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"What was your opinion of the movie?"

I thought they could have found someone other than Russell Crowe to play Goering. His character was way too fat. Goering had slimmed down quite a bit by that time.

I couldn't understand why they bothered to introduce a female journalist into the mix. She was a fictional character inserted into the movie. She shows up in the early part of the film, meets Dr. Kelley on the train, and they run into each other during the trials, but there was no other relationship between the two of them in the film. Her name is Lila McQuaide, and I'd only recently seen her in the MGM+ TV series "Robin Hood." She plays the daughter of the Sheriff of Nottingham portrayed by Sean Bean. She's quite the hussy in the TV series...naked in sex scenes. The only thing I can think of for her having a small part in Nuremberg was that she was somebody's girlfriend, and was given the part for that reason, or it was part of her contract to have a certain number of roles.

I'd read the book "The Nazi and the Psychiatrist" several years ago. Bought it on Amazon and gave it to my son. I remembered that one of the psychiatrists who was at Nuremberg, eventually committed suicide, but wasn't sure if it was Kelley, but in the end, the movie reported that he had killed himself with a cyanide capsule like Goering.

I also wondered, if in real life, was Dr. Kelley as naive as the movie made him appear, about the atrocities committed by the Nazis. In the movie, it wasn't until the film on the concentration camps was shown during the trial, that Kelley reacts like it's the first time he's realized what the Nazis had been up to all those years. Kelley had been the Director of The San Francisco City and County Psychopathic Hospital prior to joining the army, so it's not as if he hadn't encountered evil before in patients.

I haven't been able to confirm or deny whether Dr. Kelley ever visited Emma Goering, and carried letters back and forth between husband and wife as portrayed in the movie. Since I don't have the book in front of me, I could only do internet searches, and couldn't trust if the search results were based on what occurred in the movie, or in real life, despite the wording of my searches.