Nuremberg (2025)

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Move! Move!

Hands! Let me see your hands!

- Jesus Christ, that's Hermann Gring.

- Who?

Hitler's second-in-command.

With fear and waiting.

What did he say?

He asked us to get his luggage.

Justice Jackson?

That depends on if you have a good reason

to be banging on my door at three o'clock.

They captured Hermann Gring alive.

- Where?

- Austria.

What are they going to do with him?

Well, that's the real question, isn't it?

Can I come in?

- No.

- But it's raining.

I can see that.

Are they going to sh**t him?

Not that I know of.

Well, for a long time they

were going to sh**t him.

Yes, sir.

Churchill and Roosevelt

signed the order themselves.

On order that you oppose.

I'm a Supreme Court Justice. I tend to

frown on executing men without a trial.

That's what I'm here to talk about.

It can't be done.

- You keep saying that.

- Because it can't be done.

Give me one good reason why not.

There's no legal precedent for a trial.

There's no international

law to base the charges on.

No one has ever tried w*r criminals

outside of one nation's jurisdiction

because the whole

concept of international law is

that one country can't tell another

country's citizens how to conduct themselves.

Elsie.

Trying these men in a

German court would be different.

But what you're talking

about is trying them

in some sort of legal

limbo that doesn't exist

using case law that

hasn't been written yet.

And on the off chance

that you're not keeping

track, that's about four

good reasons why not.

I'm getting you a drink.

I don't want a drink.

Then I'm getting me another

and getting you one for show.

Who do you put on trial?

The German commanders? Enlisted men?

What about the judges

who enforce the racial codes?

Obviously we'd have to work that out.

And once you decide who to put on

trial, what do you charge them with?

Conspiracy to wage

aggressive w*r on the world.

And you want the United States

to argue that as prosecution?

I do.

Against Germany?

A country that never attacked us?

Say just for a second it could be done.

- Robert.

- Don't you want to know how I'd do it?

It would have to be a

completely international effort.

All of the allies would

have to participate.

The US, Britain, France, Russia.

You can't do it without the Russians.

Four international judges.

You're talking about a tribunal.

Exactly.

The world needs to know what these men did.

It's a logistical nightmare.

I know.

But it has to be done.

Pick a card.

I don't think so.

Ask me to pick one.

Pick a card.

Now ask me to please remember

it and put it back in the deck.

Please remember it and

put it back in the deck.

Now shuffle.

Now what?

My card was a three of spades.

- Oh, that's hardly a trick.

- Turn over the top one.

Who are you?

I'm a psychiatrist.

Oh, and why are you going to Mondorf?

I wish I knew.

They send psychiatrists

on secret missions now.

I'm pretty sure I'm the first.

How did you do that?

With the cards?

I didn't do anything.

You're a really good magician.

Dr. Kelly.

Sgt. Howie Triest at your service.

I'm going to run you under

the commandant's office.

- Tigers, huh?

- Yes, sir.

Perhaps I'll see you around.

Jiminy.

Who is that?

That Howie was a very attractive woman.

She's a commandant.

Ah, yes, sir. Colonel Andrews.

So can you tell me what I'm

supposed to be doing here?

I thought the w*r was over.

I couldn't say.

You couldn't say because

you don't know, or you

couldn't say because somebody

told you you couldn't say?

I couldn't say.

Don't get sore with me, Doc.

I'm just a translator.

Translator for what?

We'll see.

Dr. Kelly.

Apparently Central Command thinks

you're some kind of hotshot head-shrinker.

I imagine you have some questions for me.

More than a few.

Let's get to it.

You are standing inside

a secret military prison.

It currently houses what's

left of the n*zi high command.

The governments of Russia, France,

Great Britain, and our United States

are deciding right now whether to

put these men on trial for their lives.

You have been brought

in to inspect and ensure the

prisoners' mental health

should that trial go forward.

Suicide.

That'll be the main concern

with most of the prisoners.

Hitler, Goebbels, and Himmler

have already taken their own lives.

We cannot afford any more losses.

Goebbels and Himmler did it with this.

Hidden cyanide capsule.

The one you'll have to

watch the closest is Gring.

Gring?

Why isn't Hermann Gring?

That's the one.

Hermann Gring's here?

Sergeant, is it possible

that he made you suffer

a large blow to his head

on the way to my office?

Not that I'm aware of, sir.

Sorry, it's just a lot to process.

- I'm sure it is. Try and do it faster.

- Yes, sir.

When Gring surrendered,

he was traveling with his family.

He had over a million

dollars in German currency

and jewelry, and a

large quantity of these.

We had them sent back to

the States for classification.

Hydrocodeine.

Fairly potent painkiller. I'm a fan.

He says they're for his heart.

Well, then, I have a rather large

bridge in Brooklyn to sell you.

These have nothing to do with the heart.

They're an opiate.

How many pills does he take a day?

Sergeant, forty, sir.

Well, I think it's safe to say the

Reichsmarschall's got a drug problem.

Where's his family now?

They've been released,

and they're not your concern.

Your only job is to evaluate

Gring and the others. That is it.

Sir, I'm a good doctor, but

the entire n*zi high command

might be a little bit beyond

my area of expertise.

Believe me, Major, this was not my idea.

Dismissed.

He was not great about tox, is he?

Kalman's not known for his warmth, sir.

What are you doing?

Gring. Right now.

- You don't want to get settled first?

- I want to know what I'm dealing with.

All right, well, don't be too intimidating.

I'm not. Tell me about it.

Reichsmarschall Hermann Gring, President

of the Reichstag, Minister of Aviation,

Commandant-in-Chief of the

Luftwaffe, Minister of Economics,

a founding member of

the Kastafel secret police,

was appointed Hitler's successor in 1939

and is the highest ranking

German military officer of all time.

Okay.

Now I'm a little intimidated.

Don't be. You're good.

Reichsmarschall!

Reichsmarschall Gring, my

name is Dr. Douglas Kelly.

My name is Dr. Douglas Kelly.

He says, wonderful, a doctor.

I am. I'm going to take your pulse.

Yeah, yeah.

He's been asking for his pills.

He wants you to get them for him.

I understand you've had heart trouble.

Can you open your shirt, please?

Respiration is rapid and shallow.

Don't translate that.

The pills help with the pain as well.

He says he was shot down in World w*r I.

He has a b*llet in his right hip.

In 1923 he was shot in the

groin during the Munich pooch.

You've been shot a lot, sir.

Occupational hazard.

Well, if you really want

to look after your heart,

the best way to do that

is to lose some weight.

I'm assure you are looking at the

best physique in all of Germany.

Just ask my wife.

Oh, I'm sure you're right, sir, but

the guards here call you fat stuff.

I'm sure it would be difficult for

a lesser man to lose this weight,

but you possess a fortitude and

discipline that others do not, yes?

You see, this man is different.

We're going to be good

friends, I'm sure of it.

I look forward to that.

- Good day.

- Auf Wiedersehen.

Inflated sense of self.

Charming.

Speaks English.

What? What? What? What?

The way he looked at

me when I called him fat.

He understood me. He's been playing you.

No, no, why would he pretend?

Translation gives him more

time to consider his answers.

He thinks that gives him an advantage.

Wait, hold on.

You're saying I spent

the last three months

mumbling to myself while

he understood everyone?

Pretty much.

Are you going to tell him that you know?

No, no.

He's going to tell me when he's ready.

- When's that?

- When he determines I'm not a threat.

I want to meet the rest of them.

Who's next?

Dr. Robert Ley, chief of

the German labor front,

one of Hitler's earliest followers.

He once wrote a book

that was so complimentary

that Hitler had the entire run destroyed

because he was so embarrassed.

Ley, who spearheaded the n*zi sl*ve

labor program, was captured in his pajamas,

calling himself Dr. Distelmaier.

I'm not like these other power-hungry

men you have locked up in here.

I can smell the Jew.

Great admiral Karl Dnitz,

the German navy's commander in chief,

architect of the U-boat attack

that crippled the British navy.

The fanatical n*zi

with the arrest of Dnitz.

The Third Reich is ended forever.

I've been in custody for 76 days.

I have yet to be formally arrested

or charged with a specific crime,

which is a direct violation

of the Geneva Convention.

Charge me or release me.

Julius Streicher,

Hitler's director of propaganda,

publisher of the national

anti-Semitic paper, De Sturma.

Streicher, docked the high priest of

anti-Semitism and the beast of Franconia,

led the Jewish boycott

and ruled Nuremberg with an iron fist.

He wants to know if you're a Jew.

No.

But you work in a Jewish profession.

What do you fight for, doctor?

Gring is the key.

A leader of a nation in exile.

He binds them all together.

He's begun a strict

self-imposed diet and exercise

regimen and is going

cold turkey on the pills.

It's almost as if he's

training for something.

If one were to write a book about him, it-

Is there a library in town?

- You want to go to a libray?

- Yes!

- At 2:33 in the morning?

- Yes, get your coat.

I'll get my coat.

The sheer amount of narcissists

we got locked up in that hotel,

I bet at least half have books in here

written about them or written by them.

We're going to figure these guys out.

Do you speak any German, doc?

Not even a little.

How'd you learn?

My mother spoke German.

I wanted to be like her.

You really think you can do it?

Do what?

Well, get these guys to open up to you.

Sure.

Ow.

Everybody wants to be listened to.

It's a natural instinct.

I learn about them.

I get them to trust me.

They open up.

I make it sound so easy.

What if we could dissect evil?

What sets these men apart from all others?

What enabled them to

commit the crimes that they did?

It almost took over the world.

You've heard about the work camps for Jews?

Rumor has it

they weren't just work camps.

I've heard.

So how do people become like that?

We actually have a shot to figure that out.

To find out

what makes the Germans different.

Different?

From us.

A man who writes a book about

that can make a lot of money.

You know, for a second I

thought you were being noble.

You aren't noble?

Fine.

We could psychologically define evil.

We could make sure something

like this never happens again.

What's going on?

Hermann Gring can't breathe.

Move!

Hallie!

His airway is clear.

That's good, right?

And he's having a heart attack.

Without the prison doctor.

He's on his way.

Tell him to hurry.

Hallie, get some aspirin.

Plain old ordinary aspirin.

You're going to not go.

Hey, hey.

Your heart's still beating.

Which means you're alive.

I'm going to keep you that way.

I need you to stay calm.

Breathe with me.

In and out.

In and out.

I'm here.

I'm here.

Look at me.

I'm here. I'm not going to let you die.

In and out.

Is that your wife?

She's here.

She's here.

Breathe with me.

Hand me a few of those, Hallie.

Thank you, Hallie.

Best thing for the heart.

Trust me.

Breathe in and out.

Your pulse is slow.

Hey, guess what?

You're alive.

You're alive.

I am.

Well, how about that?

Thank you.

Let's get him to the infomerica, mon.

He smiled for it.

He said thank you in English.

Truman wants to win reelection in 48.

He's not going to do

that coddling of the Nazis.

That's true enough.

Plus, a trial means giving them a

chance to tell their stories to the world.

What are we afraid to hear them tell?

We won the damn w*r, Bob.

If you do this, it'll turn into the

biggest boondoggle of all time.

Cameras in the damn courtroom.

Well, what if they're sympathetic?

What if all this does

is provide them with a

platform for antisemitism

all over the world?

You won't be responsible for that.

You want to know if I'm comfortable

executing a few dances without trial?

Damn right I am.

It doesn't matter anyway.

I'll never get the Russians.

We got the Russians.

What?

We got the Russians.

We did?

Truman called Stalin himself, looking

at Nikichenko for lead prosecutor.

That's fantastic news.

I have no idea who you are.

Colonel John Ammons, sir.

I work for the Judge Advocate General.

So, the Army sent us a lawyer.

Yes, sir. I bring greetings from

General Eisenhower, who says he

wants you to know that he's not

for hanging anyone without a trial.

Well, that's progress.

He also says he

hopes the trial won't take

too long so we can get

on with hanging them.

Have a seat.

I've read a lot about you, sir. They say

you're going to be the next Chief Justice.

The President promised

him the seat personally.

And swore me into secrecy,

so let's maybe not tell

everyone who walks into

the office about it, okay?

Well, everyone in my office says

there's no way you get the trial.

What do you say?

I say I like an underdog.

Good morning, Julius.

I'm going to show you a series

of cards, each with ink blots,

and you're going to tell me

what each ink blot makes you see.

Perhaps it will reveal something

about your character, your

intelligence, creativity, and

everything here stays between us.

A doctor?

Yes.

I can't speak to you in

English if it is of some help.

Only if it makes you comfortable.

Shall we begin?

I'm calling you.

I'm Hexen.

This is your director, Torpedo Trevor.

Torpedo Head.

Somebody has spilled something.

I see 10,000 horses.

I see the Valkyries ride.

A vag*na.

A vag*na?

A vag*na?

A Jewish vag*na.

A Jewish vag*na.

This is blood.

This is blood.

Or ink.

You can say a lot of things with ink.

I'm sorry, Bob. Word came down tonight.

It's going to be a no.

Congress is going to say no to the trial.

They just want executions.

I'm out of moves.

What about the president?

The president wants someone to hide behind.

That's why he needs Congress.

Neither will do it without the other.

So you need someone bigger to back it?

Oh, come on.

Who's bigger than the president?

Jesus Christ.

Literally.

Are you a Catholic?

I am now.

The Holy Father will see you now.

You wish to put this

man on trial for their lives.

Then you have come to ask

for the Church's blessing in this.

Your support would go a long way

to building an international consensus.

No one denies these men are evil.

But an eye for an eye is not the answer.

Maybe not, but I'm pretty

sure where I first read about it.

Are you Catholic?

No, sir.

A religious man?

Not especially.

And yet at home they call you a justice.

I didn't pick the name.

If you sit long enough

in judgment of others,

you come to believe the laws

of man outweigh the laws of God.

I don't believe that.

Then what do you believe?

I believe in man in our capacity to

save ourselves from men like the Nazis.

I believe this to be a good act.

Once so good, you must

circumnavigate your own laws to achieve it.

I'm sorry, but the Catholic

Church cannot support you in this.

But you could support them in 1933.

I'm sorry?

You signed the Concordat

with Hitler yourself.

That was a different matter.

You lived in Munich.

You were the nuncio to the German Empire.

The Catholic Church was the first world

power to acknowledge the pure state.

You gave the Nazis credibility.

In order to protect Catholics in Germany.

Isn't it a pity the Jews didn't

have someone to do that for them?

Do you think I condone what they did?

People will remember, sir.

What you did in 1933.

What you do now.

They'll tell their children.

Did the Catholic Church

stand with the Nazis?

Or against them?

Did you just blackmail the Pope?

I don't want to talk about it.

Word came down last night.

There's going to be a trial.

A trial?

Good.

Good.

As it should be.

Those cards that you showed me.

What did they teach you about me?

Honestly, that you are highly intelligent.

I could have told you this.

And that you're a narcissist.

Given to an expansive

and aggressive fantasy life.

With a strong ambition and drive

to subjugate the world as you find it.

To your own pattern of thinking.

And you were surprised by this?

No.

Then the cards have taught you nothing.

Now, Tris, he tells me you do magic.

Einsauber.

Sorry.

Perhaps if it's not too much

trouble, we don't get entertainment.

Why not?

Here's an average ordinary silver dollar.

Ta-da!

Very good. Very good.

I will show you a magic trick one day.

What's that?

I am going to escape the hangman's noose.

How do you plan on doing that?

If I were to tell you,

it would not be a trick.

No, I'm not.

This is the end of the episode.

You see what the allies are capable of?

There is nothing left.

You said that.

The palace of justice.

The roof has been damaged by the air raids.

Fire gutted the upper floors

and collapsed the clock tower.

But this court room should be able

to hold 600 people when it's finished.

What's with all the supplies?

The Nazis fought their last stand

here when the city was taken.

And so they will again.

All the beautiful cities

in this conquered land.

You want to try them in

this bombed out husk?

This is Sir David Maxwell Fyfe,

assistant prosecutor for the British.

Yes, sir, we do.

For one thing, we

can control the space.

For another, there's an adjoining

prison with room for up to 1200 inmates.

When he needs space for 22.

Sorry, 22, sir.

That's the number of men

we're indicting for the first trial.

You see, if we don't win that trial,

there won't be any more trials to come.

And you, myself and Justice

Jackson and our respective

governments will be the

laughingstock of the world,

defeated by the very men we've imprisoned.

So that will be fun.

My friends in Washington say

opinions turn to him against you.

There's talk that you won't get the Chief

Justice's seat when Stone steps down.

Well, who's truly going to pick?

Benson? Benson's too political.

Yes, but he's there.

This whole thing's become

a sideshow, Robert.

It hasn't even begun.

They say you're writing

all the briefs yourself,

refusing help from other lawyers.

Because it has to be done right.

And it will, but you can't do it alone.

Oh, everything will be fine

once we actually get to trial.

You say that, as though trying the n*zi

high command with untested case law,

the whole world watching

is going to be the easy part.

Well, when you put it like that.

Anything less than total victory

will be considered utter defeat,

which means you don't just have to

win, Robert. You have to be flawless.

No pressure.

I love him, I love him.

Your cells are made of

stone, nine feet by thirteen.

Your beds are bolted to the wall.

Your mattress is stuffed

with straw instead of springs.

Your desks are made of cardboard

and will not support a man's full weight.

Your chairs are never

allowed against any wall

and will be removed

every night at sundown.

When you sleep, your

head and hands will

remain above your

blanket visible at all times.

You will be given no

belts, you will be given

no shoelaces, you will

be given no toilet seats,

you will be given nothing with which to

use as a weapon to take your own lives.

Welcome to Nuremberg.

Now this is a cell.

Your proof?

SHermann built. How could I not?

They will charge us soon, yeah.

You're looking forward to it?

I believe I am.

I will have, as you say, my day in court.

Do you know this Jackson,

the Justice Jackson?

No, I do not.

He will try to outfit me,

but he will not succeed.

Very sure of yourself.

Doctor, no man has ever beaten me.

There are books filled with the

names of those who have tried.

I hear you said, SHermann built.

You think I am at some sort of

disadvantage because I sit in a cell.

I will remind you, I surrendered.

This is exactly where I desired to be.

Gring remains an enigma to me.

The closer we get to the indictments,

the more confident he becomes.

I need to figure out a

way to get closer to him.

So how do we do that?

We ask for his help.

With what?

Rudolf Hess.

Rudolf Hess is coming here.

Rudolf Hess, deputy to the Fuhrer.

Third in line for succession

following Hitler and Goethe.

Hess transcribed my income

for Hitler while the two were in

prison and was known as one

of his most fanatical followers.

Sieg Heil!

Never do that in my prison again.

On May 10th, 1941, at the

height of the w*r, Hess climbed into

a Messerschmitt fighter plane

alone and flew over the North Sea.

He bailed out somewhere over

Scotland and broke his ankle upon impact.

Upon his discovery, he

announced that he was Rudolf Hess.

Hess was third in line of the German high command and

he was here on a mission of peace and wanted to speak

with Douglas Douglas Hamilton, the 13th Duke of Hamilton,

whom Hess had met at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin.

After some obstacles, Hess

was granted his meeting.

There he announced his intention to meet with

King George VI, have Winston Churchill fired, and

negotiate a truce with Britain allowing the two

nations to join forces and defeat the Soviet Union.

Hess was immediately thrown

into the Tower of London.

There Hess began claiming he had no

memory of past events, even his childhood.

This lasted until February 1945 when he

said his previous amnesia had been faked.

He then flipped again

and said his amnesia had

returned in July 1945

when Germany collapsed.

So now you would come to Hermann

Gring to discredit my old friend.

What would be in this for me?

What do you want?

My wife and my daughter.

No one has been able to

locate them since I surrendered.

I need you to find them for my

daughter and to give to them these letters.

First we talk to Hess and then your family.

How about that?

So what? This guy

almost takes over the whole

world and now he wants

to do a mail run for it?

I'm a deeper with this guy

than anyone's ever been.

And reading his family

will only tell me more.

So, Scudorf, do you remember me?

We were together, yes.

That must have been the case.

But I don't remember anyone.

It was the three of us, Scudorf.

You and I.

And Adolf.

We ruled an empire.

I'm sorry.

You may well have been a friend.

But I don't know you anymore.

He is lying.

He has just spent an hour to

say he does not remember me.

But when he arrived in the prison

and he saw me, what did he do?

Salute.

Sicile.

That was very good.

This is dumb. I'm dumb.

I knew you'd come through for me.

Yeah, because I'm a dummy.

How'd you find him?

Local gossip.

Told me they were in Baldurstein.

Smoke?

Never seen you smoke.

Yeah, I don't. Gave it up.

My parents hated this.

You always got them on you.

It's a trick to get in

good with the officers.

Tell myself I'll have a

smoke when the w*r is done.

The w*r is done, Howie.

It's not too much for them.

Mrs. Gerig.

Mrs. Gerig.

My name is Douglas Kelly.

I work at the prison. I'm a psychiatrist.

My name is Douglas Kelly.

I work in the hospital. I'm a teacher.

Your husband asked me

to bring you some letters.

Your husband asked me

to bring you some letters.

Your husband asked me

to bring you some letters.

Yes.

Yes.

How is he?

He's good.

He's holding it up.

Was that you playing?

It was beautiful.

Ah, she said he's a friend of your father.

Is he?

Is he your father?

How is papa?

He's doing very well.

Is he being brave?

Very brave.

He wants to be brave too.

He's smart.

He's smart.

He has a lot of stuff to do.

He wrote you a letter.

He wrote you a letter.

Thank you.

Do you want to go to the hospital?

Thank you.

She will be here 100 times. Thank you.

Thank you.

Doctor.

Dr. Hermann.

I don't know if I can.

Peter.

Come back.

Okay, doctor.

What the hell?

Hermann Gring?

I am a race marshal, Hermann Gring.

Hermann Wilhelm Gring,

you are hereby charged by

the United States of

America, the French Republic,

United Kingdom of Great Britain

and Northern Ireland and the

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

on the following four counts.

Crimes against peace, w*r

crimes, crimes against humanity

and of a common plan or

conspiracy to commit those crimes.

The crimes against humanity

you are accused of include m*rder,

extermination, enslavement,

deportation and other inhumane acts.

This is a copy of your indictment.

Do you have any questions?

No.

Good day.

Who's next?

Striker.

Do you have any questions?

What did he say?

He said he wants a Jewish lawyer.

I'm not going to trial.

You are, Dr. Ley.

I never k*lled anyone.

It's okay. It's okay. It's okay.

Robert.

Don't touch me!

Hold him!

Come out!

Don't drive me down!

sh**t me! sh**t me! sh**t me!

Rough day?

Lady from the train.

Magic now.

How goes the secret mission?

It's hit a few obstacles.

I can see that.

What are you doing here?

I came in with the press.

Hermann Gring and the

Nazis are being indicted today.

No say.

Strap yourself in.

This city is about to become

the greatest show on earth.

Yes, sir.

Dark rumors continue to swirl about

the true purpose of the n*zi work camps.

The legal teams are assembling for what

promises to be the trial of the century.

Through this tunnel, the Nazis

will be taken to the courtroom.

Now being rebuilt for the trial.

There, the film lights

will be so bright that

the court goers will be

provided with sunglasses.

Hermann Gring and his

Hitler-loving cronies are

scheduled to face off

with our boys in one week.

Will justice prevail or

will the fascists go free?

This reporter desperately hopes

that the Allies run into no problems.

We have a problem.

Operation Wieserbund was the German

invasion of Denmark and Norway in 1940.

In the textbook aggressive

w*r, the Nazis, they

rolled tanks and they

occupied neutral country.

Except they're going to claim that

the invasion was a preemptive strike.

To preempt what?

The British plan to invade Norway.

Well, that's ridiculous.

Absolutely ridiculous.

I'm in complete agreement.

It concerns me that you're

in this room right now.

Well, in addition to being

ridiculous, it also happens to be true.

The idea was to use the country as

a staging area to hold the Nazis back.

And to prosecute the Nazis

for planning aggressive

wars if you guys were

planning aggressive wars.

I bet there's a certain logic there.

Can the Nazis prove it?

The German law has

already put in a request

for documents, but they

don't have it. Not yet.

Then we're in the clear.

Maybe. But it raises a bigger issue.

We have to know what the Nazis

know, what their defense strategy is.

How exactly to propose we do that?

Dr. Kelly, you are going to meet

someone very important this evening.

This might actually be your

chance to find the bee of some use.

Impressive, right?

Hitler was building it to be the

largest stadium on the planet.

You're Justice Jackson.

And you're the shrink.

This is where they held the rallies.

Every year, Hitler would pack this

place, speak to the n*zi party as a whole.

They filmed it.

In 1935, this is where he

announced the Nuremberg Laws.

You know the laws?

The Nuremberg Laws

defined a Jew as any person

having three or four

Jewish grandparents.

It didn't matter if you practiced

Judaism, if you converted to Christianity.

This was about blood.

The laws stripped all

Jews of German citizenry.

They made it ill*gal for

Jews and Germans to marry

each other because of

the fear of Rasenschande.

Defilement of the blood.

Under the laws, Jews were

prohibited from using state hospitals.

And not allowed access to public

education beyond the age of 14.

Libraries, parks, and

beaches were closed to Jews.

w*r memorials had all Jewish names on them.

Expunged.

All of that was announced

right here on this very ground.

What do you want from me?

Your patients?

I need you to start asking

them the right questions.

What are the right questions?

What they tell their lawyers?

How they plan to defend themselves?

You want me to be a spy?

I want you to do your

duty for your country.

No, you want me to break

Dr. Patient Confidentiality.

I think you already have, doctor.

We read every report.

We need more.

Why not just sh**t them?

Just whatever he wants.

I mean, if you're just gonna

cheat... That's not cheating.

If you're asking me to betray my oath...

Why not just sh**t

them and be done with it?

After the last great w*r,

we made Germany crawl.

We humiliated them.

Made them pay reparations

they couldn't afford.

We made them hate us so much

that in less than two decades...

They went from a broken

nation to near world conquerors.

We had to do this right

because if we don't...

If fifteen years from now they

come back even stronger...

I don't know if we can

beat them a third time.

If we just sh**t these

men, we make them martyrs.

I'm not gonna allow them that.

There will be no statues of them.

No songs of praise.

I'm gonna put Hermann

Gring on the stand...

And I'm gonna make him

tell the world what he did.

So that it can never happen again.

You brought me here because of Gring.

No.

I brought you here to show you

that before the b*ll*ts were fired...

Before tens of millions of men died...

All of this started with laws.

This w*r ends in a courtroom.

With Gring?

He's the face of the Nazis now.

As he falls, so do they all.

But if I'm gonna do that...

I need to be ready for it.

Will you help me?

Let's talk about Hitler.

It is interesting you have not

asked me this directly before.

I'm curious what the attraction was.

There was a failed painter.

Not a very good soldier yet.

He was worshipped and revered.

He made us feel German again.

How?

Bears of white skinned Germany craft.

And along comes a man who says...

We can reclaim our former glory.

Would you not follow a man like this?

Depends what else you wanted to do.

The first time I saw

Hitler talk was... 1922.

Upstairs of a coffee shop.

For maybe 30 people.

This was peacetime, but it was a

peace without food, jobs, shoes.

And he stood up.

And he said French bellies are

being filled with German pain.

And then... If you make

threats, you need bayonets.

Griard. Down with Versailles.

So that night...

I became a National Socialist.

Off of... One speech?

I could tell he would

appeal to the old soldiers.

If they have the old soldiers,

they have the manpower.

Even with his antisemitism,

it served a practical purpose.

It brought towards us men who needed

something else to focus their emotions.

Something else to blame.

And the camps?

They were to be work camps

for our political opponents.

Nothing more.

And you signed off on that?

For work camps, yeah.

Do not think that the

Japanese entered by the

Americans after Pearl

Harbor were not put to work?

Of course they were.

I made the camps for the good

of Germany, for the w*r effort.

Not for death.

Himmler.

Heitrich.

They were responsible?

If it is true, what they say

happened at the camps.

This is a grave blight on

the great German Reich.

Have you told your lawyer about this?

Douglas, I will not

stand against the Fuhrer.

Not even if I can help you.

These are not things

people need to know, Doctor.

Only you.

He can be sympathetic.

It is going to be a problem for you.

He seriously claims that he

thought they were only work camps.

That is right.

Do you believe him?

Himmler ran the camps.

He was the head of the SS.

Gring was the head of the Air Force.

How often in America does

the head of the Air Force

know what the head of

the Secret Service is doing?

I am sorry, but I cannot believe that we

are having this conversation right now.

I am doing what you ask.

No, you are apologizing for him.

Gentlemen, please.

I am not the one defending the n*zi.

You think I am defending him?

I am analyzing him, you provincial moron.

Gring is, above all things, a narcissist.

The only thing he cares about is building

Germany up and then becoming her leader.

He does not care about the Jews.

So he is fine with them dying.

And he is fine with them not.

The only thing Hermann Gring

cares about is Hermann Gring.

Does that sound like

a man who dedicates

himself to the extermination

of an entire race?

Well, Dr. Kelly, I really

appreciate your thoughtfulness

on this, but I have to admit

it is very hard to believe.

You want to walk into that courtroom

with a handful of assumptions?

Fine.

But he will eat you for breakfast.

I would like to apologize for my

outbursts earlier. It felt much better.

I felt a chance to be shifting.

And you?

Something seems to be troubling you.

I am fine.

I am fine.

I am fine.

I am fine.

I am fine.

I am fine.

This will all be over soon.

Blaze mode is markedly improved.

He told us he has begun making

arrangements for his defense.

I feel as though for the first

time he has reached out to me.

He ripped out the hem of

his towel to make a rope.

He stuffed his underwear into his

mouth so he wouldn't scream and then...

just leaned forward, apparently

with a great deal of determination.

You didn't see any of this coming?

He told me he was doing better.

Told you.

I'm supposed to keep them alive.

I'm bringing in another doctor.

A firm and a second opinion is

required for some of your patients.

Dr. Gilbert arrives this afternoon.

You will brief him.

How do you feel about suicide?

The last refuge of cowards, yeah.

And the last act of a desperate man?

So all his exceptions, of course.

You are in trouble.

Why would you say that?

A new doctor, new tests.

Since Lai died, they no longer trust you.

Your own?

Douglas, when you are

in a position of power,

they will always come after you.

You have to protect yourself.

Why would I have to

protect myself from my allies?

Just because a man is your ally

does not mean he is on your side.

My father was a

diplomat, did I tell you this?

Yeah.

He was posted to Africa.

And it was there he was

to meet his best friend,

a man named Hermann von Epstein.

I was named after him.

Yeah.

I was named for a Jew.

We loved Uncle Hermann

so much, he was very rich.

He lived in Frozenstein Castle.

And when I was six years old,

he moved my entire family in with him.

Can you imagine?

It was a child's dream

to live in such a castle.

I would run down the halls,

pretending I was a knight.

I would stare down from the battlements,

envisioning armies forming to attack.

Uncle Hermann, he lived in the largest

and most beautiful room on the top floor.

Down the hall, my mother

had a bedroom, also beautiful.

My father,

he lived in a small

bedroom on the ground floor.

And I was to realize just

how rich Uncle Hermann was.

So rich that he could move my family in.

So rich that he could put

my father on the ground floor.

So rich that whenever he wanted,

he could walk down the hall

and enjoy my mother.

Just because a man is your ally

does not mean he is on your side.

You found Hermann going to be imaginative?

I didn't find him to be that way.

The test did.

Well, that is what a second opinion is for.

Which brings us to Rudolph Hess.

I'm inclined to believe

that his amnesia is genuine.

You mean the part where

he forgets about being a n*zi?

Okay, look, Dr.

Kelly, I'm not here to

step on your toes, okay?

I'll share research with a co-author.

Co-author of what?

You don't have to play coy with me.

We're both here for the same reason.

Now, two books about the n*zi high command

that's going to cut into the market.

I say we write it together.

Good luck with your tests.

She was in.

Thank you.

Come and see Peter Haines.

Oh, she was, uh, astounded.

Teach me this trick.

Is it a coin by the ear?

Yeah, yeah. Teach me this

trick so I, too, can astound her.

I gave my silver dollar to your daughter.

It's the simplest trick in the world.

And it works because, you

know, people want to believe.

Well, you hold up the dollar and you say,

Hey, folks, here is an

ordinary average silver dollar.

And you put it in your other hand.

You focus on it.

But really, it's right here.

You palm it in your right hand.

Palm it?

You put it between these two fingers.

You wrap your palm around it.

But you focus on your left hand.

And you feel the coin

in there, the weight of it.

And if you believe it,

then they'll believe it.

And then you just, uh,

well, you reach behind the ear.

Abracadabra!

What is abracadabra?

Uh, it's a magic word.

It gives the illusion of a cosmic weight.

And it always must be abracadabra.

No, it can be anything.

It can be presto.

I think I prefer abracadabra.

So it was your father

who taught you this trick?

My father?

No.

You say that like it is unthinkable.

And my father was content to

buy his trade and display

a cheerful disposition.

He was a man of no accomplishment.

But you believe

you are destined for more.

You want to be known as a great man.

Yes.

And I am your ticket.

You will return to America as

the great scholar of the Nazis.

And I will have a trick

to impress my daughter

when this trial is done.

Stop taking me with you to see him.

I didn't want to bother you so late.

I've been seeing him a lot without me.

What are you doing, doc?

Trying to learn something?

Are you sure that's

what this is still about?

Good night, Howie.

Are you going to defend yourself, Hermann?

Oh, but not too late now.

I'm serious.

Have you friends, doctor?

I think that word is a little

too simple for what we are.

But are you asking

me this as a friend?

I am.

Tomorrow, when I enter my plea,

I will read a statement.

I am going to say

that I assume all

responsibility for my actions.

I will refuse, however,

to accept responsibility

for acts committed by others

that I was unaware of

and I would not have approved of.

But I did.

I did for my country.

Tell me you have not

done the same for yours.

They told me I could find you here.

In seven hours,

the whole world is going

to be focused on this room.

This is it.

This is everything.

This is the statement that

Gerhard plans on reading tomorrow.

Thank you.

May it please your honors,

the privilege

of opening the first trial in history

for crimes against the peace of the world

imposes a grave responsibility.

The wrongs which we

seek to condemn and punish

have been so calculated,

so malignant and so devastating

that civilization cannot

tolerate their being ignored

because we cannot

survive their being repeated.

In the prisoner's dock

said 20-odd broken men,

we will show them

to be living symbols of racial hatreds,

of terrorism and violence,

and of the arrogance

and cruelty of power.

Civilization can afford nothing

with the men in whom these forces

now precariously survive.

Wars are no longer local.

All modern wars

become world wars, eventually.

And none of the big nations can stay out.

But the ultimate step

in avoiding periodic wars

in a system of international lawlessness

is to make statesmen

responsible for the law.

And let me make clear

that while this law is first applied

against German aggressors,

it must condemn aggression

by any other nation,

including those who sit

here now in judgment.

We are able to do away

with domestic tyranny

and violence and aggression

by those in power against

the rights of their own people

only when we make all men

insurable to the law.

Hermann Kering,

the defendants are to plead guilty

or not guilty

to the charges against them.

They will proceed in turn

to a point in the dock

opposite to the microphone.

I am Hermann Wilhelm Kering.

I stand before the

court today and the world

and pledge only to tell...

The tribunal has reached the decision

that the defendants are not

entitled to make a statement.

They will be permitted

to address the court

prior to their sentencing.

As Reichsmarschall of Germany.

You are not Reichsmarschall here.

You are only Hermann

Kering, the prisoner.

Do you plead

guilty or not guilty?

Yes, Schutig.

Emmy!

Eva!

Emmy!

What happened?

What happened? Where are they?

What? Where are they?

They took them.

Who?

Americans.

You've got to be sh1tting me.

Thanks. I'm going to need it.

They arrested Emmy Gering

on suspicion of complicity

with her husband's art thefts.

The kid goes to the nuns.

No contact allowed.

They're women and children.

Yeah.

Sir, we're supposed to be better than this.

It's out of my hands.

And you're welcome.

By the way,

how did you know where she was hiding?

Did Etta play for you again?

She did.

She's very talented.

She likes you.

Do you have the letters?

No.

No letters, unfortunately.

No?

Next time.

Here's the menu, Doctor.

You're just talking about my family.

Ah, yes.

That's fine. I'm sorry to hear about that.

That's fine.

Their arrest?

Your wife and daughter

were arrested five days ago.

He didn't tell you?

Hey. Hey.

What the hell was that?

That was me being honest with my patients.

Something you ought to try sometime.

You destroyed him in there.

So?

Hey! Hey!

Jesus Christ.

You're mental health professionals!

For Christ's sake!

Doctor Gilbert, would you like me

to place Doctor Kelly under arrest?

No, sir.

Then get out of my g*dd*mn office!

All rise!

May it please the court,

the prosecution would now like to enter

into evidence the following film footage.

The images you are about to see

have never before been shown in public.

This film should offer a brief explanation

of what the words

concentration camp implied.

These are the locations of the

largest concentration and prison camps

maintained throughout Germany and

occupied Europe under the n*zi regime.

The 4th Armored Division

of General Patton's

3rd Army liberated

this camp early in April.

They see the woodshed

where lime-covered bodies are

stacked in layers and the

stench is overpowering.

sl*ve labor camp at Nordhausen liberated

by the 3rd Armored Division, 1st Army.

At least 3,000 political prisoners

died here at the brutal hands of

SS troops and pardon German

criminals who were the camp's daughter.

Nordhausen has been a depository

for sl*ves found unfit for work in

the underground B-b*mb plants and

in other German camps and factories.

Amid the corpses are human

skeletons too weak to move.

None of our medical

battalions work two days and

nights binding wounds

and giving medications.

But for advanced cases of starvation

and tuberculosis there are often no cures.

Survivors are shown being evacuated

for treatment in Allied hospitals.

I'm Lieutenant Senior Grade Jack H. Taylor,

U.S. Navy, from Hollywood, California.

Believe it or not, this is the first

time I've ever been in the movies.

I was captured December 1st.

I was taken to this Mauthausen

concentration locker, an extermination camp,

where we have been starving and beaten

and k*lled, forcibly my turn hadn't come.

There were five or

six ways by cast, by

sh**ting, by beating,

against beating with clubs,

by exposure, that is, standing

out in the snow naked for 48 hours

and having cold water thrown

on them in the middle of winter,

starvation, dogs, and

pushing over a 100-foot cliff.

This is all true, has been

seen, and is now being reported.

Nationalities and prison numbers are

tattooed on the stomachs of the inmates.

In the official report, the Buchenwald

camp is termed an extermination factory.

Bodies stacked one upon the other

were found outside the crematory.

The body disposal plant. Inside are

the ovens which gave the crematorium

a maximum disposal capacity of

about 400 bodies per 10-hour day.

A car near Mnchen, one of the

oldest of the n*zi prison camp.

This is what the liberators

found inside the building.

Hanging an orderly road

were the clothes of prisoners

who had been suffocated

in a lethal gas chamber.

They had been persuaded to

remove their clothing under the pretext

of taking a shower for which

towels and soap were provided.

Planetary conditions were so

appalling that heavy equipment

had to be brought in to

speed the work of cleaning up.

This was Bergen-Belsen.

Righted so.

How is it possible?

Himmler.

Himmler wasn't second in command.

You were 1200 camps?

What am I supposed to

believe that he didn't know?

Anyone can fake an atrocity.

So you're saying the film was a fake?

That's your defense?

What would you have me say?

How about the truth for once?

So you can run and tell Jackson?

My friend, your hypocrisy is stunning.

My hypocrisy?

You think American b*ll*ts

and bombs don't k*ll people?

You vaporize 150,000

Japanese at the touch of a button

and you presume to stand in

judgment on me for all crimes?

We had every right to defend ourselves.

How do you defend yourself

on someone else's soil?

There's a difference

between us bombing w*r

factories and civilians

dying as collateral damage

and you building 1200 human slaughterhouses

designed to exterminate an entire race.

And you know it!

What do you think w*r is?

Not what I thought today.

What do you think the Russians

do to German prisoners of w*r?

You have your freedom and I am a

prisoner because you've earned and we lost.

Not because you are morally superior!

This trial will be a farce in 15 years.

Great conquerors and not

thought of as murderers.

Genghis Khan, Alexander the

Great... You're not Alexander the Great!

You are a fat man in a cell.

And you know I have made a mistake.

You are not destined for more.

You will have an unhappy life, I think.

It will all be overshadowed by this.

By the time spent with me.

You will write your

volumes trying to relive it.

The one moment in your life.

When you actually stood with greatness.

You think you're a great man?

You think that's your legacy?

At least I will have one.

You will leave no mark on this world.

I am the book!

You are merely a footnote.

They're gonna k*ll you.

They're gonna hang you by

the neck until you piss yourself.

And die.

Your wife will be a widow.

Your daughter will be an orphan.

And you will have done that to yourself.

I know who you are.

What do you like?

You don't wanna know.

Jackson's putting him on

the stand day after tomorrow?

Jackson's gonna get k*lled.

Why do you say that?

Because Gary is ready for him.

He was ready for all of us.

Why don't you tell me all about it?

Look at that!

Your private conversations with

Hermann Gring made the front page.

You're finished.

I signed your transfer order this morning.

You're to be sent back to the

states where you'll be discharged.

You have embarrassed me

and this office for the last time.

I'm sorry, Colonel.

You deserve better.

Yes, I did.

And just so you know, we are

releasing Gring's wife and daughter.

You were right. We are better than that.

Thank you, sir.

Your train's at five o'clock.

Don't take this the wrong way,

but I never wanna see you again.

Care to say goodbye?

Did you really mean it?

You said Jackson had no chance?

Sure. It's all just a big show

for the cameras anyway.

So it doesn't matter what happens tomorrow.

If Gring beats Jackson, so be it.

Yeah, I don't believe that.

Neither do you.

You know more about

him than anybody on Earth.

Yeah, that's right. I do.

You know, I spent

thousands of hours with him.

I run hundreds of tests.

You know what sets him apart from us?

Nothing.

I know.

You know?

Because I'm one of them.

What are you talking about?

I'm German, Doc.

I grew up in Munich.

You grew up in Detroit.

You said your mom spoke German.

She did.

But my father.

Because I was raised here.

You're an American soldier.

Why'd you leave?

Why do you think?

You're a Jew.

You know, with the blonde

hair and the blue eyes,

I never got a hassle much.

My father was a patriot.

He fought for Germany

in the First World w*r.

We loved this country.

Eventually he realized we had to get out.

How'd you do?

The problem was getting travel visas.

Other countries wouldn't take us.

My dad had a cousin in New York who helped.

We finally got our visa in 1940.

But we only had enough

money for one ticket out.

My little sister, Margo...

She was only 11, so...

My parents didn't want her traveling alone.

Until they sent me.

Boy, how seasick the whole way.

When I landed, I stayed with my cousin.

When the Nazis invaded Holland,

my family never showed up.

That's when I went to Detroit.

I got a job as an

apprentice in a tool factory

when the English listened

to baseball on the radio.

When Pearl Harbor happened,

I was the first one

in the recruitment office to enlist.

You know what they said?

They couldn't take me.

Because I wasn't an American citizen.

I'd have to wait to get drafted.

So I did.

I waited, and I waited.

I checked the mailbox

every day for two years.

June 6th, 1944.

Landed at Omaha Beach on D-Day.

Four years earlier.

I left this country,

scared and alone in

the middle of the night.

But I came back with a g*dd*mn army.

I found Margo.

She's in Switzerland.

She's 16 now.

She's living with relatives.

She's good.

She made it.

And her folks.

The records show that

my parents arrived at

Auschwitz August 12th, 1942.

The camp was liberated January 27th, 1945.

No sign of them.

The Nazis had a name

for what they did to us.

The Final Solution.

Like we were

some kind of nagging puzzle

that they finally figured out how to solve.

So sorry, Howie.

I don't want to tell Stryker.

I want to tell him

right before they put

that rope around his neck,

I'm going to tell that piece of

sh*t that he was confining in a Jew.

You say it doesn't matter

what happens tomorrow.

It matters.

More you know

matters to me,

to my family,

to all of Germany.

Gring has to fall.

You think he's going to beat Jackson?

Don, please.

Do something about it.

I can't.

You can't what?

I'm just a shrink.

You want to know why it happened here?

People let it happen.

Because they didn't stand

up until it was too late.

Have a safe trip home, Doc.

Yes, sir. Of course.

No, I... I completely

understand.

Thank you.

Son of a g*n.

Truman's just named Frederick Vinson

Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.

Yeah, I didn't want the job anyway.

Who would?

Welcome's up.

You're walking into a trap.

Dr. Kelly, I was under the

impression you'd been relieved.

Putting Gring on the stand

gives him everything he wants.

It's why he surrendered in the first place.

His last chance to redeem

the Reich on the world stage.

After what I read in

the paper this morning,

I don't believe I care

what you think anymore.

You can't beat him.

Charles!

Not without help.

This is everything I have on him.

Private files, off-the-book conversations.

I know more about this man

than anyone else on the planet.

And it's all in here.

Why do you have this?

I was gonna write a book.

Make something of myself.

It's okay.

So you really think I can't beat him?

Honestly?

I don't know.

You know, I was gonna be Chief Justice.

I'll be lucky if there's a place

on the court for me when I return.

As of six hours ago, I was

discharged from the army.

There's nothing left for us to do, sir.

Might as well go finish the w*r.

The trick is to use his vanity against him.

He is the Reich Marshall.

And the Reich Marshall is never wrong.

You can't beat him.

Every decision that's led him to this place

has to be the right one.

So as much as he

won't want to talk about

the camps and the SS

and the final solution,

you can make him own them.

Kelly's right.

Get him to admit to signing those orders.

And you'll have him.

I'll have him.

This is your day.

You're ready.

No idea, sir.

Justice Jackson, are you ready?

The prosecution now calls

Hermann Gring to the stand.

For the record, is there

any doubt in your mind

that Adolf Hitler is dead?

I have no doubt.

So you are aware

that this makes you the only

living man who can expound to us

the true purposes of the n*zi party

and the inner workings of its leadership?

I am perfectly aware of this, sir.

Your party from the very beginning

intended to overthrow the Weimar Republic.

That was our firm intention.

What the hell?

And upon coming to power,

you immediately abolished

parliamentary government in Germany.

We found it to be no longer necessary.

Is that because you believe people

are not capable of self-government?

We were elected by the people

and given a mandate for change.

The systems that had previously existed

had brought Germany to the verge of ruin.

The old president of Roosevelt said

there are certain peoples in Europe

who have forsaken democracy

not because they did not wish for it,

but because democracy had

brought forth men who were too weak.

After you came to power,

you regarded it necessary to

suppress all opposition parties, correct?

We found it necessary to no

longer permit opposition here.

And you also considered it immediately

necessary to establish concentration camps?

The camps were set up as a measure

against the communists and their violence.

So it was necessary to

erect a camp for them,

run two or three camps,

something like this.

You also had to have certain groups

to carry out orders and fight

for you if necessary, right?

Certain groups... Well, for example,

if you wanted certain people k*lled,

you had to have some

organization that would k*ll them.

Yeah, Germany had

this level of political

police that you would

find in any other country.

And the SA and the SS were the

organizations that carried out these orders

and dealt with people on a

physical level, were they not?

The SA never received

orders to k*ll anybody.

Neither did the SS, not in my time.

Beyond a certain point,

I had no influence on it.

The SS carried out arrests.

They handled the transportation of

people to the concentration camps.

Can you not recall a time

when the SS began to perform the function

of acting as the executor

of the n*zi party?

It would be very

difficult for me to explain

to an outsider whether the SS or whether

the Gestapo may or may not be active.

Try.

Perhaps as the police came more and more

into the hands of Himmler,

expectations may have changed.

And, of course, it is well

known that some SS units were

guarding the camps and later

performed some police functions.

And carried out other

functions in the camps?

To what functions do you refer?

They carried out all of the

functions of the camps, didn't they?

If an SS unit was guarding a camp,

and an SS leader was the camp commandant,

send it to the rational to assume

that they would have carried

out all of the functions of the camp.

You have said that you wanted a

strong German state to overcome

the conditions of

Versailles, is that correct?

We wanted a strong German

state, regardless of Versailles.

The first country to be absorbed by Germany

was Austria, but it had not been part

of Germany before the First World w*r,

and it had not been taken from Germany by

the Treaty of Versailles, is that correct?

That is not entirely correct.

The second territory taken by Germany was

Bohemia, then Moravia, and then Slovakia.

These were not taken from

Germany by the Treaty of Versailles,

nor had they been part of Germany

before the First World w*r, had they?

These parts of Czech territory

were not part of the smaller German Reich

at the time of the Treaty of Versailles.

However, formally, they were united to

the German Reich for hundreds of years.

You still have not answered my question.

I have answered your question.

If the facts do not suit you,

there is very little I can do.

Can you not answer yes or no?

Time may not mean quite as much

to you as it does to the rest of us.

Mr. Justice, the tribunal

thinks the witness ought to

be allowed to make what

explanations he thinks right.

I trust that the court is not unaware

that outside of this courtroom

is a great social question

regarding the revival of Nazism,

and that one of the purposes

of declaring is to encourage

and perpetuate it by propaganda

from this trial now in process.

This witness has adopted in the

witness box and the prisoner's dock

an arrogant and contemptuous attitude

towards this tribunal, which is giving him

the opportunity of a trial,

which he never gave a living soul.

The ruling stands, Mr. Justice.

I must of course bow to

the ruling of the tribunal

and would simply request that the witness

find a way to keep his answers succinct.

Could you please repeat the question?

They were not taken from you

by the Treaty of Versailles,

where of course Austria was

taken by the Versailles Treaty

and also through Detenland.

For both these territories would

have been German territories

for the simple rights of the people

to self-determination.

I find that interesting,

considering you just

testified that people's

self-determination was

the first thing you took away.

From the very beginning,

you regarded the elimination of

Jews from the economic life of Germany

as one phase of the four-year plan

under your jurisdiction. Is that correct?

Partially correct.

Partially. I see.

I would like to review with you briefly

public acts taken by you in

reference to the Jewish question.

First, did you proclaim the Nuremberg Laws?

Yes, I did.

As president of the

Reichstag, that was my job.

What date was that?

The 15th of September, 1935.

And on the first day of December 1936,

you passed an act making it

a death penalty for Germans

to transfer property abroad?

That is correct.

That was the decree governing

restriction on foreign contracts.

And on April 22, 1938,

you published penalties

within the Reich.

Concealing.

Then on April 26, 1938,

you signed a decree

ordering the registration of

all Jewish property inside

and outside of Germany.

If it is signed by me... Then a

decree on November 12, 1938

imposing a fine of one billion

Reichsmarks for atonement on all Jews.

And that all damages

caused to Jewish property

by the riots of 1938

are many details here.

The insurance company... And the

decree on the 17th of September 1940

ordering the sequestration of

all Jewish property in Poland.

Yeah, in that part of

Poland that was a former

German province and

would return to Germany.

A decree asking Himmler and Heydrich

to make plans for

the final solution

of the Jewish question.

That is not correct.

I know that decree very well.

I ask that you show

the document number 1110,

exhibit number USA509.

I think it should be

read into the record so

we may have no argument

about its translation.

That document is signed

by you, is it not?

Is that just correct?

Please correct me if I am wrong.

Supplementing the task that

was assigned to you on 1-24-1939,

which dealt with arriving at

through furtherance of immigration

and, in fact, the evacuation.

A solution of the Jewish problem

as advantageous as possible,

I hereby charge you

with making all

necessary preparations in

regards to organizational

and financial matters

for bringing about

a final solution

of the Jewish question.

He's got them.

Am I correct so far?

No, your translation

is not correct.

Then please give

us your translation.

Supplementing the

task which was entrusted

to you in the decree

dated January 21, 1939

to solve the Jewish question

by immigration and evacuation

in the most favorable way possible.

Given present conditions,

I hereby commission you

to carry out all necessary

preparations with regard to

organizational substantive

and financial viewpoints.

Now, here is the sentence

for a complete solution,

not a final solution,

for a total solution

of the Jewish question.

A complete and total solution.

Complete and total, yeah.

A complete and total solution you

wanted the chief of the SS to enact.

Yeah, but I would like

to make an explanation.

Oh, please do.

I sent this letter

to Himmler and to Heydrich

because it was some 18 months now since the

declaration of the 24th of January, 1939

and Heydrich had

achieved very little.

So I charged him to accelerate the task of

dealing with the immigration of the Jews.

Immigration, you contend

was about immigration?

It says so in the first line.

That's just the first sentence.

The letter goes on

to state My desire

for a complete solution

to the Jewish problem

and an end to their

financial influence by

their emigration and

evacuation from Germany.

It is in this document

that you present to me.

Are there any more questions

for the witness, Justice Jackson?

Mr. Justice,

is the witness excused?

I have a question.

The tribunal was under

the impression the American

prosecutor would be

examining this witness today.

The United States is always

happy to hear from our distinguished

colleague from Great Britain.

It won't take more than a moment.

You've implied to this court that you lost

some influence with Adolf Hitler in 1942.

Is that correct?

I believe this to be the case, yes.

But you were still Reichsmarshal

of Germany in 1942.

Hitler's successor, yes?

Yes, I was the Reichsmarschall.

And you're telling me that

you were totally unaware

that three million Jews

were m*rder*d in 1942?

I was unaware of this.

In 1943,

at least 800,000 Jews

were ex*cuted in the camps.

You were still Reichsmarshal

in 1943, is that correct?

That is correct.

In 1944,

an additional 800,000 Jews

died in the camps.

You were still Reichsmarshal

in 1944, is that correct?

That is correct.

In 1945,

250,000,

an estimated

six million Jews in total,

as well as Soviet and Polish citizens,

Romani people,

artists, scientists, writers,

journalists, photographers,

filmmakers, people k*lled,

not in combat,

not in enemy fire,

but exterminated by the state of Germany.

The state which you

were the Reichsmarshal of,

the preeminent political

post of your country.

You contend

that you had no knowledge.

At least give me this.

Knowing what we know now,

knowing what happened

to six million Jews,

I have to ask,

would you still follow

the Fuhrer, Adolf Hitler?

Yeah.

Eiffel.

Order! Order!

Heil Hitler.

No further questions.

I think this is as good a place

as any to adjourn for the day.

Oh, great.

Absolutely great.

I survived.

You did.

You were right.

I couldn't beat him.

Not without help.

Gering cannot stand against the Fuhrer.

Invaluable information, doctor.

So what now?

As Gering falls, so do they all.

We'll be okay.

Here.

You off?

One more thing you have to do.

You helped them, didn't you?

I did.

I'm leaving.

Leaving?

Going home.

I've come to say goodbye.

What do we do now, doctor?

Do we shake hands?

I know we were friends, Douglas.

For a while.

Goodbye, Hermann.

Years from now,

happen to what you say about us.

Will you even acknowledge we were human?

The judgment of the International

Military Tribunal will now be read.

Each defendant will be addressed in turn.

Hermann Gering,

the evidence shows that after Hitler,

you were the most prominent

man in the n*zi regime.

Your guilt is unique in its enormity.

Your record discloses no excuses.

The International Military Tribunal

sentences you to death by hanging.

Rudolf Hess,

you are indicted.

The executions are

scheduled for midnight tonight.

In order to maintain discipline, the

prisoners will not be informed until 11.

45 pm, when they will be awakened

in their cells and offered last rites.

At 8 pm, eight hand-picked

journalists will arrive at the prison.

Two French, two British,

two American, two Russian.

Lights out is at 9.

30, which is when the doctor

will do his normal final rounds.

Any prisoner requesting a sleep aid

will be given a placebo with baking soda.

At 10 o'clock,

we will bring the press

down to the gallows,

where I will brief them of the

final preparations for tonight.

The prisoners will be brought in one by one

and given the opportunity

to speak their last words.

They will then...

Who is it?

Gering, sir.

No, no, no, no!

No, you son of a b*tch!

You don't get to do this!

He's dead, sir.

Sign, I... God damn it!

I'm sorry, sir.

We have a decision to make.

We can either scrub the

executions for tonight or proceed.

Let's just get home with it.

Sir, I... Stryker is refusing

to put his clothes on.

Come on.

Get out of here!

You f*cking stupid wh*re!

Let him go! Let him go!

Julius.

Julius.

You... You...

You have been defended.

Come on.

Let's do it together.

Come on.

Give me a shirt.

Ask him his name.

You know my name.

Any last words?

Cool him, feast 1946.

For she victim...

Benziadis Tagus Hagen!

Oh, damn it!

Why do you leave the bar?

Yes, Kay.

I have to be honest, Dr. Kelly.

I find some of the conclusions

in your book quite unbelievable.

You were dealing with the Nazis,

who you must admit are unique people.

They are not unique people.

There are people like the Nazis

in every country in the world today.

Not in America.

Yes, in America.

Their personality patterns are not obscure.

There are people who want to be in power.

And while you say they don't exist

here, I would say I'm quite certain

there are people in

America who would willingly

climb over the corpses

of half the American public

if they knew they could

gain control of the other half.

Doctor, please.

They stoke hatred.

It's what Hitler and Gring

did, and it is textbook.

And if you think the next time it happens

we're going to recognize it because

they're wearing scary uniforms,

you're out of your damn mind.

More with our panel when we return.

Yeah, uh-huh.

They're not going to invite

you to stay for the next segment.

Let's go.

And just so you know,

trashing our country is probably

not the best way to sell your book.