Nuremberg trials in Nuremberg, Germany. Nazi war leaders with earphones sit in the prisoner's dock. All accused except Rudolf Hess are wearing the earphones listening to proceedings of the court. Defendents including Herman Goering, Rudolf Hess, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Wilhelm Keitel, Alfred Rosenberg, Hans Frank Hjalmar Scacht, Albert Speer, Karl Doentiz and Erich Raeder can be seen.
Nuremberg trials in Nuremberg Germany. Nazi war leaders with earphones sit in the prisoner's dock. Voice of Justice William Norman Birkket is heard in background accounting historical events in the second half of the 1930s as Nazi power grew. View of prisoner's dock, prosecutors and judges sitting in tribunal. Justice Birkket speaks on issues like the Violation of defense law by Hitler, German economy for war, rebuilding of German Armed forces, violations of the Treaty of Versailles, and construction of new submarine arms.
U.S. propaganda piece about threats by communists against various European countries. The Czechoslovak coup and demonstrations. Czech citizens moving on a street in Czechoslovakia during a strike forcing conservative elements to resign from the cabinet. Scenes of police brutality and beatings against strikers. Communists take over the police. Czech President Edvard Benes with conservative politicians in a government building. Huge crowd on a street. Police clashing with crowd. Czech Prime Minister Klement Gottwald with officials. President Edvard Benes, facing possible civil war or invasion by the Soviet Union, accepts a Communist cabinet. He is seen signing documents to that effect on February 25, 1948. Other officials beside President Benes during the signing. View of the first President of Czechoslovakia Tomas Masaryk's son, Jan Masaryk, who remained the Foreign Minister, and did not agree to the new government. Two days later Jan Masaryk is discovered dead. The body of Jan Masaryk in a coffin. Edvard Benes, who resigned in June 1948 after refusing to sign the communist constitution, is seen walking slowly outside the Parliament using a cane. A guard saluting Benes. View of the body of Edvard Benes, who died in September 1948, laying in a coffin. Mourning citizens offering flowers and cry. Officials bearing the coffin. Shift several years later to street strikes in East Germany in 1953. People during a strike and riot in Poland in 1956. Russian tanks moving on a street and Soviet soldiers are seen. Elevated view of panic and Polish citizens fleeing soldiers. October 1956: Student demonstrators on street in Budapest Hungary during the Hungarian Uprising of 1956. Soviet Russian red star is toppled by crowds from a building roof in a sign of defiance. Russian troops respond with tanks on the streets in Hungary. Crowd fights back. Russians retreat. Crowd overwhelms local police. Imre Nagy, Prime Minister of Hungary, ascends steps. Hungarian crowd on streets burn communist books and papers. Russian tanks invade Hungary to crush revolt. Tanks fire guns on Hungarian street. Imre Nagy's execution announced June 17, 1958.
German troops gather for a ceremony at the Deutsches Stadion in Nuremberg, Germany. Swastika sign and Nazi Reichadler eagle. Victor Lutze introduces Hitler to audience at Nuremberg Stadium. German troops give Nazi salute. Troops standing with Nazi flags. Adolf Hitler, Chancellor of Nazi Germany, delivers speech to a huge crowd of stormtroopers, Gestapo and other political organization members in the vast stadium.
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.
During Nuremberg trial Sir Geoffrey Lawrence gives away the final verdict and sentences Nazi leaders to death whereas some of them sentenced to imprisonment for life. Scenes of Adolf Hitler's rise to power, militarization of Germany and Nazi atrocities on masses.
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