War Crimes Trials: France, Japan, Germany | 220516-19 | Footage Farm Ltd

[Post-WWII - War Crimes Trials: France, Japan, Germany]
Intertitle: Yesterday’s Big Story.
09:39:18 Exterior, Palace of Justice, Paris. MCU Guards / French police check man’s papers. Interior, Marshall Henri Pétain enters courtroom for treason trial re collaboration with Nazis. LS full courtroom.
Former Premier Paul Reynaud testifies. Pétain listening, CU. NOTE: Pétain found guilty, condemned to death then sent into exile.
09:39:52 Norway’s Quisling sweating, CU sentenced to death for betraying his country.
09:40:07 Ext. Japan’s former premier Hideki Tojo off bus past soldiers; Tojo & 25 other defendants in courtroom dock, tried for war crime atrocities, CU.
09:40:21 Soldier in Himmler’s bedroom w/ Himmler’s corpse. CU Bullet with which he committed suicide. MCU Heinrich Himmler dead.
09:40:33 Nuremberg trials: EXT building; INT courtroom. Rudolf Hess, Ribbentrop. Defendants pleading not guilty (German re not guilty, sound-SOF). Typing transcripts. Noose. Unid person being hanged.
09:41:28 The End.
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