Night Will Fall Page #6

yes, and I said,

"Yes, of course."

I found it was... was like

a theater performance to me.

I said, "There are

people sitting there

"defending these people?

"Are the crazy?

You see the crime,

you see the crime."

Later, in November,

the International Military

Tribunal, or IMT,

began in Nuremberg.

Here, too, film footage was

part of the evidence.

It certainly bolstered

the prosecution.

At the IMT, I think there's

no question that people

paid attention to the films,

and it... it informed people

in the courtroom

and confronted the defendants

with a mass

of demonstrable evidence

of their activities

over many years.

We are now ready to

hear the presentation

by the prosecution.

This was the tragic

fulfillment of a program

of intolerance and arrogance.

Vengeance is not our goal,

nor do we seek merely

a just retribution.

We ask this court to affirm by

international penal action

man's right to live

in peace and dignity,

regardless of his race or creed.

I was

appointed a chief prosecutor

in what was surely the biggest

murder trial in human history,

and it was my first case,

and I was 27 years old.

...will show that

the slaughter committed

by these defendants was dictated

not by military necessity

but by that supreme...

Even though

Bernstein's 1945 film

had been quietly dropped,

this was not

the end of its story.

70 years later,

an Imperial War Museum team

completed the film using

the original shot sheets,

script, and rushes

to meticulously reconstruct

Bernstein and Hitchcock's

intended final section.

We knew that it was

a powerful piece of cinema

and also had been made by some

of the best film technicians

and writers of the era.

What we wanted to do

was ultimately produce

and complete the work

of these original filmmakers.

This was the end of the journey

they had so confidently

begun in 1933.

12 years? No.

In terms of barbarity

and brutality,

they had traveled backwards

for 12,000 years.

Unless the world learns

the lesson these pictures teach,

night will fall...

but by God's grace,

we who live will learn.

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