GERMANY: WORLD WAR TWO PROSECUTIRS RETURN TO NUREMBERG ON 60TH ANNIVERSARY OF NAZI TRIALS
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GERMANY: WORLD WAR TWO PROSECUTIRS RETURN TO NUREMBERG ON 60TH ANNIVERSARY OF NAZI TRIALS
- Title: GERMANY: WORLD WAR TWO PROSECUTIRS RETURN TO NUREMBERG ON 60TH ANNIVERSARY OF NAZI TRIALS
- Date: 18th July 2005
- Summary: (BN14) NUREMBERG, GERMANY (JULY 18, 2005) (REUTERS) 1. SLV OF CONFERENCE ENTITLED "JUDGING NUREMBERG" IN PROGRESS 0.04 2. SV SPEAKER ADDRESSING AUDIENCE 0.11 3. PAN/SV OF AUDIENCE LISTENING/SPEAKER ADDRESSING AUDIENCE (3 SHOTS) 0.32 4. CU OF SIGN 'TOURO COLLEGE LAW CENTRE' 0.37 5. LV/SLVE OF SCREEN SHOWING BLACK AND WHITE FILE OF NUREMBERG TRIALS (3 SHOTS) 0.50 6. MCU AUDIENCE WATCHING 0.55 7. CU BOOKLET READING "JUDGING NUREMBERG" 1.00 8. MCU (English) PROFESSOR BENJAMIN FERENCZ, CHIEF PROSECUTOR AT NUREMBERG TRIALS SAYING: "When I was appointed chief prosecutor of the Einsatzgruppen Trial which were these extermination squads that had murdered over a million people in cold blood I was an old hand at this and I didn't get my memories from documents but from the sight and smells and observation of burning bodies and digging up bodies with my hands as part of the investigating during the war for the preparation of subsequent war-crimes trials." 1.35 9. CU DOCUMENT READING "TRIALS OF WAR CRIMINALS" 1.40 10. MCU (English) PROFESSOR BENJAMIN FERENCZ, CHIEF PROSECUTOR AT NUREMBERG TRIALS SAYING: "The trials played a very important part in the long range. In the short range, the German public at the time was totally disinterested in the trials. They were concerned with their own welfare, establishing their own lives. They'd been bombed out in Nuremberg for example almost completely and it was only in later years when the significance of the Nuremberg Trials began to sink in to the German political leaders -- and it sank in in various ways: first, it was (then German Chancellor Konrad) Adenauer recognising the obligation to make compensation to the survivors. Secondly, with the German support of an international criminal court." 2.21 11. CU BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOGRAPH OF TRIAL ON COVER OF BOOKLET 2.26 12. MCU (English) PROFESSOR BENJAMIN FERENCZ, CHIEF PROSECUTOR AT NUREMBERG TRIALS SAYING: "The conference, I think, has a significance because it has managed to bring together academics as well as a couple of prosecutors -- only two of us are here, Whitney Harris who is 92 years old and I am in my 86th year -- to tell the young German people in particular what it was really like and what we were trying to achieve and to thank them for their support, for a more orderly world. So, because these events are being forgotten, because these events were created by people who are no longer among the living it's important to keep the memory alive. Because we have not yet achieved the results of a more humane and peaceful world." 3.10 13. CU PAMPHLET 3.15 14. LV CONFERENCE PARTICIPANTS TOURING FORMER NAZI PARTY RALLY GROUNDS, NOW USED FOR SPORTING EVENTS 3.24 15. MCU AMERICAN TOUR GUIDE EXPLAINING THAT THE ONLY THING THAT WAS DESTROYED WAS THE GERMAN EAGLE SYMBOL AND THE SWASTIKA 3.29 16. SV GERMAN TOUR GUIDE TALKING 3.36 17. CLOSE-UP OF JUSTICE GABRIEL BACH (LIGHT BLUE SHIRT), ISRAELI PROSECUTOR IN TRIAL AGAINST ADOLF EICHMANN, NOW JUDGE OF THE ISRAELI ARMY COURT OF APPEALS 3.40 18. PAN GERMAN TOUR GUIDE TALKING, VISITORS LISTENING 3.50 19. LV OF GROUNDS 3.55 20. SLV MAN WALKING ALONG WALL APN TO GROUP OF PEOPLE 4.04 21. LV GROUP OF PEOPLE/ LONG STEPS (2 SHOTS) 4.16 NUREMBERG, GERMANY (FILE) 22. JUDGES ENTERING THE TRIAL 4.23 23. INTERIOR OF COURT 4.25 24. HERMAN GOERING, RUDOLPH HESS AND JOACHIM VAN RIBBENTROP 4.28 25. ADOLF HITLER IN MOTROCADE, NAZI FLAGS 4.34 BELSEN CONCENTRATION CAMP, GERMANY (FILE) 26. SURVIVORS; GAS CHAMBER (4 SHOTS) 4.49 27. AERIAL CAMP 5.00 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
- Embargoed: 2nd August 2005 13:00
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- Location: NUREMNERG, GERMANY AND BELSEN CONCENTRATION CAMP, GERMANY
- Country: Germany
- Reuters ID: LVA1WSRDMTW4CLO3FEIP4RHKA3CF
- Story Text: World War Two top prosecutors return to Nuremberg on
60th anniversary of Nazi trials.
A group of former prosecutors and Holocaust scholars
from the era has returned "to the scene of the world's
first war-crimes trials" in Nuremberg on Monday (July 18)
to mark the 60th anniversary of the trials and the 70th
anniversary of Hitler's racial hate laws.
The four-day conference, hosted by Long Island-based
Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center, "likely for
the last time,gathered the world's primary sources, top
legal minds and Holocaust scholars from the era," a written
statement by Touro College read.
Benjamin Ferencz, chief Prosecutor at Nuremberg trials,
told Reuters Television: "When I was appointed chief
rosecutor of the Einsatzgruptoldpen Trial which were these
extermination squads that had murdered over a million
people in cold blood. I was an old hand at this and I
didn't get my memories from documents but from the sight
and smells and observation of burning bodies and digging up
bodies with my hands as part of the investigating during
the war for the preparation of subsequent war-crimes
trials."
Ferencz was 27 years old at the time and Nuremberg was
his first trial.
"The German public at the time was totally
disinterested in the trials. They were concerned with their
own welfare, establishing their own lives."
Ferencz said "they'd been bombed out in Nuremberg for
example almost completely and it was only in later years
when the significance of the Nuremberg Trials began to sink
in to the German political leaders -- and it sank in in
various ways: first, it was (then German Chancellor Konrad)
Adenauer recognising the obligation to make compensation to
the survivors. Secondly, with the German support of an
international criminal court."
Twenty-two defendants were charged and convicted with
murdering over a million people.
"Many speakers served in Nuremberg," according to Touro
College, "legal pioneers who established for the first time
a world court that tried people for crimes against
humanity."
Asked about the conference's importance, Ferencz, of
New Rochelle, New York, said: "I think (it) has a
significance because it has managed to bring together
academics as well as a couple of prosecutors -- only two of
us are here, Whitney Harris who is 92 years old and I am in
my 86th year -- to tell the young German people in
particular what it was really like and what we were trying
to achieve and to thank them for their support, for a more
orderly world. Because these events are being forgotten,
because these events were created by people who are no
longer among the living it's important to keep the memory
alive."
In Ferencz' view, "we have not yet achieved the results
of a more humane and peaceful world."
The gathering in Germany is what Touro College calls
"the world's most in-depth examination of history's most
infamous racial hate laws and most famous war-crime
hearings in the most appropriate of settings - the actual
courtroom where the Nuremberg Trials were held, Courtroom
600."
Later on Monday, several of the conference participants
toured the former Nazi party rally ground, now used for
various sporting events.
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