One death is a tragedy, and one million deaths are statistics.

Lizeth 2021-12-30 17:21:44

History is written by the victor, the judge. Germany's evil against Judea, Japan's evil against China, and Italy's evil against its own people may be judged. What about the evil of the United States towards Vietnam? What is the evil of the Soviet Union against Poland? No one can be tried. What is even more impossible to judge is the slaughter of corpses that have been entangled for thousands of years in the Han Dynasty. The same situation has occurred in Southeast Asia, South and North America, Europe, Africa and the Middle East to the whole world, and the entire history of mankind. Who would prosecute the Neanderthals?

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  • Carmine 2022-03-24 09:02:11

    The idea of ​​a documentary is to make a feature film, and after the collision of multiple viewpoints, I ask: what is war in the end. Post-McCarthyism thinking explodes. The film has changed the excessive drama of court scenes, and it can be regarded as more realistic. Under the condition that interesting lawyers cannot move around, the director constantly uses camera surrounds to create a sense of dynamism, and at the same time, through clockwise and counterclockwise distortions, it hints at the difference of positions and subverts the audience's perception. Judy Garland is my eternal teardrop.

  • Annetta 2022-04-22 07:01:32

    It was not the famous trial we know, but it was equally thought-provoking.

Judgment at Nuremberg quotes

  • Judge Dan Haywood: Order! Does the defendant wish to make a statement?

    Ernst Janning: I wish to make a statement, yes.

  • Hans Rolfe: I want to call a halt to these proceedings. If we allow them to discredit every German like you, we lose the right to rule ourselves forever. We have to look at the future. We can't look back now.