American History In Video: United News, Release 184, 1945
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RG 208 UNITED NEWS ROLL 184 UNITED NEWS COPYRIGHT MCMXLV UNITED NEWSREEL CORPORATION UNITED NEWS COPYRIGHT MCMXLV UNITED NEWSREEL CORPORATION NAZI SPIES AND MURDERERS ARE EXECUTED BY U.S.
Narrator These pictures just released by the War Department show the execution of three German spies, captured during the German counter-offensive in the Ardennes . They had infiltrated behind Allied lines in American uniforms. By ancient rules of war, they faced the firing squad.
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Narrator At Bruchsal prison in Germany , American military police bring Johannes Seipel to the gallows. With five other Germans, he has been condemned to hang after due trial for the murder of six American aviators forced down in Germany .
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Narrator Friedrich Wüst , another of the gang who took the American prisoners of war away from their military guards to beat and kill them. Philipp Gutlich . This is the official military record of the executions. Josef Hartgen , leader in the murders is executed last.
EMPEROR HIROHITO REPORTS DEFEAT TO HIS ANCESTORS
Narrator Near Mount Fujiyama, priests wait at the burial place of Emperor Hirohito's father. The emperor comes to report to his ancestors on the defeat of Japan . This visit, made only with General MacArthur's permission, is part of Japanese religious custom. The emperor wears semi-civilian court dress as he mounts to the great domed mausoleum. His mission is to explain the presence of American soldiers on Japan's soil. Hirohito's last previous visit was to report the Pearl Harbor attack. Today, his ancestors learn of Japan's utter defeat.
NAZI GERMANY'S LEADERS ON TRIAL AT NUREMBERG
Narrator The Palace of Justice in Nuremberg, Germany , once the holy city of Nazism, becomes the setting of an epic event. Here, under the vigilant eyes of allied military police, the twenty most important surviving members of the Hitler gang go on trial. The attention of all the world is centered on this city and this scene.
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Narrator High representatives of France , Britain , America , and Russia form the tribunal. They will judge the ringleaders of a conspiracy that brought war to all the world for their crimes against peace and humanity.
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Narrator Earphones connected with an elaborate translating system enable judges, lawyers, defendants and spectators to follow the trial in German, French, Russian or English. The chief of the Germans' defense counsel addresses the court.
German Counsel (Inaudible )
Narrator Each of the defendants has his own counsel.
German Counsel (Inaudible )
Narrator Prisoner Schacht , Seyss-Inquart , von Papen , Dönitz , and the rest of the twenty are led by Hermann Göring . On trial for their lives, they seem less than supermen, especially Rudolf Hess , who at first tried to persuade Allied doctors that he is insane. Britain's Lord Justice Lawrence addresses the defendants.
Justice Lawrence The defendants are to plead guilty or not guilty to the charges against them. They will proceed in turn to the, to a point in the dock opposite to the microphone. Hermann Wilhelm Göring .
Narrator Reichsmarshal Göring , cold-blooded planner of international plunder, torture and murder, now arrogantly attempts to take advantage of the court procedure.
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Hermann Göring (Non-English narration )
Justice Lawrence I informed the court, the court that defendants were not entitled to make a statement. You must plead guilty or not guilty.
Mr. Göring (Non-English narration )
Narrator Not guilty.
Justice Lawrence Rudolf Hess .
Narrator Once the third ranking Nazi, Hess parachuted down over England early in the war.
Rudolf Hess (Non-English narration )
Justice Lawrence It will be entered as a plea of not guilty.
Narrator Joachim von Ribbentrop .
Joachim von Ribbentrop (Non-English narration )
Narrator Not guilty.
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Justice Lawrence Wilhelm Keitel .
Wilhem Keitel (Non-English narration )
Narrator The chief of staff pleads innocent. Next, Alfred Rosenberg , philosopher of Nazism.
Alfred Rosenberg (Non-English narration )
Narrator Not guilty.
Justice Lawrence Julius Streicher .
Julius Streicher (Non-English narration )
Narrator Not guilty. Hermann Göring tries again to make a statement but is firmly dealt with.
Justice Lawrence You are not entitled to address the tribunal except through your counsel at the present time.
Narrator United States Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson opens the prosecution's case.
Justice Robert H. Jackson The privilege of opening the first trial in history for crimes against the peace of the world imposes a grave responsibility. The wrongs which we seek to condemn and punish have been so calculated, so malignant and so devastating, that civilization cannot tolerate their being ignored because it cannot survive their being repeated. That four great nations, flushed with victory and stunned with injury, stay the hand of vengeance and voluntarily submit their captive enemies to the judgment of the law is one of the most significant tributes that power has ever paid to reason.
Narrator Documented in full from thousands of sources and attested too in the blood and suffering of millions, the case of the United Nations against Nazi Germany's leaders moves ahead.
UNITED NEWS
Nazi War Crimes Trial Opens at Nuremberg, 1945 06:11
NAZI SPIES AND MURDERERS ARE EXECUTED BY U.S., 1945: 1. The execution in Germany by firing squad and hanging of Nazi spies and prison camp personnel. 2. Emperor Hirohito prays at his father's grave. 3. Nazi war criminals are tried at Nuremberg. Other personages: Hermann Goring, Rudolph Hess, Franz von Papen, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Alfred Rosenberg, Justice Robert H. Jackson.
UNITED NEWS
Produced by United Newsreel Corporation RELEASED: December 7, 1945Contents Sheet No. 184
1) Nazi spies and murderers are executed by U. S.
shows the execution in Germany by firing squad and hanging of Nazi spies and prison camp personnel.
2) Emperor Hirohito reports defeat to his ancestors
Emperor Hirohito prays at his father's grave.
3) Nazi Germany's leaders on trial at Nuremberg
Nazi war criminals are tried at Nuremberg. Other personages: Hermann Göring, Rudolph Hess, Franz von Papen, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Alfred Rosenberg, Justice Robert H. Jackson.