#judgment at nuremberg

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Judgment at Nuremberg, Stanley Kramer

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Burt Lancaster, Judy Garland, and Stanley Kramer on the set of Judgment at Nuremberg, 1961, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences © Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc.

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Judgment at Nuremberg , Stanley Kramer , 1961.

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Films Watched in 2024: 74. Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) - Dir. Stanley Kramer

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Marlene Dietrich in "Judgment At Nuremberg" (1961)

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Not Long Ago

Like most people my age I learned about The Holocaust in grade school. I was then introduced to a variety of TV mini-series (Holocaust, Winds of War) and movies (Judgment at Nuremberg, Schindler’s List) over the years, that further brought the magnitude of this genocide to light. It was after I read The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, did another perspective present itself – the…

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From Judgment at Nuremberg (1961):

Colonel Tad Lawson: They share with all the leaders of the Third Reich responsibility for the most malignant, the most calculated, the most devastating crimes in the history of all mankind. And they are perhaps more guilty than some of the others, for they had attained maturity long before Hitler's rise to power. Their minds weren't warped at an early age by Nazi teachings. They embraced the ideologies of the Third Reich as educated adults, when they, most of all, should have valued justice!

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25 of 250: Favorite Films - Judgment at Nuremberg

Not long ago, work colleagues and I got into a discussion about what our favorite films were. Given my categorical nature I could not resist writing down a list and, as a writing challenge, have decided to write 250 word reviews of my favorite 25 films of all-time. Note: these are my favorite films, not what I think are the best films of all time.

Directed by: Stanley Kramer

Written by: Abby Mann

Starring: Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Marlene Dietrich, Maximilian Schell, Judy Garland, Montgomery Clift, William Shatner

Year/Country:  1961/United States

Trivia question: who is the lowest billed actor to win Best Actor at the Oscars? The answer is Swiss actor Maximilian Schell for Judgment at Nuremberg. Stanley Kramer’s tense Holocaust trial film is at once grandstanding and surprisingly nuanced. The credit for that belongs mostly to screenwriter Abby Mann and a lightning in a bottle performance by Schell.

The film is a fictionalized account of the Judges Trial (part of the post-WWII Nuremberg Trials). The trials for all the major Nazis are done and now it’s the regime’s lesser officials turn. Judge Haywood (Tracy) is the chief justice deciding the case. In the dock are four high profile German judges, including former Minister of Justice Janning (Lancaster). We witness various examinations and cross examinations and follow Judge Haywood as he genuinely attempts to understand what happened in Germany.

The miracle of this film is that the outcome of the trial is seriously in doubt. Mann’s screenplay understands the motives of many Germans weren’t cut and dry. It even questions the legitimacy of the trials at all; in the words of defense attorney Rolfe (Schell), “I could show you a picture of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Thousands and thousands of burned bodies. Women and children. Is that their superior morality?” It’s clear from Rolfe’s first cross-examination of a witness that this movie will be special. Schell is relentlessly logical. He picks apart each witness so thoroughly you believe the defense can win, and it’s easy to see why Schell won his Oscar.

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Burt Lancaster on the set of Judgment at Nuremberg, 1961, by Walter Silver via the NYPL digital collections.

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Richard Widmark, Spencer Tracy, Montgomery Clift and Burt Lancaster on the set of Judgment at Nuremberg, 1961.

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i think one of the reasons bh fans are so resistant to like, specifically cos, but also all this focus on the material fact of the military as war criminals is that saying "roy mustang is a nazi" (or hughes is a hazi, as they explicitly did with cos) implies, to their ears, "therefore you cannot like him" or "therefore you are a bad person for loving this character." and like. no one is saying that! literally not even cos is saying that! if the reason you have real trouble accepting the nazi parallel is because it will make you feel bad (or feel likle you should feel bad) about your favs, lean into that feeling! it's on purpose! 03 is saying hm perhaps the heroes we love interpersonally are sometimes cogs in a larger fascist machine that enables genocide and oppression on a mass scale. and it asks you to sit in that discomfort

there is no like, moral high or low ground about which characters you like (as long as you aren't an asshole about it lmao). there is only the metatextual aim to convey that evil is not something grand and special and uniquely designed to cause pain. it's people who are inflamed to action (or inaction) by violent patriotism. for love of country!