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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WWII is also part of modern America’s “foundational narrative,” especially for Baby Boomers. It’s one of those things that our already divided country could only drop at our own peril.
The problem is now to the Left, they frame their enemies as being literally “Hitler”.
Someone said when Fascism comes to America, it will be under the guise of “Anti-Fascism”.
You smell funny/bad newbie.
As a rule, contrary minded, revisionist thinking on major points of history usually leads to bad conclusions. Cooper is flat wrong in his claim that that Nazi Germany was “completely unprepared” to handle millions of prisoners of war and political prisoners after invading the Soviet Union in 1941, which then resulted in millions of deaths. No, the Nazi policy of extermination was deliberate and preplanned at the highest levels. The evidence to that effect is so overwhelming as to be not subject to reasonable dispute.
There was a general amnesty by the Bonn government around 1954 I think and a lot of mid and low level Nazis and SS thugs got off scot free.
And, strangely a lot of high and mid level Wehrmacht officers and generals died between 1951 , ‘54 and ‘55.
The 1961 movie ‘Judgement at Nuremberg’ is worth watching. I originally was interested because it had Marlene Dietrich in it. Burt Lancaster made the movie worth watching all by himself.
“Perhaps in these days of Holocaust denial, it’s never a bad idea to remind people of the truth…” Yet another WWII movie. Any movies about the gulag? “Revisionist thinking on major points of history usually leads to bad conclusions.” Pardon my revisionism. It is amazing how much distortion is recorded about WWII. “Ilsa Koch had lampshades made out of human skin.” The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Yad Vashem museum in Jerusalem refused to accept a lampshade because it was a myth. However, this is still occasionally reported in history books. It is rare to find references to the shrunken head used by Justice Jackson. “WWII is part of modern America’s ‘foundational narrative’.” Criticize it at your own risk. WWII was fought to keep Poland free. Our glorious Soviet allies sat in judgement with us. Germany was accused of wanting to conquer the world by an empire upon which the sun never set and an ideology with similar aims. Germanic peoples must be punished for their sins. This includes those Anglo, Saxons and Jutes.
“(And yes, I know I’m probably overreacting.)”
Take heart. Thanks to the incompetence of the hangman, the other condemned got long, drawn out hangings.
“What pisses me off is that Speer was spared. He was just as bad as the rest of them.”
Yes. He lied about everything. Sauckel took the rap for him.
Can anything improve on “Judgement at Nuremburg”?
It’s probably not a bad movie, but it’s time we heard something about the Soviet horrors.
Will have to watch both
It is part of the Civil Rights American narrative- post Hart Cellar- and its not irrational to judge the narrative by the results.
To each their own. Is my expression of opinion, delivered in good faith, antithetical of freedom? Long time lurker. No worries- I’m sure you didn’t mean to cast aspersions.
lmao at Moe too.
Did you come here from Stormfront?
“Who, after all, speaks today of the annihilation of the Armenians?”
If you’re not interested DON’T CLICK ON IT. People have lives outside the fish fry, ffs.
Russell Crowe on the Challenge of Playing Nazi Hermann Göring in Nuremberg - (Joe Rogan interview)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REx8nsNUcFs
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