The Nuremberg trial, very well made in the great Nuremberg From Nuremberg to Rossif illuminated with talent by Joseph Kessel (Last Judgments: the Petain trial, Nuremberg and Eichmann), absolute necessity to give a new impetus to Humanity condemning the absolute savagery of Nazism and allowed a psychiatrist to make us precious testimonies of his talks with senior Nazi officials, he had imprisoned in January 1946 (six weeks after the trial began) to the end of the month July of the same year.
A photo, a brief biography precede each of these portraits.
Among the accused:
Karl Doenitz, Hans Frank - the Governor General of Poland - Wilhelm Frick, Hans Fritzsche, Walther Funk, Hermann Goering, Rudolf Hess, Alfred Jodl, Erns Kaltenbrunner, Wilhelm Keitel, Constantin von Neurath, Franz von Papen, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Alfred Rosenberg, Fritz Sauckel, Hjalmar Schacht, Baldur von Schirach, Albert Speer, Julius Streicher.
Among the witnesses:
Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski, Kurt Daluege, Sepp Dietrich, Franz Halder, Rudolf Hoess (The Auschwitz commander speaks), Albert Kesselring, Ewald von Kleist, Erich von Manstein, Erhard Milch, Rudolf Mildner, Otto Ohlendorf, Oswald Pohl, Walter Schellenberg, Paul O. Schmidt.
These arisen ways of the past are to listen to the putting into perspective of this dialogue that does not judge, who reveals. Valuable document for understanding history.
The Banality of Evil (Hannah Arendt about Eichmann in Jerusalem). None of these former Nazis admits his guilt. Each blames the other, often neighboring cell when it is not the dead (Hitler). Infamous antics, cowardice, intellectual poverty (which does not exclude a certain manipulative intelligence in many executioners), mental disorders are the lot of those discussions.