Nuremberg (2025)

1. One of our vehicles, is it?

2. Move! Move!

3. Make way! Make way!

4. Hey! Let me see your hands!

5. Jesus Christ, that's Hermann Göring.

6. - Who? - Hitler's second-in-command.

7. The Führer-in-waiting.

8. What did he say?

9. He asked us to get his luggage.

10. Justice Jackson?

11. That depends on if you have a good reason

12. to be banging on my door at 3:00 in the morning.

13. They captured Hermann Göring alive.

14. - Where? - Austria.

15. What are they gonna do with him?

16. Well, that's the real question, isn't it? Can I come in?

17. - No. - But it's raining.

18. I can see that. Are they gonna shoot him?

19. Not that I know of.

20. Well, for a long time, they were gonna shoot him.

21. Yes, sir.

22. Churchill and Roosevelt signed the order themselves.

23. An order you opposed.

24. I'm a Supreme Court Justice.

25. I tend to frown on executing men without a trial.

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

27. It can't be done.

28. - You keep saying that. - Because it can't be done.

29. Give me one good reason why not.

30. There's no legal precedent for a trial.

31. There's no international law to base the charges on.

32. No one has ever tried war criminals outside of one nation's jurisdiction

33. because the whole concept of international law is that

34. one country can't tell another country's citizens how to conduct themselves.

35. - Elsie... - Trying these men

36. in a German court would be different.

37. But what you're talking about is trying them

38. in some sort of legal limbo that doesn't exist,

39. using case law that hasn't been written yet,

40. and on the off chance that you're not keeping track,

41. that's about four good reasons why not.

42. - I'm getting you a drink. - I don't want a drink.

43. Then I'm getting me another and getting you one for show.

44. Who do you put on trial?

45. The German commanders?

46. Enlisted men?

47. What about the judges who enforced the racial codes?

48. Obviously, we'd have to work that out.

49. And once you decide who to put on trial, what do you charge them with?

50. Conspiracy to wage aggressive war on the world.

51. And you want the United States to argue that as the prosecution?

52. I do.

53. Against Germany,

54. a country that never attacked us.

55. - Say, just for a second, it could be done. - Robert...

56. Don't you wanna know how I'd do it?

57. It would have to be a completely international effort.

58. All of the Allies would have to participate.

59. The U.S.,

60. Britain, France, Russia.

61. You can't do it without the Russians.

62. Four international judges.

63. You're talking about a tribunal.

64. Exactly.

65. The world needs to know what these men did.

66. It's a logistical nightmare.

67. I know.

68. But it has to be done.

69. Pick a card.

70. I don't think so.

71. Ask me to pick one.

72. Pick a card.

73. Now ask me to please remember it and put it back in the deck.

74. Please remember it and put it back in the deck.

75. Now shuffle 'em.

76. Now what?

77. My card was the three of spades.

78. Well, that's hardly a trick.

79. Turn over the top one.

80. Who are you?

81. I'm a psychiatrist.

82. Oh, and why are you going to Mondorf?

83. I wish I knew.

84. They send psychiatrists on secret missions now?

85. I'm pretty sure I'm the first.

86. How did you do that? With the cards.

87. I didn't do anything.

88. You're a really good magician.

89. Dr. Kelley?

90. Sergeant Howie Triest, at your service.

91. I'm gonna run you over to the commandant's office.

92. - Tigers, huh? - Yes, sir.

93. Perhaps I'll see you around.

94. Jiminy.

95. Who was that?

96. That, Howie, was a very attractive woman.

97. Did you say "commandant"?

98. Uh, yes, sir. Colonel Andrus.

99. So, can you tell me what I'm supposed to be doing here?

100. I thought the war was over.

101. I couldn't say.

102. Couldn't say because you don't know

103. or you couldn't say 'cause somebody told you you couldn't say?

104. I couldn't say.

105. Hmm.

106. Don't get sore at me, Doc. I'm just your translator.

107. Translator for what?

108. You'll see.

109. Dr. Kelley, apparently, Central Command thinks

110. you're some kind of hotshot headshrinker.

111. I imagine you have some questions for me.

112. - More than a few. - Then let's get to it.

113. You are standing inside a secret military prison.

114. It currently houses what's left of the Nazi High Command.

115. The governments of Russia, France, Great Britain, and our United States

116. are deciding right now whether to put these men on trial for their lives.

117. You have been brought in to inspect and ensure

118. the prisoners' mental health should that trial go forward.

119. Suicide.

120. That'll be the main concern with most of the prisoners.

121. Hitler, Goebbels, and Himmler have already taken their own lives.

122. We cannot afford any more losses.

123. Goebbels and Himmler did it with this.

124. Hidden cyanide capsule.

125. The one you'll have to watch the closest is Göring.

126. Göring?

127. As in Hermann Göring?

128. That's the one.

129. Hermann Göring's here?

130. Sergeant, is it possible the major suffered a large blow

131. to his head on the way to my office?

132. - Not that I'm aware of, sir. - Sorry.

133. - It's just a lot to process. - Sure it is. Try and do it faster.

134. - Yes, sir. - When Göring surrendered,

135. he was traveling with his family.

136. He had over a million dollars in German currency and jewelry.

137. And a large quantity...

138. of these.

139. We had them sent back to the States for classification.

140. Paracodeine.

141. Fairly potent painkiller. I'm a fan.

142. He says they're for his heart.

143. Well, then, I have a rather large bridge in Brooklyn to sell you.

144. These have nothing to do with the heart. They're an opiate.

145. How many pills does he take a day?

146. - Sergeant? - Forty, sir.

147. I think it's safe to say the Reichsmarschall's got a drug problem.

148. Where's his family now?

149. They've been released and they're not your concern.

150. Your only job is to evaluate Göring and the others. That is it.

151. Sir, I'm a good doctor,

152. but the entire Nazi High Command might be a little bit beyond my area of expertise.

153. Believe me, Major, this was not my idea.

154. Dismissed.

155. He's not great at pep talks, is he?

156. Commandant's not known for his warmth, sir.

157. - I wanna meet him. - Who?

158. - Göring. Right now. - Excuse me, sir.

159. You don't wanna get settled first?

160. I wanna know what I'm dealing with.

161. All right, well, don't be too intimidated.

162. I'm not. Tell me about him.

163. Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring, President of the Reichstag,

164. Minister of Aviation, Commander-in-Chief of the Luftwaffe,

165. Minister of Economics, a founding member of the Gestapo secret police,

166. was appointed Hitler's successor in 1939

167. and is the highest ranking German military officer of all time.

168. Okay.

169. Now I'm a little intimidated.

170. Don't be. You're good.

171. Reichsmarschall.

172. Guten Tag, Herr Triest.

173. Reichsmarschall Göring, my name is Dr. Douglas Kelley.

174. He says, "Wonderful, a doctor."

175. I am. May I take your pulse?

176. Ja, ja.

177. He's been asking for his pills.

178. - He wants you to get 'em for him. - Mm-hmm.

179. I understand you've had heart trouble.

180. "I've had several minor heart attacks

181. "and the pills help with that."

182. Can you open your shirt, please?

183. Mm-hmm.

184. Respiration is rapid and shallow. Don't translate that.

185. The pills help with the pain as well?

186. Ja, ja.

187. He says he was shot down in World War I.

188. He has a bullet in his right hip.

189. In 1923, he was shot in the groin

190. during the Munich Putsch.

191. You've been shot a lot, sir.

192. "Occupational hazard."

193. Well, if you really wanna look after your heart,

194. the best way to do that is to lose some weight.

195. "I assure you, you are looking

196. "at the best physique in all of Germany,

197. "just ask my wife."

198. I'm sure you're right, sir, but the guards here call you "Fat Stuff."

199. I'm sure...

200. it would be difficult for a lesser man to lose this weight,

201. but you possess a fortitude and discipline that others do not, yes?

202. "You see, this man is different."

203. "We're gonna be good friends. I'm sure of it."

204. I look forward to that.

205. - Good day. - Auf Wiedersehen.

206. Inflated sense of self.

207. Charming.

208. Speaks English.

209. What? What? What?

210. Yeah, the way he looked at me when I called him fat.

211. Yeah, he understood me. He's been playing you.

212. No. No, why... why would he pretend?

213. Translation gives him more time to consider his answers.

214. He thinks that gives him an advantage.

215. Wait, hold on.

216. You're saying I spent the last three months

217. mumbling to myself while he understood every word?

218. Pretty much.

219. Jiminy.

220. Are you... Are you gonna tell him that you know?

221. No, no. No, he's gonna tell me when he's ready.

222. - When's that? - When he determines I'm not a threat.

223. I wanna meet the rest of 'em. Who's next?

224. Uh... Dr. Robert Ley.

225. - Chief of the German Labor Front. - Mmm-hmm.

226. One of Hitler's earliest followers.

227. He once wrote a book that was so complimentary of the Führer

228. that Hitler had the entire run destroyed 'cause he was so embarrassed.

229. Ley, who spearheaded the Nazi slave labor program

230. was captured in his pajamas,

231. calling himself "Dr. Distelmeyer."

232. "I'm not like these other power-hungry men

233. "you have locked up in here."

234. "I can smell the Jew."

235. Great Admiral Karl Dönitz.

236. The German Navy's Commander-in-Chief.

237. Architect of the U-boat attacks that crippled the British Navy.

238. Dönitz condoned murder of prisoners on the high seas.

239. A fanatical Nazi, with the arrest of Dönitz,

240. the Third Reich is ended forever.

241. "I have been in custody for 76 days.

242. "I have yet to be formally arrested or charged with a specific crime,

243. "which is a direct violation of the Geneva Conventions.

244. "Charge me or release me."

245. Julius Streicher. Hitler's Director of Propaganda.

246. Publisher of the national anti-Semitic paper,

247. Der Stürmer.

248. Streicher!

249. Dubbed the high priest of anti-Semitism and the Beast of Franconia,

250. led the Jewish boycott...

251. and ruled Nuremberg with an iron fist.

252. He wants to know if you're a Jew.

253. No.

254. "But you work in a Jewish profession."

255. "What do you fight for, Doctor?"

256. Göring is the key.

257. The leader of a nation in exile. He binds them all together.

258. He's begun a strict self-imposed diet and exercise regimen,

259. and is going cold turkey on the pills.

260. It's almost as if he's training for something.

261. If one were to write a book about him, it...

262. Is there a library in town?

263. - You wanna go to a library? - Yes.

264. - At 2:33 in the morning? - Yes. Get your coat.

265. I'll get my coat.

266. The sheer amount of narcissists we got locked up in that hotel,

267. I bet at least half have books in here

268. written about them or written by them.

269. We're gonna figure these guys out.

270. Oh, yeah? You speak a lot of German, Doc?

271. Not even a little. How'd you learn?

272. My mother spoke German and I wanted to be like her.

273. You really think you can do it?

274. Do what?

275. Well, get these guys to open up to you.

276. Sure.

277. How?

278. Everybody wants to be listened to. It's a natural instinct.

279. I learn about them. I get them to trust me.

280. They open up.

281. Make it sound so easy.

282. What if we could dissect evil?

283. I mean, what sets these men apart from all the others?

284. What enabled them to commit the crimes that they did?

285. They almost took over the world.

286. You've heard about the work camps for Jews?

287. Rumor has it they weren't just work camps.

288. I've heard.

289. So, how do people become like that?

290. We actually have a shot to figure that out.

291. To find out what makes the Germans different.

292. Different?

293. From us.

294. A man who writes a book about that could make a lot of money.

295. You know, for a second, I thought you were being noble.

296. You want noble?

297. Fine.

298. If we could psychologically define "evil,"

299. we could make sure something like this never happens again.

300. What's going on? Hermann Göring can't breathe.

301. Move! Howie!

302. Herr.

303. - Okay, his airway is clear. - That's good, right?

304. No, he's having a heart attack.

305. What? Where the hell's

306. - the prison doctor? - He's on his way.

307. All right. Tell him to hurry.

308. - Howie, I need some aspirin. - Yeah.

309. - Plain old ordinary aspirin. - Got it! Got it!

310. Get it now! Go! Hey, hey, hey.

311. Your heart's still beating, which means you're alive.

312. I'm gonna keep you that way, okay?

313. I need you to stay calm, all right?

314. Breathe with me. In and out. In and out.

315. I'm here. I'm here. Look at me. I'm here.

316. I'm not gonna let you die, all right?

317. In and...

318. Here. Is that your wife?

319. She's here. She's here. She's here.

320. Breathe. Breathe with me.

321. Doc's on his way. Doc's on the way. Aspirin.

322. Yeah. Hand me a few of those, will ya? Thank you, Howie.

323. Hey, hey, best thing for the heart,

324. plain old aspirin. Yeah.

325. Mmm... Mmm...

326. Trust me, all right?

327. Breathe. In and out. Mm-hmm.

328. Chew, chew. Yeah. Better.

329. Yeah, your pulse is slow. Yeah.

330. Hey, guess what? You're alive. You're alive.

331. Well, how about that?

332. Thank you.

333. Let's get him to the infirmary. Come on.

334. What're you smiling for?

335. Hmm?

336. He said "thank you" in English.

337. Truman wants to win re-election in '48.

338. He's not gonna do that coddling the Nazis.

339. True enough.

340. Plus, a trial means giving them a chance to tell their stories to the world.

341. What are we afraid to hear them tell?

342. We won the damn war, Bob.

343. If you do this, it'll turn into the biggest boondoggle of all time.

344. - Cameras in the damn courtroom... - And what if they're sympathetic?

345. What if all this does is provide them with a platform

346. for anti-Semitism all over the world?

347. You wanna be responsible for that?

348. You wanna know if I'm comfortable

349. executing a few Nazis without a trial?

350. Damn right, I am.

351. It doesn't matter anyway.

352. You'll never get the Russians.

353. We got the Russians.

354. - What? - We got the Russians.

355. We did?

356. Truman called Stalin himself.

357. Looking at Nikitchenko for lead prosecutor.

358. That's fantastic news.

359. I have no idea who you are.

360. Colonel John Amen, sir. I work for the Judge Advocate General.

361. So, the Army sent us a lawyer?

362. Yes, sir.

363. I bring greetings from General Eisenhower, who says he wants you to know

364. that he's not for hanging anyone without a trial.

365. Well, that's progress.

366. He also says he hopes the trial won't take too long

367. so we can get on with hanging them.

368. Hmm. Have a seat.

369. I've read a lot about you, sir.

370. They say you're gonna be the next Chief Justice.

371. President promised him the seat personally.

372. And swore me to secrecy,

373. so let's maybe not tell everyone who walks into the office about it, okay?

374. Well, everyone in my office says there's no way you get the trial.

375. What do you say?

376. I say I like an underdog.

377. Good morning, Julius.

378. I'm gonna show you a series of cards, each with inkblots,

379. and you're gonna tell me what each inkblot makes you see.

380. Perhaps it will reveal something about your character,

381. your intelligence, creativity.

382. And everything here stays between us.

383. Herr Doktor.

384. Yes.

385. I can speak to you in English if it is of some help.

386. Only if it makes you comfortable.

387. Shall we begin?

388. "Butterfly."

389. "Witch."

390. "Torpedo hit."

391. Somebody has spilled something.

392. I see 10,000 horses.

393. I see the Valkyries ride.

394. "A vagina."

395. "A vagina."

396. "A Jewish vagina."

397. Huh.

398. This is blood.

399. Whose blood?

400. Or ink.

401. You can say a lot of things with ink.

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

403. It's gonna be a no.

404. Mmm.

405. Congress is going to say no to the trial.

406. They just want executions.

407. - I'm out of moves. - What about the President?

408. President wants someone to hide behind, that's why he needs Congress.

409. Neither will do it without the other.

410. - So you need someone bigger to back it. - Oh, come on.

411. Who's bigger than the President?

412. Jesus Christ.

413. Literally.

414. - Are you a Catholic? - I am now.

415. The Holy Father will see you now.

416. Hmm.

417. You wish to put these men on trial for their lives,

418. and you have come to ask for the Church's blessing in this.

419. Your support would go a long way to building an international consensus.

420. No one denies these men are evil.

421. But an eye for an eye...

422. is not the answer.

423. Maybe not, but I'm pretty sure where I first read about it.

424. Are you Catholic?

425. No, sir.

426. A religious man?

427. Not especially.

428. And yet, at home, they call you a Justice.

429. I didn't pick the name.

430. If you sit long enough in judgement of others,

431. you come to believe the laws of man outweigh the laws of God.

432. I don't believe that.

433. Then...

434. what do you believe?

435. I believe in man.

436. In our capacity to save ourselves from men like the Nazis.

437. I believe this to be a good act.

438. One so good you must circumnavigate your own laws to achieve it?

439. I'm sorry, but the Catholic Church cannot support you in this.

440. But you could support them in 1933.

441. I'm sorry?

442. You signed the Concordat with Hitler yourself.

443. That was a different matter.

444. You lived in Munich, you were the nuncio to the German Empire.

445. The Catholic Church was the first world power

446. to acknowledge the Führer State.

447. You gave the Nazis credibility.

448. In order to protect Catholics in Germany.

449. Isn't it a pity the Jews didn't have someone to do that for them?

450. Do you think I condone what they did?

451. People will remember, sir...

452. what you did in 1933,

453. what you do now.

454. They'll tell their children.

455. Did the Catholic Church stand with the Nazis...

456. or against them?

457. Did you just blackmail the Pope?

458. I don't wanna talk about it.

459. Word came down last night.

460. There's gonna be a trial.

461. A trial?

462. Good. Good.

463. As it should be.

464. Those cards that you showed me,

465. what did they teach you about me?

466. Honestly, that you are highly intelligent.

467. Ah...

468. I could have told you this.

469. And that you're a narcissist

470. given to an expansive and aggressive fantasy life,

471. with a strong ambition and drive to subjugate the world

472. as you find it to your own pattern of thinking.

473. And you were surprised by this?

474. No.

475. Then the cards have taught you nothing.

476. Herr Triest, he tells me you do magic.

477. Sorry.

478. Yes.

479. Well, perhaps, if it's not too much trouble,

480. we don't get entertainment.

481. Why not?

482. Here's an average, ordinary silver dollar.

483. Ta-da!

484. Very good.

485. I will show you a magic trick one day.

486. What's that?

487. I am going to escape the hangman's noose.

488. And how do you plan on doing that?

489. If I were to tell you, it would not be a trick.

490. Nuremberg.

491. "Do you see what the Allies are capable of?

492. "There's nothing left."

493. "Except that."

494. Palace of Justice.

495. The roof's been damaged by the air raids.

496. Fire gutted the upper floors and collapsed the clock tower, but...

497. this courtroom should be able to hold 600 people when it's finished.

498. What's with all the supplies?

499. Nazis fought their last stand here when the city was taken.

500. And so they will again.

501. Of all the beautiful cities in this conquered land,

502. you want to try them in this bombed-out husk?

503. This is Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe, assistant prosecutor for the British.

504. Yes, sir, we do.

505. For one thing, we can control the space.

506. For another, there's an adjoining prison with room for up to 1,200 inmates.

507. We only need space for 22.

508. I'm sorry. Twenty-two, sir?

509. That's the number of men we're indicting for the first trial.

510. You see, if we don't win that trial, there won't be any more trials to come.

511. And you, myself, and Justice Jackson,

512. and our respective governments will be the laughingstock of the world,

513. defeated by the very men we've imprisoned.

514. So, that will be fun.

515. My friends in Washington say opinion's turned against you.

516. Oh, dear.

517. There's talk that you won't get the Chief Justice's seat

518. when Stone steps down.

519. Who's Truman gonna pick? Vinson? Vinson's too political.

520. Yes, but he's there.

521. This whole thing's become a sideshow, Robert.

522. It hasn't even begun.

523. They say...

524. you're writing all the briefs yourself,

525. refusing help from other lawyers.

526. Because it has to be done right.

527. And it will. But you can't do it alone.

528. Oh, everything will be fine once we actually get to trial.

529. You say that as though trying the Nazi High Command

530. with untested case law with the whole world watching

531. is going to be the easy part.

532. Well, when you put it like that...

533. Anything less than total victory will be considered utter defeat.

534. Which means, you don't just have to win, Robert,

535. you have to be flawless.

536. No pressure.

537. I'll have another.

538. Your cells are made of stone.

539. 9 feet by 13.

540. Your beds are bolted to the wall.

541. Your mattresses stuffed with straw instead of springs.

542. Your desks are made of cardboard and will not support a man's full weight.

543. Your chairs are never allowed against any wall,

544. and will be removed every night at sundown.

545. When you sleep,

546. your head and hands will remain above your blanket, visible at all times.

547. You will be given no belts, you'll be given no shoelaces,

548. you'll be given no toilet seats, you will be given nothing

549. with which to use as a weapon to take your own lives.

550. Welcome to Nuremberg.

551. Now this...

552. is a cell.

553. You approve?

554. German-built.

555. How could I not?

556. They will charge us soon, yeah?

557. You're looking forward to it?

558. I believe I am.

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

560. Do you know this Jackson?

561. The Justice Jackson?

562. No, I do not.

563. He will try to outwit me...

564. but he will not succeed.

565. You're very sure of yourself.

566. Doctor,

567. no man has ever beaten me.

568. There are books filled with the names of those who have tried.

569. Yet here you sit.

570. German-built.

571. You think I am at some sort of disadvantage

572. because I sit in a cell?

573. I will remind you,

574. I surrendered.

575. This is exactly where I desire to be.

576. Göring remains an enigma to me.

577. The closer we get to the indictments, the more confident he becomes.

578. I need to figure out a way to get closer to him.

579. So, how do we do that?

580. We ask for his help.

581. With what?

582. Rudolf Hess.

583. Rudolf...

584. Rudolf Hess is coming here?

585. Rudolf Hess. Deputy to the Führer.

586. Third in line for succession, following Hitler and Göring.

587. Hess transcribed Mein Kampf for Hitler while the two were in prison,

588. and was known as one of his most fanatical followers.

589. Sieg Heil!

590. Never do that in my prison again.

591. On May 10, 1941, at the height of the war,

592. Hess climbed into a Messerschmitt fighter plane alone

593. and flew it over the North Sea.

594. He bailed out somewhere over Scotland and broke his ankle upon impact.

595. Upon his discovery, he announced that he was Rudolf Hess,

596. third in line of the German High Command,

597. and he was here on a mission of peace,

598. and wanted to speak with Douglas Douglas-Hamilton,

599. the 13th Duke of Hamilton

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

601. After some obstacles, Hess was granted his meeting.

602. There, he announced his intention to meet with King George VI,

603. have Winston Churchill fired,

604. and negotiate a truce with Britain,

605. allowing the two nations to join forces

606. and defeat the Soviet Union.

607. Hess was immediately thrown into the Tower of London.

608. There, Hess began claiming

609. he had no memory of past events, even his childhood.

610. This lasted until February, 1945,

611. when he said his previous amnesia had been faked.

612. He then flipped again

613. and said his amnesia had returned in July, 1945,

614. when Germany collapsed.

615. So, now you have come to Hermann Göring...

616. to discredit my old friend.

617. What would be in this for me?

618. What do you want?

619. My wife...

620. and my daughter.

621. No one has been able to locate them since I surrendered.

622. I need you to find them for me, Doctor.

623. To give to them these.

624. Letters.

625. First, we talk to Hess...

626. and then your family.

627. How about that?

628. So, what, this guy almost takes over the whole world

629. and now you want us to do a mail run for him? Doc!

630. I'm in deeper with this guy than anyone's ever been,

631. and meeting his family will only tell me more.

632. So, Rudolf...

633. do you remember me?

634. We were together, yes.

635. That must have been the case.

636. But I don't remember anyone.

637. It was the three of us, Rudolf.

638. You...

639. and I...

640. and Adolf.

641. We ruled an empire.

642. I'm sorry.

643. You may well have been a friend...

644. but I don't know you anymore.

645. He's lying.

646. He has just spent an hour to say he does not remember me.

647. But when he arrived in the prison and he saw me...

648. what did he do?

649. Salute.

650. Sieg Heil.

651. That was very good.

652. This is dumb.

653. I'm dumb.

654. - I knew you'd come through for me. - Yeah.

655. 'Cause I'm a dummy.

656. How'd you find 'em?

657. Local gossip told me they're in Veldenstein.

658. Smoke?

659. Never see you smoke.

660. Yeah, I don't. Gave it up.

661. My parents hated it.

662. You always got 'em on ya.

663. It's a trick to get in good with the officers.

664. Tell myself I'll have a smoke when the war is done.

665. The war is done, Howie.

666. It's not too much farther.

667. Franz?

668. Mrs. Göring?

669. Mrs. Göring...

670. my name is Douglas Kelley.

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

672. Your husband asked me to bring you some letters.

673. Hermann?

674. Yes.

675. - "How is he?" - He's good.

676. He's holdin' up.

677. Edda.

678. Was that you playing?

679. It was beautiful.

680. Uh, she said, "He's a friend of your father."

681. Edda...

682. "How is Papa?"

683. Ah, he...

684. He's doing very well.

685. - "Is he being brave?" - Very brave.

686. He wants you to be brave, too.

687. He wrote you a letter.

688. Danke.

689. "She will read it 100 times. Thank you."

690. Danke.

691. Doktor!

692. For Hermann.

693. I don't know if I can.

694. Bitte.

695. Okay.

696. Come back.

697. You okay, Doc?

698. What the hell?

699. What's goin' on?

700. Word came down a couple of hours ago. We're charging the prisoners.

701. Where have you been?

702. Hermann Göring?

703. I am Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring.

704. Hermann Wilhelm Göring, you are hereby charged

705. by the United States of America, the French Republic,

706. United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

707. and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the following four counts.

708. Crimes against Peace, War Crimes, Crimes against Humanity

709. and of a Common Plan or Conspiracy to commit those Crimes.

710. The Crimes against Humanity you're accused of include murder,

711. extermination, enslavement, deportation, and other inhumane acts.

712. This is a copy of your indictment. Do you have any questions?

713. Nein.

714. Good day.

715. Who's next?

716. Streicher.

717. Do you have any questions?

718. What did he say?

719. He said he wants a Jewish lawyer.

720. "I'm not going to trial."

721. You are, Dr. Ley.

722. "I never killed anyone."

723. Guards!

724. It's okay, it's okay.

725. - Don't touch me. - It's okay.

726. - Robert. Robert... - Don't touch me!

727. - Whoa, whoa! - Hold him!

728. Come on!

729. Get a hold of him!

730. Don't try me as a common criminal! Come on!

731. Shoot me! Shoot me!

732. Shoot me!

733. Rough day?

734. Lady from the train.

735. Magic man.

736. How goes the secret mission?

737. It's hit a few obstacles.

738. I can see that.

739. What are you doing here?

740. I came in with the press.

741. Hermann Göring and the Nazis are being indicted today.

742. You don't say?

743. Strap yourself in.

744. This city is about to become "The Greatest Show on Earth."

745. From your wife.

746. You saw her?

747. Danke schön, Doctor.

748. Dateline Nuremberg! As dark rumors continue to swirl

749. about the true purpose of the Nazi work camps,

750. the legal teams are assembling for what promises to be

751. the trial of the century.

752. Through this tunnel, the Nazis will be taken to the courtroom,

753. now being rebuilt for the trial.

754. There, the film lights will be so bright

755. that the court-goers will be provided with sunglasses.

756. Hermann Göring and his Hitler-loving cronies

757. are scheduled to face off with our boys in one week.

758. Will justice prevail? Or will the fascists go free?

759. This reporter desperately hopes that the Allies run into no problems.

760. We have a problem.

761. Operation Weserübung was the German invasion of Denmark

762. and Norway in 1940.

763. Textbook aggressive war.

764. The Nazis, they roll tanks in, they occupy neutral country.

765. Except they're going to claim that the invasion was a preemptive strike.

766. To preempt what?

767. The British plan to invade Norway.

768. - Well, that's ridiculous. - Absolutely ridiculous.

769. I'm in complete agreement.

770. It concerns me that you're in this room right now.

771. Well, in addition to being ridiculous,

772. it also happens to be true.

773. The idea was to use the country as a staging area to hold the Nazis back.

774. We can't prosecute the Nazis for planning aggressive wars

775. if you guys were planning aggressive wars.

776. I admit there's a certain logic there.

777. Can the Nazis prove it?

778. The German lawyer's already put in a request for documents,

779. - but they don't have it. Not yet. - Then we're in the clear.

780. Maybe.

781. But it raises a bigger issue.

782. We have to know what the Nazis know, what their defense strategy is.

783. How exactly do you propose we do that?

784. Dr. Kelley, you are going to meet someone very important this evening.

785. This might actually be your chance to finally be of some use.

786. Impressive, right?

787. Hitler was building it to be the largest stadium on the planet.

788. You're Justice Jackson.

789. And you're the shrink.

790. This is where they held the rallies.

791. Every year, Hitler would pack this place, speak to the Nazi Party as a whole.

792. They filmed it.

793. In 1935, this is where he announced the Nuremberg Laws.

794. You know the laws?

795. The Nuremberg Laws defined a Jew

796. as any person having three or four Jewish grandparents.

797. And it didn't matter if you practiced Judaism,

798. if you'd converted to Christianity, this was about blood.

799. The laws stripped all Jews of German citizenry.

800. They made it illegal for Jews and Germans to marry each other

801. because of the fear of Rassenschande.

802. Defilement of the blood.

803. Under the laws, Jews were prohibited from using state hospitals,

804. and not allowed access to public education beyond the age of 14.

805. Libraries, parks, and beaches were closed to Jews.

806. War memorials had all Jewish names on them...

807. expunged.

808. All of that was announced right here, on this very ground.

809. What do you want from me?

810. Your patients...

811. I need you to start asking them the right questions.

812. What are the right questions?

813. What they tell their lawyers.

814. How they plan to defend themselves.

815. You want me to be a spy.

816. I want you to do your duty for your country.

817. No, you want me to break doctor-patient confidentiality.

818. I think you already have, Doctor. We read every report.

819. We need more.

820. Why not just shoot them?

821. That's what everybody wants.

822. - I mean, if you're just gonna cheat... - It's not cheating.

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

824. why not just shoot them and be done with it?

825. After the last Great War, we made Germany crawl.

826. We humiliated them.

827. Made them pay reparations they couldn't afford.

828. We made them hate us so much that in less than two decades,

829. they went from a broken nation to near world conquerors.

830. We have to do this right, because if we don't...

831. if 15 years from now, they come back even stronger...

832. I don't know if we can beat 'em a third time.

833. If we just shoot these men, we make 'em martyrs.

834. I'm not gonna allow them that.

835. There will be no statues of them.

836. No songs of praise.

837. I'm gonna put Hermann Göring on the stand

838. and I'm gonna make him tell the world what he did.

839. So that it can never happen again.

840. Hmm.

841. You brought me here because of Göring?

842. No.

843. I brought you here to show you that before the bullets were fired,

844. before tens of millions of men died...

845. all of this started with laws.

846. This war ends in a courtroom.

847. With Göring.

848. He's the face of the Nazis now.

849. As he falls, so do they all.

850. But if I'm gonna do that, I...

851. I need to be ready for him.

852. Will you help me?

853. Let's talk about Hitler.

854. It is interesting you have not asked me this directly before.

855. I'm curious what the attraction was.

856. He was a failed painter, right?

857. Not a very good soldier, yet he's worshiped and revered.

858. He made us feel German again.

859. How?

860. Well, the war had seen Germany crushed.

861. And along comes a man who says, "We can reclaim our former glory."

862. Would you not follow a man like this?

863. Depends what else he wanted to do.

864. The first time I saw Hitler talk, it was, uh...

865. 1922.

866. Upstairs of a coffee shop. For maybe 30 people.

867. This was peacetime,

868. but it was a peace without food, jobs, shoes.

869. And he stood up, and he said,

870. "French bellies are being filled with German pain."

871. Then,

872. "If you make threats, you need bayonets.

873. "Rearm! Down with Versailles!"

874. So, that night, I became a National Socialist.

875. Off of... one speech?

876. Well, I could tell he would appeal to the old soldiers.

877. If we have the old soldiers, we have the manpower.

878. Even with his anti-Semitism, it served a practical purpose.

879. It brought towards us men who needed something else to focus their emotions.

880. Something else to blame.

881. And the camps?

882. They were to be work camps for our political opponents, nothing more.

883. And you signed off on that?

884. For work camps, yeah.

885. Do you not think

886. that the Japanese interned by the Americans after Pearl Harbor

887. were not put to work? Of course, they were.

888. I made the camps for the good of Germany, for the war effort.

889. Not for death.

890. Himmler, Heydrich.

891. They were responsible?

892. If it is true what they say happened in the camps...

893. this is a grave blight on the great German Reich.

894. Have you told your lawyer about this?

895. Douglas, I will not stand against the Führer.

896. Not even if it could help you?

897. These are not things people need to know, Doctor.

898. Only you.

899. He can be sympathetic.

900. It's gonna be a problem for you.

901. He seriously claims that he thought they were only work camps?

902. - That's right. - You believe him?

903. Himmler ran the camps, right?

904. He was the head of the SS.

905. Göring was the head of the Air Force.

906. How often in America does the head of the Air Force know

907. what the head of the Secret Service is doing?

908. I'm sorry, but I cannot believe that we're having this conversation right now.

909. - I'm doing what you asked. - No!

910. - You're apologizing for him. - Gentlemen, please.

911. - I'm not the one defending the Nazi. - You think I'm defending him?

912. I am analyzing him, you provincial moron.

913. Göring is, above all things, a narcissist.

914. The only thing he cares about is building Germany up and then becoming her leader.

915. He does not care about the Jews.

916. - So, he's fine with them dying. - And he's fine with them not.

917. The only thing Hermann Göring cares about is Hermann Göring.

918. Does that sound like a man who dedicates himself

919. to the extermination of an entire race?

920. Well, Dr. Kelley, I really appreciate your thoughtfulness on this,

921. but I have to admit, it is very hard...

922. to believe.

923. You wanna walk into that courtroom with a handful of assumptions,

924. fine.

925. But he will eat you for breakfast.

926. "I would like to apologize for my outburst earlier.

927. "I'm feeling much better."

928. That's good, Dr. Ley.

929. "And, you? Something seems to be troubling you."

930. I'm fine.

931. "Don't worry."

932. "This will all be over soon."

933. Ley's mood is markedly improved.

934. He told us he has begun making arrangements for his defense.

935. I feel as though, for the first time, he's reached out to me.

936. Oh, shit.

937. Hurry! Move!

938. Doc! Come quick!

939. Jesus!

940. Ripped out the hem of his towel to make a rope.

941. Stuffed his underwear into his mouth so he wouldn't scream and then...

942. just leaned forward.

943. Apparently, with a great deal of determination.

944. You didn't see any of this coming?

945. He told me he was doing better.

946. "Told you"?

947. You're supposed to keep them alive.

948. I'm bringing in another doctor.

949. It's been determined a second opinion is required for some of your patients.

950. Dr. Gilbert arrives this afternoon.

951. You will brief him.

952. How do you feel about suicide?

953. The last refuge of cowards, yeah.

954. Or the last act of a desperate man?

955. There are always exceptions, of course.

956. You are in trouble.

957. Why would you say that?

958. New doctor. New tests.

959. Since Ley died, they no longer trust you.

960. You're wrong.

961. Douglas...

962. when you are in a position of power...

963. they will always come after you.

964. You have to protect yourself.

965. Why would I have to protect myself from my allies?

966. Just because a man is your ally does not mean he is on your side.

967. My father was a diplomat. Did I tell you this?

968. - No. - Ah.

969. Yeah.

970. He was... ... posted to Africa.

971. And it was there he was to meet his best friend.

972. A man named Hermann von Epstein.

973. I was named after him.

974. Yeah, I was named for a Jew.

975. We loved Uncle Hermann so much.

976. He was very rich.

977. He lived in Veldenstein Castle.

978. And when I was six years old,

979. he moved my entire family in with him.

980. Can you imagine?

981. It was a child's dream to live in such a castle.

982. I would run down the halls, pretending I was a knight.

983. I would stare down from the battlements,

984. envisioning armies swarming to attack.

985. Uncle Hermann, he lived in the largest and most beautiful room on the top floor.

986. Down the hall, my mother had a bedroom, also beautiful.

987. My father...

988. he lived in a small bedroom on the ground floor.

989. And I was to realize just how rich Uncle Hermann was.

990. So rich that he could move my family in.

991. So rich that he could put my father on the ground floor.

992. So rich that, whenever he wanted,

993. he could walk down the hall...

994. and enjoy my mother.

995. Just because a man is your ally

996. does not mean he is on your side.

997. You found Hermann Göring to be "imaginative"?

998. I didn't find him to be that way, the test did.

999. Well, that is what a second opinion is for.

1000. Which... brings us to Rudolf Hess.

1001. I'm inclined to believe that his amnesia is genuine.

1002. You mean the part where he forgets about being a Nazi?

1003. Okay. Look, Dr. Kelley,

1004. I'm not here to step on your toes, okay?

1005. I'll share research. We'll co-author.

1006. Co-author what?

1007. You don't have to play coy with me. We're both here for the same reason.

1008. Now, two books about the Nazi High Command,

1009. that's gonna cut into the market.

1010. I say we write it together.

1011. - Hmm? - Mm-hmm.

1012. Good luck with your tests.

1013. Doktor.

1014. Danke schön.

1015. She was surprised?

1016. Oh, she was, uh, astounded.

1017. Teach me this trick.

1018. - The coin behind the ear? - Yeah, yeah.

1019. Teach me this trick, so I too can astound her.

1020. Hmm.

1021. - I gave my silver dollar to your daughter. - Ah.

1022. It's the simplest trick in the world.

1023. It works because, you know, people want to believe.

1024. Well, you hold up the dollar, and you say,

1025. "Hey, folks! Here is an ordinary, average silver dollar."

1026. Then you put it in your other hand. All right?

1027. You focus on it.

1028. But really, it's right here.

1029. You palm it in your right hand.

1030. - Palm it. - Yeah.

1031. You keep it between these two fingers...

1032. and you wrap your palm around it,

1033. but you focus on your left hand.

1034. And you feel the coin in there, the weight of it. Right?

1035. And if you believe it, then they'll believe it.

1036. And then, you just, well, you reach behind the ear...

1037. - Abracadabra! - Hmm.

1038. What is "abracadabra"?

1039. Uh, it's the magic words.

1040. It, uh, gives the illusion, uh...

1041. a cosmic weight.

1042. And it always must be "abracadabra"?

1043. No, no. It could be anything.

1044. It could be "presto."

1045. I think I prefer "abracadabra."

1046. So, it was your father who taught you this trick?

1047. Uh... my father? No.

1048. You say that like it is unthinkable.

1049. Yeah, my father was content

1050. to ply his trade and display a cheerful disposition.

1051. He was a man of no accomplishment.

1052. But you believe...

1053. you are destined for more.

1054. You want to be known as a great man.

1055. Yes.

1056. And I am your ticket.

1057. You will return to America as the great scholar of the Nazis,

1058. and I will have a trick to impress my daughter

1059. when this trial is done.

1060. You stopped taking me with you to see him.

1061. Didn't want to bother you so late.

1062. You've been seeing him a lot without me.

1063. What're you doing, Doc?

1064. Trying to learn something.

1065. You sure that's what this is still about?

1066. Good night, Howie.

1067. How are you gonna defend yourself, Hermann?

1068. Oh.

1069. - Would not you like to know? - I'm serious.

1070. Are we friends, Doctor?

1071. I think that word is a little too simple for what we are.

1072. But are you asking me this...

1073. as a friend?

1074. I am.

1075. Tomorrow when I enter my plea,

1076. I will read a statement.

1077. I am going to say

1078. that I assume all responsibility for my actions.

1079. I will refuse, however,

1080. to accept responsibility for acts committed by others

1081. that I was unaware of,

1082. and I would not have approved of.

1083. What I did...

1084. I did for my country.

1085. Tell me you would not do the same for yours.

1086. They told me I could find you here.

1087. In seven hours...

1088. the whole world is going to be focused on this room.

1089. This is it.

1090. This is everything.

1091. This is the statement that Göring plans on reading tomorrow.

1092. Thank you.

1093. Atten-hut!

1094. Let's go.

1095. Here they come!

1096. Jesus!

1097. All rise!

1098. May it please Your Honors...

1099. The privilege of opening the first trial in history

1100. for crimes against the peace of the world

1101. imposes a grave responsibility.

1102. The wrongs which we seek to condemn and punish

1103. have been so calculated...

1104. so malignant, and so devastating

1105. that civilization cannot tolerate their being ignored,

1106. because we cannot survive their being repeated.

1107. In the prisoners' dock sit 20-odd broken men.

1108. We will show them to be living symbols of racial hatred,

1109. of terrorism and violence,

1110. and of the arrogance and cruelty of power.

1111. Civilization can afford no compromise

1112. by dealing ambiguously or indecisively,

1113. with the men in whom these forces now precariously survive.

1114. Wars are no longer local.

1115. All modern wars become world wars, eventually.

1116. And none of the big nations can stay out.

1117. But the ultimate step in avoiding periodic wars

1118. in a system of international lawlessness

1119. is to make statesmen responsible for the law!

1120. And let me make clear

1121. that while this law is first applied against German aggressors,

1122. it must condemn aggression by any other nation

1123. including those who sit here now, in judgement.

1124. We are able to do away with domestic tyranny

1125. and violence and aggression

1126. by those in power against the rights of their own people...

1127. only when we make all men

1128. answerable to the law.

1129. Hermann Göring.

1130. The defendants are to plead guilty or not guilty to the charges against them.

1131. They will proceed, in turn, to a point in the dock opposite to the microphone.

1132. I am Hermann Wilhelm Göring.

1133. I stand before the Court today...

1134. and the world...

1135. and pledge only to tell...

1136. The Tribunal has reached the decision

1137. that the defendants are not entitled to make a statement.

1138. They will be permitted to address the Court prior to their sentencing.

1139. As Reichsmarschall of Germany...

1140. You are not Reichsmarschall here.

1141. You are only Hermann Göring, the prisoner.

1142. Do you plead guilty or not guilty?

1143. Emmy!

1144. Edda!

1145. Emmy!

1146. What happened? What happened? Where are they?

1147. What? Where are they?

1148. - They took them! - Who?

1149. Americans!

1150. Emmy!

1151. Emmy! Edda!

1152. Emmy. Edda.

1153. Emmy! Emmy Göring!

1154. Yeah?

1155. I need a favor.

1156. You gotta be shitting me.

1157. Thanks. I'm gonna need it.

1158. They've arrested Emmy Göring

1159. on suspicion of complicity with her husband's art thefts.

1160. Kid goes to the nuns. No contact allowed.

1161. They're women and children.

1162. Yeah.

1163. Sir, we're supposed to be better than this.

1164. It's out of my hands!

1165. And you're welcome.

1166. By the way,

1167. how did you know where she was hiding?

1168. Did Edda play for you again?

1169. - She did. - Ah.

1170. She's very talented.

1171. She likes you.

1172. Do you have their letters?

1173. No.

1174. No letters, unfortunately.

1175. No?

1176. Next time.

1177. And here's my new doctor.

1178. We were just talking about my family.

1179. Ah, yes. Well, I was sorry to hear about that.

1180. About what?

1181. Their arrest.

1182. Your wife and daughter were arrested five days ago.

1183. He didn't tell you?

1184. Hey.

1185. Hey! What the hell was that?

1186. That was me being honest with my patient, something you oughta try sometime.

1187. You destroyed him in there.

1188. So?

1189. What the hell is wrong with you? What's wrong with you, hmm?

1190. Hey, stop! Hey, stop!

1191. Jesus Christ. You're mental health professionals!

1192. For Christ's sake!

1193. Dr. Gilbert, would you like me to place Dr. Kelley under arrest?

1194. - No, sir. - Then get out of my goddamn office!

1195. Cinema.

1196. All rise!

1197. May it please the Court,

1198. the prosecution would now like to enter into evidence the following film footage.

1199. The images you are about to see have never before been shown in public.

1200. This film should offer a brief explanation

1201. of what the words "concentration camp" implied.

1202. These are the locations of the largest concentration and prison camps

1203. maintained throughout Germany and occupied Europe under the Nazi regime.

1204. The 4th Armored Division of General Patton's Third Army

1205. liberated this camp early in April.

1206. They see the woodshed where lime-covered bodies are stacked in layers

1207. and the stench is overpowering.

1208. Slave labor camp at Nordhausen

1209. liberated by the 3rd Armored Division, First Army.

1210. At least 3,000 political prisoners died here

1211. at the brutal hands of SS troops and pardoned German criminals

1212. who were the camp guard.

1213. Nordhausen had been a depository

1214. for slaves found unfit for work in the underground V-bomb plants

1215. and in other German camps and factories.

1216. Amid the corpses are human skeletons too weak to move.

1217. Men of our medical battalions worked two days and nights

1218. binding wounds and giving medications.

1219. But for advanced cases of starvation and tuberculosis,

1220. there were often no cures.

1221. The survivors are shown being evacuated for treatment in Allied hospitals.

1222. I'm Lieutenant Senior Grade Jack H. Taylor, US Navy,

1223. from Hollywood, California.

1224. Believe it or not, this is the first time I've ever been in the movies.

1225. I was captured December 1st.

1226. I was taken to this Mauthausen Concentration Lager,

1227. an extermination camp,

1228. where we have been starving and... and beaten and killed.

1229. Uh, fortunately, my turn hadn't come.

1230. Uh... there were...

1231. How many ways do they execute?

1232. Five or six ways.

1233. By gas, by shooting, by beating.

1234. That is, beating with clubs.

1235. Uh...

1236. By exposure.

1237. That is, standing out in the snow naked for 48 hours

1238. and having cold water thrown on them in the middle of winter.

1239. Starvation.

1240. Dogs.

1241. And pushing over a 100-foot cliff.

1242. This is all true, has been seen, and is now being recorded.

1243. Nationalities and prison numbers are tattooed

1244. on the stomachs of the inmates.

1245. In the official report,

1246. the Buchenwald camp is termed an extermination factory.

1247. Bodies stacked one upon the other were found outside the crematory.

1248. A body disposal plant.

1249. Inside are the ovens which gave the crematorium

1250. a maximum disposal capacity of about 400 bodies per 10-hour day.

1251. Dachau, near München,

1252. one of the oldest of the Nazi prison camps.

1253. This is what the liberators found inside the buildings.

1254. Hanging in orderly rows were the clothes of prisoners

1255. who had been suffocated in a lethal gas chamber.

1256. They had been persuaded to remove their clothing

1257. under the pretext of taking a shower, for which towels and soap were provided.

1258. Sanitary conditions were so appalling

1259. that heavy equipment had to be brought in to speed the work of cleaning up.

1260. This was Bergen-Belsen.

1261. How's that possible?

1262. What I just saw.

1263. How is it possible?

1264. Himmler.

1265. Himmler wasn't second-in-command.

1266. You were.

1267. 1,200 camps?

1268. No. What am I supposed to believe, that you didn't know?

1269. Anyone can fake an atrocity.

1270. So, you're saying the film was a fake. That's your defense?

1271. What would you have me say?

1272. How about the truth for once?

1273. Why?

1274. So you can run and tell Jackson?

1275. My friend,

1276. your hypocrisy is stunning.

1277. My hypocrisy?

1278. You think American bullets and bombs don't kill people?

1279. You vaporize 150,000 Japanese at the touch of a button,

1280. and you presume to stand in judgement on me for war crimes?

1281. We had every right to defend ourselves.

1282. How do you defend yourself on someone else's soil?

1283. There's a difference between us bombing war factories

1284. and civilians dying as collateral damage,

1285. and you building 1,200 human slaughterhouses

1286. designed to exterminate an entire race,

1287. and you know it!

1288. What do you think war is?

1289. Not what I saw today.

1290. What do you think the Russians do to German prisoners of war?

1291. You have your freedom, and I am a prisoner

1292. because you won, and we lost.

1293. Not because you are morally superior!

1294. This trial will be a farce in 15 years.

1295. Great conquerors are not thought of as murderers.

1296. Genghis Khan, Alexander the Great...

1297. You are not Alexander the Great!

1298. You are a fat man in a cell.

1299. And you knew.

1300. Hmm.

1301. I have made a mistake.

1302. You are not destined for more.

1303. You will have an unhappy life, I think.

1304. It will all be overshadowed by this,

1305. by the time spent with me.

1306. You will write your volumes, try to re-live it.

1307. The one moment in your life

1308. when you actually stood with greatness.

1309. You think you're a great man?

1310. You think that's your legacy?

1311. At least I will have one.

1312. You will leave no mark on this world.

1313. I am the book!

1314. You are merely a footnote.

1315. They are gonna kill you.

1316. They are gonna hang you

1317. by the neck till you piss yourself...

1318. and die.

1319. Your wife will be a widow.

1320. Your daughter will be an orphan.

1321. And you will have done that to yourself.

1322. I know who you are.

1323. What's he like?

1324. You don't wanna know.

1325. Jackson's putting him on the stand day after tomorrow.

1326. Hmm.

1327. Jackson's gonna get killed.

1328. Why do you say that?

1329. Because Göring is ready for him.

1330. He was ready for all of us.

1331. Why don't you tell me all about it?

1332. Look at that.

1333. Your private conversations with Hermann Göring made the front page.

1334. - Sir, I... - You're finished.

1335. I signed your transfer order this morning.

1336. You're to be sent back to the States where you'll be discharged.

1337. You have embarrassed me and this office for the last time.

1338. I'm sorry, Colonel.

1339. You deserved better.

1340. Yes, I did.

1341. And just so you know, we are releasing Göring's wife and daughter.

1342. You were right. We are better than that.

1343. - Thank you, sir. - Your train's at five o'clock.

1344. Don't take this the wrong way, but I never wanna see you again.

1345. Came to say goodbye?

1346. Did you really mean it when you said Jackson had no chance?

1347. Sure.

1348. It's all just a big show for the cameras anyway.

1349. So, it doesn't matter what happens tomorrow.

1350. If Göring beats Jackson, so be it.

1351. Yeah, I don't believe that.

1352. Neither do you.

1353. You know more about him than anybody on earth.

1354. Yeah, that's right. I do.

1355. I spent thousands of hours with him. I run hundreds of tests.

1356. You know what sets him apart from us?

1357. Nothing.

1358. I know.

1359. You know?

1360. 'Cause I'm one of 'em.

1361. What are you talking about?

1362. I'm German, Doc.

1363. I grew up in Munich.

1364. You grew up in Detroit. You said your mom spoke German.

1365. She did. So did my father.

1366. 'Cause I was raised here.

1367. You're an American soldier.

1368. Why'd you leave?

1369. Why do you think?

1370. You're a Jew.

1371. You know, with the blonde hair and the blue eyes,

1372. I never got hassled much.

1373. My father was a patriot who fought for Germany in the First World War.

1374. We loved this country.

1375. Eventually, he realized we had to get out.

1376. How'd you do it?

1377. The problem was getting travel visas.

1378. Other countries wouldn't take us.

1379. My dad had a cousin in New York who helped.

1380. We finally got our exit visas in 1940.

1381. But we only had enough money for one ticket out.

1382. My little sister Margot...

1383. she was only 11, so,

1384. my parents didn't want her traveling alone.

1385. So they sent me.

1386. Boy, I was seasick the whole way.

1387. When I landed, I stayed with my cousin.

1388. And the Nazis invaded Holland.

1389. My family never showed up.

1390. That's when I went to Detroit.

1391. Got a job as an apprentice in a tool factory.

1392. Learned English listenin' to baseball on the radio.

1393. When Pearl Harbor happened...

1394. I was the first one at the recruitment office to enlist.

1395. You know what they said?

1396. They couldn't take me 'cause I wasn't an American citizen.

1397. I'd have to wait to get drafted.

1398. So I did.

1399. I waited, and I waited,

1400. and I checked the mailbox every day for two years.

1401. June 6, 1944...

1402. landed at Omaha Beach on D-Day.

1403. Four years earlier...

1404. I left this country scared and alone in the middle of the night.

1405. But I came back with a goddamn army.

1406. I found Margot.

1407. She's in Switzerland.

1408. She's 16 now. She's living with relatives.

1409. She's good.

1410. She made it.

1411. And your folks?

1412. Records show that my parents arrived at Auschwitz,

1413. August 12, 1942.

1414. Camp was liberated January 27, 1945.

1415. No sign of 'em.

1416. The Nazis had a name for what they did to us.

1417. "The Final Solution."

1418. Like we were...

1419. just some kinda nagging puzzle

1420. that they finally figured out how to solve.

1421. So sorry, Howie.

1422. I'm gonna tell Streicher.

1423. I'm gonna tell him.

1424. Right before they put that rope around his neck,

1425. I'm gonna tell that piece of shit that he was confiding in a Jew.

1426. You say it doesn't matter what happens tomorrow.

1427. It matters.

1428. More than you know.

1429. Matters to me.

1430. To my family.

1431. To all of Germany.

1432. Göring has to fall.

1433. If you think he's gonna beat Jackson...

1434. Doc, please just do something about it.

1435. I can't.

1436. You can't?

1437. I'm just a shrink.

1438. You wanna know why it happened here?

1439. 'Cause people let it happen.

1440. 'Cause they didn't stand up until it was too late.

1441. Have a safe trip home, Doc.

1442. Yes, sir. Of course.

1443. No. I... I completely understand.

1444. Thank you.

1445. Son of a gun.

1446. Truman just named Frederick Vinson Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.

1447. Oh.

1448. Ah, I didn't want the job anyway.

1449. Who would?

1450. Bottoms up.

1451. You're walking into a trap.

1452. Dr. Kelley, I was under the impression you'd been relieved.

1453. Putting Göring on the stand gives him everything he wants.

1454. It's why he surrendered in the first place.

1455. His last chance to redeem the Reich on the world stage.

1456. After what I read in the paper this morning,

1457. I don't believe I care what you think anymore.

1458. - You can't beat him! - Guards!

1459. Not without help.

1460. This is everything I have on him.

1461. Private files, off-the-book conversations.

1462. I know more about this man than anyone else on the planet

1463. and it's all in here.

1464. Why do you have this?

1465. I was gonna write a book.

1466. Make something of myself, yeah.

1467. Mmm.

1468. It's okay.

1469. So, you really think I can't beat him?

1470. Honestly?

1471. I don't know.

1472. You know, I was gonna be Chief Justice.

1473. Now I'll be lucky if there's a place on the Court for me when I return.

1474. As of six hours ago, I was discharged from the army.

1475. There's nothing left for us to do, sir.

1476. Might as well go finish the war.

1477. Mmm-hmm.

1478. The trick is to use his vanity against him.

1479. He is the Reichsmarschall.

1480. And the Reichsmarschall is never wrong.

1481. He can't be.

1482. Every decision that's led him to this place has to be the right one.

1483. So, as much as he won't wanna talk about the camps

1484. and the SS and the Final Solution,

1485. you can make him own them.

1486. Kelley's right.

1487. Get him to admit to signing those orders,

1488. and you'll have him.

1489. I'll have him.

1490. This is your day.

1491. You're ready.

1492. Sergeant, what is Doug Kelley still doing here?

1493. No idea, sir.

1494. All rise!

1495. Justice Jackson, are you ready?

1496. The prosecution now calls Hermann Göring to the stand.

1497. For the record, is there any doubt in your mind that Adolf Hitler is dead?

1498. I have no doubt.

1499. So, you are aware that this makes you the only living man

1500. who can expound to us the true purposes of the Nazi Party

1501. and the inner workings of its leadership?

1502. I am perfectly aware of this, yeah.

1503. Mmm-hmm.

1504. Your party, from the very beginning, intended to overthrow the Weimar Republic?

1505. That was our firm intention.

1506. What the hell?

1507. And upon coming to power,

1508. you immediately abolished parliamentary government in Germany?

1509. We found it to be no longer necessary.

1510. Is that because you believed people are not capable of self-government?

1511. We were elected by the people and given a mandate for change.

1512. The system that had previously existed

1513. had brought Germany to the verge of ruin.

1514. Your own President Roosevelt said,

1515. "There are certain peoples in Europe who have forsaken democracy

1516. "not because they did not wish for it,

1517. "but because democracy had brought forth men who were too weak."

1518. Get to war crimes.

1519. After you came to power,

1520. you regarded it necessary to suppress all opposition parties, correct?

1521. We found it necessary to no longer permit opposition, yeah.

1522. And you also considered it immediately necessary

1523. to establish concentration camps?

1524. The camps were set up as a measure against the Communists

1525. and their violence.

1526. So, it was necessary to erect a camp for them.

1527. One, two, or three camps, something like this.

1528. You also had to have certain groups

1529. to carry out orders and fight for you if necessary, right?

1530. Certain groups?

1531. Well, for example, if you wanted certain people killed,

1532. you had to have some organization that would kill them.

1533. Yeah, Germany had this level of political police

1534. as you would find in any other country.

1535. And the SA and the SS

1536. were the organizations that carried out these orders

1537. and dealt with people on a physical level, were they not?

1538. The SA never received orders to kill anybody.

1539. Neither did the SS. Not in my time.

1540. Beyond a certain point, I had no influence on it.

1541. Well, the SS carried out arrests.

1542. They handled the transportation of people to the concentration camps.

1543. Can you not recall a time

1544. when the SS began to perform the function

1545. of acting as the executor of the Nazi Party?

1546. It would be very difficult for me to explain to an outsider

1547. where the SS or where the Gestapo may or may not be active.

1548. Try.

1549. Well, perhaps, as the police came more and more into the hands of Himmler,

1550. expectations may have changed.

1551. And, of course, it is well-known that some SS units

1552. were guarding the camps, and later, performed some police functions.

1553. And carried out other functions in the camps?

1554. To what functions do you refer?

1555. They carried out all of the functions of the camps, didn't they?

1556. If an SS unit was guarding a camp

1557. and an SS leader was the camp commandant,

1558. then it is rational to assume

1559. that they would have carried out all of the functions of the camp.

1560. Bury him.

1561. You have said that you wanted a strong German State

1562. to overcome the conditions of Versailles, is that correct?

1563. We wanted a strong German State, regardless of Versailles.

1564. The first country to be absorbed by Germany was Austria

1565. but it had not been part of Germany before the First World War

1566. and it had not been taken from Germany

1567. by the Treaty of Versailles, is that correct?

1568. That is not entirely correct, no.

1569. The second territory taken by Germany was Bohemia,

1570. then Moravia, and then Slovakia.

1571. These were not taken from Germany by the Treaty of Versailles

1572. nor had they been part of Germany before the First World War, had they?

1573. These parts of Czech territory

1574. were not parts of the smaller German Reich at the time of the Treaty of Versailles.

1575. However, formerly,

1576. they were united to the German Reich...

1577. for hundreds of years.

1578. You still have not answered my question.

1579. I have answered your question.

1580. If the facts do not suit you, there's very little I can do.

1581. Can you not answer "yes" or "no"?

1582. Time may not mean quite as much to you as it does to the rest of us.

1583. Mr. Justice, the Tribunal thinks the witness ought to be allowed

1584. to make what explanations he thinks right.

1585. I trust that the Court is not unaware that outside of this courtroom

1586. is a great social question regarding the revival of Nazism,

1587. and that one of the purposes

1588. of defendant Göring

1589. is to encourage and perpetuate it

1590. by propaganda from this trial now in process.

1591. - Mr. Justice... - This witness has adopted

1592. in the witness box and the prisoner's dock

1593. an arrogant and contemptuous attitude towards this Tribunal

1594. which is giving him the opportunity of a trial,

1595. which he never gave a living soul!

1596. The ruling stands, Mr. Justice.

1597. I must, of course, bow to the ruling of the Tribunal,

1598. and would simply request that the witness find a way to keep his answers succinct.

1599. Could you please repeat the question?

1600. They were not taken from you

1601. - by the Treaty of Versailles, were they? - Of course,

1602. Austria was taken by the Versailles Treaty,

1603. and was too Sudetenland.

1604. For both these territories would have been German territories

1605. through the simple right of the people

1606. to self-determination.

1607. Now, I find that interesting

1608. considering you just testified that people's self-determination

1609. was the first thing you took away.

1610. From the very beginning,

1611. you regarded the elimination of Jews from the economic life of Germany

1612. as one phase of the Four-Year Plan under your jurisdiction, is that correct?

1613. - Partially correct. - "Partially."

1614. I see.

1615. I would like to review with you briefly,

1616. public acts taken by you in reference to the Jewish question.

1617. First, did you proclaim the Nuremberg Laws?

1618. Yeah, I did.

1619. As President of the Reichstag, that was my job.

1620. What date was that?

1621. 15th of September, 1935.

1622. Then on the first day of December 1936,

1623. you passed an act making it a death penalty for Germans

1624. to transfer property abroad?

1625. That is correct.

1626. That was the "Decree Governing Restriction on Foreign Currency."

1627. Then, on April 22, 1938, you published penalties

1628. for concealing the character of a Jewish enterprise within the Reich.

1629. "Concealing," yeah.

1630. Then, on April 26, 1938, you signed a decree

1631. ordering the registration of all Jewish property inside and outside of Germany.

1632. - If it is signed by me... - Then a decree on November 12, 1938,

1633. imposing a fine of one billion Reichsmarks for atonement on all Jews.

1634. - Yeah, but that is... - And that all damages

1635. caused to Jewish property by the riots of 1938

1636. must be repaired by Jews immediately at their own expense,

1637. and their insurance claims forfeited to the Reich.

1638. There are many details here.

1639. - The insurance... - And a decree

1640. on the 17th of September, 1940,

1641. ordering the sequestration of all Jewish property in Poland.

1642. Yeah. In that part of Poland, it was a former German province

1643. - And on July 31, 1941... - ... and would return to Germany.

1644. a decree asking Himmler and Heydrich

1645. to make plans for the Final Solution of the Jewish question.

1646. That is not correct.

1647. I know that decree very well.

1648. I ask to have you shown Document 710,

1649. exhibit number USA-509.

1650. I think it should be read into the record

1651. so we may have no argument about its translation.

1652. Danke schön.

1653. That document is signed by you, is it not?

1654. That is correct.

1655. Please correct me if I am wrong.

1656. "Supplementing the task that was assigned to you on 1-24-1939

1657. "which dealt with arriving at...

1658. "through furtherance of emigration and evacuation

1659. "a solution of the Jewish problem, as advantageous as possible,

1660. "I hereby charge you with making all necessary preparations

1661. "in regards to organizational

1662. "and financial matters for bringing about...

1663. "a final solution of the Jewish question."

1664. He's got him.

1665. Am I correct so far?

1666. No. Your translation is not correct.

1667. Then, please, give us your translation.

1668. "Supplementing the task which was entrusted to you

1669. "in the decree dated January 24, 1939,

1670. "to solve the Jewish question by emigration and evacuation

1671. "in the most favorable way possible.

1672. "Given present conditions, I herewith commission you

1673. "to carry out all necessary preparations

1674. "with regard to organizational, substantive, and financial viewpoints."

1675. Now, here is...

1676. the sentence.

1677. "For a complete solution,"

1678. not "a final solution."

1679. "For a total solution of the Jewish question."

1680. "A complete and total solution"?

1681. Complete and total, yeah.

1682. A complete and total solution you wanted the Chief of the SS to enact?

1683. Yeah, but I would like to make an explanation.

1684. Oh, please do.

1685. I sent this letter to Himmler and to Heydrich

1686. because it was some 18 months now

1687. since the declaration of 24th of January, 1939.

1688. And Heydrich had achieved very little,

1689. so, I charged him to accelerate the task

1690. of dealing with the emigration of the Jews.

1691. "Emigration"? You contend this letter was about emigration?

1692. It says so in the first line.

1693. That's just the first sentence.

1694. The letter goes on to state...

1695. My desire...

1696. for a complete solution to the Jewish problem,

1697. and an end to their financial influence

1698. by their emigration and evacuation from Germany.

1699. It is in this document that you presented to me.

1700. Do you have any more questions for the witness,

1701. Justice Jackson?

1702. Mr. Justice, is the witness excused?

1703. I have a question.

1704. Uh, the Tribunal was under the impression

1705. the American prosecutor would be examining this witness today.

1706. Uh, the United States is always happy to hear

1707. from our distinguished colleague from Great Britain.

1708. Just a few simple queries, Your Honors.

1709. Won't take more than a moment.

1710. You've implied to this Court that you lost some influence

1711. with Adolf Hitler in 1942, is that correct?

1712. I believe this to be the case, yeah.

1713. But you were still Reichsmarschall of Germany in 1942,

1714. Hitler's successor, yes?

1715. Yeah, I was the Reichsmarschall.

1716. And you're telling me that you were totally unaware

1717. three million Jews were murdered in 1942?

1718. I was unaware of this.

1719. In 1943, at least 800,000 Jews

1720. were executed in the camps.

1721. You were still Reichsmarschall in 1943, is that correct?

1722. - That is correct. - Hmm.

1723. In 1944, an additional 800,000 Jews died in the camps.

1724. You were still Reichsmarschall in 1944, is that correct?

1725. That is correct.

1726. In 1945, 250,000,

1727. an estimated six million Jews in total,

1728. as well as Soviet and Polish citizens,

1729. Romani people, artists, scientists,

1730. writers, journalists, photographers, filmmakers,

1731. people killed, not in combat,

1732. not in enemy fire,

1733. but exterminated by the state of Germany,

1734. the State which you were the Reichsmarschall of,

1735. the pre-eminent political post of your country,

1736. and you contend that you had no knowledge.

1737. At least give me this.

1738. Knowing what we know now,

1739. knowing what happened to six million Jews, I have to ask...

1740. Would you still follow the Führer, Adolf Hitler?

1741. Yeah...

1742. I would.

1743. Order! Order!

1744. Heil Hitler.

1745. No further questions.

1746. I think this as good a place as any

1747. to adjourn for the day.

1748. Fought brilliant.

1749. Absolutely brilliant.

1750. - I survived. - You did it.

1751. You were right.

1752. I couldn't beat him.

1753. Not without help.

1754. "Göring cannot stand against the Führer."

1755. - Invaluable information, Doctor. - Hmm.

1756. So, what now?

1757. As Göring falls, so do they all.

1758. We'll be okay.

1759. Here.

1760. You off?

1761. Uh, one more thing I have to do.

1762. Doktor.

1763. You helped them, didn't you?

1764. I did.

1765. I'm leaving.

1766. Leaving?

1767. Going home.

1768. I've come to say goodbye.

1769. What do we do now, Doctor?

1770. Do we shake hands?

1771. I know we were friends, Douglas...

1772. for a while.

1773. Goodbye, Hermann.

1774. Years from now...

1775. I wonder what you will say about us.

1776. Will you even acknowledge we were human?

1777. The judgement of the International Military Tribunal

1778. will now be read.

1779. Each defendant will be addressed in turn.

1780. Hermann Göring,

1781. the evidence shows that, after Hitler,

1782. you were the most prominent man in the Nazi regime.

1783. Your guilt is unique in its enormity.

1784. Your record discloses no excuses.

1785. The International Military Tribunal sentences you

1786. to death by hanging.

1787. Rudolf Hess.

1788. You are indicted on all four counts.

1789. The executions are scheduled for midnight tonight.

1790. In order to maintain discipline,

1791. the prisoners will not be informed until 11:45 p.m.

1792. when they will be awakened in their cells and offered last rites.

1793. At 8:00 p.m., eight hand-picked journalists will arrive at the prison.

1794. Two French, two British, two American, two Russian.

1795. Lights out is at 9:30,

1796. which is when the doctor will do his normal final rounds.

1797. Any prisoner requesting a sleep aid will be given a placebo with baking soda.

1798. At ten o'clock,

1799. we will bring the press down to the gallows

1800. where I will brief them on the final preparations for tonight.

1801. Nein.

1802. Abracadabra.

1803. The prisoners will be brought in one-by-one,

1804. and given the opportunity to speak their last words.

1805. They will then...

1806. Excuse me.

1807. - Who is it? - Göring, sir.

1808. Shit.

1809. No, no. No. No!

1810. No, you son of a bitch! You don't get to do this.

1811. He's dead, sir. Cyanide.

1812. God damn it!

1813. Oh, you son of a bitch.

1814. I'm sorry, sir, but we have a decision to make.

1815. We can either scrub the executions for tonight or proceed.

1816. Let's just get on with it.

1817. Sir. Uh, Streicher's refusing to put his clothes on.

1818. - Let him go. Let him go! - But, sir...

1819. Julius.

1820. Julius.

1821. You...

1822. You have been a friend.

1823. Come on.

1824. Let's do it together.

1825. Come on.

1826. Give me his shirt.

1827. Ask him his name.

1828. You know my name.

1829. Any last words?

1830. Purim Feast, 1946!

1831. [SOFTLY, IN ENGLISH] Shit.

1832. Son of a bitch.

1833. He escaped.

1834. I have to be honest, Dr. Kelley,

1835. I find some of the conclusions in your book quite unbelievable.

1836. You were dealing with the Nazis, who you must admit are a unique people.

1837. They are not a unique people.

1838. There are people like the Nazis in every country in the world today.

1839. Not in America. Yes, in America!

1840. Their personality patterns are not obscure.

1841. They are people who want to be in power.

1842. And while you say they don't exist here,

1843. I would say I'm quite certain there are people in America

1844. who would willingly climb over the corpses of half the American public

1845. if they knew they could gain control of the other half.

1846. Doctor, please.

1847. They stoke hatred.

1848. It's what Hitler and Göring did,

1849. and it is textbook.

1850. And if you think the next time it happens,

1851. we're gonna recognize it because they're wearing scary uniforms...

1852. you're out of your damn mind.

1853. More with our panel when we return.

1854. Yeah, uh-huh. Uh...

1855. They're not gonna invite you to stay for the next segment.

1856. Let's go.

1857. Hmm.

1858. And just so you know...

1859. trashing our country is probably not the best way to sell your book.

1860. Hmm.