Did anyone see that Nuremberg TV show? I heard it was pretty good. I hasn't shown in Canada yet, I'm wondering if I should invest the two evenings ang watch? As far as realism goes I heard it's pretty good, they used actual trial manuscripts. So it has potential, but like any WW2 television, reality goes out the window in Hollywood.
I thought it was an ok show, but it featured way too much on Goring and not enough on the other defendants. It was pretty accurate in compared with the real-life trial, but then again Im not an expert on it. I imagine you'll have a good time watiching it.
I was surprised to see it was filmed in Quebec! The courtroom was spookily accurate - check out the colour photos in TIME LIFE'S 20TH CENTURY ENCYCLOPEDIA. They did a fantastic job. The miniseries could have been 8 hours - would have made it even better. Goering was very charismatic and I would love to have seen more about his role in the trial. Did you know the trial went on 10 months? They don't even hint at that in the film. Surprisingly good. Too bad the Canadian extras didn't know how to march like Americans - kind of spoiled a couple scenes, where GIs were marching like British Guardsmen!
All defendants declared themselves innocent, right? I'm trying to understand how Russians were allowed to be members of the prosecution team, if the Russians themselves were accused of aggresion and countless massacres. I call this hypocrasy. Not to mention one fundamental law aspect which was ignored: "Nulla pena sine lege"
I disliked the Nureumberg Trials. And if the Allies had to kill the Defendents then they should have been shot, Not excecuted like Common criminals. They were treated like POWs in their captivity but treated like petty theives in their punishment and trial. The even more controversial Nureumberg economic trials where the companies that funded the Nazi war machine were tried was even more of a shame.
I saw the 2 night show, and thought it was pretty entertaining. Alec Baldwin, did a pretty good job in it.
I just watched it last month and thought it was good. I was particularly taken with the scene in which the older judge takes Baldwin to task for implying that he is deliberately sabotaging the trials for personal vengeance. I was trying to figure out if this character - Francis Biddle really acted this way and if he was trying to show Baldwin's character that the trials could not just be a show. They had to have legal validity. "You just had a bad day" he tells the younger jurist. "Come back tomorrow and do better".
