Soon after Germany surrenders in World War II. Allied trucks move past a sign in German 'Nurenberg'. An Allied convoy passes over a bridge in Nuremberg. Engineers work on a broken bridge in the foreground. Allied artillery and convoy crosses the bridge as civilians look on. German refugees including civilian men, women, and children walk down a road. Some carry possessions. Many look tired, but some are also smiling.
View of a huge German Swastika emblem carved in stone at the top of the Tribune at Zeppelinfeld (Zeppelin Field) in Nuremberg, Germany. U.S. Army engineers place demolition charges on the Swastika emblem in order to destroy it. A big explosion blows the emblem into pieces.
Events related to the Nuremberg Trials held at the Palace of Justice in Nuremberg, Germany. Shows two guards standing outside the 'Judges Room'. Judges from Allied nations seated around a table. On 1st October 1946, judges give their final verdict. Scenes from the court room. Lord Justice Geoffrey Lawrence, President of the tribunal states the final verdict. Majority of the accused Nazi criminals are given death sentence, some of them given imprisonment and only a few are found not guilty. Multiple Nazi leaders are shown in the courtroom and in flashback scenes from the World War 2 years, including Hermann Göring, Rudolf Hess, Joachim von Ribbentrop and Wilhelm Keitel (both also shown at unidentified signing ceremonies), Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Alfred Rosenberg, Hans Frank, Wilhelm Frick, Julius Streicher, Walther Funk, Karl Dönitz, Erich Raeder, Baldur von Schirach, Fritz Sauckel, Alfred Jodl, Franz von Papen, Albert Speer, Konstantin von Neurath, Arthur Seyss-Inquart. Many flashback scenes show scenes of Nazi activities, Nazi atrocities, and the holocaust during World War 2 including: Boycott of Jewish shops and stores in 1930s, beating, dragging, and expulsion of resident Jews from ghettos, Nazi rallies with crowds giving Nazi salutes, book burning, massed overcrowded prisoner encampments, emaciated Concentration camp victims, nurses and doctors aiding starving and liberated concentration victims, gestapo dragging a man across a street, bin of gold teeth of murdered concentration camp victims being poured out for display, a German ship being launched, Erich Raeder meeting with Japanese military leaders or political leaders from Imperial Japan, and talking to Adolf Hitler; Hitler youth in training; Nazi slave labor workers at terraced hillside mines digging and doing mining operations; interior of a Nazi German submarine; German industrial worker at a steel furnace in a munitions war production factory. View of prison cells at Nuremberg Prison just north of Palace of Justice in Nuremberg, where some Nazi criminals were kept during the trials. View of exterior prison cell door of Hermann Goering. A guard patrols the roof of the Nuremberg Prison.
The Palace of Justice in Nuremberg, Germany. Military policemen guard the area as civilians and military personnel enter the court house. Justice Geoffrey Lawrence reads from a document. Justice Francis Biddle and Henri D de Vabres speak. Hermann Goering, Joachim Von Ribbentrop, Rudolf Hess and other defendants in prisoner's dock. Russian justices and justice Brikett at the bench. Robert H Jackson, American prosecutor at the table. (World War II period).
The Palace of Justice in Nuremberg, Germany. Joachim Von Ribbentrop, Rudolf Hess, Wilhelm Kietel sit in prisoners docks as judge sentences them. Wilhelm Kietel, Alfred Rosenberg, Ernst Kaltenbrunner, Hans Frank, Wilheim Frick, Julius Streicher, Walter Funk, Hjalmar Schacht, Karl Doenitz, Erich Raeder. Chief Russian prosecutor General RA Rudenko at the prosecution table. Thomas J Dodd and Sir Hartley Shawcross at the prosecution table. Alfred Jodl, Franz Von Papen, Arthur Seyss-Inquart. Hans Fritzsche and Constantin Von Neurath. A door closed by a military police. (World War II period).
International Military Tribunal sits at the Palace of Justice to try World War II Nazi leaders for war crimes in Nuremberg, Germany. Chief Prosecutor from United States, Robert Houghwout Jackson presents count 1 of indictment a conspiracy to commit war and crimes against peace and humanity. Nazi leaders at the prisoners dock. Bormann, Donitz, Frank, Frick, Fritzsche, Goring, Hess, Funk, Jodl, Katlenbrunner, Keitel, Lay, Neurath, Papen, Raeder, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Rosenberg, Sauckel, Schacht, Seyss Inquart, Schirach, Speer and Streicher. Prosecution tables as Justice Jackson continues to speak.