Nuremberg          

 

 

 

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Aftermath of War

 

220789          05:17:49 - 05:20:11            1945   SD        B/W   

Funeral Pyres of Nazidom
Very good quality.  Aerials over Leipzig.   Magdeburg & Bismark statue overlooking Krupp tank factory w/ destroyed assembly line & railyard.  Tanks still on assembly line.  Nuremberg with massive ruins & US tanks through.  Stone eagle above dead bodies;  US flag raised over Swastika at stadium.  Swastika blown up w/ debris flying.  US troops reviewed among ruins in city square.  Rubble alongisde.  Destruction; wreckage.
           

220889          07:43:43 - 07:53:51            1945   SIL       COL     

[Ruins of Nuremberg]
May45
Fighter take off filmed from another fighter taking off.  Formation.  Mechanics & pilots on ground walking past. Pilot into plane, over destroyed city & railyard. Aerial destroyed Nuremberg - wrecked buildings, churches,  stadium.  Ruined railroad yard and wrecked train carriages.

 

220559          03:03:03 - 03:09:10            1945   Si         b/w    

Bomb Damage in Germany - Nuremberg - Destruction
Various shots bomb damaged buildings in ruins- wrecked railway yards with two US soldiers walking about.
German civilians on streets, old women with meagre belongings. Civilians moving belongings on hand carts over bridge. Top shot ruins, cable reel with Siemens stamped on side. Women cooking over open camp fire. Homeless on truck. Woman hanging washing on makeshift lines. Children on bomb site. White surrender flags hanging from windows. US trucks carrying German POWs. Slate - The Plant, Regensburg. Avs wrecked factories         


220910          12:22:04 - 12:31:37            1945   SIL       COL     

ETO Activities - Germany, April/May 1945 Pt 1
Group of GIs explore Nuremberg Stadium, one throws rock at Nazi symbol; LS aircraft fly-past.
12:24:10: MS GI imitates Hitler on Nuremburg podium, Nazi salute, laughs with friends.
CUs GIs; smashed Nazi sculpture?; posing for pics.
12:27:29: US troops on airfield with German planes; inside control tower.          

 

220303          04:36:10 - 04:38:30            1945   Sd        B/W   

Destruction at Nuremburg (AKA Destruction of Nurnberg)
Long aerial views of destroyed city - bombed buildings and factories. Rubble of Siemens factory.

 

220476          18:44:42 - 18:45:29            1945   SD        B/W   

Highlights Of Victory In Europe - Nazi Nuremberg Shrine ÔKaputtÕ
LS prewar Nuremberg rally with immense crowd.
1945 deserted Nuremberg stadium. GIs in silhouette in stadium with eagle in background. Soldiers on speakerÕs  stand.  CU Swastika on top of building; LS swastika blown up.
Allied troops through ruins of Nuremberg. Wreckage.         

 

Preparations for Trials

 

220295          16:46:35 - 16:47:55            1945   Sd        B/W   

Stage Set for Nazi War Trial - Nuremburg ruins - bomb damaged buildings. Judge Jackson inspects court house - construction work inside - covered passageway between court room and jail. MPs patrol. Interior prison block - checking cells.      

 

220559          02:11:00 - 02:12:58            1945   Si         b/w    

Preparations for Nuremberg War Crime Trials
US soldiers at Nuremberg stadium. Ruins of town - people digging in rubble. Civilians - daily life. Wide shot of stadium.

 

220473          12:02:28 - 12:03:32            1945   SD        B/W   

Allies Prepare Trial Of Nazi Big Shots
Exterior tribunal. Building courtroom for Nuremberg trial. Newly built passageway for accused to enter tribunal.  Interior prison where Nazi criminals are jailed.  Guard looks through peephole marked ÒGoeringÓ.  Door of RibbentropÕs cell;  Door Doenitz.  Streicher takes food through door (only hands seen). Prosecutor Justice Jackson.   

 

War Trials

 

220559          02:20:32 - 02:26:00            1945   Si         b/w    

Nuremberg War Crime Trials November 1945
General shots court in session. Exterior  Palace of Justice with sentry / guards. Sign No Loitering - children looking through railing. Entry pass to Palace of Justice.
People entering Palace of Justice gate checked by guards. 
 
220559          02:29:55 - 02:34:26            1945   Sd        b/w    

Nuremberg War Crime Trials
Shots of defendants in dock - pan across dock - those present include Goering, Hess, Ribbentrop and many others. Jackson making opening statement re trial.  02:33:30 Shots prisoners. Map showing German aggression and Nazi plans. 
 
220560          04:00:15 - 04:06:40            1945   Sd        b/w    

Nuremberg War Crime Trials
Court in session - Re Mauthausen concentration camp. Prosecutor describes camp and purposes of extermination.  Slides of maps and photographs. Prosecutor speaks re Buchenwald - exhibit of human head with skull removed and stuffed.
04.06.02 Shots of defendants in dock listening.
 
220560          04:58:02 - 05:09:14            1945   Sd        b/w    

Nuremberg War Crime Trials -
Court convenes - Judge calls adjournment so that German lawyers can consult with defendants - German lawyer speaking.  General milling around - shots defendents - Hess staring at cameras.  Goering attempts to read statement and is told by Judge defendants not entitled to make statements and must plead guilty or not guilty.  Hess, Von Ribbentrop, Keitel , Funk, Schacht, Neurath, Fritzche and others all plead not guilty. Goering stands.  Opening of trial statement.
 
220560          05:09:22 - 05:17:23            1945   Sd        b/w    

Nuremberg War Crime Trials -
Court in session Major Walsh, US prosecutor reading Nazi reports re atrocities/ pogroms against Jews in Latvia and Lithuania.  Re -  Lublin massacre.  Re burning of synagogues and Jewish homes.  Re Riga. 05:12:55 Defendants in dock.  Major Walsh continues reading from exhibit re execution of Jews. Re extraction of gold teeth from German and Russian Jews.  Minsk mentioned.           

 

220590          17:52:12 - 17:53:28            1945   Sd        b/w    

Nazis Face War Crime Evidence
Shot courtroom - defendants including Goering, Hess, von Ribbentrop. Von Papen and Seyss-Inquart. Court reporters typing, press on phone, switchboard operators.  Man using teletype machine.  Goering yawns in dock. Chart on wall showing Ò treeÓ of responsibility in the Nazi party.
             

220594          03:39:28 - 03:45:36            1945   Sd        B/W   

Nazi GermanyÕs Leaders on Trial at Nuremberg
Palace of Justice, MPs outside watching from streets and tanks.  Signs and inspection of documents allowing press into court.  Judges of Tribunal entering Court.  Pan over seated judges.  Earphones on various parties.  Chief of German Defense Counsel addresses court.   20 defendants shown.   Hess, Von Papen, Goering.  Instructions given to Goering to go to dock.   When asked to plead he tries to make statement.  Hess pleads not guilty.  von Ribbentrop pleads not guilty.    Keitel not guilty.   Rosenberg, not guilty.  Streicher not guilty.  Goering again denied right to make statement.  Jackson makes opening statement.           

 

220468          01:36:30 - 01:39:56            1945   SD        B/W   

Nuremberg Trial of Nazi War Criminals
Opening of trial.  Judges with Lord Justice Lawrence.  German defendants.  American Prosecutor Supreme Court Justice Jackson opening speech.  Goering tries to make statement and is interrupted - Ò...you must plead guilty or not guiltyÓ.  Rudolf Hess, Von Ribbentrop & Wilhelm Keitel plead not guilty.  Goering tries speech and interrupted again. 
             

220472          09:15:15 - 09:15:50            1945   SD        B/W   

In WarÕs Wake
Trials of war criminals
Pierre Laval in courtroom.  Quisling at trial.  Yamashita led into prison cell. Nuremberg trial; Goering and Hess in dock.        
 

220676          09:46:43 - 09:48:16            1945   SD        B/W   

[End of WWII - Soviet Viewpoint]
09:46:43  Nuremberg trial - CUs Goering leaning on one hand listening - Keitel - Jodl - Rosenberg, scratching nose and biting fingernails - Ribbentrop - Frank - CU FrankÕs diary - Schirach - Hess, wiping brow – f/b extract Hess making speech.
 

220976          13:47:39 - 13:58:30            1945   SD        B/W   

[War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, 12Dec45]
Paris No. 0453
MS and MCU speaker at stand in centre of courtroom describes confiscation of 38,000 Jewish homes in Paris alone; transportation of contents by truck and train to Germany; Ólooting on such a scale seems fantasticÓ.  Speaker refers to seized 39-volume catalogue covering fraction of 21,000 looted works of art prepared by Rosenberg for Hitler; several vols passed to judges.
13:52:06  Nazi defendants in dock inc. Goering, Hess, Rosenberg?
13:54:00  Letter from Rosenberg to Hitler read out detailing progress of art seizure action [Òthe collection you own...Ó]...  ÒI shall take the liberty during the requested audience to give you, my Fuhrer, another 20 folders of pictures with the hope that this short occupation with the beautiful things of art which are nearest to your heart will send a ray of beauty and joy into your revered lifeÓ.
13:56:30  Description of Nazi chart titled ÔThe Face of the PartyÕ; heirarchy of power from 10 yr old boys up to political leadership.  CU chart.

13:56:31 - 13:58:30 NG - camera problem.
 

220978          14:17:43 - 14:20:43            1945   SD        B/W   

Nuremberg War Crimes Trial Opens
EXT court house, Nuremberg.  Security outside entrance.  INT courtroom, Goering, Hess, Von Ribbentrop; judges take seats.  Newsreel and signal corps w/ earphones.  Goering and Hess in dock.  Robert Jackson delivers opening speech.  Judge reads out GoeringÕs name; Goering stands, makes statement in German, told to just plead guilty or not guilty; pleads not guilty.  Hess, von Ribbentrop and Julius Streicher plead not guilty.  Sound starts few seconds late.

 

221074          05:03:52 - 05:11:56            1945   SD        B/W   

[War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, 20Nov45]
Paris 0352  Court stands as judges enter.  Nazi war criminals in dock inc. Goering & Hess listening over headphones as Indictment introduced & read by Robert Jackson & Sr. David Maxwell-Fyfe. Ò...hereby accuse as guilty...of crimes against peace, war crimes, and crimes against humanity...Ó - reads names of defendants inc. Goering, Hess, von Ribbentrop, Lye, Keitel, Kaltenbrunner, Rosenberg, Frank, Frick, Streicher, Funk, Schacht, Doenitz, Raeder, von Schirach, Jodl, Bormann, von Papen.  Ò...each defendant became a member of the Nazi Party and of the conspiracy, with knowledge of their aims and purposes, or with such knowledge became an accessory...Ó - indictment details path to war & defendantsÕ roles.  Hess stares at camera, Goering looks tired.  Wide shots of courtroom.

 
LN 501-523  01:00:11 - 01:01:34            1945   SIL       B/W   

[War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Nov/Dec45]
c16Nov or 12Dec45.  Paris [No.] 0445.  Pan across courtroom to line of MPs guarding Nazi defendants - closer shots Goering, Hess, Speer etc. listening to headsets.
   
220934          02:39:05 - 02:47:44            1945 ?           SD        B/W   

[Hess Speaks at Nuremburg]
VS courtroom at Nuremburg, WWII war crimes trial of Hess.  Union Jack and US flag visible.  Judges w/ headphones.  Hess present w/ guard during discussion of his amnesia and suitability for trial [English, German and Russian?].
02:44:30:  MS and LS Hess addresses court in German, holding written statement.
             

220516          09:39:14 - 09:41:30            1945-1946   Sd        b/w    

Yesterday's big story - post WWII crime trials
Exterior Palace of Justice, Paris. Guards let man through. Marshall Henri PŽtain enters courtroom for treason trial re collaboration with Nazis. LS full courtroom.
Former Premier Paul Reynaud testifies. PŽtain listening. PŽtain found guilty, condemned to death then sent into exile.
Norway's Quisling sentenced to death for betraying his country.
Japan's former premier Hideki Tojo and 25 other defendants tried for war crime atrocities. Tojo arrives. With others in dock.
Soldier in Himmler's bedroom with HimmlerÕs corpse. CU Bullet with which he committed suicide. MCU Heinrich Himmler dead.
Nuremberg trials: courtroom. Rudolf Hess, Ribbentrop. Defendants pleading not guilty (sound). Typing transcripts. Noose. Unid person being hanged.
 
220474          13:56:42 - 13:57:53            1945? 1946?            SD        B/W   

The Nuremberg Trial
Inside courtroom - people with earphones. Switchboard for translation.  Judges and prosecutors. Typing at teletype machines.  Ribbentrop.  Von Papen.  Keitel w/ Jodl. Goering w/ Hess        
 

220886          03:10:50 - 03:12:31            1946   Sd                   

Welt im Film - Goering im Kreuzverhoer (Nuremberg: Goering Trial)
Vars int GVs court; Goering in dock; main accuser: Jackson, Sir David Maxwell Fyfe; Goering testifies Òonly mid-Jan 1945 I gave up hope to win warÓ.           

 

220559          02:00:00 - 02:10:50            1946   Sd        b/w    

Nuremberg War Crime Trials
Unidentified prisoner / witness ?  taking oath in German. Questioned in English answers in German re activities at Mauthausen concentration camp, talks about high ranking Nazis including von Schirach who visited camp and were aware of gas chambers.  Different prosecutor or Defence lawyer  speaking in German.          

 

220559          02:45:32 - 02:49:03            1946   Sd        b/w    

Nuremberg War Crime Trials
Court in session - prosecutor has extracts from the diaries of the German Minister of Justice.  Sound is translation of defendant, unseen, who was leader of Hitler youth.
             

220559          02:53:58 - 03:02:55            1946   Sd        b/w    

Nuremberg War Crime Trials
Defendant questioned re book of songs produced for Hitler Youth. Prosecutor with extracts of diaries of the Minister of Justice. Re  criminal proceedings against Catholic priest - Von Schirach questioned re persecution of the Church. Court breaks - Von Schirach talking with lawyer. Von Schirach making statement re Hitlerjugend / Hitler Youth. German lawyer questioning.
 
220560          04:06:50 - 04:17:57            1946   Sd        b/w    

Nuremberg War Crime Trials
Court in session - Goering  in box questioned by Jackson re concentration camps - re political police -  re organisations which carried out killings for State. Re SA - SS - SD. Question in English, answers in German.
Court adjourns - defendants in dock standing and filing out of court.          

 

220560          04:18:05 - 04:28:45            1946   Sd        b/w    

Nuremberg War Crime Trials
Court in session - German lawyer speaks re Von Ribbentrop and Winston Churchill. US lawyer speaks re criminality of organisations. Dr. Martin Horne speaking to Tribunal; Jackson delivers accusatory speech. 

 

220597          03:18:12 - 03:29:08            1946   Sd        B/W   

Nazi War Crime Trials
Dehlerus testifies on behalf of Goering - various shots court room
 
220597          03:29:28 - 03:36:29            1946   Sd        B/W    Nazi War Crime Trials
Dehlerus testifies on behalf of Goering - various shots court room - testimony translated.  Shots Goering and Hess in dock.  Talks of British attitude to German aggression. Trouble with translations - Russian coming through on French headphones.  Talks of meeting Lord Halifax . Germany was anxious to come to understanding with Britain.
 
220597          03:36:48 - 03:43:11            1946   Si         B/W    Nazi War Crime Trials
Schellenberg Testimony.  Takes stand and oath - various shots courtroom
 
220978          14:24:51 - 14:32:53            1946   SD        B/W   

[War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, 20Jun46]
Munich No. 248
MS prosecutor? at stand w/ headphones, asks question in German, mentions Hitler and Bormann?  Pan across courtroom to Albert Speer, seated w/ guard, answers question in German.
14:26:35  Courtroom during break, three-star US general talks to chief prosecutor Robert Jackson.  Unid. men talk.
14:27:58  Speer in dock during break, watched by guard; paces about, eats, talks to lawyer.
14:28:51  British judge reads oath for defendant.  Dr Kreschner? at stand, speaks into microphone in German.  MCU British judge listens to statement translation through headphones.  Pan across courtroom.  
14:32:04  Pan US soldiers in public gallery. 
WWII.  Nazi war criminals.   14:28:51 - 14:29:30 NG - out of focus.
14:29:31 - 14:32:05 NSG - soft focus.
14:32:36 - 14:32:53 NG - out of focus

 

220978          14:32:55 - 14:41:09            1946   SD        B/W   

[War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, 18-19Jun46]
Munich No. 248
MS Albert Speer in courtroom led to stand w/ guard; British judge? reads oath in English, Speer repeats in German w/ hand held up; sits down.  LS Speer seated w/ guard, listens to statement in German by Dr Kreschner?; pan across courtroom to panel of judges; judge or prosecutor questions exhibits.  LS Speer listens to evidence; MS answers questions in German
14:36:44  Munich No. 245  MS unid. Nazi officer sits in chair on platform, Ô45Õ on card hung around neck. US translator seated to left, translates vars questions and officerÕs answers.  Questions about military career - officer details progress from entry into Army in 1919 up to battalion commander; vars questions about other officers.  CUs officer and translator. 
WWII.  War criminals.
             

220978          14:41:12 - 14:51:06            1946   Sd/Sil  B/W   

[War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Aug46]
Munich No. 378
03 or 31Aug?  MS large group of Nazi defendants in court; Fritz Sauckel? standing, delivers angry statement in German; line of guards in white helmets.  Alfred Jodl stands, gives statement.  LS and MS von Papen? gives statement.  Rosenberg?  MS and LS Albert Speer reads statement.  Hans Fritzsche called, gives statement.  14:50:35  Court session ends, defendants and lawyers rise [no sound]; defendants surrounded by guards.
WWII.  War criminals.
Silent from 14:50:36.

220985          21:52:35 - 21:54:13            1946   SD        B/W   

Nuremberg: Von Papen Before Court
Brief shot of people running down steps of court house?  Welt Im Film title: ÔNurnberg: Papen Vor Der SpruchkammerÕ.  VS court room, Franz von Papen in fur-trimmed coat, public seated; judges.  Women writing.  PapenÕs lawyer? pleads to judge.
Nazi war crimes trials.         

 

221063          08:10:32 - 08:16:54            1946   SD        B/W   

[War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, 01-29Jul46]
Munich no.272  MS man giving testimony in Russian, back to camera; judges in BG; pan across courtroom to defendant, answers in German - possibly Hans Frank or Wilhelm Frick.
08:12:36  Russian man continues questioning.  Russian man - balding w/ small moustache - in witness box reads statement - MCU pan across courtroom to questioner, talks in Russian - British judge heard interrupting.  Pan back to Russian witness in LS & MS.  MCUs Nazi defendants or spectators listening over headphones.
WWII.  Nazi Atrocities.          

 

LN 501-523  01:07:14 - 01:16:46            1946   SD        B/W   

[War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Jul46]
Munich No. 222.  CU Unid. British lawyer (Shawcross?)at microphone, w/ headset, questioning unseen defendant referred to as "Head of the Home Defence Department" re Anschluss & invasion of Czechoslovakia - Speer ?? 
"Were you not told at that Conference, Hitler said that Germany's problem was a problem of space?...[that] the German question could only be solved by force?" - "Were you not present at Obersalzberg when Keitel was there with Schussnig in the following February?" - lawyer reads defendant's diary entry dated 11Feb38.  "In March you signed or initialled one or two orders for Operation Otto..." - refers to Austria under Nazi rule - "It received the SS, the Gestapo, the concentration camps, the suppression of opponents and the persecution of Jews, didn't it? You say the people appeared pleased to see you?"  NB Defendant's answers [in English] barely audible.
01:13:41  Vars shots unid. English woman enters courtroom in military uniform?, sits down, takes headset.  Long CU of woman smiling, male voice asks her if headset is comfortable - 'Yes thank you'.
 

LN 501-523  01:59:34 - 02:10:11            1946   SIL       B/W   

[War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg - Case No.1, The Medical Trial]  (10Dec46)
Munich [No.] 479.  Top shots courtroom - all rise for judges.  Top shot pan as defendants rise in turn when name called.  HA shot judgesÕ bench.  HitlerÕs personal physician Karl Brandt stands up w/ headphones on; other defendants stand to answer questions inc. only female defendant Herta Oberheuser, physician at Ravensbruck concentration camp. 
02:05:24  Counsel for Prosecution Telford Taylor at lectern; cutaway to wider shot of courtroom w/ Taylor in center.

 

Judgment and sentencing

 

LN 501-523  01:17:01 - 01:27:38            1947   SD        B/W   

[War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg - Judgement & Sentencing, Case No.1, The Medical Trial]  20Aug47
Munich [No.] 619  High angle shot HitlerÕs personal physician Karl Brandt into dock, flanked by MPs, puts headset on & listens to sentencing: ÒKarl Brandt, Military Tribunal One has found and adjudged you guilty of war crimes, crimes against humanity, and membership in an organisation judged criminal by the International Military Tribunal...Military Tribunal One sentences you, Karl Brandt, to death by hanging, and may God have mercy on your soulÓ  Brandt removes headset & adjusts hair then led away.
01:18:19  Siegfried Handloser, Medical Inspector of German Army, into dock & sentenced to life imprisonment.
01:19:22  Oskar Schroeder, Lieutenant General of Medical Services, sentenced to life imprisonment.
01:20:14  Karl Genzken, Chief of Waffen-SS Medical Dept., sentenced to life imprisonment.
01:21:10  Karl Gebhardt, personal physician to Himmler, sentenced to death by hanging.
01:21:56  Rudolf Brandt, personal assistant to Himmler, sentenced to death by hanging.
01:22:50  Joachim Mrugowsky, Chief Hygienist of the Reich, sentenced to death by hanging.
01:23:42  Helmut Poppendick, SS Colonel, sentenced to 10 years imprisonment.
01:24:33  Wolfram Sievers, SS Colonel & Director of the Institute for Military Scientific Research, sentenced to death by hanging.
01:25:28  Gerhard Rose, Brig. Gen. of Medical Services for Luftwaffe, sentenced to life imprisonment.
01:26:24  Viktor Brack, SS Colonel & Chief Admin. Officer in Chancellery, sentenced to death by hanging.
01:27:09  Hermann Brecker-Freyseng, Personal Admin. Officer to Himmler, into dock - reel ends abruptly before sentencing completed.
WWII / Postwar.  War Criminals.  Nazi Doctors.  Capital Punishment. Post-WWII; Military Court;       

 

220560          04:29:00 - 04:36:37            1946   Sd        b/w    

Nuremberg War Crime Trials - Shawcross summation
Defendants in dock during break in proceedings talking to lawyers and looking through papers.
04.30.30 Shawcross on stand speaking to court re atrocities of war, treatment of prisoners who were taken to concentration camps - talks of mass executions at pits - families and babies - very moving account of witness read out by Shawcross. Shots of prisoners in dock looking uncomfortable.
 
220560          04:36:40 - 04:46:47            1946   Sd        b/w    

Nuremberg War Crime Trials - Shawcross and Jackson Summation
Poor quality at start, usable from  04:37:10 . Top shot Defendants in dock - Goering holding head.  Shawcross talks of atrocities of war over pan along dock.  Shawcross re the State and the rights of man. 
04:42:09 Court adjourns.
04:43:18 Jacksom summation re shame and depravity of War.  Re if there were to be not guilty verdicts it would be the same as saying there has been no war.
 
220560          04:47:00 - 04:57:41            1946   Sd        b/w    

Nuremberg War Crime Trials -
Court convenes - Dodd summation - re atrocities - defendants and Nazi organisations.  Re SA and SS.
Re Reich Cabinet, general staff and gestapo.  Re police state of Germany.  Re Nazism must not survive and no crime will go unpunished because it was committed in the name of the state.  Quotes Justice Jackson re criminality of organisations. Court adjourns. Top shot defendents in dock.






Film Exhibits

 

           

220638          16:00:01 - 16:11:06            sd         B/W   

The Nazi Plan  Reel 1 Afidavit by US Military Officers
Alfred Rosenburg describes the early Nazi struggle for Power The rise of the NSDAP
Early parades andcrowds, Hitler as a young man, Goebbels speaking, party members giving salute.
Newsreel shots of early riot in a city square Newspaper headlines of Ludendorff and Hitler jailed - CU HitlerÕs party card - Goebbels in office - a visiting Italian member of the Fascist party Dr. Santini
Reichsparteitag Nurnberg 1927 - Party meeting - Hitler Hess and Streicher are shown in many poses.
16:07:45 Hitler at rally good CU with probably Gregor Strasser
Parades - large rallies banners etc.  Hitler addresses crowd and reviews parade in car.
1929 Nuremburg rally - Goering present
Deutschland erwacht!
Julius Streicher
Auch Die Uebrigen Fueher
Begruessen die Ankommenden
Kolonne Reiht sich an Kollonne
             

220897          18:27:30 - 18:35:35            Sd        b/w    

The Nazi Plan Reel 2
Herbst 1932 Hitler speaking before a large crowd. Headlines are shown and Rosenberg continues the story - Hitler and Von Hindenburg appear at window
18:29:09 Hitlers first speech as Chancellor   30Jan33 MCU of him speaking, a procession of members singing the Horst Wessel song. CU Hitler
18:30:46 Goering, named Prussian Minister of Interior by Hitler, outlines his programme   
...it is my duty to make Prussia the strongest part of the German nation again...Ó
Feb33 He is seated at his desk speaking
18:31:33 Election Day in Bavaria 5Mar33 - newspaper headlines - torchlight parade, SA stormtroops - ext. SA homes - SA in the street with a machine gun - Nazi officers standing about
house of labour union with SA troops in front, SS
18:33:04 Election Day in Berlin   5Mar33 - Von Hindenburg coming out of election booth, other voting Newspaper headlines
18:34:40 Meeting of Reichstag at which Hitler and his Cabinet receive Plenary Powers of Legislation    24Mar33 - Hitler addresses assembly (long shot)
         

220750          13:29:30 - 13:39:21            SD        B/W   

The Nazi Plan Reel 3
Acquiring Totalitarian Control of Germany
Opening of the Official Anti-Semitic Campaign  April 1933.
Animated speech by Goebbels to crowd - Sieg Heils from crowd.
13:30:41 SA Brownshirts in lorries - demonstration - yellow star painted on window - anti-Jewish slogans - anti-semitic boycott.
13:32:12 Foreign Press Conference Addressed by Goebbels and Hitler  April 1933.
13:34:13 The Burning of the Books - books thrown onto bonfires.  Goebbels speaks to Hitler youth and others -  animated speech ends in singing.
13:37:13 Christening of New Great German Aircraft Hindenburg by Goering in presence of Cabinet Members.
13:38:07 17th May 1933 Reichstag address on Disarmamant - Hitler  making speech  - long shot.
13:38:32 Youth meeting in Thuringia.  18Jun33 Hitler making animated speech at Youth meeting (".. after 4 months NS regime, the unemployment rate dropped by 1,2 millions... we won't stop fighting until we've reached our goal") - good sound but not good shots Hitler.   

 

220638          16:18:53 - 16:25:32            sd         B/W   

The Nazi Plan  Reel 4
Swastika becomes National Symbol -
Hitler arrives at gathering - CU and MCU Hitler speaking - ranting, Flags and cheers
5th Party Congress   Sep33 - Hitler walks past crowd who are carrying banners - Hitler speaks
Inauguration at Frankfurt am Main of New Section of The Super Highway Network.   
23Sept33 Men parade with shovels over their shoulders and singing.
Short sequence of of group with shovels over shoulders singing German national Anthem Deutschland Deutschland. Hitler is given a shovel and makes a speech before marching away through crowds
In a public square Over Radio Network Hess administers Oath of Allegiance to more than one million Leaders of the NSDAP and all Affiliated Organisations.  
25Feb34 A large crowd repeats words after him amid banners and flaming lamps - lots of Sieg Heil
Hess reafirms Hitlers Faith in SA after Roehm Purge     Jul34

 

220197          02:01:00 - 02:12:01                        B/W   

The Nazi Plan Reel 6
Excerpts from Official Party Film 'Triumph of the Will'
MS Hitler greeted by workers battalion leader, various shots of Hitler speaking to workers:  workers identify their Heimat and swear allegiance to the Fuehrer and the Fatherland:  Workers march:
Sept 1934 ?
Night shots - with patriotic song over: German officer makes speech to SA, stormtroops
Trumpet - Hitler youth drumming - Goebbels - Hitler saluting massed crowds - cheering  and giving nazi salute
Baldur von Schirach (leader of the Hitler Youth) addressing crowd, Òwe want the german people to be strong, you have to learn to suffer and to take austerities without breaking down... We know that Germany is ahead of us, Germany is marching inside of us and Germany is behind of usÓ
 - close shots of Hitler, Hess and Hitler youth : Hitler addresses Hitler youth - close shots of young boys listening: Hitler drives in open top car through crowd

 

220197          02:12:02 - 02:18:32            Sd        B/W   

The Nazi Plan Reel 9 1935 - 1939
Preparation for Wars of Agression
02:12:21 end of annual ÒMarch of ConfessionÓ of Hitler Youth in Landsberg
- von Schirach explains why Landsberg - ÒHitler was imprisoned in Landsberg and wrote Mein Kampf - this book may help you to fight for the Germany of the FutureÓ
 - torchlight rally  - singing patriotic song: ( Not National anthem )
02:14:53 Goering announces Rearmament of Germany   over shots military  - tanks - artillery  - troops - navy - cavalry - troops march  - hitler youth - paratroops  - airforce and planes - biplanes and sea planes: Rally - short shot Hitler on balcony - torchlight parade - crowds
 

200335          03:00:16 - 03:06:36            Sd        B/W   

The Nazi Plan Reel 10
Seventh Party Congress  10-16th September 1935 - Hitler speaking at indoor meeting -
"...the German nation is very worried about the events in Lithuania; the German nation has to witness again and again how people of the same blood are treated worse than criminals... but their only crime is that they are Germans and want to stay Germans"
standing at dais - microphones: Applauded: Goering makes speech: Hitler seated next to Hess  listening:  End of meeting - Sieg Heil:
03:03:10 - Hitler through streets in open top car: Hitler in Stadium: Hitler Youth give Nazi salute: Hitler and von Schirach; Good CU Hitler making speech: "... the German youth of the future has to be as fast as a greyhound, as tough as leather and as hard as Krupp-steel..."
Hitler Youth reviewed by Hitler as they sing:
03:05:28 Germany's military - Aircraft flyover - tanks tested on parade ground: German army march: Parade of military past Hitler: Hitler presented with sword:
             

200335          03:06:37 - 03:07:36            Sd        B/W   

The Nazi Plan Reel 10
Reception for Prime Minister  Goemboes  of Hungary    28Sep35
Brief shots PM  inspecting German troops.  Garden party type reception - Goering, Schacht
PM makes speech -"I am happy to have the opportunity to meet german politicians, especially the Fuehrer. Germany and Hungary have been connected in the past and shall stay connected in the future, for the best of both contries"
 
220682          18:00:06 - 18:10:36            SD        B/W   

The Nazi Plan - Reel 11
Reoccupation of the Rhineland 7th March 1936
German military parade through crowd lined streets - crowds welcome, celebrate.  Cavalry cross bridge. 
18:01:03 Minister von Neurath expresses confidence all Germans will vote approval of Hitler's policies 29th March 1936. Von Neurath makes speech, Rudolf Hess hands paper to man at desk. Other Nazis with wives including Goebbels.
18:02:21 Ribbentrop, Ambassador to Great Britain, outlines Nazi Foreign policy. April 1936
Ribbentrop speaking in English says the entire German nation is behind Òpeace planÓ . Says Germany is convinced Britain and France will want peace plan.
18:03:38 Address to Hitler Youth at Post-Stadium 1st May 1936
Hitler, not in uniform, on podium - makes speech .
18:04:52 Address to Krupp Munition-plant workers 28th May 1936
Hitler  on podium makes speech - mostly in long shot.
18:05:49 Eighth Party Congress 8-14th September 1936
Nazi banners / flags - military parade through streets of old Nuremberg. Smiling locals line streets. Hitler inspects SS with Himmler.  Hitler in open top car rides through streets to cheers.  CU Hitler on balcony.
18:08:20 Armed Forces receive new flags. April 1937
Hitler arrives. Military parade -  troops goose-step.  Navy march past. Cavalry ride past - artillery - tanks. 

 

220197 & 181611   02:18:41 - 02:29:35            Sd        B/W   

The Nazi Plan Reel 12
German Sailors killed in Spanish Civil War brought home on the Deutschland  18/6/37
Battleship in harbour of Wilhelmshaven - coffins - Naval ceremony - Naval officer makes speech surrounded by flags covered with Swastika flags: Hitler lays wreath
02:20:45 Ninth Party Congress  6-13th September 1937
Hitler reviews from open top car march past in stadium - flags and banners - singing patriotic song (Not National Anthem): Military parade through streets: Laying of the cornerstone at Nuremberg stadium
Hitler makes speech, opening of the first Nationalsocialist Games
Hitler goes to the cenotaph for the dead of the nationalsocialistic movement (ÓGefallene der BewegungÓ), blood flag (Blutfahne)
more flags and parading: Reviews crowd from moving open top car - sea of adoring faces and salutes - Hess in back of car: Parade through streets
 
220197 & 181611   02:29:41 - 02:38:00            SD        B/W   

The Nazi Plan, The Reel 14
Tenth Party Congress   5-12Sep1938
Nuremberg Stadium Parades and ceremonies - Hitler Youth and BDM - flags and banners: Hitler reviews from Open top car : Parade through streets
02:34:08 Hitler Declares Policy with respect to Sudetenland  26/9/38
Newspaper headlines - interior rally Hitler making speech - dark: Exteriors, radio station, crowds on streets listening to broadcast
02:35:35 Munich Pact      29Sep38
outside shot NSDAP headquarter (NSDAP Parteizentrale) in Munich
Planning meeting - Hitler, Goering and Mussolini: Munich Pact signed
02:36:45 Occupation of the Sudetenland    1Oct38
Newspaper headlines - Germans welcomed into Sudetenland - Hitler (?) in open top car through gate ÒKrumau dankt seinen BefreiernÓ (Krumau thanks his liberators)
cheering population,
Hitler and Konrad Henlein; Henlein makes speech (very poor sound) Crowds Sieg Heil salute
             

220750          13:39:28 - 13:50:33            SD        B/W   

The Nazi Plan Reel 15
Goering Launches first Aircraft Carrier - Graf Zeppelin - 8Dec38: Goering greeted at shipyard, Huge crowds: Goering makes speech.
13:40:40 Hitler predicts Annihilation of the Jewish Race in Europe if war occurs    30Jan39
Indoor meeting Hitler takes stand and makes speech - no close ups.
13:41:36 President Hacha of Czecho-Slovakia arrives in Berlin as Guest of Hitler   14Mar39
Night shots Hacha met at Railway station - inspects Guard of Honour - into car
13:42:05 Occupation of Remainder of Czecho- Slovakia  - Newspaper headlines;  German troops on motorcycles and bicycles through snow:  German troops enter Prague in blizzard.  Troops march.  Hitler  on Hradzin, greeted by german students and representative of the German ethnic groups - bandages round heads etc. 
Day of the German Wehrmacht, Aircraft flyover - military parade in Prague, Wentzelssquare
13:44:17 Occupation of Memel   22Mar39  German troops welcomed - flowers - banners welcoming across streets - locals giving Nazi salute. Aircraft flyover.  Hitler arrives by boat.  Hitler through streets in open top car - cheering crowds.  Hitler on balcony.
13:46:12  Reply to RooseveltÕs (FDR) plea that Germany avoid aggression   28Apr39 - Interior hall  - Hitler making speech - reeling off long list of nations - murmurs of laughter from hall.  Animated speech but not in CU:
 

220790          07:21:22 - 07:21:55            Sd        b/w    

Hitler Pays Tribute to Krupp (Nazi Plan Exhibit excerpt)
Hitler shakes hands with Krupp, decorates him with golden NSDAP-medal. Surrounded by other military officers leaves factory cheered by crowds.

 

220790          07:21:56 - 07:24:18            Sd        b/w    

Signing of the Military-Economic Alliance by Germany, Italy & Japan; (Nazi Plan Exhibit excerpt)
Von Ribbentrop, Ciano, Kurusu for Japan.  Hitler arrives & greeted.  Various military watching as Ribbentrop speaks.  CU of signing by Ribbentrop. Italian signs; Japanese signs;  Hitler leads them out of room.  Hitler onto balcony waves & crowds below wave. Tri-partite pact          

 

221085          11:46:13 - 11:49:20            SD        B/W   

[Invasion of Belgium and the Netherlands - 10May40]
Extract from The Nazi Plan.  Soldiers run across bridge & cross borders.  Tanks, trucks, troop carriers.   Firing machine guns, advancing along road.  Nazi Tri-motor planes take off.  Aerials from planes as they drop parachuted troops over Holland. 
11:47:33  Troops through grass, soldier walks across bridge with white flag.  Tanks firing.  Flag of surrender in Rotterdam.  German officers.  Planes bombing & explosions seen from ground with ship burning in harbor.  PoV through streets - burning buildings at night or late in day.
 

220650          14:15:41 - 14:19:04            Sd/Sil  B/W   

Invasion of USSR.  Ex Nazi Plan Reel 20
Clock, deserted streets in early morning - milk delivered in churns. Radio station on air w/ engineers, dials, antennas.  Streets; Goebbels enters, sits at mic; people listening in streets.  Ribbentrop into room & speaks to reporters.  Newspapers delivered.
14:17:18 Map.  Silhouetted troops move artillery across bridge;  guns firing; signs; smashing border gate & opening.  Soldiers roll guns ahead, troop carriers move up, fighting alongside road.  Explosions in buildings.          

 

220650          14:19:05 - 14:21:41            SD        B/W   

Meeting With Petain, Laval and Franco In France October 1941 Ex Nazi Plan Reel 20
Petain out of car & greeted by Nazis.  Shakes hands w/ Hitler.  Interior of train with Hitler, Goering & others, laughing & talking.  Arrival at Hendaye.  Border bridge.  Hitler waiting for arrival of Spanish train w/ Franco off & shaking hands.  Reviewing troops.  Board train.  Curtain closed.   

 

220650          14:21:42 - 14:24:07            SD        B/W    WWII - Visit To A Camp Near Minsk, A Ex Nazi Plan Reel 20
Himmler & other SS tour camp, review troops guarding & wave to in-mates.  POV along streets.  Look at grain crop, talk to peasants & view tractor.  Ride in car w/ huge building behind.  Destroyed village.  Into camp & with others talk to men behind barbed wire.  Inmates sitting watching.  Many laying by fence.  

 

220650          14:24:08 - 14:24:53            SD        B/W    Declaration of War on the United States  Ex Nazi Plan Reel 20
Flags, Hitler reviews troops, enters hall & people stand.  He at front sitting & saluting.  At podium.  Von Ribbentrop CU.  Doesn't really speak much.

 

220790          07:24:19 - 07:25:58            Sd        b/w    

Bulgaria Joins Axis (Nazi Plan Exhibit excerpt)
Prof. Dr. Filov of Bulgaria off plane greeted by Nazi General.  Past troops; with von Ribbentrop & Ciano. Signing at large table.  CU.  Large tapestry behind.  With Hitler shaking hands.  

 

220790          07:25:59 - 07:28:54            Sd        b/w    

Invasion of Jugoslavia and Greece (Nazi Plan Exhibit excerpt)
Map.  Barbed wire & pillboxes in Serbia.  Damaged RR from blastings.  German troops marching past damaged building, through bombed road, rafting across stream, wheeling artillery across the border. 
On the Greek front.  Night and day firing & explosions.  Heavy artillery firing.  German military artists drawing.  German Stukas & bombs falling; explosions in mountains.  Salonika with Germans down street and along dock.  Tanks along waterfront.   

 

220757          22:40:49 - 22:51:10           SD        B/W   

The Nazi Plan  Reel 22
55th Birthday of Hitler     20Apr44
Parade ÒUnter den LindenÓ; debris decorated with small Nazi flags and signs ÒUnsere Mauern brechen - unsere Herzen nichtÓ (Our walls are breaking but not our hearts).
Hitler inspects new weapons.
Goering, Keitel, Doenitz, Kreissler, Himmler et al congratulating.
22:43:05  Conference after HitlerÕs escape from bombing plot     20Jul44
Hitler greets Mussolini at train station  - shakes hand with left hand.  Himmler, Hitler & Mussolini, Graciani. Hitler stooped; saying goodbye to Mussolini at station.
Hitler with Funk, Speer, Sauckel, Dr. Sauer, Lammers, Himmler, Goebbels, Guderian, Jodl, Bormann.
22:45:05  People Court Trial concerning Plots of 20th July.  Judge Freislar Presiding (sd), defendant Josef Hirmer.
22:49:44 Major Rehmer decorated for Role in Suppression of 20th July Plot. Hails Unity of NSDAP and Wermacht. July 1944.
Rehmer addresses his soldiers Ò... our political mission is to defend our German fatherland and the National Socialist idea... and we will carry out this mission to total victory...Ó    

 

220790          07:21:22 - 07:21:55            Sd        b/w    

Hitler Pays Tribute to Krupp (Nazi Plan Exhibit excerpt)
Hitler shakes hands with Krupp, decorates him with golden NSDAP-medal. Surrounded by other military officers leaves factory cheered by crowds.

 

220190          10:01:18 - 10:35:03            SD        B/W   

Nazi Concentration And Prison Camps

US compilation film on atrocities discovered by US troops liberating German concentration and prison camps: US Counsel for the Prosecution of Axis Criminality
Affidavit of official photographer of Allied Expeditionary Forces who took photos of Nazi concentration camps & prison camps. Concentration camps in Leipzig.  Testimony of prisoners.  Prisoners burnt, corpses of men electrocuted by electric wires.  CS of burnt corpses.  Russian women-slave laborers watch mutilated corpses. Penig concentration camp: Hungarian prisoners, young women under blankets examined by American doctors, open wounds on back, gangrene wounds on buttocks.  Women carried out of camp. Prisoners on stretchers. Hospital, Nazis look after prisoners. Red Cross. Women smile.  Line of stretchers. Ohrdurf conc. camp.  Barracks, groups of surviving captives. Ger. Patton.  Amer. Army.  Patton goes into barracks.
            10:10:01  #2   Wood sheds, inside layers of naked corpses half decomposed.  American congressmen view atrocities. Gen. Eisenhower.  CS of corpses.  Grill of railway tracks - crematory, remains of charred bodies.  Skulls.  Truck w/ local town's people & Nazis.  German doctor.  Germans see horrors , CS of faces. Hadamar Camp interiors of survivors in hospital, exhumation of mass grave, 20,000; outdoor autopsy; interrogation of camp workers

            10:19:06  #3  Russian POWs at camp following liberation by Canadians at Meppene Camp (Stalag VIc) De-lousing of prisoners;  exteriors of Camp near Munster (Stalag VIf) looks like location of RAF officer in UTW or DW at BAB, powÕs in camp following US liberation;  Breendock camp for arrested Belgians, demonstrations of punishment / torture  inc stick wrapped in barbed wire; men and women show scars after Gestapo torture; a/math liberation of Nordhausen includes classic shot of man praying as placed onto stretcher - slave labour used on V2 rocket project at Dora-Mittelbau; German civilians bury dead prisoners; Nordhausen civilians march long road to dig graves - contrasts with RAD / Wehrmacht a decade before!!!; scenes of mass grave.
10:28:30  Concentration camp near Hannover.  Red Cross truck distributes food to survivors from Poland. Men w/ food.  Man on stool eats soup.  Inmates on bunks.  Corpses removal.  Checking list on inmates.  Taking photographs of inmates.   Arnstadt Con. Camp.  Pan of tents, dogs kennels.  Ger. exhumate bodies.  Face half covered by dirt.  Americans inspect dead bodies.  Civilians from Weimar, 12000 women, men, smiling faces, people w/ bicycles look healthy.  Ger. view lampshade made of human skin, drawings on human skin.  Shrunk heads, CS of Ger. women in scarves.  Ger. get agitated.  For