Goering testifies at Nuremberg Trial
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Goering testifies at Nuremberg Trial
Goering testifies at Nuremberg Trial
1946 March 13
(Munich 47) War Crimes Trials, Nuremberg, Germany, March 13, 1946. Defendants, defense counselors, and Chief Prosecutor Robert H. Jackson listening to Goering testifying. Goering testifies that he supervised all concentration camps until 1934. Pan from Goering talking to defendants listening intently. LS, interpreters' box with several people speaking into microphones as Goering testifies. Goering talks about very harsh policing measures taken at the time, especially charges that prisoners were beaten and mistreated. The case of Ernst Thaelmann comes up, who complained to Goering personally to have been beaten in interrogations.