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.
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?
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.)
Another one?
Marking.
Was ilsa koch, the bitch of brechenwald aas she was known in the movie? She stood trial for war crimes- what a monster that woman was. Saw a codumentary on her and other monsters with video footage of the camps, and the massive pits they dug to throw their victims in, some still alive, to be buried over... after they had been robbed of jewelry, hair, teeth, and even skin that she had lampshades made out of.
But I read the article veeeeery carefully, and nowhere did it mention who they got to play Babe Ruth.
One device Robert H. Jackson, who was the chief prosecutor, used early on was the shrunken head of one of the victims. Throughout the trials the judges had to look at the head displayed before them.
It sounds craptacular.
This will be an unpopular opinion, but the agitprop here is rich. Though there has been a steady constant drumbeat of Holocaust/ Israeli foundational narratives for some decades- of variable to dubious accuracy- as the scale of the evil of the Gaza War (collective guilt and indiscriminate war crimes of every type) becomes apparent and increasingly unpopular- the Zionist community delivers another sneering, guilt laden drama. Tiresome, as are the various October 7 docudramas which all seem to have come up at the same time- i don’t care to watch fiction when one could see the truth play out in real time. There is a very real reason Tucker, Fuentes, etc. have gained prominence, and that reason is not the inherent goodness of Zionism, nor its positive results for America (slim to none- the quixotic support of the ethnostate is an ongoing net negative for every singular-loyalty American). Zohran Mahdani is undoubtedly a hard socialist/ soft communist, but I see little practical evidence he is either an Islamist nor an anti-Semite (though that term has been hijacked); at any rate there’s minimal distinction etween him and, say, Randy Fine, both are foreigners who discredit their host nation with their ancient tribal loyalties. At any rate, the simplistic historiography of WW2 in this country is exhausting. Pedagogy drank deeply of the Kool Aid.
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.
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.
Russell Crowe on the Challenge of Playing Nazi Hermann Göring in Nuremberg - (Joe Rogan interview)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REx8nsNUcFs
The whole of the Nuremberg trials — every testimony, every word uttered — were recorded direct-to-disk on more than 2000 long-playing vinyl records. These “albums” were stored in secret for decades for fear that revisionists would steal and destroy them but there finally was a documentary concerning them released to the public in 2022.
And that documentary has been uploaded to YouTube.
Nazis at Nuremberg The Lost Testimony
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=va8WD3beDwo