Judgment at Nuremberg Page #23

that here in our decision,

this is what we stand for:

Justice...

truth...

and the value of a single human being.

The marshal will produce

before the tribunal the defendant Hahn.

Emil Hahn...

the tribunal finds you guilty

and sentences you to life imprisonment.

Today you sentence me.

Tomorrow the Bolsheviks sentence you.

The marshal will produce the defendant

Hoffstetter before the tribunal.

Friedrich Hoffstetter...

the tribunal finds you guilty

and sentences you to life imprisonment.

The marshal will produce

the defendant Lammpe before the tribunal.

Werner Lammpe...

the tribunal finds you guilty...

and sentences you to life imprisonment.

The marshal will produce the defendant

Ernst Janning before the tribunal.

Ernst Janning...

the tribunal finds you guilty...

and sentences you to life imprisonment.

He doesn't understand.

He just doesn't understand.

He understands.

Justice Ives dissenting.

I wish to point out strongly...

my dissenting vote

from the decision of this tribunal...

as stated by Justice Haywood,

and in which Justice Norris concurred.

The issue of the actions of the defendants...

who believed they were acting

in the best interests of their country...

is an issue that cannot be decided

in a courtroom alone.

It can only be decided objectively...

in years to come,

in the true perspective of history.

Where shall I put these books, Your Honor?

Put them in the trunk.

Your Honor, here's something for you

to have on the plane.

No. If you give me any more food,

Mrs. Halbestadt...

I won't have any room for anything else.

But it's strudel, the way you like it.

Thank you for everything.

- I'll put it in the car for you.

- Thanks.

Tickets, passport, immunization.

All in order.

I'll have your baggage checks

and boarding pass at the airport.

- See you there no later than : .

- Right.

And give my regards

to Miss what-was-her-name?

Scheffler. Elsa.

- That's one you owe me.

- What do you mean?

Americans aren't very popular

in Nuremberg this morning.

- Good afternoon, Your Honor.

- Good afternoon.

I came here at the request

of my client, Ernst Janning.

He wishes to see you.

I'm just leaving for the airport.

He says it would mean a great deal to him.

Have you heard about the verdict

in the I.G. Farben case?

Most of them were acquitted.

The others received light sentences.

The verdict came in today.

No, I hadn't heard.

I will make you a wager.

I don't make wagers.

A gentleman's wager.

In five years...

the men you sentenced

to life imprisonment will be free.

Herr Rolfe, I have admired your work

in the courtroom for many months.

You are particularly brilliant

in your use of logic.

So what you suggest may very well happen.

It is logical,

in view of the times in which we live.

But to be logical is not to be right.

And nothing on God's earth

could ever make it right.

Someone to see you.

Herr Janning.

Judge Haywood.

Please, sit down.

Thank you. You wanted to see me?

Yes. There is something I want to give you.

A record.

A record of my cases.

The ones I remember.

I want to give them to someone I can trust...

someone I felt I got to know during the trial.

Thank you.

I'll take good care of them.

I know the pressures

that have been brought upon you.

You will be criticized greatly.

Your decision will not be a popular one.

But if it means anything to you...

you have the respect

of at least one of the men you convicted.

By all that is right in this world...

your verdict was a just one.

Thank you.

What you said in the courtroom,

it needed to be said.

Judge Haywood...

the reason I asked you to come...

Those people...

those millions of people...

I never knew it would come to that.

You must believe it.

Herr Janning...

it came to that the first time

you sentenced a man to death...

you knew to be innocent.

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