Liveblogging World War II: December 17, 1945: Nazi Nuremberg Major War Crimes Trial
War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, December 17, 1945. Franz von Papen chews on K ration cracker. Arthur Seyss-Inquart studies chart. Baldur von Schirach and Fritz Sauckel talking. Rudolf Hess and Hermann Goering speaking to defense lawyer. Alfred Jodl and von Papen speaking. Wilhelm Keitel and Alfred Rosenberg, Wilhelm Frick and Seyss-Inquart speaking during recess. Robert G. Storey, US prosecution, presenting evidence. Defense counselor addressing Tribunal.
Prisoners in dock. Some of the defendants standing up during recess. Wilhelm Frick, Julius Streicher, and Walther Funk standing in dock. Chief Prosecutor Robert H. Jackson addressing court. Russian prosecution addressing court. Funk, Streicher, Constantin Neurath, Schirach, and Sauckel. Thomas J. Dodd, prosecution counsel, presenting evidence. Joachim von Ribbentrop, Keitel, and Ernst Kaltenbrunner in dock. Funk dozing in courtroom. Tribunal during session. Major Walsh, prosecution, during his address. Courtroom as defendants and counselors stand; judges move past in FG and take their places on the bench. Goering and Hess chewing gum in dock. court in session. Charts presented as evidence.
