Germany Nuremberg
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Saturday, 20 November 2010
STORY:Germany Nuremberg- REPLAY Preview of the 65th anniversary of the Nuremberg trials
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TYPE: German/Nat
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STORY NUMBER: 665780
DATELINE: Nuremberg/Ludwigsburg - 18 Nov 2010/FILE
LENGTH: 03:52
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Nuremberg - 18 November 2010
1. Various of new exhibition at Nuremberg "Memorium" opening on Sunday, 21 November
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Nuremberg - 18 November 2010
2. Wide exterior of the Palace of Justice where the Nuremberg war crimes trial was held
3. Mid exterior of windows of "Room 600," where the trial was held
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FILE: Nuremberg - 1945
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4. Various black and white footage of the trial
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Nuremberg - 18 November 2010
5. Historian Henrike Zentgraf entering "Room 600"
6. Pan of courtroom where trial was held
7. Various of the oak-panelled Courtroom 600
8. SOUNDBITE (German) Henrike Zentgraf, historian:
"The main Nuremberg trial at the international military court was highly attended and observed by the entire world. The trials laid the ground for today's legal system, for the international law and today's work at the International Criminal Court in the Hague."
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Nuremberg - 18 November 2010
9. Aerial of the Palace of Justice
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Nuremberg - 18 November 2010
10. SOUNDBITE (German) Henrike Zentgraf, historian:
"For the first time at the Nuremberg trials, the leaders had to take individual responsibility for their actions. This was a novelty."
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FILE: Nuremberg - 1946
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11. Various black and white footage from the trial, UPSOUND: (German) Announcement of some verdicts, including the sentencing of Hermann Goering, Hitler's air force chief and right-hand man
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Ludwigsburg - 18 November 2010
12. Set up shot of Kurt Schrimm, head of Germany's special prosecutor's office which pursued Nazi war criminals
13. Close of map of Europe
14. SOUNDBITE (German) Kurt Schrimm, head of Germany's special prosecutor's office which pursued Nazi war criminals:
"Our work will come to an end soon because of biological reasons. The suspects we are looking for today are more then 80 years old. That doesn't mean that we should stop tracing Nazi criminals. Our experience has shown that people who are 80 or 90 years old are able to face trial. That's why I think we should continue our work, knowing that we have only a limited amount of time left."
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FILE: Nuremberg - 1946
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15. Various black and white footage of the trials, with chief prosecutors of the Allied Forces meeting before the verdict of the main Nuremberg trial was announced
STORYLINE
A new exhibit is opening on Sunday to mark the 65th anniversary of the Nuremberg war crimes trial - the landmark process that brought top Nazis to justice and established precedents that now underpin international law.
The anniversary of the trials will be marked at the Palace of Justice in the German city of Nuremberg, where the trial was held.
Officials and leaders of the Allied nations will attend the celebrations, including Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and former French Foreign Minister Roland Dumas.
The new exhibit allows visitors to view original video and hear audio recordings from the trial, and peer inside the courtroom where men like Hermann Goering, Rudolf Hess and Julius Streicher defended their crimes.
It also takes visitors through the prosecutions of Nazis that followed the Nuremberg trial, then on to modern examples born out of the Nuremberg principles, such as the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal that began trials in 1993, and today's International Criminal Court in The Hague.
"The trials laid the ground for today's legal system, for the international law," said historian Henrike Zentgraf.
In more than 218 trial days, the 21 high-ranking Nazis in the dock faced a panel of judges that represented the victorious Allies - the United States, the Soviet Union, Britain and France.
As well as punishing the surviving leading figures of the Nazi regime and ensuring the world knew of their crimes, the trial also served to ensure that the horrors of the Nazi era could not be swept under the rug at home.
"For the first time at the Nuremberg trials the leaders had to take individual responsibility for their actions. This was a novelty," Zentgraf said.
The trials also established new offences including crimes against peace, waging a war of aggression, war crimes, and crimes against humanity.
On October 1, 1946, Goering, Hitler's air force chief and right-hand man, was sentenced to death along with 11 others, including Martin Bormann, Hitler's vanished deputy, who was tried in absentia. Seven others were given long prison sentences and three were acquitted.
Fifteen days later, the condemned men were hanged in the courthouse's adjacent prison. Goering committed suicide by swallowing poison in his cell the night before.
As the Nazi leaders who were the decision makers are now dead, the prosecutors in Ludwigsburg are concentrating on those who followed their orders. They only have a limited time to fulfil their mission, but chief prosecutor Kurt Schrimm is optimistic.
"Our work will come to an end soon because of biological reasons," he said.
"That doesn't mean that we should stop tracing Nazi criminals. Our experience has shown that people who are 80 or 90 years old are able to face trial. That's why I think we should continue our work, knowing that we have only a limited amount of time left."
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