg Trials, United States Chief Prosecutor Robert H Jackson delivers a speech concerning the prosecution's case against certain organizations in the Nazi government in Nuremberg, Germany. Quoting the prosecutor, 'The work of these organizations was to incite a mob spirit in the German people.' Mr Jackson states that the SS killed five million Jews unmercifully and with malice. 'These crimes' he says 'with which we deal, are unprecedented; not only because of the large number of organizations which carried them out so methodically, but because of the large number of people who united their efforts to perpetrate them.'
Nuremberg trials in Nuremberg Germany. Scenes of the courtroom. Nazi war leaders in prisoner's dock behind the prosecution tables. Voice of Justice Sir Geoffrey Lawrence of Britain reviewing events of World War I. He speaks about the Peace Treaty of Versailles, German labor party, violation of Peace Treaty by Adolf Hitler and demands about racialism, land and unification of Germans by Nazi party leaders. Pictured prisoners include: Hermann Wilhelm Goering, Rudolf Hess, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Karl Doenitz, Erich Raeder. Wilhelm Keftel, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Alfred Rosenberg. Albert Speer and Fritz Sauckel sitting behind them. Alfred Jodl, Hans Frank, Franz von Papen, Wilhelm Frick. Also Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Julius Streicher, Albert Speer, Walter Funk, and Constantin von Neurath
Student life in Frankfurt, West Germany after World War 2. Young men and women listen to a uniformed American soldier conducting class inside a classroom. A young woman asks the soldier a question. Various drawings are displayed on a wall behind students. Inside an elementary school classroom, a young German girl wearing braids stands up from her seat. Young girl reciting with her book in class. Young girl raises her hands inside classroom. A hand flipping through pages of a German book. College students follow a professor in a university corridor. German college students, some talking, waiting for class to start inside a lecture room.
Smoke seen rising as garbage dumps are smoldered in Bamberg in Germany. Number of civilians seen standing near the garbage dump. People look through the garbage for food and materials during severe shortages following World War 2. Garbage being thrown from trucks. People hunt for fragments of food in the dump.
Food shortage and desperate conditions among needy and impoverished German civilian people after World War 2. View of garbage dumps in Bamberg in Germany. An old woman seen smiling. Several numbers of children look in the garbage dump for food. A woman eats from a rusty can found in the dump.