Experience The Trial of Nations (1946), a powerful historical documentary that chronicles the aftermath of World War II and the pursuit of justice on an international scale. This remarkable film offers a fascinating look at the legal proceedings, historical events, and global efforts to hold war criminals accountable. A valuable documentary for history enthusiasts interested in the defining moments that shaped the modern world.
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00:02THE END
00:46On May the 2nd, 1945, Berlin's resistance was smashed, and the red flag was hoisted
00:52over the German capital, the flag of victory. Berlin had capitulated. From their holes and
01:10hiding places, the German generals emerged, like beasts ferreted out of their lairs. Whole
01:16divisions, regiments, field police battalions, all the remnants of the defeated and shattered
01:22the German army laid down their arms. Goering gave himself up. Keitel surrendered. Dernitz
01:41was caught. Goebbels preferred to shoot himself. But the dragnet closed around Yordal and rip
01:55and drop. Now the major war criminals were in the hands of justice. It was decided to try
02:03them in Nuremberg.
02:18In Nuremberg, once the cradle of German fascism, Nuremberg where the Nazis ran rampant. Nuremberg
02:35now lies in ruins and ashes.
02:41It is symbolized by this disabled German in a philosophical lesson of history. A lesson
02:47which future aggressors would do well to remember. For the aggressors of yesterday are now in
02:56the Nuremberg prison, awaiting the decision of their fate. The beast has been driven into
03:09the cage of the Nuremberg prison. Ribbentrop cell. Keitel cell. Goering cell.
03:30Only yesterday the beast was still raging at liberty. It was from Nuremberg and from Munich
03:36that the Nazis began their marauding march. Only to finish up in the prison of Nuremberg. This
03:46is their last march. Their march into the dock. Here they were brought to answer for their
03:53crimes. These warmongers and conspirers against nations. These butchers of whole peoples and
04:01plunderers of whole states. These child murderers and slave traders. These 20th century Huns.
04:08For all this, they must now answer.
04:24Don't hide your face, Goering. All the world knows you and the world curses you. The hour
04:31of reckoning has come. March to the dock where your black deeds will be revealed.
04:46Soldiers of the Soviet army. They have come from Stalingrad to stand guard in Nuremberg.
04:57The international tribunal set for many months. A vast mechanism was set up for the trial.
05:02And hundreds of persons helped to further the cause of justice. The court room in Nuremberg.
05:18Here, the freedom-loving nations will try the major German war criminals. Not from motives
05:24of vengeance, but that the great ends of justice may be served. The story of the monstrous
05:30fascist conspiracy against peace, liberty and democracy must be told. The criminals must
05:36be named and made to bear the punishment of their guilt. The world must be warned.
05:47A whole library of damning documents was assembled by the prosecution. Here, the documents of the
05:53Soviet prosecution were kept. Their contents are now known to the world. The laboratory, where
06:05thousands of thousands of photostats were made. And the machines on which the copies of the
06:15documents were made. Here, the works of the Nazi leaders were gathered. Never before, perhaps,
06:26had such frenzied and bloodthirsty ravings come off the printing presses.
06:36Soviet artists, Boris the female.
06:46And the Kukranixi trio, whose ruthless pencils had already exposed and pilloried the criminals
06:52in their caricatures.
06:55.
06:55.
06:55.
06:55.
07:25Soviet journalist, Ilya Erenberg,
07:28Sevolod Ivanov,
07:30Sevolod Vyshnevsky.
07:32The Soviet telegraph room where the reports of the trial were transmitted to the Soviet press.
07:40A sound record was made of all the proceedings of the trial.
07:46In the British telegraph room,
07:49men of the Signals Corps indefatigably tapped out the endless press messages.
08:02Photographs of the trial were radioed to all parts of the world.
08:14Every word spoken of the trial was at once translated into four languages.
08:18Russian, English, French, and German.
08:25The world listened with strained attention as the trial unfolded.
08:30And the world waited,
08:32waited impatiently,
08:34for justice to be done.
08:44The trial was held in the Nuremberg Palace of Justice,
08:47a building that seemed to have been deliberately saved from the ravages of war
08:50in order that fascism might be tried.
08:55The court is coming.
09:02The court has come.
09:08The court of the nations.
09:11And into the courtroom will come the martyrs of Majdanek and Aswenzel.
09:23From the ditch of Kerch, the dead will rise.
09:26They will rise from the graves.
09:29They will rise from the flames,
09:31bringing with them the acrid smoke
09:33and the deathly odor of scorched and martyred urine.
09:36And the children, they too will come,
09:40stern and merciless.
09:42The butchers had no pity on them.
09:44Now the victims will judge the butchers.
09:51Today, every drop of spilt innocent blood will speak for itself.
09:56And every wrinkle will call for retribution.
10:03Today, the tear of the child is the judge.
10:06The grief of the mother is the prosecutor.
10:10Oh, what a long and painful road
10:12judges and prosecutors had to flood to reach this courtroom.
10:17Before fascism could be tried, it had to be vanquished.
10:21Hitler's countless hordes swept on,
10:23seemingly irresistible,
10:25until the Red Army struck and struck again
10:27and emerged victorious.
10:30Through horror and death
10:31came the victors, judges, and prosecutors.
10:36The wounded, leaning on their comrades, pressed onward.
10:40The dead, before they dropped,
10:42bequeathed the call for retribution to the living
10:44and marched on, invisible in the ranks of the living.
10:48In the forests of Belarusia,
10:50the guerrillas joined the soldiers.
10:56Across Yugoslavia's mountain summits
10:58came Tito's dauntless warriors.
11:01Tito's dauntless warriors, living and dead,
11:03have come here to judge.
11:05They sit invisible in the courtroom,
11:07but the criminals see and hear them and tremble.
11:10The hour of reckoning has come.
11:23The International Military Tribunal,
11:25in the name of the freedom-loving nations,
11:28is sitting in judgment of the Nazi criminals.
11:32Chief Judge for the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics,
11:35Major General Nikitschenko.
11:37His Deputy, Lieutenant Colonel Volchkov.
11:40Chief Judge for the United Kingdom,
11:43Lord Justice Lawrence.
11:46His Deputy, Sir Norman Birkett.
11:49Chief Judge for the United States of America,
11:51Francis Biddle.
11:53His Deputy, Parker.
11:56Chief Judge for the Republic of France,
11:58DeFabre.
12:01His Deputy, Volkhoff.
12:04The Court is presided over by Lord Justice Lawrence.
12:08Among the distinguished visitors,
12:10Vyshinsky, Deputy Foreign Minister of the USSR,
12:13and Gorshynin, Soviet Prosecutor General.
12:21The criminals are accused of general conspiracy,
12:25of crimes against peace,
12:30of crimes of war,
12:34of crimes against humanity.
12:41The prisoners, Doc.
12:48Hermann Goering,
12:49Hitler's close friend,
12:51formerly known as the second man in the Reich.
12:54He is much thinner and shrunken now.
12:57Goering looked a different man at the height of his power.
13:00He was sleek and obese then.
13:02It was his airmen that bombed Warsaw,
13:06Leningrad, and London.
13:08Goering was the founder of the notorious Gestapo.
13:11He helped to draw up
13:13and carry out the plan of attack
13:14on the USSR.
13:16Goering is criminal number one.
13:24Rudolf Hess,
13:25leader of the Nazi Party
13:26and Hitler's deputy.
13:28He summoned the Germans to prepare for war.
13:31Guns instead of butter,
13:32he cried.
13:45Joachim von Rippentrop,
13:47Reich's minister for foreign affairs.
13:49With the cunning of a fox,
13:51he was a past master in international intrigue.
13:54He was always raised to vow eternal friendship.
13:56For there was not a vow he did not violate,
13:59nor a nation he did not betray,
14:02and betray again.
14:03He was the right and left hand of the warmongers.
14:09Wilhelm Keitel,
14:11commander of Germany's armed forces.
14:14I am just a soldier,
14:16he says,
14:17trying to disavow his guilt.
14:19But this is not the face of a soldier.
14:21It's the face of a hangman and butcher.
14:24His uniform is stained with the blood
14:26of disarmed and defenseless people.
14:37Ernst Kaltenbrunner,
14:38chief of the security police and the SD.
14:40He is responsible for the gas chambers and gas wagons,
14:43the death factories and the concentration camps.
14:46On his conscience is the blood
14:47of thousands and thousands of innocent people,
14:50tortured to death
14:51and buried alive in the Ukraine,
14:53Belorussia and the Baltic states.
14:56Alfred Rosenberg,
14:58the author of the race theory,
15:00which was to drench Europe in blood.
15:02He drew up the plan for the division of the USSR.
15:05Then he was made minister of the Ostland.
15:08And by his orders,
15:09Poland,
15:10the Ukraine,
15:11Belorussia and the Caucasus
15:13were ravaged and plundered
15:15and put to fire and sword.
15:18The Superman
15:20is nervous now.
15:24Hans Frank,
15:25the cynical butcher of Poland.
15:28He called Poland a booty land.
15:30He said the country must be reduced
15:31to a pile of ruins.
15:33Poles and Ukrainians
15:35must be turned into mincemeat.
15:36And as to the Jew,
15:38they must be destroyed,
15:39every one of them.
15:46Wilhelm Frick,
15:48Reich's minister of the interior
15:49and protector of Bohemia and Moravia,
15:52a snarling, vicious jackal,
15:54now caught by the tail
15:55and locked in a cage.
16:00Julia Streicher,
16:01editor of the Sturmer,
16:03one of the vilest news sheets in the world.
16:06Jew Bater,
16:06preacher of anti-Semitism,
16:08corruptor of youth.
16:10He proudly called himself
16:11Jew-hater number one.
16:16Walter Funk,
16:18he was one of Germany's economic bosses.
16:20He supplied the means
16:21to run Hitler's marauding war.
16:23And the war supplied the means
16:25to line the pockets
16:26of Funk,
16:27Krupp,
16:28and the other German bankers
16:29and industrialists.
16:34Hjalmar Schacht,
16:36he directed the finances
16:38and the economy
16:39of the piratical Nazi state.
16:45Grand Admiral Dönitz,
16:47chieftain of the Nazi pirates.
16:49His wolf packs,
16:51sunk unarmed ships
16:52and neutral vessels
16:53without warning.
16:54When Hitler saw
16:56that the game was up,
16:57he entrusted Dönitz
16:58with the task
16:59of saving the Nazi ship.
17:01But the ship went to the bottom
17:02and Dönitz
17:04is now in the prisoner's dock.
17:08Erich Räder,
17:09he and Hitler
17:11conceived the idea
17:12of wiping Leningrad
17:13off the face of the earth.
17:14They failed.
17:16But the grief
17:17and suffering
17:17of Leningrad,
17:18its blood and sacrifices,
17:20called for expiation.
17:24Baldur von Schirach,
17:26his ideal was,
17:28we will raise up
17:29the youths of Germany
17:30to be cruel and ruthless.
17:32The whole world
17:33will tremble before them.
17:35I want to see
17:36the glint
17:36of the wild beast
17:37in their eyes.
17:41Fritz Zalkal,
17:42the slave trader.
17:44Girls of the Ukraine,
17:46youths of France,
17:48children of Czechoslovakia,
17:49look at him now.
17:51It was he that drove you
17:53like cattle
17:53to the slave markets
17:54of Germany.
17:59Alfred Yordle,
18:01Hitler's military advisor,
18:04bloodthirsty and ruthless
18:05and an implacable foe
18:07of the Soviet people.
18:08The Russians should be hanged
18:10head downwards,
18:11he said.
18:12The world will not breathe freely
18:14until he is hanging
18:15head downwards.
18:19Franz von Papen,
18:20as vain as a peacock,
18:22a master of espionage,
18:24sabotage and intrigue.
18:25It was he that put Germany
18:27into Hitler's hands.
18:31Arthur Zeiss Inquart,
18:33butcher of Poland,
18:34Austria
18:35and the Netherlands.
18:37Albert Speer,
18:39Reichsminister of Armaments.
18:40In Speer's
18:41underground munition factories,
18:43thousands upon thousands
18:44of men and women
18:44toiled and slaved
18:45until they grew blind,
18:47died of exhaustion
18:48or pined away.
18:50Konstantin von Neurath,
18:52Nazi diplomat
18:53with the rank
18:53of a general of the SS,
18:55butcher of Czechoslovakia.
18:59Hans Fritsche,
19:00Goebbels' assistant,
19:02who, like him,
19:03poisoned the minds
19:04with a venom
19:04of lies and calumnies.
19:10Such is the roster
19:11of the major
19:12German war criminals
19:14who broke all the laws
19:15of humanity
19:16in their attempt
19:16to impose
19:17their monstrous rule
19:18of violence
19:19and rapine
19:19on the world.
19:21And these are
19:22their defendants
19:23in their medieval robes
19:25who will argue
19:26and finesse
19:27and cite the law
19:29in defense
19:29of lawlessness.
19:31They will claim
19:32that the tribunal
19:32of the nations
19:33has no legal power
19:34to judge crimes
19:35against nations.
19:36They will try
19:37to divide its counsel
19:38by anti-Servite slanders
19:41and in endures.
19:44What is the blood
19:45of the martyrs
19:46to them?
19:46They will try
19:47to save fascism.
19:49This is fascism's
19:51last line of defense,
19:52but it too
19:53will prove futile.
20:06one after another,
20:08the prosecutors
20:08came forward
20:09to state the case
20:10against the criminals.
20:11The first to speak
20:13was Robert Jackson.
20:16In the prisoner's dock
20:18sit twenty
20:20odd, broken men.
20:24Reproached by the humiliation
20:26of those they have led,
20:28almost as bitterly
20:29as by the desolation
20:31of those they have attacked,
20:34their personal capacity
20:35for evil
20:36is forever past.
20:38It is hard now
20:40to perceive
20:41in these miserable men
20:43as captives
20:44the power by which
20:46as Nazi leaders
20:47they once dominated
20:49much of the world
20:51and terrified
20:52most of it.
20:54We will show them
20:55to be living symbols
20:56of racial hatred,
20:58of terrorism
20:59and violence,
21:00and of the arrogance
21:02and cruelty of power.
21:04They are symbols
21:05of fierce nationalism
21:07and of militarism,
21:09of intrigue
21:10and war making
21:11which have embroiled
21:13Europe generation
21:14after generation,
21:16crushing its manhood,
21:18destroying its homes,
21:20and impoverishing
21:22its life.
21:23Civilization
21:24can afford
21:25no compromise
21:26with the social forces
21:28which would gain
21:29renewed strength
21:30if we deal
21:31ambiguously
21:32or indecisively.
21:36step by step
21:37the prosecution
21:37unfolded the story
21:39of the Nazi conspiracy
21:40against peace
21:41and humanity.
21:44The early days
21:46of Nazism.
21:48The first stormtroopers.
21:53You have forgotten this,
21:55Rudolf Hess.
21:56You are suffering
21:57from loss of memory.
21:58One moment,
21:59we will help you
22:00to remember.
22:09Do you hear
22:10that bestial war?
22:11Do you see
22:12these nocturnal frenzies?
22:14This demented worship
22:15of fire?
22:16This wild animal triumph?
22:22You remember now, Hess,
22:25that there were obstacles
22:26in the way
22:27of the fascist beast.
22:28man and his ideas
22:30and ideals,
22:31culture,
22:32books.
22:34And so the books
22:35went hurling
22:35into the flames.
22:36And the savages
22:37danced and sang,
22:39suppose the world
22:40does line ruins.
22:42To hell with it,
22:43we say.
22:44Tomorrow the whole world
22:45will be ours,
22:46as Germany
22:47is today.
22:50Hitler became
22:51Germany's Führer
22:52and also the servant
22:54of his masters,
22:55the Armament Kings.
23:00It was von Papen
23:01that put Hitler
23:02in power
23:03and obligingly
23:04resigned to him
23:04the post of
23:05Reich Chancellor.
23:10Hindenburg,
23:11before retiring
23:11to his grave,
23:12gave Hitler
23:13his blessing.
23:14Banker Schacht
23:15acted as intermediary.
23:17And the capitalists
23:18poured lavish funds
23:19into the treasury
23:20of the Nazi party.
23:22And Krupp,
23:23the merchant of death,
23:24the real master
23:25of Germany,
23:26okayed Hitler
23:27as the ruler
23:28of the Reich.
23:29Here they are,
23:30a charming family
23:31portrait.
23:32Bankers hobnobbing
23:34with the aggressors.
23:35And so everything
23:36that breathed
23:37of freedom and honesty
23:38in Germany
23:38was crushed,
23:40smothered,
23:41trampled upon.
23:42The storm troops
23:43became the rulers
23:44of Berlin streets.
23:47Germany was
23:47surrounded
23:48in barbed wire.
23:50Barbed wire
23:51was henceforth
23:52to become
23:52the symbol
23:53of Germany.
24:00February the 8th
24:01was a big day
24:02of the trial.
24:03The courtroom
24:04was filled
24:04to overflowing.
24:06Not a single
24:06seat was empty.
24:12Defense counsel
24:13were tense
24:14and anxious.
24:16The criminals
24:17betrayed signs
24:18of nervousness.
24:21That day
24:22the Soviet
24:23prosecution
24:23was to open
24:24its case.
24:25Chief Prosecutor
24:27for the USSR,
24:28R.A.
24:29Rudenko.
24:38Your Worship,
24:39I begin my speech
24:41which will wind up
24:42the opening speeches
24:43of the chief prosecutors
24:45in this trial
24:46with a full
24:47and deep sense
24:48of the historical
24:49imports of the occasion.
24:53This is the first time
24:54in the history
24:55of the world
24:55that crimes
24:57of such magnitude
24:58and with consequences
24:59so prodigious
25:00have come under
25:01the consideration
25:02of justice.
25:04This is the first time
25:06that criminals
25:07who seized
25:08whole states
25:08and turned
25:10their own state
25:10into an instrument
25:11of their crimes
25:12have been brought
25:14to trial.
25:19This is the first time
25:20that we here
25:21are trying not only
25:23the criminals themselves
25:24but the criminal institutions
25:26and organizations
25:27they founded
25:28and the theories
25:29and ideas of hatred
25:31which they disseminated
25:32in furtherance of crimes
25:34they had long been nurturing
25:35against peace
25:36and humanity.
25:42The day has come
25:44when the nations
25:45of the world
25:46are demanding
25:47stern retribution
25:48of the Nazi butchers,
25:50are demanding
25:52the stern punishment
25:53of the criminals.
25:55All the villainous
25:56committed by the Nazi
25:58major war criminals
26:00jointly and severally
26:02will be weighed by us
26:04with scrupulous care
26:05and attention
26:08as is demanded
26:09by the law
26:10by the charter
26:11of the International
26:12Military Tribunal
26:13by justice
26:14and by our consciences.
26:18The Soviet prosecution
26:19showed and demonstrated
26:21how the Nazis
26:22secretly prepared
26:23for world war.
26:24Everything was bent
26:25to this purpose.
26:34Von Schirach's puppies
26:35playing with toy daggers.
26:39These are still youths
26:41and only carrying spades
26:43but these
26:44are already soldiers
26:48and the German women
26:50are already rubbing
26:51their hands
26:52in greedy anticipation
26:53of the parcels
26:54to come from the east.
26:55These are only dummy houses.
26:58These are still
26:59peaceful Germans.
27:01But the muzzles
27:02of the guns
27:03have already been raised.
27:05Wars of aggression
27:07are begun
27:07by treaties of friendship
27:09signed by the aggressor's diplomats.
27:11Von Ribbentrop,
27:12that travelling salesman
27:13of death,
27:14wandered through Europe
27:15signing pacts of peace
27:16and giving instructions
27:17to his spies
27:18and fermenters of war.
27:20This is the original
27:21of the agreement
27:21concluded between
27:22Ribbentrop and Himmler
27:23for coordination
27:24of espionage work.
27:26This is a letter
27:27from Kaltenbrunner
27:28asking Ribbentrop
27:29for a million tumens
27:30for espionage activities
27:32in Persia.
27:33And the ink
27:34on the last
27:35pact of non-aggression
27:37was hardly dry
27:39when the German hordes
27:41were already
27:42on the march.
27:50Only the Soviet Union
27:51warned the world
27:52of the deadly danger
27:53of fascist aggression.
27:55But the Munich
27:56appeasers bowed
27:57and scraped
27:57before the aggressors
27:58and threw open
27:59the gates of Europe
28:00to them.
28:05Hitler and Keitel
28:06set about refashioning
28:08the map of the world.
28:16Frontier gates
28:17were smashed.
28:20Boundaries
28:21were violated.
28:25Vows and pacts
28:26were dishonored.
28:33And the brown plague
28:34began to spread
28:35through Europe.
28:42The secret plans
28:43of aggression
28:44were now put
28:45into operation.
28:46The green plan
28:47for the Papidias attack
28:49on Czechoslovakia.
28:53It was signed
28:54by Vyodl.
29:08The Soviet prosecution
29:10at the trial
29:10exposed the way
29:12the world war
29:13was prepared.
29:24The war sword
29:25is in flames.
29:26These are the fruits
29:27of Munich.
29:33Germany's panzer forces
29:34invaded country
29:35after country.
29:36Unprepared for war
29:37and deceived
29:38by their own governments,
29:39European capitals
29:41surrender to the Huns.
29:47for the Germans
29:48it was just
29:48a pleasant promenade
29:49through the continent.
30:00Here we see them
30:01entering betrayed Paris,
30:03betrayed by Renault
30:04and L'Ardiene.
30:06The sufferings
30:07of German-occupied France
30:08were recounted
30:09by the French prosecutor.
30:17Can the nations
30:18of the world
30:18forget this lesson?
30:23The German marauders
30:25were active
30:25on the high seas
30:26as well as on land.
30:28The British prosecutor,
30:29Sir Hartley Shawcross,
30:31told of this in detail.
30:38Dernis men
30:39were known
30:39to the world
30:40as pirates.
30:47His U-boats
30:48began applying
30:49their wolf-peck tactics.
30:51They carried
30:52their piratical activities
30:53even into neutral waters.
31:06They attacked
31:07unarmed vessels
31:08and hospital ships.
31:11Here is a torpedoed
31:12ocean steamer
31:13and not a man
31:15of the crew
31:15will escape.
31:17For Dernis orders
31:18are not to pick up
31:20survivors
31:20and the drownings
31:22are left
31:22to their fate.
31:31Dernis spanking
31:32his pirates.
31:37Your Worship,
31:39I shall now
31:40proceed to the crimes
31:42committed by the
31:42Nazi aggressors
31:43against my country,
31:45against the Union
31:46of Soviet Socialist
31:49Republics.
31:52On June 22nd, 1941,
31:55Hitler, Germany
31:56treacherously
31:57attacked the USSR.
31:59But this date
32:00does not mark
32:01the beginning
32:02of the realization
32:03of Hitler-Germany's
32:04aggressive plans
32:05against the Soviet Union.
32:09The accused Keitel
32:11has testified
32:12that Hitler
32:13intended to attack
32:14the USSR
32:14at the end
32:16of 1940.
32:18And the plan
32:19for the attack
32:20had been worked out
32:21even earlier
32:22in the spring
32:23of 1940.
32:25This is confirmed
32:27by the testimony
32:27of the accused
32:28Yodl,
32:29who during his
32:30interrogation stated
32:31that the plans
32:32for the attack
32:33on the USSR
32:33were given concrete
32:35and detailed form
32:36in November
32:37and December
32:371940.
32:45Yodl is referring
32:46to the document
32:47known as
32:47Case Barbarossa.
32:49This document
32:50is signed
32:50by Hitler,
32:51Yodl,
32:52and Keitel.
32:55The Barbarossa plan
32:57envisaged the
32:58lightning destruction
32:58of the Soviet armies
32:59in the very first
33:01week of hostilities.
33:02The main blows
33:03were to be delivered
33:04against Bleningrad,
33:05Moscow,
33:06and Kiev,
33:06and the objective
33:07was the Archangel
33:09Astrakhan line.
33:10As the German
33:11general staff
33:12conceived it,
33:13when the German armies
33:14had reached the Volga,
33:15the Soviet Union
33:16will have been
33:16completely demolished.
33:20The aggressors
33:22were tantalized
33:23by the unbounded
33:23expanses
33:24of our country.
33:26Their eyes
33:27had long been
33:28fixed on
33:28our land,
33:33our oil,
33:35our coal,
33:36our natural wealth.
33:39In the early hours
33:41of June the 22nd, 1941,
33:43without declaring war
33:45and without any
33:46excuse for war,
33:47the Nazis
33:48fell upon our country.
33:58Belarusian cottages
33:59went up in flames.
34:02Bombs rained down
34:03on Ukrainian towns.
34:06They thought
34:07they were taking
34:07an easy and pleasant
34:09promenade through Russia,
34:10that Russia,
34:11like Holland,
34:12would drop on her knees.
34:21Alfred Rosenberg
34:22had his plan ready
34:23for the dismemberment
34:24of the USSR.
34:26This is Rosenberg's
34:27signature.
34:29Hitler appointed
34:30Rosenberg
34:30Reich's Minister
34:31of the Occupied
34:32Eastern Territories.
34:34Rosenberg's plan
34:35was to liquidate
34:36the USSR
34:36as an independent state,
34:38to deport the Russians
34:39to Siberia.
34:41The Baltic states
34:42were to be Germanized.
34:43Belarusia
34:44was to become
34:44a German province
34:45and the Ukraine
34:46a German colony.
34:48The Germans
34:49were to lay their hands
34:50on the oil
34:51of the Caucasus.
34:53Rosenberg
34:53made the plans.
35:03Keitel
35:04sent the troops.
35:06And then Himmler
35:07became
35:08to set up
35:09the new order.
35:12Himmler in Minsk.
35:18Himmler
35:19visits a
35:19concentration camp.
35:21Those are all people
35:23behind the barbed wire.
35:24Russians,
35:25Belarusians,
35:26Ukrainians.
35:28Himmler is satisfied.
35:30The wild beast
35:31has driven man
35:32into a cage.
35:41Himmler gloating
35:42over the ruins.
35:46This was Minsk
35:47before the war,
35:48before Himmler came.
35:50Those were our towns
35:52in which our gay
35:53and intelligent youth
35:54lived, studied,
35:56laughed,
35:57and played.
36:06Where are these girls
36:07in the wreaths
36:08and garlands
36:09of blue cornflowers
36:10now?
36:11What fate
36:12has overtaken them?
36:13That is a question
36:14for Salkil to answer.
36:21Soviet prosecutor
36:22Alexandrov
36:23questions Salkil.
36:29Will you tell us
36:30definitely
36:31how many people
36:33from the occupied territories
36:34were carried off
36:35to slavery in Germany?
36:37I will name the figure
36:38gathered from
36:39your own documents.
36:41Nine million.
36:42Do you admit
36:44that figure?
36:53Salkil twists
36:53and squares,
36:55lies and contradicts
36:56himself.
36:57But here are the facts
36:58taken from German
36:59documentary films.
37:01Hitler said,
37:02Germany needs slaves,
37:03many slaves.
37:04And the slave trader
37:06came for the good.
37:13Wailing and lamentation
37:15roves over Belarusia.
37:18Families were broken up.
37:21People were seized
37:22in the streets.
37:23It was a colossal
37:25manhunt.
37:26Men, women
37:28and children
37:28were driven
37:29along the roads,
37:31packed into railway
37:32trunks
37:32and flowed
37:34in a never-ending stream
37:35to the slave markets
37:37of Germany
37:37to unbearable toil
37:39and early death.
37:43This was the appalling
37:45fate the Germans
37:46had planned
37:47for all mankind.
37:58The story of the way
37:59the Nazi invaders
38:00plundered the occupied territories
38:02was told by the Soviet prosecutor
38:04Shainin.
38:10Gering, by virtue of the position
38:13he held in the Nazi government
38:15as vice-marshal
38:17and director of the four-year plan,
38:19was the man who headed
38:22the whole criminal system
38:23of plundering the occupied territories.
38:29This document is entitled
38:30Instructions for Economic Direction,
38:33otherwise known as
38:34the Green Folder.
38:37Parts of this Green Folder
38:38have already been submitted
38:40by my American colleagues.
38:42The Soviet prosecution
38:43submitted
38:44a Soviet document number 10.
38:49It is a plan
38:50methodically worked off
38:51by the Germans
38:52in advance
38:52for the spoliation
38:53of the occupied territories.
38:55Here is the Green Folder
38:57in action.
38:58I intend to rob
39:00and to rob effectively,
39:02Gering said.
39:03And he did rob everything
39:05he could lay his hands on.
39:06Coal,
39:07oil,
39:08boars,
39:09grain,
39:10raw materials.
39:11Trade loads of stolen property
39:13flowed in a constant stream
39:14to Germany.
39:16The Germans wanted food.
39:18They needed meat,
39:19bacon,
39:20bread.
39:20They had colossal appetites.
39:22They would have defiled
39:24the whole world
39:24if the Soviet
39:26and the Allied armies
39:27had not plunged
39:28a bayonet
39:29into the monstrous
39:29belly of fascism
39:30in time.
39:54I asked you,
39:55said Rudenko to Gering,
39:57were the instructions
39:59you gave
39:59at this conference
40:00anything else
40:01but a demand
40:02for the ruthless plunder
40:04of the occupied territories?
40:10What you said
40:12at this conference
40:13was only a development
40:15of ideas
40:16you had expressed earlier.
40:18You have been handed
40:20a document.
40:22On page 119
40:24of the German text
40:25you will find
40:25a paragraph
40:26marked with a red pencil.
40:27Have you found it?
40:28Very good.
40:30Now follow me.
40:32Is this the style
40:34in which you spoke?
40:35You must be
40:36regular hounds.
40:38Wherever you find
40:39still anything
40:40that the German people
40:41need,
40:41it must be
40:42ferreted out
40:43instantaneously
40:44from the storehouses
40:45and consigned
40:46to Germany.
40:48Did you say that?
40:51Yes,
40:52Gering answered.
40:53They wanted
40:54to devour
40:55Leningrad.
40:58Here is the document.
41:00The Fuhrer
41:01had decided
41:02to wipe
41:03Leningrad
41:03from the face
41:04of the earth.
41:05Now, Yodl,
41:06don't try to
41:07back out of it
41:07like a coward.
41:08This is your signature.
41:12Yodl is questioned
41:13by the British
41:13Prosecutor,
41:14David Maxwell Fife.
41:16Like all the criminals,
41:18Yodl tries to deny
41:19his guilt
41:19and to blame
41:20it all on the Fuhrer.
41:21But he cannot deny
41:23that he and Hitler
41:24wanted to grip
41:25Leningrad by the throat
41:27and strangle it.
41:33Leningrad.
41:34Our glory,
41:36our pride,
41:38and our treasure.
41:40The Nazis failed
41:41to force the heroic
41:42city on its knees.
41:45And so they
41:45conceived the idea
41:46of besieging it
41:48and strifling it
41:50in the news of famines.
42:02The torments
42:03of Leningrad
42:04are one of the
42:05gravest counts
42:06in our indictment
42:07of the Bushes.
42:12Soviet prosecutor
42:13Roginski charged
42:14the Nazis
42:15with vandalism.
42:16The Germans
42:17wantonly destroyed
42:18priceless cultural
42:19memorials,
42:20ancient churches.
42:26They shelved the
42:28hermitage,
42:28one of the world's
42:29treasure stores
42:30of art.
42:37The exquisite
42:38palace of Peterhof
42:39as it looked
42:40before the war.
42:46This is what
42:47the Germans
42:47did to it.
43:08They would have
43:09reduced the whole
43:10world to ruins,
43:11these barbarians,
43:12to whom nothing
43:13was sacred
43:14or precious.
43:21Here is a
43:22documentary film
43:23made by the
43:24Germans themselves.
43:25They were bragging
43:26then of the way
43:27they destroyed
43:28towns, homes,
43:29hospitals, factories,
43:31power stations.
43:32They were certain
43:33then that they
43:34would not be called
43:35to account.
43:36Now, in court,
43:37they were denied
43:38all, but the
43:39evidence is too
43:40damning.
43:42Wherever the
43:42Germans passed,
43:43they left a trail
43:44of ruin,
43:45misery,
43:46and death
43:46behind them.
43:47They felt sure
43:48they would not
43:49be brought to
43:49book.
44:02Kill everyone
44:03who is opposed
44:04to us,
44:05Garry cried.
44:06Kill, kill.
44:08Not you
44:09will answer
44:09for this,
44:10but I.
44:14Oh-ho,
44:15you're feeling
44:15the rope
44:16around your
44:16neck already,
44:17Goering.
44:18Yes,
44:19you will answer
44:19for this.
44:24Goering
44:24snorted
44:25and grew
44:26rich.
44:27These are
44:27some of the
44:28Hermann-Goering
44:29factories.
44:33This is one
44:34of his
44:34estates.
44:35He was
44:36monstrously
44:36bloated then,
44:38bloated with
44:39blood.
44:44Soviet
44:45Prosecutor
44:46Pokrovsky
44:46spoke of
44:47the German
44:47atrocities.
44:53Tens of
44:54thousands of
44:54witnesses
44:55will pass
44:56before our
44:56eyes.
44:58They have
44:59been summoned
44:59to give
45:00evidence in
45:00this trial.
45:01I cannot
45:02give their
45:03names,
45:03and you
45:04will not
45:04administer
45:05the oath
45:05to them.
45:06But their
45:07testimony
45:08compels
45:08belief,
45:09for the
45:09dead
45:10never
45:10lie.
45:11They are
45:11the
45:11martyrs
45:12of
45:12Rostov
45:12and
45:13Karakov,
45:13the victims
45:14of the
45:15Nazi
45:15camps
45:15of
45:15extermination.
45:17The
45:18hands
45:18of the
45:19accused
45:19are
45:20stained
45:20with
45:20their
45:20blood.
45:23For
45:23all
45:24these
45:24martyrdoms,
45:25for all
45:25these
45:26indescribable
45:26atrocities
45:27which you
45:28will see,
45:28and for
45:29many
45:29others
45:30which
45:30will
45:30probably
45:31never
45:31come
45:31to
45:32light,
45:33the
45:34chief
45:34instigators
45:35of the
45:35Nazi
45:36felonies,
45:38the
45:38major
45:38walker
45:39laws
45:39must
45:39be
45:39made
45:39to
45:40answer
45:40with
45:40all
45:41the
45:41severity
45:41of
45:42the
45:42law
45:42of
45:43international
45:44justice.
45:51Corpses,
45:53corpses,
45:54and
45:55corpses.
46:02the
46:02pestilential
46:03exhalations
46:04of the
46:04fascist
46:04channel
46:05houses
46:05poison
46:06the
46:06world.
46:10They
46:10slaughtered
46:11old
46:11folk
46:11and
46:11children,
46:12men
46:13and
46:13women,
46:14Russians
46:14and
46:15Poles,
46:16Norwegians
46:17and
46:17Frenchmen,
46:18defenseless
46:19civilians,
46:20and prisoners
46:20of war.
46:22They
46:22hanged,
46:23shot,
46:24burned,
46:25and
46:25asphyxiated.
46:26Death
46:27and
46:27extermination
46:27was their
46:28motto.
46:34I
46:34ask you
46:35in
46:35connection
46:36with this
46:36resolution,
46:38did you,
46:39Keiko,
46:40who held
46:40the rank
46:41of field
46:41marshal
46:42and who
46:42repeatedly
46:43in this
46:43courtroom
46:44called
46:44yourself
46:45a soldier,
46:46did you
46:47in
46:48September
46:481941
46:49by this
46:50bloodthirsty
46:51resolution
46:52sanction
46:53the slaughter
46:53of thousands
46:54of unarmed
46:55soldiers
46:55taken
46:55prisoner
46:56by your
46:56armies?
47:00Is this
47:02true?
47:04Yes,
47:05this is
47:05my
47:05signature,
47:06Keiko
47:07was compelled
47:08to admit.
47:10Yes,
47:12it was
47:12his
47:13bloodstained
47:14signature.
47:18The
47:19Nazis
47:19slaughtered
47:20people
47:20from all
47:21countries
47:21of Europe
47:22in their
47:22death
47:22factories.
47:26They
47:27would have
47:27turned
47:27the whole
47:28world
47:28into a
47:29Maidanic.
47:30Britain
47:31and Mexico
47:31and Canada
47:32would have
47:33become
47:33Dachau's
47:34if Hitler's
47:35hordes
47:35had not
47:36been stemmed
47:36and routed.
47:42Let the
47:43nations of
47:44the world
47:45remember
47:45this.
47:47Murder
47:47was a
47:48profession
47:48and an
47:49industry
47:49with the
47:50Nazis.
47:51They
47:51even
47:52turned
47:52death
47:52into a
47:53commercial
47:53enterprise.
47:55They
47:55did not
47:55leave
47:56even
47:56the
47:56corpses
47:56of
47:57their
47:57victims
47:57in
47:57peace
47:58but
47:58cold
47:59batteredly
48:00turned
48:00them
48:00to
48:00account.
48:01They
48:02cut
48:02their
48:02hair
48:02from
48:03their
48:03scalps
48:03and
48:04sent
48:04it
48:04to
48:04Germany
48:04to
48:05be
48:05made
48:05into
48:05mattresses.
48:07See
48:07the
48:07sacks and
48:08veils
48:08filling
48:08these
48:09warehouses?
48:11How many
48:12women must
48:13have been
48:13slaughtered
48:14and scalped
48:15to fill
48:15them?
48:28They
48:28pulled the
48:29gold teeth
48:29and dentures
48:30from the
48:30dead.
48:31The
48:31gold
48:32was sent
48:32to the
48:32bolts
48:33of the
48:33rice bank
48:34into the
48:34treasure
48:35chests
48:35of
48:35shaft
48:36and
48:36funk.
48:49Here
48:49are
48:49some
48:50of
48:50these
48:50dangers.
49:01And
49:01here
49:02are
49:02gold
49:02teeth
49:02already
49:03melted
49:03down
49:04into
49:04ingots.
49:05The
49:06Germans
49:06can
49:06blood
49:07it
49:07to
49:07gold
49:08and
49:09use
49:09the
49:09gold
49:09for
49:10the
49:10shedding
49:10of
49:11more
49:11blood.
49:18Here
49:18are
49:18rings
49:19taken
49:19from
49:19the
49:19fingers
49:20of
49:20the
49:20massacred.
49:24The
49:24Germans
49:25had a
49:25factory
49:25in
49:25Danzig
49:26where
49:26they
49:27extracted
49:27soap
49:28from
49:28dead
49:28bodies.
49:29This
49:30is
49:30the
49:30factory,
49:31the
49:32raw
49:32material.
49:35The
49:36soap
49:36made
49:37from
49:37human
49:37beings.
49:38This
49:39ghastly
49:40and
49:40damning
49:40evidence
49:40was
49:41presented
49:41by
49:41Soviet
49:42prosecutor
49:42Slernoth.
49:55Here
49:56is
49:56human
49:56skin
49:57dressed
49:58and
49:58tanned
49:59at
49:59the
49:59factory
49:59and
50:00from
50:00it
50:00the
50:01Germans
50:01made
50:01gloves
50:02ladies
50:02bags
50:03and
50:03briefcases.
50:05What
50:06manner
50:06of
50:06creatures
50:07are
50:07they
50:07then
50:08these
50:08bipeds
50:09in
50:09the
50:09prisoners
50:10dock?
50:11Is
50:11there
50:11any
50:12punishment
50:12commensurable
50:13to
50:13their
50:13crimes?
50:14No,
50:15no
50:16punishment
50:17is
50:17fit
50:17enough
50:17for
50:18them.
50:20In
50:21their
50:21final
50:21speeches
50:22the
50:23prosecutors
50:23demanded
50:24stern
50:24retribution.
50:26The
50:27American
50:27prosecutor
50:28said
50:28if
50:29if
50:29if these
50:29men
50:30are
50:30to
50:30be
50:30declared
50:31innocent
50:31then
50:32there
50:32was
50:32no
50:32war
50:33no
50:33massacres
50:34and
50:35no
50:35crimes.
50:36The
50:37British
50:37prosecutor
50:38said
50:38they
50:39slaughtered
50:4012
50:40million
50:41people
50:41for
50:42such a
50:42crime
50:43they
50:43might
50:43with
50:44every
50:44justice
50:44have
50:45been
50:45executed
50:45without
50:46trial
50:46or
50:47investigation.
50:49The
50:50French
50:50prosecutor
50:50said
50:51when
50:52messieurs
50:52the
50:52judges
50:53retire
50:53to
50:53consider
50:54their
50:54verdict
50:54they
50:55must
50:56in
50:56their
50:56silent
50:56deliberations
50:57hearken
50:58to
50:58the
50:58blood
50:59of
50:59the
50:59innocent
50:59crying
51:00for
51:01retribution.
51:03The
51:03Soviet
51:03prosecutor
51:04said
51:06I
51:07appeal
51:07to
51:07the
51:07court
51:08to
51:08pronounce
51:09on
51:09all
51:09the
51:09accused
51:10without
51:10exception
51:11the
51:11supreme
51:12penalty
51:13death.
51:15Such
51:16a
51:16verdict
51:16will
51:16be
51:16hailed
51:17with
51:17satisfaction
51:18by
51:18all
51:19progressive
51:19mankind.
51:24all
51:25the
51:25speeches
51:25have
51:25been
51:26made
51:26all
51:27the
51:27witnesses
51:27have
51:28been
51:28heard
51:28all
51:29the
51:29pros
51:30and
51:30cons
51:30have
51:30been
51:31argued
51:32the
51:33judges
51:33retire
51:34to
51:34consider
51:35their
51:35verdict.
51:43Ten
51:44months
51:45the
51:45international
51:45military
51:46tribunal
51:47set
51:47it
51:48carefully
51:48studied
51:49the
51:49countless
51:49evidence
51:50it
51:50attentively
51:51listened
51:51to
51:51the
51:52numerous
51:52witnesses
51:52it
51:53weighed
51:53the
51:54guilt
51:54of
51:54each
51:54of
51:54the
51:54accused
51:55in
51:55the
51:55scales
51:55of
51:56justice
51:56and
51:57after
51:57mature
51:58deliberation
51:59the
51:59judges
52:00pronounce
52:00their
52:00verdict.
52:25fascism
52:26fascism
52:26stands
52:26exposed
52:27and
52:27convicted
52:28the
52:28fascist
52:29aggressors
52:29are
52:29condemned
52:30as
52:30malignant
52:31foes
52:31of
52:31humanity
52:32peace
52:32and
52:33progress
52:33such
52:34is the
52:35verdict
52:35of
52:35history
52:36such
52:37is
52:37the
52:37fate
52:37that
52:37awaits
52:38all
52:38that
52:39take
52:39up
52:39the
52:39sword
52:40against
52:40the
52:40peace
52:40and
52:41tranquility
52:47of
52:48the
52:50court
52:50passed
52:50sentence
52:51of
52:51death
52:51by
52:51hanging
52:51on
52:52Goering
52:54Ribbentrop
52:56Keitel
52:57Rosenberg
52:59Kaltenbrunner
53:00Yodel
53:01Frank
53:03Frick
53:04Sauckel
53:05Streicher
53:07Seisingquart
53:08and
53:09in
53:09abstentio
53:10Bormann
53:10sentence
53:13of
53:13lifelong
53:13imprisonment
53:14on
53:14Hess
53:15Frunk
53:16and
53:17Räder
53:1820
53:19years
53:19imprisonment
53:20on
53:20Schirach
53:21and
53:21Speer
53:2215
53:23years
53:23imprisonment
53:24on
53:24Neurath
53:2510
53:26years
53:26imprisonment
53:27on
53:27Dönitz
53:27acquitted
53:29were
53:30Schacht
53:30Papen
53:32and
53:32Fritcher
53:33the
53:34SS
53:34SD
53:35and
53:35Gestapo
53:36were
53:36declared
53:37criminal
53:37organizations
53:38the
53:39Soviet
53:40member
53:40of
53:40the
53:40tribunal
53:41general
53:41Nikitschenko
53:42entered
53:43a dissenting
53:43opinion
53:44he
53:45requested
53:45it to
53:45be
53:45recorded
53:46in
53:46the
53:46protocol
53:46that
53:47he
53:47disagreed
53:48with
53:48a
53:48verdict
53:49passed
53:49on
53:49Schacht
53:50Papen
53:50and
53:50Fritcher
53:51they
53:51should
53:52be
53:52condemned
53:52not
53:53acquitted
53:53he
53:55disagreed
53:55with
53:55a
53:55sentence
53:56passed
53:56on
53:56Hess
53:56it
53:57should
53:57be
53:58death
53:58not
53:59life
53:59imprisonment
54:00General
54:01Nikitschenko
54:02also
54:02disagreed
54:02with
54:03the
54:03tribunal
54:03decision
54:03regarding
54:05the
54:05Reich's
54:05government
54:05the
54:06general
54:07staff
54:07and
54:08the
54:08high
54:08command
54:08they
54:09should
54:10be
54:10declared
54:10criminal
54:11organization
54:19this
54:20opinion
54:21of
54:21the
54:21Soviet
54:21representative
54:22was
54:23shared
54:23by
54:23progressive
54:24men
54:24and
54:24women
54:25the
54:25world
54:25over
54:27so
54:27ended
54:28the
54:28labors
54:28of
54:29the
54:29tribunal
54:29of
54:29the
54:29nations
54:30the
54:31tribunal
54:31of
54:31history
54:32the
54:33sword
54:33of
54:33justice
54:34descended
54:34on
54:34the
54:35heads
54:35of
54:35the
54:35warmongers
54:43on
54:44the
54:44night
54:44of
54:44october
54:45the
54:4515th
54:46to
54:4616th
54:461946
54:47in
54:47the
54:48prison
54:48of
54:48Nuremberg
54:49the
54:49sentence
54:50was
54:50carried
54:50into
54:51effect
54:58this
54:59act
54:59was
54:59drawn
54:59up
55:00by
55:00the
55:00representatives
55:00of
55:01the
55:01four
55:01power
55:01commission
55:02and
55:03the
55:03medical
55:03experts
55:03who
55:04witnessed
55:04the
55:05execution
55:05it
55:06was
55:06signed
55:06by
55:07the
55:07representatives
55:07of
55:08America
55:08the
55:09United
55:09Kingdom
55:09the
55:10USSR
55:10and
55:11France
55:21Justice
55:22has
55:23been
55:23done
55:24the
55:25sentence
55:25of
55:26the
55:26nations
55:26has
55:27been
55:27carried
55:27out
55:28the
55:29miscreants
55:29have
55:29been
55:30hanged
55:30now
55:31they
55:32are
55:32nothing
55:32but
55:32lifeless
55:33corpses
55:33Rippentrop
55:35Keitel
55:38Kaltenbrunner
55:41Jogel
55:44Frank
55:48Frick
55:51Rosenberg
55:54Belker
55:57Stryker
56:01Thysinkwaal
56:02Hermann Goering
56:05committed suicide
56:06by poisoning
56:07two hours
56:08before the
56:08execution
56:09the
56:10bodies
56:11of the
56:11executed
56:11men
56:12together
56:12with
56:13the
56:13body
56:13of
56:13Goering
56:14were
56:14cremated
56:15and
56:16their
56:16ashes
56:16secretly
56:17dispersed
56:17to the
56:18winds
56:20their
56:21ashes
56:21have
56:22been
56:22dispersed
56:23to the
56:24winds
56:26mankind
56:27may
56:28now
56:29breathe
56:29more
56:30freely
56:34let
56:35the
56:35Nuremberg
56:36trial
56:36be a
56:38stern
56:38warning
56:39to all
56:40warmongers
56:41let it
56:43serve the
56:43call
56:44of
56:45worldwide
56:45peace
56:46of an
56:48enduring
56:49and
56:49democratic
56:50peace
56:51good
56:53to all
56:54to all
56:54to all
56:58of
56:59each
57:00and
57:00to all
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