During Nuremberg trial Chief Prosecutors from different countries make final summations against various Nazi leaders in Nuremberg, Germany. Chief Prosecutors Robert Jackson, Hartley Shawcross, Lieutenant General Rudenko and Francis de Menthon present final summations. Nazi leaders Hermann Goring, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Rosenberg, Hess, Frank, Frick, Neurath and Raeder. Judges Geoffery Lawrence, Francis Biddle, Major General Niokitchenko and Henri Donnedieu de Vabres discuss the final verdict in a room.
The Doctors' Trial of War Criminals before the Nuremberg Military Tribunals held at the Palace of Justice in Nuremberg, Germany after World War II. The judges file in and take their seats. Defendants, one by one, answer when their names are called. Defendants include Karl Brandt, Siegfried Handloser, Paul Rostock, Oskar Schröder, Karl Gebhardt, Kurt Blome, Rudolf Brandt, Joachim Mrugowsky, Helmut Poppendick, Wolfram Sievers, Gerhard Rose, Siegfried Ruff, Hans Wolfgang Romberg, Viktor Brack, Hermann Becker-Freyseng, Georg August Weltz, Konrad Schäfer, Waldemar Hoven, Wilhelm Beiglböck, Adolf Pokorny, Herta Oberheuser, Fritz Fischer.
The Doctors' Trial of War Criminals before the Nuremberg Military Tribunals held at the Palace of Justice in Nuremberg, Germany after World War II. U.S. General Telford Taylor speaks before microphone about Jewish and Gypsy victims dying under torture and experimentation after being cruelly mistreated and murdered by Nazi German doctors. General Taylor further says these savage crimes by medical physicians and scientists cannot go unpunished.
'Nuremberg it's a lesson for today ', Destroyed buildings and houses all over Europe in aftermath of World War II. Children running and groups of boys playing on rubble of destroyed buildings in a European city. Hungry people in despair. A hungry boy asleep leaning against a building. People make a fire to stay warm, atop rubble of wrecked buildings. Face of a young boy in despair. A young girl walking amid ruin. An old woman looking upset. People walking through rubble on street in Germany with Brandenburg Gate in the distance. Children seek relief at in a breadline or food relief area asking for food, with some taking cups offered and others reading hands forward. An hungry and upset young boy beside a military truck shows the motion of holding an item and eating it in order to ask a person (unseen) for food. A distraught looking woman with disheveled hair cradling a young girl in her arms and walking away from a group. Crucifix standing alone amid rubble. Scene changes to the Palace of Justice in Nuremberg, Germany as Military Police guards the palace. A document shows the names of Nazi leaders who will be tried at the Palace of Justice for war crimes during the Nuremberg Trials.
A film on the reconstruction of Europe after World War II. Empty fields marking the site of Lidice, Czechoslovakia. Women survivors of the Lidice who had been sent to concentration camps. They place wreaths on the common grave of the people who were killed at Lidice. View of a lineup of captured Nazi SS soldiers and officers involved in the destruction of Lidice. Packed courtrooms at Nuremberg, Germany with German Nazi leadership present at Nuremberg Trial. Rubble and destroyed bombed-out Reichstag building in Berlin. Debris on the street. Past events show German Chancellor Adolf Hitler addresses people and talks about the destruction of other cities. Ruins of buildings from war. A wrecked bridge and burned out fields of a farm from World War 2.
Nazi brownshirts riding on a truck yelling anti-Jewish propaganda in streets of Germany during anti-Semitic campaign of 1933. Signs on Jewish-owned businesses encouraging boycott of those businesses. Brownshirt drawing sign on storefront glass of a shop. Sign with skull and slogan "Achtung Juden" posted on front door of Cafe Unter den Linden. Crowd of German citizens interacting with brownshirts, mostly in support, but one brief scene shows a citizen arguing with a brownshirt posted in front of a Jewish-owned shop. Nazis with swastika armbands leading anti-Jewish chants, while some citizens raise their hands in Nazi salutes. Next scene deals with the Nuremberg Laws including the Reich Citizenship Law and the Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor. It shows Herman Goering addressing government officials at the seventh Nazi party congress in September 1935, and reading parts of the so-called blood purity laws and standards. Rudolf Hess and Adolf Hitler are seated in the foreground. Goering reads the proclamation that German citizens are only those of German or related blood, willing to serve the Reich and German people. Goering then reads that marriages between Jews and citizens of German or related blood are prohibited. Scene from courtroom during 1946 Nuremberg trials. Next scene shows Jewish citizens being forcefully and brutally dragged, beaten, and evicted from their homes by Nazis. Some have been stripped of their clothing. A woman is dragged by her hair. A man is beaten. Scenes of German citizens and possibly Gestapo beating and harassing Jewish people in the streets. Clearing of the Warsaw Ghetto in April 1943. Close-up of hand turning device to generate explosive charge. Large explosion in Warsaw Ghetto. Views of buildings burning in the Warsaw Ghetto. People carrying bodies on stretchers. A person being dragged by Nazi soldiers out of a sewer holes where they had been hiding. Nazi German tanks and armor rolling through the ghetto, and artillery being fired at a building. Waffen SS, gestapo police, and Wehrmacht participating in brutality. Jewish man being hit and dragged across street.