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Judgment at Nuremberg
1961 · Film · 191 min
Directed by Stanley Kramer
In 1947, four German judges who served on the bench during the Nazi regime face a military tribunal to answer charges of crimes against humanity. Chief Justice Haywood hears evidence and testimony not only from lead defendant Ernst Janning and his defense attorney Hans Rolfe, but also from the widow of a Nazi general, an idealistic U.S. Army captain and reluctant witness Irene Wallner.
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>I recommend you watch Judgment at Nuremberg - the 1961 film
You're judging historical events of Nazi Germany based on Hollywood movies written, directed and produced by jews[1], and taking them as unbiased ground truth? That would be like the judge to your trial being the same as the plaintiffs. How about maybe listening to unbiased sources that didn't have the same skin in the game?
The Nuremberg trials prosecutors actively denied, hid, and even manipulated and destroyed evidence that was going to work in favor for the plaintiffs, just to ensure they get the rope.[2]
Just use your brain for 3 seconds, there's no way a trial run, controlled and funded by the victors was going to be allowed to work against the victors and make them look bad on the international stage. It was a sham trail through and through, with 100% of the effort going on adding a layer of legitimacy to it while aiming for the same outcome.
It's the same as when you hear corrupt police departments or government institutions today say "we investigated ourselves and found nothing wrong".
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judgment_at_Nuremberg
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaeGkvy_P5c
> The war crime laws were invented as a legal theater for victorious powers to persecute the losers after WW2 with a veneer of legality, for imperialist superpowers to bully the small third countries who refuse to play ball, not for something superpowers to actually abide by themselves
I recommend you watch Judgment at Nuremberg - the 1961 film, not the 2025 one (I've seen both.) the Nuremberg Trials were very much to punish the architects and perpetrators of the Holocaust for their atrocities. you can choose to be cynical, but consider: which "losers" were "persecuted?"
- the Doctors' Trial sentenced the doctors who murdered thousands of disabled Germany's own citizens in the Aktion T4 program.
- the Judges' Trial sentenced the Judges who enforced the Aryan racial purity laws, ordered the castration of "mental defectives" and sent falsely-accused Jews to their deaths.
- the Pohl Trial which sentenced the SS officers who ran the concentration camps and death camps.
sure, the US doesn't have perfectly clean hands, and the victor usually won't prosecute its own the way they prosecute the enemy, but I strongly disagree that the Hague was just an attempt to "persecute the losers." they were prosecuted, not persecuted, and they weren't prosecuted for "losing," they were prosecuted for their atrocities.
just because the Hague is unfair (some men never faced justice, since they were on "our" side) doesn't mean it was unjust (those who were convicted deserved it.)
That trick has been used in movies before that too. "Judgment at Nuremberg" does something similar. A character is speaking German, slow zoom, then a switch to English.
The movie "Judgment at Nuremberg" (1961) is the classic summary. It's a docu-drama, but reasonably accurate. All the big stars of the day, from Spencer Tracy to Judy Garland. William Shatner has a minor role.