Judgement at Nuremberg
Witness History
BBC
4.5 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 2 November 2021
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
It's 75 years since verdicts were delivered on leading German Nazis at the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg for their instrumental role in the Second World War and the killing of millions of Jews. The trial, which lasted almost a year, made history and the principles of international criminal law first established there are still fundamental to international justice today. Robby Dundas is the daughter of the British judge at the trial, Sir Geoffrey Lawrence. She was in court, watching the proceedings and talks to Caroline Bayley about her memories of the trial.
(Photo: View of the judges bench in Nuremberg International Military Tribunal (IMT) court in September 1946. Credit AFP/Getty Images)
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| 0:30.9 | your list You're listening to the BBC World Service and now witness history with me Caroline Bailey. |
| 0:42.0 | In October 1946, 19 members of Germany's leadership, responsible for the Second World War |
| 0:49.2 | and the killing of millions of Jews from across Europe were convicted at the first of the Nuremberg trials in Germany. |
| 0:57.0 | They were found guilty of crimes against humanity, war crimes and waging illegal war. |
| 1:02.0 | In accordance with Article 27 of the Charter, |
| 1:07.0 | the International Military Bureau |
| 1:11.0 | will now pronounce the sentences on the defendants convicted on this indictment. |
| 1:18.1 | This is the British judge Sir Geoffrey Lawrence in courtroom 600 of Nuremberg's Palace of Justice. |
| 1:24.0 | Each of the four countries which had defeated Germany, |
| 1:27.5 | Britain, France, the United States and the Soviet Union |
| 1:31.0 | sent judges and legal teams to try the defendants in a joint trial. |
| 1:36.4 | Sir Jeffrey Lawrence was president of the tribunal. |
| 1:40.3 | Defendant Hermann Wilhelm Goering, on the counts of the indictment on which you have been |
| 1:47.2 | convicted, the International Military Tribunal sentences you to death by hanging. |
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