Thread on film evidence at a gravely serious trial—

1 of 8/ On November 29, 1945, U.S. prosecutors at the #Nuremberg trial played a one-hour motion picture report on Nazi concentration camps. #Holocaust

2/ The prosecutors compiled this film from the work of Allied military photographers during liberations in spring 1945 of western areas in Nazi Germany in which these camps were located.

3/ All but one of the 21 Nuremberg defendants viewed with rapt attention. Three became visibly disturbed by gruesome scenes. A fourth refused to look at times.

4/ When the film concluded and the courtroom lights came up, U.S. chief prosecutor Robert H. Jackson saw three defendants in tears.

5/ Budd Schulberg, a soldier and film specialist on Jackson’s staff, saw one defendant wipe tears from his eyes, another look down into his lap and shake his head, and a third lean his forehead against the top of the dock.

6/ The International Military Tribunal’s presiding judge, Lord Geoffrey Lawrence of the U.K., saying nothing at all, adjourned the proceedings for the day.

7/ As the defendants were led from the dock, one remained sitting, doubled over with his face in his hands. When guards lifted him to his feet, his wet red eyes stood out from his white frightened face.

8/ More detail is in this post, from the #JacksonList archive. End/

https://thejacksonlist.com/?s=Nuremberg+film+candle+Chanukah