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'Nuremberg': Can You Diagnose Evil?
MEDPAGE TODAY ^ | November 11, 2025 | Arthur Caplan, PhD

Posted on 11/14/2025 2:02:32 PM PST by nickcarraway

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Let me guess: the test is if you ever voted for a Republican.
1 posted on 11/14/2025 2:02:32 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

You don’t need to diagnose it; the evil can’t help but brag about it.


2 posted on 11/14/2025 2:06:06 PM PST by T.B. Yoits
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Judgement at Nuremberg. A 1961 movie. It has Spencer Traci, an early role by William Shatner and the last movie role for Marlene Dietrich. Burt Lancaster has the best scene in the whole movie.


3 posted on 11/14/2025 2:19:08 PM PST by Nateman (Democrats did not strive for fraud friendly voting merely to continue honest elections.)
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To: nickcarraway

I am going to see it on Tuesday with a friend.


4 posted on 11/14/2025 2:20:20 PM PST by quilterdebbie (We will endeavor to persevere!)
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To: nickcarraway

Those involved in mutilating and grooming children deserve the same fate.


5 posted on 11/14/2025 2:21:59 PM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: nickcarraway

Racism. Immigrant bashing. White nationalism.

This writer is trying to draw parallels with liberal angst today and Nazi Germany?

Next thing you know, someone will say Trump is Hitler.


6 posted on 11/14/2025 2:24:59 PM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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“I was just following orders” was pointedly not allowed as a defense at Nuremburg.

Maybe, it should not be allowed, at least for high level government types. Ask yourself “how could all those atrocities in Germany occur” and then look at the craziness we’ve seen in America for so many decades now.

People in authority following orders, that’s why. Imagine.


7 posted on 11/14/2025 2:33:03 PM PST by Freedom4US
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To: nickcarraway

Bfl


8 posted on 11/14/2025 2:35:25 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (Democrats seek power through cheating and assassination. They are sociopaths. They just want power.)
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To: T.B. Yoits

True.


9 posted on 11/14/2025 2:36:17 PM PST by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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The movie is also important for the deeper questions it raises -- and doesn't raise -- about the legacy of the racist Nazi regime in the context of the reappearance of white supremacist ideology today.

Oh Gawd he went there. I have never met a white supremacist in my entire life.... where is this resurgence of white supremacist ideology?

10 posted on 11/14/2025 2:52:52 PM PST by Rummyfan (Ok In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support lthe civilized man.👨 so t tv)
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Judgement at Nuremburg was also a Playhouse 90 live TV production in 1959. Maximilian Schell and Werner Klemperer played the same roles in the TV production and the movie.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0675583/?ref_=tttrv_tr

Spencer Tracy did his final 11 minute speech in one take.

Burt Lancaster does not say a word until 2 hours and 15 minutes into the film.


11 posted on 11/14/2025 2:53:12 PM PST by DFG
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One of the key reasons Kelley wanted to examine Goring and other defendants was that he hoped to find a common psychiatric condition that would explain the monstrous evil these men had committed.

Not a worthwhile endeavor - some people are just evil. Surely anyone who has studied history knows that.

12 posted on 11/14/2025 2:54:46 PM PST by Rummyfan (Ok In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support lthe civilized man.👨 so t tv)
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Watched an interesting YouTube interview (18:51) with actors Rami Malik, Michael Shannon, Leo Woodall, Richard E. Grant, and Writer/Director James Vanderbilt. Here's the link if anyone is interested.

‘Nuremberg’ Cast Reveal Fascinating History Behind the Infamous Nazi Trials

13 posted on 11/14/2025 3:16:52 PM PST by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: Freedom4US

People in authority giving orders and the meek following them.

The Fuhrers of Covid used everything but the smokestacks.
No telling how far they would have gone had not Trump won.


14 posted on 11/14/2025 3:37:10 PM PST by Auslander154 ("Political correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred." Jacques Barzun)
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Re: "One of the most unusual and important court trials in history..."

"Unusual" is the best possible description.

25% of the Judges and Prosecutors were appointed by Joseph Stalin, who murdered at least as many people as Adolph Hitler.

How could Americans keep a straight face when Soviets showed up to prosecuted Nazis?

15 posted on 11/14/2025 3:43:43 PM PST by zeestephen (Trump Landslide? Kamala lost the election by 230,000 votes, in WI, MI, and PA.)
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To: Auslander154

The meek are 65% of the sheeple. The Milgram experiment confirmed it.


16 posted on 11/14/2025 4:05:08 PM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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To: nickcarraway

The NAZI Party started in a gay bar in Munich called, “Bratwurstgloeckl”, a homosexual innuendo meaning “house of the long sausage”. The men who met there were former German Officers and Enlisted men kicked out of the German Military for buggery. The gay men were “Germany First!”


17 posted on 11/14/2025 4:27:23 PM PST by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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When I read Roe v Wade and saw the “reasoning” I then and there diagnosed Evil . There was no law in that decision but arrogant dismissal of it aplenty.


18 posted on 11/14/2025 4:29:24 PM PST by TalBlack (Their god is government. Prepare for a religious war.https://freerepublic.com/perl/post?id=4322961%2)
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Welp, lessee...I am a halfbreed Mojave. Were I to be ‘ogf:, I could smile and call y’all feriners.
I don’t. I am an American, born and bred like you

As an American born. I am a Nativist. Born and bred go first, get first, never last. Everybody else that comes here will have to prove themselves, by trade or marketable skills and educated, higher than 6th grade, and investing in the proper way to become a citizen.
(Using those criteria I might be wrong but all those muzzies cannot satisfy the criteria.)

In my years, I have dealt with Eastern Europeans seeking political and religious asylum. I was never prouder than to have met and worked with them. They were the real deal. They got “over the wall”, made it to safe passage to America. They were scientists, so they had a few aces in their hands.

Enough. Good night.


19 posted on 11/14/2025 4:31:39 PM PST by Terry L Smith
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Arthur describes Nuremberg as the “most unusual and important court trial.” It was a trial where the second greatest mass murderer sat in judgment of the third greatest mass murderer. Mao being the first. Public trials were supposed to demonstrate to the world the rule of law. Is Art attempting satire? Art is concerned that “the horrors of World War II continue to fade from our collective memory.” How is this possible? How many films are produced each year to remind us. “Evil Ignored Is Evil Enabled” How many films have been made about Mao and Stalin? All people commit horrible crimes. American fighter pilots were ordered to fire on columns of fleeing women and children. Secretary of State Byrnes deplored the continued use of slave labor by the Allies. It would be hard to find comments by Nazis as vicious as those made by Israeli officials about Palestinians.


20 posted on 11/14/2025 5:07:49 PM PST by Vehmgericht (s)
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