English subtitles for clip: File:1946-10-08 21 Nazi Chiefs Guilty.ogv

(While translating, delete this text, parenthese, and the space before the following number) 1
00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,764
[21 Nazi Chiefs Guilty]

(While translating, delete this text, parenthese, and the space before the following number) 2
00:00:02,802 --> 00:00:04,492
[Voice: Ed Herlihy]

3
00:00:04,743 --> 00:00:06,730
At the Hall of Justice in Nuremberg,

4
00:00:06,764 --> 00:00:10,281
history's greatest trial
nears its fateful close.

5
00:00:10,422 --> 00:00:12,826
Under the most elaborate
security precautions,

6
00:00:12,857 --> 00:00:16,725
only official cars pass the heavily
guarded street barricade.

(While translating, delete this text, parenthese, and the space before the following number) 7
00:00:16,787 --> 00:00:19,219
[STOP
DETOUR]

8
00:00:20,276 --> 00:00:22,173
Flags of the victorious Allies,

9
00:00:22,201 --> 00:00:25,237
sitting in judgment
on the International Military Tribunal,

10
00:00:25,269 --> 00:00:27,272
fly over the court building.

11
00:00:30,780 --> 00:00:35,209
Supreme Court Justice Jackson,
chief United States prosecutor, arrives.

12
00:00:35,392 --> 00:00:39,211
Credentials of spectators and officials
alike are closely scrutinized,

13
00:00:39,267 --> 00:00:41,804
for it is amidst a grim
and military atmosphere

14
00:00:41,836 --> 00:00:44,864
that 21 Nazis are to hear their fate.

15
00:00:46,762 --> 00:00:49,420
Sir Hartley Shawcross, British prosecutor,

16
00:00:49,466 --> 00:00:52,797
enters as the final rounds
of the ten-months trial begin.

17
00:00:53,225 --> 00:00:56,916
The prisoners, headed by Goering
who shields his face, arrive under guard.

18
00:00:57,109 --> 00:01:01,134
The trial started with 24 defendants,
one committed suicide,

19
00:01:01,176 --> 00:01:04,854
another was excused for health,
and one is tried in absentia.

20
00:01:04,891 --> 00:01:09,523
There are 21 left in the dock
to face civilization's accusation.

21
00:01:09,610 --> 00:01:13,121
These then are the men
whose crimes against humanity

22
00:01:13,166 --> 00:01:16,584
brought about a trial
without parallel in legal annals.

23
00:01:16,733 --> 00:01:19,508
It is doomsday and the Day of Reckoning

24
00:01:19,550 --> 00:01:22,529
as the court rises for one
of the closing sessions.

25
00:01:22,725 --> 00:01:25,516
The world's finest legal talent
has been contributed

26
00:01:25,548 --> 00:01:29,216
to the tribunal of four nations,
which takes its place:

27
00:01:29,235 --> 00:01:32,731
Russian, French, and British
are the other nations participating.

28
00:01:38,247 --> 00:01:41,751
The Nazi hierarchy is there
to answer for ten years of plotting

29
00:01:41,779 --> 00:01:44,254
of the Ribbentrop, Keitel,
and Kaltenbrunner brand,

30
00:01:44,296 --> 00:01:46,752
for the Göring
and Hess fanatical cruelties,

31
00:01:46,792 --> 00:01:49,307
for the whole program
of pillage and murder.

32
00:01:49,738 --> 00:01:54,282
Now it is civilization's turn to read
their monstrous crimes into the record:

33
00:01:56,028 --> 00:01:59,289
Judge: Murder or ill-treatment
of prisoners of war

34
00:01:59,492 --> 00:02:01,240
or persons on the seas,

35
00:02:02,221 --> 00:02:03,896
killing of hostages,

36
00:02:04,180 --> 00:02:06,985
plunder of public or private property,

37
00:02:07,800 --> 00:02:11,523
wanton destruction of cities,
towns or villages,

38
00:02:12,055 --> 00:02:16,230
or devastation not justified
by military necessity,

39
00:02:17,280 --> 00:02:20,535
(c), crimes against humanity,

40
00:02:22,182 --> 00:02:29,289
namely: murder, extermination,
enslavement, deportation,

41
00:02:29,813 --> 00:02:34,388
and other inhumane acts,
committed against any civilian population,

42
00:02:34,437 --> 00:02:36,514
before or during the war.

43
00:02:36,775 --> 00:02:40,198
Ed Herlihy: For many weary months
a mountain of incredible proof

44
00:02:40,223 --> 00:02:42,283
has piled up against these men.

45
00:02:42,479 --> 00:02:45,503
Millions of words of evidence
have been heard by the judges.

46
00:02:45,526 --> 00:02:48,223
Thousands upon thousands of documents
have been examined

47
00:02:48,249 --> 00:02:51,304
by the finest legal minds
of the four nations.

48
00:02:58,767 --> 00:03:01,718
Defence counsel wait
with ill-concealed anxiety

49
00:03:01,780 --> 00:03:05,204
for the verdict in a trial
conducted with scrupulous fairness

50
00:03:05,215 --> 00:03:07,264
for the rights of the defendants.

51
00:03:07,306 --> 00:03:09,543
Literally tons of paper were removed

52
00:03:09,569 --> 00:03:12,328
after each long,
drawn-out session of court.

53
00:03:15,932 --> 00:03:18,214
For five savage and bloody years,

54
00:03:18,254 --> 00:03:21,217
humanity has waited
for this moment of retribution,

55
00:03:21,260 --> 00:03:23,735
when the insane ambitions
of men like these

56
00:03:23,769 --> 00:03:26,790
would come up against
the stone wall of world justice.

57
00:03:26,848 --> 00:03:30,801
Streicher, Funk, Schacht,
and their colleagues—eleven will hang,

58
00:03:30,846 --> 00:03:33,087
six will be jailed, three are acquitted.

59
00:03:33,121 --> 00:03:35,314
Sir Geoffrey Lawrence pronounces sentence:

60
00:03:35,464 --> 00:03:37,831
Lawrence: Defendant
Hermann Wilhelm Göring,

61
00:03:39,517 --> 00:03:43,766
on the counts of the indictment
on which you have been convicted,

62
00:03:44,724 --> 00:03:50,877
the International Military Tribunal
sentences you to death by hanging.

63
00:03:51,067 --> 00:03:53,541
Defendant Rudolf Hess,

64
00:03:54,266 --> 00:03:58,775
on the counts of the indictment
on which you have been convicted,

65
00:03:59,470 --> 00:04:03,785
the Tribunal sentences you
to imprisonment for life.

66
00:04:03,968 --> 00:04:07,264
Defendant Joachim von Ribbentrop,

67
00:04:08,252 --> 00:04:12,527
on the counts of the indictment
on which you have been convicted,

68
00:04:13,228 --> 00:04:15,218
the Tribunal sentence you…

69
00:04:15,263 --> 00:04:17,517
sentences you to death by hanging.

70
00:04:17,802 --> 00:04:20,806
Defendant Julius Streicher,

71
00:04:21,534 --> 00:04:25,789
on the count of the indictment
on which you have been convicted,

72
00:04:26,524 --> 00:04:29,806
the Tribunal sentences you
to death by hanging.

73
00:04:30,770 --> 00:04:33,494
EH: This is what awaits
Göring, Keitel, Rosenberg,

74
00:04:33,534 --> 00:04:35,723
and the other apostles of death and hate,

75
00:04:35,766 --> 00:04:38,851
the only conceivable end
for these merchants of aggression.

76
00:04:39,208 --> 00:04:41,737
And as they plunged the world
into a bloodbath,

77
00:04:41,778 --> 00:04:45,837
it is fitting that they take
their final plunge in ignominy!