Nuremberg
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- 1948
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(DRAMATIC MUSIC)
[NARRATOR] It was 1945.
The war was over.
Slowly, painfully,
life came back to
the ruins of Europe.
(VIOLIN MUSIC)
The war was over, but
there was no peace.
Despair crouched
over the continent.
Hopelessness circled
Europe like a bird of prey.
Why?
What were the forces?
What were the issues in
a war that turned nations
populations into beggars.
The people wanted the answers.
They wanted to know
what happened and why.
In the Palace of
Justice in Nuremberg,
the people of the
world came together,
for there sat the
international military tribunal
to judge the chief
Nazi war criminals.
(DRAMATIC MUSIC)
Justice Robert H. Jackson,
makes the opening statement
for the prosecution.
[JUSTICE JACKSON] The
privilege of opening
[NARRATOR] The privilege
the peace of the world
imposes a grave responsibility.
The wrongs, which we seek
to condemn and punish
have been so calculated, so
malignant and so devastating
that civilization cannot
because it cannot survive
their being repeated.
That four great nations,
flushed with victory
and stung with injury,
stay the hand of vengeance
and voluntarily submit
their captive enemies
to the judgment of the law is
one of the most significant
tributes that power has
ever paid to reason.
This inquest represents
the practical effort
of four of the most mighty
of nations with the support
of 15 more to utilize
international law to meet
our times, aggressive war.
demands that law shall not stop
with the punishment of petty
crimes by little people.
It must also reach men who possess
themselves of great power
and who make deliberate
and concerted use of it
to set in motion evils,
which leave no home
in the world untouched.
In the prisoner's dock
sit 20 odd broken men,
reproached by the humiliation
of those they have led,
almost as bitterly
as by the desolation
of those they have attacked.
Their personal capacity
for evil is forever past.
Merely as individuals,
their fate
is of little consequence
to the world.
What makes this inquest significant
is that these prisoners
represent sinister influences
that will lurk in the world
have returned to dust.
the arrogance and cruelty
of power, of racial hatreds,
of terrorism and violence.
They are symbols of
fierce nationalisms,
and of militarism, of intrigue
and war-making, which
have embroiled Europe
generation after generation,
crushing its manhood,
destroying its homes and
impoverishing its lives.
They have so
identified themselves
with the philosophies
they conceived
and with the forces they
directed that any tenderness
to them is a victory and an
encouragement to all the evils
which are attached
to their names.
What these men stand
for we will patiently
and temperately disclose.
We will give you undeniable
proof of incredible events.
The catalog of crimes
will omit nothing.
It may be that these men
of troubled conscience
do not regard a
trial as a favor,
but they do have a fair
opportunity to defend themselves,
rarely extended
We will not ask you
on the testimony of their foes.
There is no count
of the indictment
that cannot be proved
by books and records.
And we will show you the
defendants' own films.
You will see their own conduct
and hear their own voices,
as they re-enact for
you, from the screen,
some of the events in the
course of the conspiracy.
The acts of the defendants
have bathed the world in blood.
And set civilization
back a century.
They have subjected
their European neighbors
to every spoliation
and depravation.
They have brought
the German people
to the lowest ebb
of wretchedness.
They have stirred
hatreds and incited
domestic violence
on every continent.
These are the things
that stand in the dock,
shoulder to shoulder
with these prisoners.
The real complaining party
at your bar is civilization.
[NARRATOR] The United
States of America
present count one
of the indictment;
that all the defendants
participated as organizers
or accomplices in a
common plan or conspiracy
peace, war crimes
[MAN] The aims of this conspiracy
were open and notorious.
[NARRATOR] The aims
of this conspiracy
were open and notorious.
It was far different
from any other conspiracy
ever unfolded before
a court of justice.
(DRAMATIC MUSIC)
(SPEAKING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
[NARRATOR] Its history is
the history of the Nazi party,
which grew from the brawling
streets of Munich in the 20s.
(DRAMATIC MUSIC)
And from the beginning, Adolf
Hitler and his followers
were committed to
the use of any means,
whether or not they
were legal or honorable.
Their aim was the
highest degree of control
over the German community.
Their intentions were
blatantly put forth
in Mein Kampf and
the party program.
(MARCHING BAND MUSIC)
And they preached
their favorite doctrine
up and down the land.
They said that persons of
a so-called German blood
were a master race
entitled to subjugate
or even exterminate other races.
They said that the
German should be ruled
under the Fuhrer Principle
or leadership principle
by which each sub-leader
owed unconditional obedience
to his superior and so on
right up to Adolf Hitler.
They said that war was a noble
and necessary
activity of Germans.
And they said that
the Nazi Party alone
had the right to rule
Germany and the right
to destroy the party's enemies.
(DRAMATIC MUSIC)
Their rise to power
was based on fraud,
deceit, intimidation
and coercion,
culminating finally
in terror and flame.
Into that flame went the
Democratic constitution
of the Weimar Republic and the
freedom of the German people.
For the fire set by the Nazis
extended to the very Reichstag.
Hans Gisevius, a witness who
formerly held a high position
in the Berlin Police
Administration,
tells of his investigation
of the Reichstag fire.
(SPEAKING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE)
[NARRATOR] To speak briefly
and to state the facts.
First of all, we ascertain
that quite generally,
Hitler had stated the wish
for a large scale
propaganda campaign.
Goebbels took on the job of
making the necessary proposals
and it was Goebbels
who first thought
of setting the
Reichstag on fire.
A group of 10 reliable
S.A. men was made ready
and now Goering was informed
about every detail of the plan.
It was expected from Goering
and he gave his assurances
that he would do so, that the
police would be instructed,
shock, to take up a false trail.
[NARRATOR] Using
the Reichstag fire
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