TWENTIETH CENTURY, THE: TRIAL AT NUREMBERG (TV)
Summary
One in this documentary series hosted by Walter Cronkite, which examines outstanding events and personalities of the twentieth century. This program looks at the 1945-46 trials of Nazi leaders held in Nuremberg, Germany. Film clips show documents used as evidence, the defendants, including Hermann Goerring, Rudolph Hess, Joachim Von Ribbentrop, Albert Speer, Alfred Rosenberg, and Ernst Kaltenbrunner pleading not guilty, and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson questioning a defendant. Also included is footage of Nazi atrocities, questioning of Goerring, verdicts, and sentencing. Commercials deleted.
Cataloging of this program was made possible by Michael Finkelstein and Sue-ann Friedman, 1996.
Preservation of the Post–World War II American Television Documentary Collection is supported in part by a Federal Save America’s Treasures grant administered by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Details
- NETWORK: CBS
- DATE: March 2, 1958 6:30 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 0:23:10
- COLOR/B&W: B&W
- CATALOG ID: T78:0559
- GENRE: Public affairs/Documentaries
- SUBJECT HEADING: Germany - Officials - Talk/Interviews; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Prisoners of war (World War II); Nuremberg Trial of Major German War Criminals; U S - Officials - Talk/Interviews; World War II
- SERIES RUN: CBS - TV series, 1957-1966
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Burton Benjamin … Producer
- Isaac Kleinerman … Associate Producer
- Andy Logan … Writer
- Walter Cronkite … Narrator
- Rudolph Hess
- Robert H. Jackson
- Joachim Von Ribbentrop
- Albert Speer
- Alfred Rosenberg
- Hermann Goerring
- Ernst Kaltenbrunner