Bomb damage in Nuremberg, Germany. Aerial views of Nuremberg city including buildings, homes, industries and rail lines. Damaged buildings and factories. Damaged homes and ruins. (World War II period).
Prosecutor Thomas J Dodd presents evidence on Mauthausen, a German concentration camp and other camps such as Buchenwald and Auschwitz in Nuremberg trials, Germany. The shrunken head of victim presented as evidence. Hermann Goering, Rudolf Hess, Joachim Von Ribbentrop, Wilhelm Keitel, and Ernst Kaltenbrunner listen to Dodd's expose.
Tribunal enters the courtroom during the Nuremberg Trials in Germany. German attorney makes statement to court and Lord Justice Geoffrey Lawrence heard advising the defendants that they may consult with their lawyers. A fifteen minute recess is granted by Justice Lawrence. Rudolf Hess stands in the dock during adjournment. Wilhelm Keitel speaks to Fritz Sauckel. Alongside of him sits Alfred Rosenberg. Group of lawyers confers during adjournment.
All prisoners seated in dock during the Nuremberg Trials, Germany. Hermann Goering stands up and starts to read statement to the court. Justice Lawrence interrupts, saying that the defendants are not permitted to read statements but are to plead guilty or not guilty. Goering, Hess, Joachim Von Ribbentrop, Keitel, Rosenberg, Julius Streicher, Walter funk, Hjalmar Schacht, franz Von Papan, Konstantin Neurath, and Hans Fritche, one by one , plead not guilty. Goering again rises to make a statement, but is warned by the court. (World War II period).
Major Walsh, U.S. prosecutor, reads original Nazi letters which tell of the formations of pogroms and other actions against the Jews in Lativa and Lithuania during the Nuremberg Trials in Germany. He talks about complete annihilation of Jews by the SS.
United States soldiers of the 3rd Infantry Division raise a large U.S. flag to cover a German Swastika emblem on top of the Tribune at Zeppelinfeld in Nurnberg,Germany, near end of World War 2 in Europe. Commander of the U.S. 7th Army Lieutenant General Alexander M Patch, Major General John W O'Daniel and other officers review the troops from the speaker's platform of the Nuremberg Zeppelin Field. At a ceremony General Patch awards Congressional Medal of Honor to Lieutenant Colonel Keith Ware, Lieutenant John J. Tominac,Sergeant Russell E Dunham,Sergeant Lucian Adams and Private Wilburn K. Ross.