Major Parker: You were all Nazis. In the Eastern sector, now you are all communists. Jesus, you Germans! If little green men from Mars landed tomorrow, you would all become green.
Johann Radmann: ...the only response to Auschwitz is to do the right thing yourself.
Generalstaatsanwalt Fritz Bauer: If you think this is all about who's guilty, partly guilty or innocent, then you've learned nothing, nothing at all.
Johann Radmann: [reads from record of interrogation] A small boy, about 5 years old, jumped off the truck. He was holding an apple. Boger was standing at the door. The boy stood beside the truck and was so happy about the apple. Boger went up to the boy, grabbed him by the feet, and smashed his head against the wall. Then Boger picked up the apple and told me to clean up the mess on the wall. And then Boger ate the apple. - Everyday life in Auschwitz.
[last lines]

Bailiff: The Jury Court at Frankfurt is now in session.

closing title card: The Auschwitz trial started in 1963. 213 survivors of the concentration and extermination camp gave testimony.

closing title card: 19 SS men who had served at Auschwitz were charged in the largest trial of the Federal Republic of Germany.

closing title card: 17 of them were found guilty. Throughout the 20-month trial, none of the defendants showed any remorse.

closing title card: Fritz Bauer dies of heart failure in 1968. Josef Mengele lives undisturbed in Brazil until his death in 1979. He dies in a swimming accident.

closing title card: The trial is seen as a turning-point in the history of the Federal Republic of Germany. The crimes of the Nazi regime could no longer be suppressed.

closing title card: In memory of attorney general Fritz Bauer, public prosecutor Joachim Kügler, Georg Friedrich Vogel, Gerhard Wiese, and journalist Thomas Gnielka.

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Labyrinth of Lies short comments

Cary 2022-04-03 09:01:12

Birth and origin cannot be chosen, but even so, it is still the majority who make compromises in the big environment. They don't think about themselves, but they have to take into account the flesh and blood of their relatives and friends. No one can truly live alone without social ties. Persistence and integration, how to balance? 丨There is no truth, let alone truth, but human beings are too good at forgetting. Judgment is not for justice, but to learn from history and create the future. 丨John is the perfect ideal type!
Zachariah 2022-04-07 09:01:06

It is mainly about the silence, cooperation and evil of ordinary people. It is Hannah Arendt's banal majority of evil.