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Decision: The Conflicts of Harry S. Truman - Execution Without Trial, Episode No. 4

Administrative Information

Original Format(s)
Motion Picture
Footage
907 feet
Running Time
25 minutes
Film Gauge
16mm
Sound
sound
Color
Black & White
Produced by
Columbia Pictures - Ben Gradus in association with Screen Gems and David Noyes
Restrictions
Restricted
Description

Episode 4.  Execution Without Trial. This episode deals with the Nuremburg Trials. Unfortunately, the Decision series is copyright Sony Pictures Entertainment, and the Truman Library may not reproduce any episodes without their consent.

Date(s)
1964

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Moving Image Type
Motion Picture

Shot List

  • Reel 1
1:00   Harry S. Truman at desk speaks of Nazi's and S.S.
1:40   Hermann Goering - Adolf Hitler.
2:00   Introduction; credits.
2:40   Nazi rally; Hitler in parade; airplanes and bombing; combat scenes.
4:00   German children - Hitler Youths.
4:27   Truman speaks on punishing Nazi's; says Allies wanted execution.
4:53   Hitler; combat scenes -- Hitler Youth.
5:30   Franklin D. Roosevelt in car; war scenes; Roosevelt and Winston Churchill.
6:00   Corpses on battlefield; German prisoners.
6:20   Samuel Rosenman, Special Counsel to the President, speaks of President Roosevelt sending him on special mission to talk with Churchill on trying Nazi war criminals.
6:54   Truman walks out of Blair House.
7:05   Truman speaks on his briefing on plans for war trials.
7:31   World War I soldiers on horses; newspaper photo of Kaiser Wilhelm; voice-over of Truman speaking of Kaiser's escape to Holland after World War I; Germans tried their own criminals.
8:20   Hitler; book Mein Kampf; German scenes; book burning.
8:50   Truman standing by photo of League of Nations; Molotov is seated.
9:43   Truman at photo of Josef Stalin and says Stalin offered a toast at Potsdam to the execution of Nazi War Criminals.
9:58   Capitol Building in Washington.
10:03   Truman addressing Congress about punishing Nazi criminals.
10:25   Soldiers; GI's view Concentration Camps.
10:50   Nazi soldiers.
11:00   Truman speaks on trials; reason for wanting this.
11:37   Rosenman speaks of reaction to trial idea from Churchill and Allies; they wanted it treated as a political matter.
11:54   Truman (before picture of Napoleon) says didn't want what happened to Napoleon Bonaparte to happen to Hitler.
12:30   Surrender of Nazis; firing squads.
12:54   Truman speaks of Sam Rosenman and his assignments.
13:35   Germany; scenes of war, capture.
14:24   Bodies from Concentration Camps.
14:45   Dachau carnival interspersed with Concentration Camp scenes.
16:04   Heinrich Himmler walking through Concentration Camp.
16:07   Hitler with children, laughing.
16:30   Hermann Goering and family.
16:38   Truman speaks of determination to document what had happened; Roseman called him to tell him Anthony Eden still wanted execution without trial.
17:10   Anthony Eden walking.
17:25   Military courts in other countries trying smaller Nazi spies.
17:52   Truman speaks about lack of support for his plans for a trial.
18:03   New York Times says there is no need for a trial; other papers say likewise; newspaper and magazine stands shown.
18:30   Truman speaks of opposition by U.S. Military brass.
19:06   Soldiers walking; Truman voice-over asks who is a blame - soldiers or commander or heads of government; Hitler scenes.
19:37   Concentration Camp liberation.
19:40   Justice Robert Jackson speaks of his undertaking of the Nuremberg Trials.
20:00   Truman speak of Germans helping by their keeping of records.
20:16   Justice Robert H. Jackson speaks of his capability to prosecute war criminals.
20:36   Truman speaks of Jackson's opposition to types of war trials held after World War I and to what happened to Benito Mussolini.
20:46   Mussolini; death of.
21:18   Blowing up of Nazi emblem.
21:30   Sam Rosenman with others at desk; voice-over of Truman telling how England wanted immediate execution; Concentration Camp - aerial view.
22:01   Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, (Charles DeGaulle in background). Germans are marching through Concentration Camp; view atrocities, incinerators, tattooed skin, etc.
22:23   Truman speaks of Anthony Eden (standing before photo of him). Eden eventually was convinced to follow our way.
23.10   Justice Jackson emerging from plane in Europe.
23:19   Truman speaks of trials.
23:34   Photo of Jackson and others.
23:45   Building where Nuremberg trials were held.
23:53   Trials; Nazi war criminals, seated with earphones on; Herman Goering, Rudolf Hess, Wilhelm Frick, and Field Marshall Wilhelm Keitel can be seen.
24:45   Truman speaks of trials and their purpose.