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The First Nuremberg Trial
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The First Nuremberg Trial

83 MIN · EN · STATUS: [ STREAMING ]
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Eighty years ago the Allies put the surviving Nazi leadership in a Nuremberg courtroom, and this film reconstructs how that trial actually worked using photographs and archive footage from the 218 days it was in session. Hermann Göring, foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, armaments chief Albert Speer, propagandist Julius Streicher, and SS officer Ernst Kaltenbrunner all appear in the dock, and the film traces the arguments that put twelve of them on death row by October 1946. It goes past the courtroom photographs that shaped public memory to show what happened behind the scenes: how prosecutors from four Allied powers with different legal systems built a joint case, how defendants like Speer tried to separate themselves from the regime's worst crimes, and how the tribunal's procedures became the template for international law that followed. The film treats the trial as both a historical event and a legal experiment, examining what it accomplished and where its limits showed. Archive material carries most of the narrative, with the courtroom itself as the film's central setting throughout.