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Posted on 11/06/2025 6:34:43 PM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
The Nuremberg trials have inspired filmmakers before…
But for the latest take, “Nuremberg,” writer-director James Vanderbilt focuses on a lesser-known figure: The U.S. Army psychiatrist Douglas Kelley, who after the war was assigned to supervise and evaluate captured Nazi leaders to ensure they were fit for trial (and also keep them alive). But his is a name that had been largely forgotten: He wasn’t even a character in the miniseries.
Kelley, portrayed in the film by Rami Malek, was an ambitious sort who saw in this assignment an opportunity to write a book (bestselling, he hoped) on his findings about the men who committed such atrocities. Over several months he conducted many hours interviews and Rorschach tests with the inmates, including fallen Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering (Russell Crowe), who proved an especially fascinating subject as the highest ranking official still living.
The film, in theaters Friday, centers on a series of conversations between Kelley and Goering, who develop something almost like a friendship — or at least a temporary understanding. It’s interesting…but it can’t quite synthesize its classical form with the bleak, sobering truths at its core.
Crowe, who speaks both German and English in the film, is well suited to playing this charismatic, larger-than-life egoist who believes he can outwit those around him.
Malek, wild-eyed as ever, portrays Kelley as an overconfident opportunist who is more than willing to cross lines to gain Goering’s trust. Are we rooting for him, though? Not exactly.
What does it say about a nearly two-and-a-half hour drama when the 80-year-old footage from inside Nazi concentration camps that was shown inside the real courtroom is the most compelling and memorable sequence? Perhaps in these days of Holocaust denial, it’s never a bad idea to remind people of the truth…
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The Nuremberg movie was better (despite Alec Baldwin being in it), but the guy who played Goering was great in it.
Maximillian Schell was the best.
Crowe as Goering. He’s grown into that role.
He had two, but they were small.
ah yes.....the classics
Apparently, Himmler had something similar.
And Goebbels had none at all.
Going NUTS is an occupational hazard among shrinks but he really took it a long way with that final stunt.
Since the Nazis were actually the good guys, according to Tucker Carlson’s favorite “historian” Darryl Cooper, his new best friend Nick Fuentes, and Candace Owens, shouldn’t this portray Goering and others as the heroes?
Any caricatures of conservatives and Donald Trump shoehorned into the movie?
Who cares what podcasters & “influencers” think? We have bigger fish to fry, ffs.
The US jailers exhibited gross incompetency at Nuremberg. Hermann Goering richly deserved a date with the gallows. But he was able to choose his own way out, thanks to either the incompetency or the assistance the of his jailers (take your pick).
For that reason alone, I get upset whenever I watch a Nuremberg Trials movie.
(And yes, I know I’m probably overreacting.)
What pisses me off is that Speer was spared. He was just as bad as the rest of them.
Agree with you, but in case you haven't noticed this Fuentes/Carlson thing was ripping the GOP apart right when we needed to GOTV for Tuesday. GOP candidates also way underperformed with young men vs. 2024, which may have a lot to do with this hubbub.
“shouldn’t this portray Goering and others as the heroes?”
Maybe with Jews as the judges?
As I’m sure you know, Speer was a very clever guy. He admitted just enough at Nuremberg to appear sincere, but not enough to get the death penalty.
At least he was forced to serve his entire 20 year sentence.
It really amazes me (and not in a good way) how many of Nazi criminals were released early for “ill health”. Then they went on to live many more years.
Disgraceful.
Our problem with the young men, according to Newt, is that we are not addressing things like the cost of housing, rent, and finding work. Newt can be weird at times, but he may be on to something. If we want their vote, we need to EARN their vote.
Not sure what the answer is. The high cost of housing is partially local rules and red tape and we cannot do much about that. Although if I was a young man, I’d be looking at trying to get a job as a plumber or AC repair.
Exactly.
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