War Crimes Trials: I.G. Farben Case

(Munich 617) War Crimes Trials - Subsequent Trial Proceedings, Case 6 (I.G. Farben Case), Nuremberg, Germany. Shots of defendants pleading "not guilty" to the indictment. The defendants rise and plead to charges in the following order: Carl Krauch, Hermann Schmidt, Georg von Schnitzler, Fritz Gajewski, Heinrich Hoerlein, August von Knierien, Fritz ter Meer, Ernst Buergin, Paul Haefliger, Max Ilgner, Friedrich Jaehne, Hans Kuehne, Walter Duerrfeld, Heinrich Gottineau. The other defendants standing trial but not answering to pleas are visible in the prisoners' dock: Christian Schneider, Otto Ambros, Max Brueggmann, Heinrich Oster, Karl Wurster, Erich von der Hyde, and Hans Kugler. (Several shots showing the defendants pleading are out of focus.) Judge James Morris speaks after the defendants plead and issues instructions for the next few days of the trial.