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Post World War II trials of German and Japanese Leaders for war crimes

Film opens with exterior view of Nuremberg cell prison, just north of the Palace of Justice, holding war criminals for the Nuremberg Trials. Interior view showing cell bloick area and guards patrol the halls. Cell door with name Karl Doenitz on it. Views of German Admiral Doenitz and Admiral Erich Raeder, looking over war planning charts. Ships burning at sea in nighttime. Glimpse of German U Boat Captain observing through periscope. Back at Nuremberg Prison, an American soldier checks cell of Joachim von Ribbentrop. German Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop seen on steps of an airplane. Scene shifts to Nazi–sponsored so-called American Rally in Madison Square Garden, New York City, on February 20, 1939. A huge picture of George Washington dominates the stage where drummers play while flag-bearing marchers fill the stage. View of audience of 20 thousand persons, rendering Nazi salutes. Someone trying to interfere with the activity is quickly subdued on stage by men in military style uniforms. Scene shifts back to Nuremberg prison, where a soldier guard passes food through cell door to Julius Streicher (unseen). Closeup of Streicher speaking to crowd of people in Germany. Views of German Paramilitary Brown shirts (Storm troopers, or Sturmabteilung) during boycott preventing people from patronizing Jewish merchants. Next, victims liberated from Nazi concentration camp are seen being sprayed in delousing powder by American soldiers. Back at Nuremberg prison, a soldier stands outside the cell of Hermann Goering. Next, Goering is shwon in a scene eating at an outdoor table with other men, at a Nazi-sponsored public feeding event before World War 2. Brief view of German Chancellor, Heinrich Bruening, who fled Germany in 1934 as the Nazis were coming to power. A Graf Zeppelin airship, bearing Nazi Swastika insignia, is seen in flight over New York City. Crew member inside the Zeppelin, looking out a window as he plots a position on a chart. The Zeppelin casts a shadow over an ocean liner at sea, as it passes overhead. Back at Nuremberg cell prison, a guard opens a door with a key. Next seen shows several prisoners walking into a prison yard at an unidentified prison. A firing squad (unseen) is heard marching into position and firing their guns. Scene shifts to Japan, where a Japanese twin engine passenger plane is seen overhead, coming in for a landing. Official buildings are seen in Tokyo and jurists who will participate in war crimes trials. Scene shifts to war crimes trials authorized in Manila, by General Douglas MacArthur. Seen are Japanese General Tomoyuki Yamashita and another Japanese officer on trial at the High Commissioners Residence in Manila, in 1945. Views of ordinary Japanese soldiers. A court convening.

Date: 1945
Duration: 3 min 46 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675055478
German Vice Minister Albert Speer honors engineers and escorts Adolf Hitler to steel plant showing performance of German tanks.

Nazi Germans start armament and intensify their preparations for war under leadership of Adolf Hitler in Germany. Adolf Hitler's Vice Minister Albert Speer decorates German engineers at a meeting and addresses the meeting in Germany, during World War II. Speer escorts Adolf Hitler and other German officials through a steel plant. Speer presses a lever and workers inside the plant operate controls. German Panzer tank and U.S. M3 Lee tank are compared side by side and tested by German forces evaluating them. German Panther tank is seen achieving obstacle tests that the American tank cannot. German army soldiers practice firing of antiaircraft weapons 'Panzerfaust' and 'Panzer-schredk' at a firing range.

Date: 1944
Duration: 2 min 21 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: German
Clip: 65675056375
World War II war crimes trials; flashback views during World War 2; Nazi prison cells in Nuremberg; Japanese war criminals

Prison at Nuremberg, north of the Palace of Justice, where Nazi prisoners are held during Nuremberg trials in 1946. Cell of Nazi Admiral Doenitz is seen, with his name over the prison cell door. Nazi Admirals, Karl Doenitz and Erich Raeder, during the war. Views of war crimes at sea, with burning ships in flames at night. American soldier looks into prison cell of Joachim von Ribbentrop. Von Ribbentrop boarding an airplane, during the war. A German American Bund rally in the United States at Madison Square Garden in 1939, with Patriotic image of George Washington and massed American flags. Americans giving Nazi salute as Fritz Kuhn speaks. Fight or scuffle on the stage of the meeting. American military guard places food into cell of Nazi Julius Streicher. View of Julius Streicher giving a speech. Street scenes of Jewish shops being vandalized and boycotted in Germany. Boycott of Jewish-owned stores in Germany including posters and paint labeling Jewish businesses, and a poster that says, "Die juden sind unser unglück" (which means "The Jews are our misfortune"). Emaciated and thin liberated Concentration camp inmates being deloused. American soldier looks into prison cell of Hermann Goering. View of Goering in civilian clothes, sitting with companions, before the war. The Graf Zeppelin airship in flight over New York City. Officer on board Zeppelin shown plotting a course from the bridge. Shadow of the zeppelin air ship cast over an ocean liner at sea. Prison guard opens a door and goes in. Prisoners file out of the building, ostensibly to face firing squad. Airplane landing at Japanese airfield and scenes of military staff and military gathering of Imperial Japanese forces in Tokyo Japan during World War 2. Japanese General staff in a meeting. A Japanese military leader during a surrender meeting in World War II.

Date: 1945
Duration: 3 min 54 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675057514
Russian and American forces in Torgau; German officials sign surrender documents at the end of World War II.

German officials surrender at the end of World War II. American and Russian troops meet near the river Elbe in Torgau Germany. United States General Reinhardt meets Soviet Army General Rusakov. Representatives of the German Army, wearing civilian clothing, sign a surrender document at Allied Mediterranean Headquarters in Italy, yielding Italy and Austria. W.D. Morgan signs for the Allies, on behalf of Supreme Mediterranean Commander Alexander. Massive American Flag raised to cover the giant swastika symbol at outdoor stadium in Nuremberg. Then in a later shot, explosion is seen as the Nazi Swastika symbol is destroyed (blown-up) by American troops at the Zeppelinfeld stadium in Nuremberg, Germany.

Date: 1945
Duration: 1 min 34 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675057622
Repatriated American prisoners of war pose for pictures and German civilians evacuate the area in final days of World War II in Europe.

United States troops in Germany during World War 2. Group of repatriated United States soldiers pose for a photograph. They are sitting on a fuselage of a German Me-262 jet airplane, at the "REIMAHG-A" underground aircraft factory on the Walpersberg sandstone mesa, near Kahla, in Thuringia, Germany. Some repatriated soldiers pose seated on a tank. In change of scene, a long line of German civilians is seen evacuating the area. The refugees carry household and personal belongings in wagons pulled by oxen. Closeup of one wagon with children riding atop it. German women walk beside the wagons. More views of the evacuating civilians. Some use bicycles to carry their goods. An old woman tries to budge a sitting goat to take him along with her. She succeeds and leads him away on a tether. More views of evacuating families with their wagons and animals.

Date: 1945, April 18
Duration: 2 min 48 sec
Sound: No
Color: Color
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675063832
American occupation troops collect military uniforms and weapons from German population, at end of World War II. U.S. troops display Nazi plundered treasure in a salt mine.

German civilians in a city on the Elbe River, gather around a poster containing Law Number 5, issued by the Military Government-Germany (American Occupation forces). It announces the dissolution of the Nazi party. Next, a German Army medic talks to an American, near a huge pile of German military uniforms, military equipment, and accessories. Civilians including former German soldiers throng a town square, adding items to the pile. A woman pulls uniform items from her wash basket. An American soldier talks with a German woman as bystanders watch and listen. A man and boy look at a small rifle before the boy throws it on the pile. View from above of the square with people crowded around the pile of castoffs in its center. Women placing officers' swords on the pile. Complete change of scene shows a U.S. soldier from the 3rd Army, in a salt mine, in Merkers, Germany, on April 15, 1945. He is perusing Nazi seized and stolen jewelry, cutlery, and precious metal trinkets in a case. Another soldier looks at a bar of gold and displays it for the camera. Many wrapped gold bars are behind him. German currency bank notes are seen in the hands of a soldier. Numerous packages of currency sit in the background. American soldiers show some of the stolen art works also hidden in the salt mine. Among the seized paintings seen is "Wintergarden," by French impressionist painter Edouard Manet.

Date: 1945, May 14
Duration: 2 min 4 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675064106