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[RUMBLING]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
[PEOPLE CHATTERING IN GERMAN]
[METAL CLATTERS]
[CAR HONKING]
SOLDIER 1: [IN ENGLISH] One of our vehicles, is it?
[CAR CONTINUES HONKING]
Move! Move!
SOLDIER 2: Make way! Make way!
[MAN SPEAKING GERMAN]
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING]
[ENGINE STOPS]
[MAN CONTINUES SPEAKING GERMAN]
[FABRIC TEARING]
SOLDIER 3: [IN ENGLISH] Hey! Let me see your hands!
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC CONTINUES]
[CROWD MURMURING]
[WIND WHOOSHING]
- [CAR DOOR OPENS] - [SOLDIERS INHALE SHARPLY]
Jesus Christ, that's Hermann Göring.
- Who? - SOLDIER 3: Hitler's second-in-command.
The Führer-in-waiting.
[SPEAKING GERMAN]
[IN ENGLISH] What did he say?
He asked us to get his luggage.
- [THUNDER RUMBLING] - [RAIN PATTERING]
[BANGING ON DOOR]
MAN: Justice Jackson?
That depends on if you have a good reason
to be banging on my door at 3:00 in the morning.
MAN: They captured Hermann Göring alive.
- Where? - Austria.
What are they gonna do with him?
MAN: Well, that's the real question, isn't it? Can I come in?
- No. - But it's raining.
I can see that. Are they gonna shoot him?
MAN: Not that I know of.
Well, for a long time, they were gonna shoot him.
MAN: Yes, sir.
Churchill and Roosevelt signed the order themselves.
An order you opposed.
I'm a Supreme Court Justice.
I tend to frown on executing men without a trial.
That's what I'm here to talk about.
WOMAN: It can't be done.
- JACKSON: You keep saying that. - Because it can't be done.
Give me one good reason why not.
There's no legal precedent for a trial.
There's no international law to base the charges on.
No one has ever tried war criminals outside of one nation's jurisdiction
because the whole concept of international law is that
one country can't tell another country's citizens how to conduct themselves.
- Elsie... - Trying these men
in a German court would be different.
But what you're talking about is trying them
in some sort of legal limbo that doesn't exist,
using case law that hasn't been written yet,
and on the off chance that you're not keeping track,
that's about four good reasons why not.
- I'm getting you a drink. - [CHUCKLES] I don't want a drink.
Then I'm getting me another and getting you one for show.
Who do you put on trial?
The German commanders?
Enlisted men?
What about the judges who enforced the racial codes?
Obviously, we'd have to work that out.
And once you decide who to put on trial, what do you charge them with?
Conspiracy to wage aggressive war on the world.
And you want the United States to argue that as the prosecution?
I do.
ELSIE: Against Germany,
a country that never attacked us.
[SIGHS]
- Say, just for a second, it could be done. - Robert...
Don't you wanna know how I'd do it?
It would have to be a completely international effort.
All of the Allies would have to participate.
The U.S.,
Britain, France, Russia.
You can't do it without the Russians.
Four international judges.
ELSIE: You're talking about a tribunal.
JACKSON: Exactly.
The world needs to know what these men did.
It's a logistical nightmare.
I know.
But it has to be done.
[OMINOUS MUSIC PLAYING]
[TRAIN WHISTLING]
Pick a card.
I don't think so.
Ask me to pick one.
Pick a card.
Now ask me to please remember it and put it back in the deck.
Please remember it and put it back in the deck.
Now shuffle 'em.
Now what?
My card was the three of spades.
Well, that's hardly a trick.
Turn over the top one.
[CHUCKLING]
Who are you?
I'm a psychiatrist.
[CHUCKLES]
Oh, and why are you going to Mondorf?
MAN: I wish I knew.
They send psychiatrists on secret missions now?
I'm pretty sure I'm the first.
How did you do that? With the cards.
I didn't do anything.
You're a really good magician.
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
Dr. Kelley?
Sergeant Howie Triest, at your service.
I'm gonna run you over to the commandant's office.
- Tigers, huh? - Yes, sir.
Perhaps I'll see you around.
Jiminy.
Who was that?
That, Howie, was a very attractive woman.
- [HOWIE SCOFFS] - Did you say "commandant"?
Uh, yes, sir. Colonel Andrus.
So, can you tell me what I'm supposed to be doing here?
I thought the war was over.
I couldn't say.
Couldn't say because you don't know
or you couldn't say 'cause somebody told you you couldn't say?
I couldn't say.
DOUGLAS: Hmm.
Don't get sore at me, Doc. I'm just your translator.
Translator for what?
- You'll see. - [ENGINE REVS]
ANDRUS: Dr. Kelley, apparently, Central Command thinks
you're some kind of hotshot headshrinker.
I imagine you have some questions for me.
- More than a few. - Then let's get to it.
You are standing inside a secret military prison.
It currently houses what's left of the Nazi High Command.
The governments of Russia, France, Great Britain, and our United States
are deciding right now whether to put these men on trial for their lives.
You have been brought in to inspect and ensure
the prisoners' mental health should that trial go forward.
Suicide.
That'll be the main concern with most of the prisoners.
Hitler, Goebbels, and Himmler have already taken their own lives.
We cannot afford any more losses.
Goebbels and Himmler did it with this.
Hidden cyanide capsule.
The one you'll have to watch the closest is Göring.
Göring?
As in Hermann Göring?
That's the one.
Hermann Göring's here?
Sergeant, is it possible the major suffered a large blow
to his head on the way to my office?
- Not that I'm aware of, sir. - DOUGLAS: Sorry.
- It's just a lot to process. - Sure it is. Try and do it faster.
- Yes, sir. - When Göring surrendered,
he was traveling with his family.
He had over a million dollars in German currency and jewelry.
And a large quantity...
- [CONTAINER CLACKS] - ...of these.
We had them sent back to the States for classification.
Paracodeine.
Fairly potent painkiller. I'm a fan.
He says they're for his heart.
Well, then, I have a rather large bridge in Brooklyn to sell you.
These have nothing to do with the heart. They're an opiate.
How many pills does he take a day?
- Sergeant? - Forty, sir.
I think it's safe to say the Reichsmarschall's got a drug problem.
Where's his family now?
They've been released and they're not your concern.
Your only job is to evaluate Göring and the others. That is it.
Sir, I'm a good doctor,
but the entire Nazi High Command might be a little bit beyond my area of expertise.
Believe me, Major, this was not my idea.
Dismissed.
He's not great at pep talks, is he?
Commandant's not known for his warmth, sir.
- I wanna meet him. - Who?
- Göring. Right now. - Excuse me, sir.
You don't wanna get settled first?
I wanna know what I'm dealing with.
All right, well, don't be too intimidated.
I'm not. Tell me about him.
Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring, President of the Reichstag,
Minister of Aviation, Commander-in-Chief of the Luftwaffe,
Minister of Economics, a founding member of the Gestapo secret police,
was appointed Hitler's successor in 1939
and is the highest ranking German military officer of all time.
Okay.
Now I'm a little intimidated.
Don't be. You're good.
HOWIE: [CLEARS THROAT] Reichsmarschall.
Guten Tag, Herr Triest.
[SPEAKING GERMAN]
[IN ENGLISH] Reichsmarschall Göring, my name is Dr. Douglas Kelley.
[HOWIE TRANSLATING IN GERMAN]
[SPEAKING GERMAN]
HOWIE: [IN ENGLISH] He says, "Wonderful, a doctor."
I am. May I take your pulse?
[HOWIE TRANSLATING IN GERMAN]
Ja, ja. [CLEARS THROAT]
[SPEAKING GERMAN]
[IN ENGLISH] He's been asking for his pills.
- He wants you to get 'em for him. - DOUGLAS: Mm-hmm.
I understand you've had heart trouble.
[HOWIE TRANSLATING IN GERMAN]
[SPEAKING GERMAN]
HOWIE: [IN ENGLISH] "I've had several minor heart attacks
"and the pills help with that."
Can you open your shirt, please?
[HOWIE TRANSLATING IN GERMAN]
- [SPEAKING GERMAN] - DOUGLAS: Mm-hmm.
[IN ENGLISH] Respiration is rapid and shallow. Don't translate that.
The pills help with the pain as well?
[HOWIE TRANSLATING IN GERMAN]
Ja, ja.
[HERMANN SPEAKING GERMAN]
[IN ENGLISH] He says he was shot down in World War I.
He has a bullet in his right hip.
In 1923, he was shot in the groin
during the Munich Putsch.
You've been shot a lot, sir.
[HOWIE TRANSLATING IN GERMAN]
[LAUGHING, SPEAKING GERMAN]
- [IN ENGLISH] "Occupational hazard." - [DOUGLAS LAUGHS]
Well, if you really wanna look after your heart,
the best way to do that is to lose some weight.
[HOWIE TRANSLATING IN GERMAN]
[SPEAKING GERMAN]
[PATS BELLY]
HOWIE: [IN ENGLISH] "I assure you, you are looking
"at the best physique in all of Germany,
- "just ask my wife." - [DOUGLAS CHUCKLES]
I'm sure you're right, sir, but the guards here call you "Fat Stuff."
I'm sure...
it would be difficult for a lesser man to lose this weight,
but you possess a fortitude and discipline that others do not, yes?
[SPEAKING GERMAN]
HOWIE: [IN ENGLISH] "You see, this man is different."
[SPEAKING GERMAN]
HOWIE: [IN ENGLISH] "We're gonna be good friends. I'm sure of it."
I look forward to that.
[HOWIE TRANSLATING IN GERMAN]
- [IN ENGLISH] Good day. - HOWIE: Auf Wiedersehen.
[DOOR OPENS]
[DOOR CLOSES]
[SIGHS SHAKILY]
Inflated sense of self.
Charming.
Speaks English.
What? What? What?
Yeah, the way he looked at me when I called him fat.
Yeah, he understood me. He's been playing you.
[HOWIE SIGHS]
No. No, why... why would he pretend?
Translation gives him more time to consider his answers.
He thinks that gives him an advantage.
Wait, hold on. [SIGHS]
You're saying I spent the last three months
mumbling to myself while he understood every word?
Pretty much.
Jiminy.
Are you... Are you gonna tell him that you know?
No, no. No, he's gonna tell me when he's ready.
- When's that? - When he determines I'm not a threat.
I wanna meet the rest of 'em. Who's next?
- [DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING] - Uh... Dr. Robert Ley.
- Chief of the German Labor Front. - DOUGLAS: Mmm-hmm.
One of Hitler's earliest followers.
He once wrote a book that was so complimentary of the Führer
that Hitler had the entire run destroyed 'cause he was so embarrassed.
[SHOUTING IN GERMAN]
REPORTER: Ley, who spearheaded the Nazi slave labor program
was captured in his pajamas,
calling himself "Dr. Distelmeyer."
[LEY SPEAKING GERMAN]
HOWIE: [IN ENGLISH] "I'm not like these other power-hungry men
"you have locked up in here."
[SPEAKING GERMAN]
[IN ENGLISH] "I can smell the Jew."
HOWIE: Great Admiral Karl Dönitz.
The German Navy's Commander-in-Chief.
Architect of the U-boat attacks that crippled the British Navy.
[SHOUTING IN GERMAN]
REPORTER 2: [IN ENGLISH] Dönitz condoned murder of prisoners on the high seas.
[EXPLOSION]
REPORTER 3: A fanatical Nazi, with the arrest of Dönitz,
the Third Reich is ended forever.
[SPEAKING GERMAN]
HOWIE: [IN ENGLISH] "I have been in custody for 76 days.
"I have yet to be formally arrested or charged with a specific crime,
"which is a direct violation of the Geneva Conventions.
"Charge me or release me."
HOWIE: Julius Streicher. Hitler's Director of Propaganda.
Publisher of the national anti-Semitic paper,
Der Stürmer.
REPORTER 4: Streicher!
Dubbed the high priest of anti-Semitism and the Beast of Franconia,
- led the Jewish boycott... - [CROWD PROTESTING]
REPORTER 4: ...and ruled Nuremberg with an iron fist.
[SPEAKING GERMAN]
[IN ENGLISH] He wants to know if you're a Jew.
DOUGLAS: No.
[SPEAKING GERMAN]
[IN ENGLISH] "But you work in a Jewish profession."
[TUTTING]
[SPEAKING GERMAN]
[IN ENGLISH] "What do you fight for, Doctor?"
- [ALL LAUGHING] - DOUGLAS: Göring is the key.
The leader of a nation in exile. He binds them all together.
[WHEEZING]
DOUGLAS: He's begun a strict self-imposed diet and exercise regimen,
and is going cold turkey on the pills.
It's almost as if he's training for something.
If one were to write a book about him, it...
[DRAMATIC MUSIC CONTINUES]
Is there a library in town?
- HOWIE: You wanna go to a library? - Yes.
- HOWIE: At 2:33 in the morning? - Yes. Get your coat.
[SIGHS]
I'll get my coat.
DOUGLAS: The sheer amount of narcissists we got locked up in that hotel,
I bet at least half have books in here
written about them or written by them.
We're gonna figure these guys out.
HOWIE: Oh, yeah? You speak a lot of German, Doc?
DOUGLAS: Not even a little. How'd you learn?
My mother spoke German and I wanted to be like her.
You really think you can do it?
DOUGLAS: Do what?
Well, get these guys to open up to you.
Sure.
How?
Everybody wants to be listened to. It's a natural instinct.
I learn about them. I get them to trust me.
They open up.
Make it sound so easy. [CHUCKLES]
What if we could dissect evil?
I mean, what sets these men apart from all the others?
What enabled them to commit the crimes that they did?
They almost took over the world.
You've heard about the work camps for Jews?
Rumor has it they weren't just work camps.
I've heard.
So, how do people become like that?
We actually have a shot to figure that out.
To find out what makes the Germans different.
HOWIE: Different?
DOUGLAS: From us.
A man who writes a book about that could make a lot of money.
You know, for a second, I thought you were being noble.
You want noble?
Fine.
If we could psychologically define "evil,"
we could make sure something like this never happens again.
[ENGINE REVVING]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
DOUGLAS: What's going on? OFFICER: Hermann Göring can't breathe.
HOWIE: Move! DOUGLAS: Howie!
[HERMANN WHEEZING]
DOUGLAS: Herr.
- Okay, his airway is clear. - HOWIE: That's good, right?
DOUGLAS: No, he's having a heart attack.
HOWIE: What? DOUGLAS: Where the hell's
- the prison doctor? - CORPORAL: He's on his way.
DOUGLAS: All right. Tell him to hurry.
- Howie, I need some aspirin. - Yeah.
- DOUGLAS: Plain old ordinary aspirin. - Got it! Got it!
- Get it now! Go! Hey, hey, hey. - [WHEEZING]
Your heart's still beating, which means you're alive.
I'm gonna keep you that way, okay?
I need you to stay calm, all right?
Breathe with me. In and out. In and out.
- [COUGHING] - I'm here. I'm here. Look at me. I'm here.
I'm not gonna let you die, all right?
- In and... - [GROANING]
[HERMANN STRAINING]
Here. Is that your wife?
She's here. She's here. She's here.
Breathe. Breathe with me.
Doc's on his way. Doc's on the way. Aspirin.
DOUGLAS: Yeah. Hand me a few of those, will ya? Thank you, Howie.
Hey, hey, best thing for the heart,
- plain old aspirin. Yeah. - [HOWIE TRANSLATING IN GERMAN]
[SPITS]
Mmm... Mmm...
- [IN ENGLISH] Trust me, all right? - [HOWIE TRANSLATING IN GERMAN]
DOUGLAS: [IN ENGLISH] Breathe. In and out. Mm-hmm.
- Chew, chew. Yeah. Better. - [SPEAKING GERMAN]
[IN ENGLISH] Yeah, your pulse is slow. Yeah.
Hey, guess what? You're alive. You're alive.
Well, how about that?
Thank you.
DOCTOR: Let's get him to the infirmary. Come on.
What're you smiling for?
Hmm?
[CHUCKLES]
He said "thank you" in English.
[UPBEAT JAZZ MUSIC PLAYING]
Truman wants to win re-election in '48.
He's not gonna do that coddling the Nazis.
True enough.
Plus, a trial means giving them a chance to tell their stories to the world.
What are we afraid to hear them tell?
[SCOFFS] We won the damn war, Bob.
If you do this, it'll turn into the biggest boondoggle of all time.
- Cameras in the damn courtroom... - And what if they're sympathetic?
What if all this does is provide them with a platform
for anti-Semitism all over the world?
You wanna be responsible for that?
[SIGHS] You wanna know if I'm comfortable
executing a few Nazis without a trial?
Damn right, I am.
It doesn't matter anyway.
You'll never get the Russians.
ELSIE: We got the Russians.
- What? - ELSIE: We got the Russians.
JACKSON: We did?
Truman called Stalin himself.
Looking at Nikitchenko for lead prosecutor.
That's fantastic news.
I have no idea who you are.
Colonel John Amen, sir. I work for the Judge Advocate General.
So, the Army sent us a lawyer? [CHUCKLES]
Yes, sir.
I bring greetings from General Eisenhower, who says he wants you to know
that he's not for hanging anyone without a trial.
ELSIE: Well, that's progress.
He also says he hopes the trial won't take too long
so we can get on with hanging them.
Hmm. Have a seat.
I've read a lot about you, sir.
They say you're gonna be the next Chief Justice.
President promised him the seat personally.
And swore me to secrecy,
so let's maybe not tell everyone who walks into the office about it, okay?
Well, everyone in my office says there's no way you get the trial.
What do you say?
I say I like an underdog.
Good morning, Julius.
I'm gonna show you a series of cards, each with inkblots,
and you're gonna tell me what each inkblot makes you see.
[HOWIE TRANSLATING IN GERMAN]
DOUGLAS: [IN ENGLISH] Perhaps it will reveal something about your character,
your intelligence, creativity.
And everything here stays between us.
Herr Doktor.
Yes.
I can speak to you in English if it is of some help.
Only if it makes you comfortable.
Shall we begin?
- [SPEAKING GERMAN] - HOWIE: [IN ENGLISH] "Butterfly."
- [SPEAKING GERMAN] - HOWIE: [IN ENGLISH] "Witch."
[SPEAKING GERMAN]
[IN ENGLISH] "Torpedo hit."
Somebody has spilled something.
[LAUGHS]
I see 10,000 horses.
I see the Valkyries ride.
[SPEAKING GERMAN]
[IN ENGLISH] "A vagina."
[SPEAKING GERMAN]
[IN ENGLISH] "A vagina."
[SPEAKING GERMAN]
[IN ENGLISH] "A Jewish vagina."
DOUGLAS: Huh.
This is blood.
Whose blood?
Or ink.
You can say a lot of things with ink.
GEORGE: [ON PHONE] I'm sorry, Bob. Word came down tonight.
It's gonna be a no.
JACKSON: Mmm.
[PHONE RECEIVER SLAMS]
Congress is going to say no to the trial.
They just want executions.
- I'm out of moves. - What about the President?
President wants someone to hide behind, that's why he needs Congress.
Neither will do it without the other.
- So you need someone bigger to back it. - JOHN: Oh, come on.
Who's bigger than the President?
[CHURCH CHOIR VOCALIZING]
Jesus Christ.
Literally.
- Are you a Catholic? - I am now.
[CARDINAL PANTING]
The Holy Father will see you now.
JACKSON: Hmm.
POPE: You wish to put these men on trial for their lives,
and you have come to ask for the Church's blessing in this.
JACKSON: Your support would go a long way to building an international consensus.
POPE: No one denies these men are evil.
But an eye for an eye...
is not the answer.
Maybe not, but I'm pretty sure where I first read about it.
Are you Catholic?
No, sir.
A religious man?
Not especially.
And yet, at home, they call you a Justice.
I didn't pick the name.
If you sit long enough in judgement of others,
you come to believe the laws of man outweigh the laws of God.
I don't believe that.
Then...
what do you believe?
I believe in man.
In our capacity to save ourselves from men like the Nazis.
I believe this to be a good act.
One so good you must circumnavigate your own laws to achieve it?
I'm sorry, but the Catholic Church cannot support you in this.
But you could support them in 1933.
I'm sorry?
You signed the Concordat with Hitler yourself.
That was a different matter.
You lived in Munich, you were the nuncio to the German Empire.
The Catholic Church was the first world power
to acknowledge the Führer State.
You gave the Nazis credibility.
In order to protect Catholics in Germany.
Isn't it a pity the Jews didn't have someone to do that for them?
Do you think I condone what they did?
People will remember, sir...
what you did in 1933,
what you do now.
They'll tell their children.
Did the Catholic Church stand with the Nazis...
or against them?
Did you just blackmail the Pope?
I don't wanna talk about it.
[AIRCRAFT ENGINE WHIRRING]
DOUGLAS: Word came down last night.
There's gonna be a trial.
A trial?
[CHUCKLES]
- Good. Good. - [GROANS]
As it should be. [CHUCKLES]
[SPEAKING GERMAN]
[IN ENGLISH] Those cards that you showed me,
what did they teach you about me?
Honestly, that you are highly intelligent.
Ah...
I could have told you this.
And that you're a narcissist
given to an expansive and aggressive fantasy life,
with a strong ambition and drive to subjugate the world
as you find it to your own pattern of thinking.
And you were surprised by this?
No.
Then the cards have taught you nothing.
[DOUGLAS CHUCKLES]
Herr Triest, he tells me you do magic.
[SPEAKING GERMAN]
[IN ENGLISH] Sorry.
Yes.
Well, perhaps, if it's not too much trouble,
we don't get entertainment.
Why not?
Here's an average, ordinary silver dollar.
Ta-da!
- Very good. - [CHUCKLES]
HERMANN: Very good.
I will show you a magic trick one day.
What's that?
I am going to escape the hangman's noose.
And how do you plan on doing that?
If I were to tell you, it would not be a trick.
LEY: Nuremberg.
[SPEAKING GERMAN]
HOWIE: [IN ENGLISH] "Do you see what the Allies are capable of?
"There's nothing left."
[SPEAKING GERMAN]
HOWIE: [IN ENGLISH] "Except that."
[AIRCRAFT ENGINE RUMBLING]
JACKSON: Palace of Justice.
The roof's been damaged by the air raids.
Fire gutted the upper floors and collapsed the clock tower, but...
this courtroom should be able to hold 600 people when it's finished.
- ELSIE: What's with all the supplies? - [JACKSON CHUCKLES]
Nazis fought their last stand here when the city was taken.
MAN: And so they will again.
Of all the beautiful cities in this conquered land,
you want to try them in this bombed-out husk?
This is Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe, assistant prosecutor for the British.
[DAVID CHUCKLES]
Yes, sir, we do.
For one thing, we can control the space.
For another, there's an adjoining prison with room for up to 1,200 inmates.
We only need space for 22.
I'm sorry. Twenty-two, sir?
That's the number of men we're indicting for the first trial.
You see, if we don't win that trial, there won't be any more trials to come.
And you, myself, and Justice Jackson,
and our respective governments will be the laughingstock of the world,
defeated by the very men we've imprisoned.
So, that will be fun.
My friends in Washington say opinion's turned against you.
JACKSON: Oh, dear.
DAVID: There's talk that you won't get the Chief Justice's seat
when Stone steps down.
JACKSON: Who's Truman gonna pick? Vinson? Vinson's too political.
Yes, but he's there.
This whole thing's become a sideshow, Robert.
It hasn't even begun.
They say...
you're writing all the briefs yourself,
refusing help from other lawyers.
Because it has to be done right.
And it will. But you can't do it alone.
Oh, everything will be fine once we actually get to trial.
[CHUCKLES] You say that as though trying the Nazi High Command
with untested case law with the whole world watching
is going to be the easy part.
Well, when you put it like that...
Anything less than total victory will be considered utter defeat.
Which means, you don't just have to win, Robert,
you have to be flawless.
No pressure.
I'll have another.
ANDRUS: Your cells are made of stone.
[HOWIE TRANSLATING IN GERMAN]
ANDRUS: [IN ENGLISH] 9 feet by 13.
Your beds are bolted to the wall.
Your mattresses stuffed with straw instead of springs.
Your desks are made of cardboard and will not support a man's full weight.
Your chairs are never allowed against any wall,
and will be removed every night at sundown.
When you sleep,
your head and hands will remain above your blanket, visible at all times.
You will be given no belts, you'll be given no shoelaces,
you'll be given no toilet seats, you will be given nothing
with which to use as a weapon to take your own lives.
Welcome to Nuremberg.
[CELL DOORS CLANKING]
[CELL DOOR CREAKS]
- [CELL DOOR SLAMS] - [LOCK CLICKS]
[CRYING SOFTLY]
Now this...
is a cell.
You approve?
German-built.
How could I not?
[GROANS]
They will charge us soon, yeah?
You're looking forward to it?
I believe I am.
I will have, as you say, "my day in court." [CHUCKLES]
Do you know this Jackson?
The Justice Jackson?
No, I do not.
He will try to outwit me...
but he will not succeed.
You're very sure of yourself.
HERMANN: Doctor,
no man has ever beaten me.
There are books filled with the names of those who have tried.
Yet here you sit.
German-built.
[CHUCKLES]
You think I am at some sort of disadvantage
because I sit in a cell?
I will remind you,
I surrendered.
This is exactly where I desire to be.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
DOUGLAS: Göring remains an enigma to me.
The closer we get to the indictments, the more confident he becomes.
I need to figure out a way to get closer to him.
So, how do we do that?
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
We ask for his help.
With what?
Rudolf Hess.
Rudolf...
Rudolf Hess is coming here?
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
DOUGLAS: Rudolf Hess. Deputy to the Führer.
Third in line for succession, following Hitler and Göring.
[THUNDER RUMBLING]
Hess transcribed Mein Kampf for Hitler while the two were in prison,
and was known as one of his most fanatical followers.
Sieg Heil!
[RUDOLF GROANS]
[IN ENGLISH] Never do that in my prison again.
[RUDOLF BREATHING HEAVILY]
DOUGLAS: On May 10, 1941, at the height of the war,
Hess climbed into a Messerschmitt fighter plane alone
and flew it over the North Sea.
[EXPLOSION]
He bailed out somewhere over Scotland and broke his ankle upon impact.
Upon his discovery, he announced that he was Rudolf Hess,
third in line of the German High Command,
and he was here on a mission of peace,
and wanted to speak with Douglas Douglas-Hamilton,
the 13th Duke of Hamilton
whom Hess had met at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin.
After some obstacles, Hess was granted his meeting.
There, he announced his intention to meet with King George VI,
have Winston Churchill fired,
and negotiate a truce with Britain,
allowing the two nations to join forces
and defeat the Soviet Union.
Hess was immediately thrown into the Tower of London.
There, Hess began claiming
he had no memory of past events, even his childhood.
This lasted until February, 1945,
when he said his previous amnesia had been faked.
He then flipped again
and said his amnesia had returned in July, 1945,
when Germany collapsed.
HERMANN: So, now you have come to Hermann Göring...
to discredit my old friend.
What would be in this for me?
What do you want?
My wife...
and my daughter.
No one has been able to locate them since I surrendered.
I need you to find them for me, Doctor.
To give to them these.
Letters.
First, we talk to Hess...
and then your family.
DOUGLAS: How about that?
So, what, this guy almost takes over the whole world
and now you want us to do a mail run for him? Doc!
I'm in deeper with this guy than anyone's ever been,
and meeting his family will only tell me more.
HERMANN: So, Rudolf...
do you remember me?
We were together, yes.
That must have been the case.
But I don't remember anyone.
[CHUCKLES]
It was the three of us, Rudolf.
You...
and I...
and Adolf.
We ruled an empire.
I'm sorry.
You may well have been a friend...
but I don't know you anymore.
HERMANN: He's lying.
He has just spent an hour to say he does not remember me.
But when he arrived in the prison and he saw me...
what did he do?
Salute.
Sieg Heil.
[IN ENGLISH] That was very good.
This is dumb.
I'm dumb.
- I knew you'd come through for me. - HOWIE: Yeah.
'Cause I'm a dummy.
[DOUGLAS LAUGHING]
DOUGLAS: How'd you find 'em?
HOWIE: Local gossip told me they're in Veldenstein.
Smoke?
Never see you smoke.
Yeah, I don't. Gave it up.
My parents hated it.
You always got 'em on ya.
It's a trick to get in good with the officers.
Tell myself I'll have a smoke when the war is done.
The war is done, Howie.
It's not too much farther.
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
[KNOCKING AT DOOR]
[DOOR OPENS]
[HOWIE SPEAKING GERMAN]
EMMY: Franz?
[SPEAKING GERMAN, GASPS]
[HOWIE SPEAKING GERMAN]
DOUGLAS: [IN ENGLISH] Mrs. Göring?
- Mrs. Göring... - [DOOR CLOSES]
my name is Douglas Kelley.
I work at the prison. I'm a psychiatrist.
[HOWIE TRANSLATING IN GERMAN]
[IN ENGLISH] Your husband asked me to bring you some letters.
[HOWIE TRANSLATING IN GERMAN]
Hermann?
[IN ENGLISH] Yes.
[PIANO PLAYING FAINTLY]
[SPEAKING GERMAN]
- HOWIE: [IN ENGLISH] "How is he?" - He's good.
He's holdin' up.
[DOUGLAS CHUCKLES]
[HOWIE TRANSLATING IN GERMAN]
[EXHALES SHARPLY]
- [PIANO STOPS] - [FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING]
EMMY: Edda.
[IN ENGLISH] Was that you playing?
It was beautiful.
[BOTH SPEAKING GERMAN]
[IN ENGLISH] Uh, she said, "He's a friend of your father."
Edda...
[SPEAKING GERMAN]
[IN ENGLISH] "How is Papa?"
Ah, he...
[SMACKS LIPS] He's doing very well.
[SPEAKING GERMAN]
- HOWIE: [IN ENGLISH] "Is he being brave?" - Very brave.
He wants you to be brave, too.
[TRANSLATING IN GERMAN]
DOUGLAS: [IN ENGLISH] He wrote you a letter.
[HOWIE TRANSLATING IN GERMAN]
[EDDA CHUCKLES]
Danke.
[EMMY SPEAKING GERMAN]
HOWIE: [IN ENGLISH] "She will read it 100 times. Thank you."
EMMY: Danke.
[DOOR OPENS]
EMMY: Doktor!
[IN ENGLISH] For Hermann.
I don't know if I can.
Bitte.
[IN ENGLISH] Okay.
Come back.
You okay, Doc?
[ENGINE STARTS]
[ENGINE ACCELERATING]
- [INDISTINCT CHATTER] - [CAMERAS FLASHING]
What the hell?
- [CAMERAS FLASHING] - [INDISTINCT CHATTER]
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING]
DOUGLAS: What's goin' on?
Word came down a couple of hours ago. We're charging the prisoners.
Where have you been?
[SIGHS]
[LOCKS CLICKING, DOOR CREAKING]
Hermann Göring?
I am Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring.
[INHALES] Hermann Wilhelm Göring, you are hereby charged
by the United States of America, the French Republic,
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the following four counts.
Crimes against Peace, War Crimes, Crimes against Humanity
and of a Common Plan or Conspiracy to commit those Crimes.
The Crimes against Humanity you're accused of include murder,
extermination, enslavement, deportation, and other inhumane acts.
This is a copy of your indictment. Do you have any questions?
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
Nein.
Good day.
Who's next?
Streicher.
[DOOR CREAKING, SLAMS]
Do you have any questions?
[SPEAKING GERMAN]
[IN ENGLISH] What did he say?
He said he wants a Jewish lawyer.
[SPEAKING GERMAN]
[IN ENGLISH] "I'm not going to trial."
You are, Dr. Ley.
[SPEAKING GERMAN]
[IN ENGLISH] "I never killed anyone."
[SHOUTING IN GERMAN]
[IN ENGLISH] Guards!
It's okay, it's okay.
- LEY: Don't touch me. - It's okay.
- Robert. Robert... - LEY: Don't touch me!
- HOWIE: Whoa, whoa! - Hold him!
LEY: Come on!
ANDRUS: Get a hold of him!
LEY: Don't try me as a common criminal! Come on!
Shoot me! Shoot me!
Shoot me!
[SINGING UPBEAT JAZZ SONG]
Rough day?
Lady from the train.
Magic man.
How goes the secret mission?
It's hit a few obstacles.
[BLOWS]
I can see that.
What are you doing here?
I came in with the press.
Hermann Göring and the Nazis are being indicted today.
You don't say?
[INHALES] Strap yourself in.
This city is about to become "The Greatest Show on Earth."
[JAZZ MUSIC CONTINUES PLAYING]
[LOCKS CLICKING, DOOR CREAKING]
[EXHALES]
From your wife.
HERMANN: You saw her?
Danke schön, Doctor.
[LIVELY NEWS INTRO MUSIC PLAYING]
REPORTER: Dateline Nuremberg! As dark rumors continue to swirl
about the true purpose of the Nazi work camps,
the legal teams are assembling for what promises to be
the trial of the century.
Through this tunnel, the Nazis will be taken to the courtroom,
now being rebuilt for the trial.
There, the film lights will be so bright
that the court-goers will be provided with sunglasses.
Hermann Göring and his Hitler-loving cronies
are scheduled to face off with our boys in one week.
Will justice prevail? Or will the fascists go free?
This reporter desperately hopes that the Allies run into no problems.
JOHN: We have a problem.
Operation Weserübung was the German invasion of Denmark
and Norway in 1940.
Textbook aggressive war.
The Nazis, they roll tanks in, they occupy neutral country.
Except they're going to claim that the invasion was a preemptive strike.
To preempt what?
The British plan to invade Norway.
- Well, that's ridiculous. - DAVID: Absolutely ridiculous.
I'm in complete agreement.
It concerns me that you're in this room right now.
Well, in addition to being ridiculous,
it also happens to be true.
The idea was to use the country as a staging area to hold the Nazis back.
We can't prosecute the Nazis for planning aggressive wars
if you guys were planning aggressive wars.
I admit there's a certain logic there.
Can the Nazis prove it?
The German lawyer's already put in a request for documents,
- but they don't have it. Not yet. - Then we're in the clear.
Maybe.
But it raises a bigger issue.
We have to know what the Nazis know, what their defense strategy is.
How exactly do you propose we do that?
[ENGINE WHIRRING]
ANDRUS: Dr. Kelley, you are going to meet someone very important this evening.
This might actually be your chance to finally be of some use.
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING]
JACKSON: Impressive, right?
Hitler was building it to be the largest stadium on the planet.
You're Justice Jackson.
JACKSON: And you're the shrink.
This is where they held the rallies.
Every year, Hitler would pack this place, speak to the Nazi Party as a whole.
They filmed it.
In 1935, this is where he announced the Nuremberg Laws.
You know the laws?
The Nuremberg Laws defined a Jew
as any person having three or four Jewish grandparents.
And it didn't matter if you practiced Judaism,
if you'd converted to Christianity, this was about blood.
The laws stripped all Jews of German citizenry.
They made it illegal for Jews and Germans to marry each other
because of the fear of Rassenschande.
Defilement of the blood.
Under the laws, Jews were prohibited from using state hospitals,
and not allowed access to public education beyond the age of 14.
Libraries, parks, and beaches were closed to Jews.
War memorials had all Jewish names on them...
expunged.
All of that was announced right here, on this very ground.
What do you want from me?
Your patients...
I need you to start asking them the right questions.
What are the right questions?
What they tell their lawyers.
How they plan to defend themselves.
[DOUGLAS SCOFFS]
You want me to be a spy.
I want you to do your duty for your country.
No, you want me to break doctor-patient confidentiality.
I think you already have, Doctor. We read every report.
We need more.
[LIGHTER CLICKING]
Why not just shoot them?
That's what everybody wants.
- I mean, if you're just gonna cheat... - It's not cheating.
If you're asking me to betray my oath...
why not just shoot them and be done with it?
After the last Great War, we made Germany crawl.
We humiliated them.
Made them pay reparations they couldn't afford.
We made them hate us so much that in less than two decades,
they went from a broken nation to near world conquerors.
We have to do this right, because if we don't...
if 15 years from now, they come back even stronger...
I don't know if we can beat 'em a third time.
If we just shoot these men, we make 'em martyrs.
I'm not gonna allow them that.
There will be no statues of them.
No songs of praise.
I'm gonna put Hermann Göring on the stand
and I'm gonna make him tell the world what he did.
So that it can never happen again.
[EXHALES]
Hmm.
You brought me here because of Göring?
No.
I brought you here to show you that before the bullets were fired,
before tens of millions of men died...
all of this started with laws.
This war ends in a courtroom.
With Göring.
JACKSON: He's the face of the Nazis now.
As he falls, so do they all.
But if I'm gonna do that, I...
I need to be ready for him.
Will you help me?
- [RAIN PATTERING] - [THUNDER RUMBLING]
[EXHALES]
Let's talk about Hitler.
It is interesting you have not asked me this directly before.
I'm curious what the attraction was.
He was a failed painter, right?
Not a very good soldier, yet he's worshiped and revered.
He made us feel German again.
How?
Well, the war had seen Germany crushed.
And along comes a man who says, "We can reclaim our former glory."
Would you not follow a man like this?
Depends what else he wanted to do.
The first time I saw Hitler talk, it was, uh...
1922.
Upstairs of a coffee shop. For maybe 30 people.
This was peacetime,
but it was a peace without food, jobs, shoes.
And he stood up, and he said,
"French bellies are being filled with German pain."
Then,
"If you make threats, you need bayonets.
"Rearm! Down with Versailles!"
So, that night, I became a National Socialist.
Off of... one speech?
Well, I could tell he would appeal to the old soldiers.
If we have the old soldiers, we have the manpower.
Even with his anti-Semitism, it served a practical purpose.
It brought towards us men who needed something else to focus their emotions.
Something else to blame.
And the camps?
[SIGHS] They were to be work camps for our political opponents, nothing more.
And you signed off on that?
HERMANN: For work camps, yeah.
Do you not think
that the Japanese interned by the Americans after Pearl Harbor
were not put to work? Of course, they were.
I made the camps for the good of Germany, for the war effort.
Not for death.
Himmler, Heydrich.
They were responsible?
If it is true what they say happened in the camps...
this is a grave blight on the great German Reich.
Have you told your lawyer about this?
Douglas, I will not stand against the Führer.
Not even if it could help you?
These are not things people need to know, Doctor.
Only you.
He can be sympathetic.
It's gonna be a problem for you.
He seriously claims that he thought they were only work camps?
- That's right. - You believe him?
Himmler ran the camps, right?
He was the head of the SS.
Göring was the head of the Air Force.
How often in America does the head of the Air Force know
what the head of the Secret Service is doing?
I'm sorry, but I cannot believe that we're having this conversation right now.
- I'm doing what you asked. - No!
- You're apologizing for him. - JACKSON: Gentlemen, please.
- I'm not the one defending the Nazi. - You think I'm defending him?
I am analyzing him, you provincial moron.
Göring is, above all things, a narcissist.
The only thing he cares about is building Germany up and then becoming her leader.
He does not care about the Jews.
- So, he's fine with them dying. - DOUGLAS: And he's fine with them not.
The only thing Hermann Göring cares about is Hermann Göring.
Does that sound like a man who dedicates himself
to the extermination of an entire race?
Well, Dr. Kelley, I really appreciate your thoughtfulness on this,
but I have to admit, it is very hard...
to believe.
You wanna walk into that courtroom with a handful of assumptions,
fine.
But he will eat you for breakfast.
[FOOTSTEPS RECEDING]
[LEY SPEAKING GERMAN]
[IN ENGLISH] "I would like to apologize for my outburst earlier.
"I'm feeling much better."
That's good, Dr. Ley.
[SPEAKING GERMAN]
HOWIE: [IN ENGLISH] "And, you? Something seems to be troubling you."
I'm fine.
- [SPEAKING GERMAN] - [LEY SPEAKING GERMAN]
HOWIE: [IN ENGLISH] "Don't worry."
[LEY SPEAKING GERMAN]
HOWIE: [IN ENGLISH] "This will all be over soon."
[CHUCKLES SOFTLY]
DOUGLAS: Ley's mood is markedly improved.
He told us he has begun making arrangements for his defense.
I feel as though, for the first time, he's reached out to me.
[ALARM BLARING]
Oh, shit.
SOLDIER: Hurry! Move!
Doc! Come quick!
[ALARM CONTINUES BLARING]
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
[GROANING] Jesus!
[DOUGLAS PANTING]
ANDRUS: Ripped out the hem of his towel to make a rope.
Stuffed his underwear into his mouth so he wouldn't scream and then...
just leaned forward.
Apparently, with a great deal of determination.
You didn't see any of this coming?
He told me he was doing better.
"Told you"?
You're supposed to keep them alive.
[SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING]
ANDRUS: I'm bringing in another doctor.
It's been determined a second opinion is required for some of your patients.
Dr. Gilbert arrives this afternoon.
You will brief him.
How do you feel about suicide?
The last refuge of cowards, yeah.
Or the last act of a desperate man?
There are always exceptions, of course.
[INHALES] You are in trouble.
Why would you say that?
New doctor. New tests.
Since Ley died, they no longer trust you.
You're wrong.
[SIGHS] Douglas...
when you are in a position of power...
they will always come after you.
You have to protect yourself.
Why would I have to protect myself from my allies?
Just because a man is your ally does not mean he is on your side.
My father was a diplomat. Did I tell you this?
- No. - Ah.
[EXHALES]
Yeah.
He was... [SIGHS] ...posted to Africa.
And it was there he was to meet his best friend.
A man named Hermann von Epstein.
I was named after him.
Yeah, I was named for a Jew.
[CHUCKLES SOFTLY]
[INHALES] We loved Uncle Hermann so much.
He was very rich. [CHUCKLES]
He lived in Veldenstein Castle. [SIGHS]
And when I was six years old,
he moved my entire family in with him.
Can you imagine?
It was a child's dream to live in such a castle.
I would run down the halls, pretending I was a knight.
I would stare down from the battlements,
envisioning armies swarming to attack.
Uncle Hermann, he lived in the largest and most beautiful room on the top floor.
Down the hall, my mother had a bedroom, also beautiful.
My father...
he lived in a small bedroom on the ground floor.
And I was to realize just how rich Uncle Hermann was.
So rich that he could move my family in.
So rich that he could put my father on the ground floor.
So rich that, whenever he wanted,
he could walk down the hall...
and enjoy my mother.
Just because a man is your ally
does not mean he is on your side.
[PAGES RUSTLING]
You found Hermann Göring to be "imaginative"?
I didn't find him to be that way, the test did.
Well, that is what a second opinion is for.
[INHALES] Which... [SIGHS SOFTLY] ...brings us to Rudolf Hess.
[INHALES] I'm inclined to believe that his amnesia is genuine.
You mean the part where he forgets about being a Nazi?
Okay. Look, Dr. Kelley,
- I'm not here to step on your toes, okay? - [SIGHS SOFTLY]
I'll share research. We'll co-author.
Co-author what?
You don't have to play coy with me. We're both here for the same reason.
Now, two books about the Nazi High Command,
that's gonna cut into the market.
I say we write it together.
- Hmm? - Mm-hmm.
DOUGLAS: Good luck with your tests.
[NOCTURNE OP. 9 NO. 2 BY CHOPIN PLAYING ON PIANO]
Doktor.
- [GASPS] - [SPEAKING GERMAN]
Danke schön.
[CONTINUES SPEAKING GERMAN]
[CONTINUES PLAYING ON PIANO]
[MUSIC CONTINUES PLAYING]
[INAUDIBLE CONVERSATION]
- [INAUDIBLE] - [MUSIC CONTINUES PLAYING]
[COINS CLINKING]
[BOTH LAUGH]
HERMANN: She was surprised?
Oh, she was, uh, astounded.
Teach me this trick.
- The coin behind the ear? - Yeah, yeah.
Teach me this trick, so I too can astound her.
Hmm.
- I gave my silver dollar to your daughter. - [SIGHING] Ah.
It's the simplest trick in the world.
It works because, you know, people want to believe.
Well, you hold up the dollar, and you say,
"Hey, folks! Here is an ordinary, average silver dollar."
Then you put it in your other hand. All right?
You focus on it.
But really, it's right here.
[GASPS]
You palm it in your right hand.
- Palm it. - Yeah.
- You keep it between these two fingers... - [HERMANN SIGHS SOFTLY]
DOUGLAS: ...and you wrap your palm around it,
but you focus on your left hand.
And you feel the coin in there, the weight of it. Right?
And if you believe it, then they'll believe it.
And then, you just, well, you reach behind the ear... [GASPS]
- Abracadabra! - [LAUGHS, SIGHS] Hmm.
What is "abracadabra"?
Uh, it's the magic words.
It, uh, gives the illusion, uh...
[INHALES] ...a cosmic weight.
And it always must be "abracadabra"?
No, no. It could be anything.
It could be "presto."
- I think I prefer "abracadabra." - [SNICKERING]
So, it was your father who taught you this trick?
Uh... my father? No.
You say that like it is unthinkable.
Yeah, my father was content
to ply his trade and display a cheerful disposition.
He was a man of no accomplishment.
But you believe...
you are destined for more.
You want to be known as a great man.
Yes.
And I am your ticket.
[CHUCKLES SOFTLY]
You will return to America as the great scholar of the Nazis,
and I will have a trick to impress my daughter
when this trial is done.
[SIGHS SOFTLY]
You stopped taking me with you to see him.
[DOOR CLOSES]
Didn't want to bother you so late.
You've been seeing him a lot without me.
What're you doing, Doc?
Trying to learn something.
You sure that's what this is still about?
Good night, Howie.
[GATE CLANKING]
[INHALES, EXHALES]
How are you gonna defend yourself, Hermann?
HERMANN: Oh. [CHUCKLES SOFTLY]
- Would not you like to know? - DOUGLAS: I'm serious.
Are we friends, Doctor?
I think that word is a little too simple for what we are.
[GULPS]
But are you asking me this...
as a friend?
I am.
[SIGHS SOFTLY] Tomorrow when I enter my plea,
I will read a statement.
I am going to say
that I assume all responsibility for my actions.
I will refuse, however,
to accept responsibility for acts committed by others
that I was unaware of,
and I would not have approved of.
What I did...
I did for my country.
Tell me you would not do the same for yours.
- They told me I could find you here. - [CHUCKLES SOFTLY]
In seven hours...
the whole world is going to be focused on this room.
This is it.
This is everything.
This is the statement that Göring plans on reading tomorrow.
Thank you.
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
[THUMPS]
- [LEVER CRANKING] - [ELECTRICITY CRACKLING]
[FILM ROLL SQUEAKING]
[MUSIC CONTINUES PLAYING]
[HERMANN SPEAKING GERMAN]
[CONTINUES SPEAKING GERMAN]
SOLDIER: [IN ENGLISH] Atten-hut!
Let's go.
[SPEAKING GERMAN]
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
MAN: [IN ENGLISH] Here they come!
[RHYTHMIC THUMPING]
DOUGLAS: Jesus!
[THUMPING INTENSIFIES]
[SPEAKING GERMAN]
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
[DOOR CLOSES]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
[ELEVATOR DOOR WHIRRING]
[CAMERAS FLASHING]
[MUSIC CONTINUES PLAYING]
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
[CAMERAS FLASHING]
[LIGHTS TRILLING]
BAILIFF: All rise!
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
[SIGHS]
May it please Your Honors...
The privilege of opening the first trial in history
for crimes against the peace of the world
imposes a grave responsibility.
The wrongs which we seek to condemn and punish
have been so calculated...
[OVER SPEAKERS] ...so malignant, and so devastating
that civilization cannot tolerate their being ignored,
because we cannot survive their being repeated.
In the prisoners' dock sit 20-odd broken men.
We will show them to be living symbols of racial hatred,
of terrorism and violence,
and of the arrogance and cruelty of power.
[OVER RADIO] Civilization can afford no compromise
by dealing ambiguously or indecisively,
with the men in whom these forces now precariously survive.
Wars are no longer local.
All modern wars become world wars, eventually.
And none of the big nations can stay out.
But the ultimate step in avoiding periodic wars
in a system of international lawlessness
is to make statesmen responsible for the law!
And let me make clear
that while this law is first applied against German aggressors,
it must condemn aggression by any other nation
including those who sit here now, in judgement.
We are able to do away with domestic tyranny
and violence and aggression
by those in power against the rights of their own people...
only when we make all men
answerable to the law.
JUDGE LAWRENCE: Hermann Göring.
The defendants are to plead guilty or not guilty to the charges against them.
They will proceed, in turn, to a point in the dock opposite to the microphone.
I am Hermann Wilhelm Göring.
- [GAVEL BANGS] - I stand before the Court today...
- [GAVEL BANGING] - HERMANN: ...and the world...
[OVER RADIO] ...and pledge only to tell...
[GAVEL BANGING]
JUDGE LAWRENCE: The Tribunal has reached the decision
that the defendants are not entitled to make a statement.
They will be permitted to address the Court prior to their sentencing.
As Reichsmarschall of Germany...
You are not Reichsmarschall here.
You are only Hermann Göring, the prisoner.
Do you plead guilty or not guilty?
[SPEAKING GERMAN]
[FOOTSTEPS RECEDING]
- [BREATH TREMBLING] - [CLICKS]
[SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING]
[ENGINE WHIRRING]
Emmy!
Edda!
Emmy!
What happened? What happened? Where are they?
[SPEAKING GERMAN]
[IN ENGLISH] What? Where are they?
- They took them! - Who?
Americans!
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
[ENGINE STARTS, ACCELERATING]
DOUGLAS: Emmy!
Emmy! Edda!
Emmy. Edda.
Emmy! Emmy Göring!
[PANTING]
- [KNOCKING ON DOOR] - ANDRUS: Yeah?
I need a favor. [PANTING]
You gotta be shitting me.
Thanks. I'm gonna need it.
[SIGHS] They've arrested Emmy Göring
on suspicion of complicity with her husband's art thefts.
Kid goes to the nuns. No contact allowed.
They're women and children.
Yeah.
Sir, we're supposed to be better than this.
It's out of my hands!
And you're welcome.
By the way,
how did you know where she was hiding?
[SIGHS SOFTLY]
[HERMANN SIGHS]
[SPEAKING GERMAN]
Did Edda play for you again?
- She did. - Ah.
She's very talented.
She likes you.
Do you have their letters?
[INHALES]
[SMACKS LIPS] No.
No letters, unfortunately.
No?
Next time.
[LOCKS CLICKING, DOOR CREAKING]
And here's my new doctor.
We were just talking about my family.
Ah, yes. Well, I was sorry to hear about that.
About what?
Their arrest.
Your wife and daughter were arrested five days ago.
He didn't tell you?
DOUGLAS: Hey.
Hey! What the hell was that?
That was me being honest with my patient, something you oughta try sometime.
You destroyed him in there.
So?
- [GRUNTS] - [THUDS]
[GRUNTS] What the hell is wrong with you? What's wrong with you, hmm?
[BOTH GRUNTING]
SOLDIER 1: Hey, stop! SOLDIER 2: Hey, stop!
[ALL GRUNTING]
Jesus Christ. You're mental health professionals!
For Christ's sake!
Dr. Gilbert, would you like me to place Dr. Kelley under arrest?
- No, sir. - Then get out of my goddamn office!
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
- [LAUGHING] Cinema. - [ALL LAUGHING]
[SPEAKING GERMAN]
BAILIFF: [IN ENGLISH] All rise!
May it please the Court,
the prosecution would now like to enter into evidence the following film footage.
The images you are about to see have never before been shown in public.
This film should offer a brief explanation
of what the words "concentration camp" implied.
[SWITCH CLICKS]
[WHIRRING]
NARRATOR: These are the locations of the largest concentration and prison camps
maintained throughout Germany and occupied Europe under the Nazi regime.
The 4th Armored Division of General Patton's Third Army
liberated this camp early in April.
[BREATH TREMBLING]
NARRATOR: They see the woodshed where lime-covered bodies are stacked in layers
and the stench is overpowering.
Slave labor camp at Nordhausen
liberated by the 3rd Armored Division, First Army.
At least 3,000 political prisoners died here
at the brutal hands of SS troops and pardoned German criminals
who were the camp guard.
Nordhausen had been a depository
for slaves found unfit for work in the underground V-bomb plants
and in other German camps and factories.
Amid the corpses are human skeletons too weak to move.
Men of our medical battalions worked two days and nights
binding wounds and giving medications.
But for advanced cases of starvation and tuberculosis,
there were often no cures.
The survivors are shown being evacuated for treatment in Allied hospitals.
- [INAUDIBLE] - [PROJECTOR CONTINUES WHIRRING]
I'm Lieutenant Senior Grade Jack H. Taylor, US Navy,
from Hollywood, California.
Believe it or not, this is the first time I've ever been in the movies.
I was captured December 1st.
I was taken to this Mauthausen Concentration Lager,
an extermination camp,
where we have been starving and... and beaten and killed.
Uh, fortunately, my turn hadn't come.
Uh... there were...
INTERVIEWER: How many ways do they execute?
Five or six ways.
By gas, by shooting, by beating.
That is, beating with clubs.
Uh...
By exposure.
That is, standing out in the snow naked for 48 hours
and having cold water thrown on them in the middle of winter.
Starvation.
Dogs.
And pushing over a 100-foot cliff.
This is all true, has been seen, and is now being recorded.
NARRATOR: Nationalities and prison numbers are tattooed
on the stomachs of the inmates.
In the official report,
the Buchenwald camp is termed an extermination factory.
Bodies stacked one upon the other were found outside the crematory.
A body disposal plant.
Inside are the ovens which gave the crematorium
a maximum disposal capacity of about 400 bodies per 10-hour day.
[BREATH TREMBLING]
NARRATOR: Dachau, near München,
one of the oldest of the Nazi prison camps.
This is what the liberators found inside the buildings.
Hanging in orderly rows were the clothes of prisoners
who had been suffocated in a lethal gas chamber.
They had been persuaded to remove their clothing
under the pretext of taking a shower, for which towels and soap were provided.
[PROJECTOR WHIRRING]
Sanitary conditions were so appalling
that heavy equipment had to be brought in to speed the work of cleaning up.
[CHAIR SCRAPING]
This was Bergen-Belsen.
[CELL DOOR SLAMS]
How's that possible?
[HERMANN SIGHS]
What I just saw.
How is it possible?
[INHALES SHARPLY]
Himmler.
Himmler wasn't second-in-command.
You were.
1,200 camps?
No. What am I supposed to believe, that you didn't know?
Anyone can fake an atrocity.
So, you're saying the film was a fake. That's your defense?
What would you have me say?
How about the truth for once?
Why?
So you can run and tell Jackson?
My friend,
your hypocrisy is stunning.
My hypocrisy?
You think American bullets and bombs don't kill people?
You vaporize 150,000 Japanese at the touch of a button,
and you presume to stand in judgement on me for war crimes?
We had every right to defend ourselves.
How do you defend yourself on someone else's soil?
There's a difference between us bombing war factories
and civilians dying as collateral damage,
and you building 1,200 human slaughterhouses
designed to exterminate an entire race,
and you know it!
HERMANN: What do you think war is?
Not what I saw today.
What do you think the Russians do to German prisoners of war?
You have your freedom, and I am a prisoner
because you won, and we lost.
Not because you are morally superior!
This trial will be a farce in 15 years.
Great conquerors are not thought of as murderers.
Genghis Khan, Alexander the Great...
You are not Alexander the Great!
You are a fat man in a cell.
And you knew.
HERMANN: Hmm.
I have made a mistake.
You are not destined for more.
You will have an unhappy life, I think.
It will all be overshadowed by this,
by the time spent with me.
You will write your volumes, try to re-live it.
The one moment in your life
when you actually stood with greatness.
You think you're a great man?
You think that's your legacy?
HERMANN: At least I will have one.
You will leave no mark on this world.
I am the book!
You are merely a footnote.
[DOUGLAS SCOFFS]
They are gonna kill you.
They are gonna hang you
by the neck till you piss yourself...
and die.
Your wife will be a widow.
Your daughter will be an orphan.
And you will have done that to yourself.
[BANGING ON DOOR]
[CELL DOOR SLAMS]
[JAZZ MUSIC PLAYING]
[MATCHSTICK SIZZLES]
I know who you are.
What's he like?
You don't wanna know.
Jackson's putting him on the stand day after tomorrow.
DOUGLAS: Hmm.
Jackson's gonna get killed.
Why do you say that?
Because Göring is ready for him.
He was ready for all of us.
Why don't you tell me all about it?
- [GLASSES CLINKING] - ANDRUS: Look at that.
Your private conversations with Hermann Göring made the front page.
- Sir, I... - ANDRUS: You're finished.
I signed your transfer order this morning.
You're to be sent back to the States where you'll be discharged.
You have embarrassed me and this office for the last time.
I'm sorry, Colonel.
You deserved better.
Yes, I did.
And just so you know, we are releasing Göring's wife and daughter.
You were right. We are better than that.
- Thank you, sir. - Your train's at five o'clock.
[EXHALES]
Don't take this the wrong way, but I never wanna see you again.
- [INDISTINCT CHATTER] - [TRAIN HISSING]
[INDISTINCT GERMAN ANNOUNCEMENT OVER RADIO]
DOUGLAS: Came to say goodbye?
Did you really mean it when you said Jackson had no chance?
DOUGLAS: Sure.
It's all just a big show for the cameras anyway.
So, it doesn't matter what happens tomorrow.
If Göring beats Jackson, so be it.
Yeah, I don't believe that.
Neither do you.
You know more about him than anybody on earth.
Yeah, that's right. I do.
I spent thousands of hours with him. I run hundreds of tests.
You know what sets him apart from us?
Nothing.
I know.
You know?
'Cause I'm one of 'em.
What are you talking about?
I'm German, Doc.
I grew up in Munich.
You grew up in Detroit. You said your mom spoke German.
She did. So did my father.
'Cause I was raised here.
You're an American soldier.
Why'd you leave?
Why do you think?
You're a Jew.
You know, with the blonde hair and the blue eyes,
I never got hassled much.
My father was a patriot who fought for Germany in the First World War.
We loved this country.
Eventually, he realized we had to get out.
How'd you do it?
The problem was getting travel visas.
Other countries wouldn't take us.
My dad had a cousin in New York who helped.
We finally got our exit visas in 1940.
But we only had enough money for one ticket out.
My little sister Margot...
[SIGHS DEEPLY]
she was only 11, so,
my parents didn't want her traveling alone.
So they sent me.
Boy, I was seasick the whole way. [CHUCKLES]
When I landed, I stayed with my cousin.
And the Nazis invaded Holland.
My family never showed up.
That's when I went to Detroit.
Got a job as an apprentice in a tool factory.
Learned English listenin' to baseball on the radio.
When Pearl Harbor happened...
I was the first one at the recruitment office to enlist.
You know what they said?
They couldn't take me 'cause I wasn't an American citizen.
I'd have to wait to get drafted.
So I did.
I waited, and I waited,
and I checked the mailbox every day for two years.
June 6, 1944...
landed at Omaha Beach on D-Day.
Four years earlier...
I left this country scared and alone in the middle of the night.
But I came back with a goddamn army.
I found Margot.
She's in Switzerland.
She's 16 now. She's living with relatives.
She's good.
She made it.
And your folks?
Records show that my parents arrived at Auschwitz,
August 12, 1942.
Camp was liberated January 27, 1945.
[SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING]
No sign of 'em.
The Nazis had a name for what they did to us.
"The Final Solution."
Like we were...
just some kinda nagging puzzle
that they finally figured out how to solve.
So sorry, Howie.
I'm gonna tell Streicher.
I'm gonna tell him.
Right before they put that rope around his neck,
I'm gonna tell that piece of shit that he was confiding in a Jew.
You say it doesn't matter what happens tomorrow.
It matters.
More than you know.
Matters to me.
To my family.
[VOICE SHAKING] To all of Germany.
Göring has to fall.
[SOMBER MUSIC CONTINUES PLAYING]
If you think he's gonna beat Jackson...
Doc, please just do something about it.
I can't.
HOWIE: You can't?
I'm just a shrink.
[HOWIE SNIFFLES]
HOWIE: You wanna know why it happened here?
'Cause people let it happen.
'Cause they didn't stand up until it was too late.
Have a safe trip home, Doc.
[RAIN PATTERING]
Yes, sir. Of course.
No. I... I completely understand.
Thank you.
[SLAMS PHONE RECEIVER]
Son of a gun.
Truman just named Frederick Vinson Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
DAVID: Oh.
Ah, I didn't want the job anyway.
Who would?
Bottoms up.
- [GLASSES CLINKING] - [DOOR OPENS]
You're walking into a trap.
Dr. Kelley, I was under the impression you'd been relieved.
Putting Göring on the stand gives him everything he wants.
It's why he surrendered in the first place.
His last chance to redeem the Reich on the world stage.
After what I read in the paper this morning,
I don't believe I care what you think anymore.
- You can't beat him! - Guards!
- Not without help. - [DOOR OPENS]
This is everything I have on him.
Private files, off-the-book conversations.
I know more about this man than anyone else on the planet
and it's all in here.
Why do you have this?
[CHUCKLES]
I was gonna write a book.
Make something of myself, yeah.
JACKSON: Mmm.
It's okay.
So, you really think I can't beat him?
Honestly?
I don't know.
You know, I was gonna be Chief Justice.
Now I'll be lucky if there's a place on the Court for me when I return.
As of six hours ago, I was discharged from the army.
There's nothing left for us to do, sir.
Might as well go finish the war.
[CHUCKLES SOFTLY]
JACKSON: Mmm-hmm.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
DOUGLAS: The trick is to use his vanity against him.
[BREATHING HEAVILY]
DOUGLAS: He is the Reichsmarschall.
And the Reichsmarschall is never wrong.
He can't be.
Every decision that's led him to this place has to be the right one.
So, as much as he won't wanna talk about the camps
and the SS and the Final Solution,
you can make him own them.
ELSIE: Kelley's right.
Get him to admit to signing those orders,
and you'll have him.
I'll have him.
[CHUCKLES]
This is your day.
You're ready.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC CONTINUES]
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
[TENSE MUSIC CONTINUES PLAYING]
Sergeant, what is Doug Kelley still doing here?
HOWIE: No idea, sir.
BAILIFF: All rise!
Justice Jackson, are you ready?
[SLURPING]
[EXHALES]
The prosecution now calls Hermann Göring to the stand.
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
[CAMERA WHIRRING]
For the record, is there any doubt in your mind that Adolf Hitler is dead?
I have no doubt.
So, you are aware that this makes you the only living man
who can expound to us the true purposes of the Nazi Party
and the inner workings of its leadership?
I am perfectly aware of this, yeah.
JACKSON: Mmm-hmm.
Your party, from the very beginning, intended to overthrow the Weimar Republic?
That was our firm intention.
[PEOPLE MURMURING]
What the hell?
And upon coming to power,
you immediately abolished parliamentary government in Germany?
We found it to be no longer necessary.
Is that because you believed people are not capable of self-government?
We were elected by the people and given a mandate for change.
[OVER SPEAKERS] The system that had previously existed
had brought Germany to the verge of ruin.
Your own President Roosevelt said,
"There are certain peoples in Europe who have forsaken democracy
"not because they did not wish for it,
"but because democracy had brought forth men who were too weak."
[SOFTLY] Get to war crimes.
After you came to power,
you regarded it necessary to suppress all opposition parties, correct?
We found it necessary to no longer permit opposition, yeah.
And you also considered it immediately necessary
to establish concentration camps?
The camps were set up as a measure against the Communists
and their violence.
So, it was necessary to erect a camp for them.
One, two, or three camps, something like this.
You also had to have certain groups
to carry out orders and fight for you if necessary, right?
Certain groups?
Well, for example, if you wanted certain people killed,
you had to have some organization that would kill them.
Yeah, Germany had this level of political police
as you would find in any other country.
And the SA and the SS
were the organizations that carried out these orders
and dealt with people on a physical level, were they not?
The SA never received orders to kill anybody.
Neither did the SS. Not in my time.
Beyond a certain point, I had no influence on it.
Well, the SS carried out arrests.
They handled the transportation of people to the concentration camps.
Can you not recall a time
when the SS began to perform the function
of acting as the executor of the Nazi Party?
It would be very difficult for me to explain to an outsider
where the SS or where the Gestapo may or may not be active.
Try.
Well, perhaps, as the police came more and more into the hands of Himmler,
expectations may have changed.
And, of course, it is well-known that some SS units
were guarding the camps, and later, performed some police functions.
And carried out other functions in the camps?
To what functions do you refer?
They carried out all of the functions of the camps, didn't they?
[HERMANN SIGHS]
If an SS unit was guarding a camp
and an SS leader was the camp commandant,
then it is rational to assume
that they would have carried out all of the functions of the camp.
[SOFTLY] Bury him.
You have said that you wanted a strong German State
to overcome the conditions of Versailles, is that correct?
We wanted a strong German State, regardless of Versailles.
The first country to be absorbed by Germany was Austria
but it had not been part of Germany before the First World War
and it had not been taken from Germany
by the Treaty of Versailles, is that correct?
That is not entirely correct, no.
JACKSON: The second territory taken by Germany was Bohemia,
[OVER SPEAKERS] then Moravia, and then Slovakia.
[SLAMS TABLE]
These were not taken from Germany by the Treaty of Versailles
nor had they been part of Germany before the First World War, had they?
These parts of Czech territory
were not parts of the smaller German Reich at the time of the Treaty of Versailles.
However, formerly,
they were united to the German Reich...
for hundreds of years.
You still have not answered my question.
HERMANN: I have answered your question.
If the facts do not suit you, there's very little I can do.
Can you not answer "yes" or "no"?
Time may not mean quite as much to you as it does to the rest of us.
Mr. Justice, the Tribunal thinks the witness ought to be allowed
to make what explanations he thinks right.
I trust that the Court is not unaware that outside of this courtroom
is a great social question regarding the revival of Nazism,
[OVER SPEAKERS] and that one of the purposes
of defendant Göring
is to encourage and perpetuate it
by propaganda from this trial now in process.
- JUDGE FRANCIS: Mr. Justice... - This witness has adopted
in the witness box and the prisoner's dock
an arrogant and contemptuous attitude towards this Tribunal
which is giving him the opportunity of a trial,
which he never gave a living soul!
The ruling stands, Mr. Justice.
[SIGHS] I must, of course, bow to the ruling of the Tribunal,
and would simply request that the witness find a way to keep his answers succinct.
Could you please repeat the question?
[ALL LAUGHING]
They were not taken from you
- by the Treaty of Versailles, were they? - Of course,
Austria was taken by the Versailles Treaty,
and was too Sudetenland.
For both these territories would have been German territories
through the simple right of the people
- to self-determination. - [JACKSON SCOFFS]
Now, I find that interesting
considering you just testified that people's self-determination
was the first thing you took away.
[PEOPLE MURMURING]
JACKSON: From the very beginning,
you regarded the elimination of Jews from the economic life of Germany
as one phase of the Four-Year Plan under your jurisdiction, is that correct?
- Partially correct. - JACKSON: "Partially."
I see.
I would like to review with you briefly,
public acts taken by you in reference to the Jewish question.
First, did you proclaim the Nuremberg Laws?
[SMACKS LIPS] Yeah, I did.
As President of the Reichstag, that was my job.
JACKSON: What date was that?
15th of September, 1935.
Then on the first day of December 1936,
you passed an act making it a death penalty for Germans
to transfer property abroad?
That is correct.
That was the "Decree Governing Restriction on Foreign Currency."
Then, on April 22, 1938, you published penalties
for concealing the character of a Jewish enterprise within the Reich.
"Concealing," yeah.
Then, on April 26, 1938, you signed a decree
ordering the registration of all Jewish property inside and outside of Germany.
- If it is signed by me... - Then a decree on November 12, 1938,
imposing a fine of one billion Reichsmarks for atonement on all Jews.
- Yeah, but that is... - JACKSON: And that all damages
caused to Jewish property by the riots of 1938
must be repaired by Jews immediately at their own expense,
and their insurance claims forfeited to the Reich.
There are many details here.
- The insurance... - JACKSON: And a decree
on the 17th of September, 1940,
ordering the sequestration of all Jewish property in Poland.
Yeah. In that part of Poland, it was a former German province
- And on July 31, 1941... - ...and would return to Germany.
...a decree asking Himmler and Heydrich
to make plans for the Final Solution of the Jewish question.
That is not correct.
I know that decree very well.
I ask to have you shown Document 710,
exhibit number USA-509.
I think it should be read into the record
so we may have no argument about its translation.
Danke schön.
[IN ENGLISH] That document is signed by you, is it not?
That is correct.
Please correct me if I am wrong.
"Supplementing the task that was assigned to you on 1-24-1939
"which dealt with arriving at...
"through furtherance of emigration and evacuation
"a solution of the Jewish problem, as advantageous as possible,
"I hereby charge you with making all necessary preparations
"in regards to organizational
"and financial matters for bringing about...
"a final solution of the Jewish question."
He's got him.
[PEOPLE MURMURING]
JACKSON: Am I correct so far?
No. Your translation is not correct.
Then, please, give us your translation.
[CHAIR CREAKING]
"Supplementing the task which was entrusted to you
"in the decree dated January 24, 1939,
"to solve the Jewish question by emigration and evacuation
"in the most favorable way possible.
"Given present conditions, I herewith commission you
"to carry out all necessary preparations
"with regard to organizational, substantive, and financial viewpoints."
Now, here is...
the sentence.
"For a complete solution,"
not "a final solution."
"For a total solution of the Jewish question."
[SMACKS LIPS] "A complete and total solution"?
HERMANN: Complete and total, yeah.
A complete and total solution you wanted the Chief of the SS to enact?
Yeah, but I would like to make an explanation.
Oh, please do.
I sent this letter to Himmler and to Heydrich
because it was some 18 months now
since the declaration of 24th of January, 1939.
And Heydrich had achieved very little,
so, I charged him to accelerate the task
of dealing with the emigration of the Jews.
"Emigration"? You contend this letter was about emigration?
It says so in the first line.
That's just the first sentence.
The letter goes on to state...
My desire...
for a complete solution to the Jewish problem,
and an end to their financial influence
by their emigration and evacuation from Germany.
It is in this document that you presented to me.
[PEOPLE MURMURING]
JUDGE FRANCIS: Do you have any more questions for the witness,
Justice Jackson?
[SIGHS]
Mr. Justice, is the witness excused?
DAVID: I have a question.
Uh, the Tribunal was under the impression
the American prosecutor would be examining this witness today.
JACKSON: Uh, the United States is always happy to hear
from our distinguished colleague from Great Britain.
DAVID: Just a few simple queries, Your Honors.
Won't take more than a moment.
You've implied to this Court that you lost some influence
with Adolf Hitler in 1942, is that correct?
I believe this to be the case, yeah.
But you were still Reichsmarschall of Germany in 1942,
Hitler's successor, yes?
Yeah, I was the Reichsmarschall.
DAVID: And you're telling me that you were totally unaware
three million Jews were murdered in 1942?
I was unaware of this.
In 1943, at least 800,000 Jews
were executed in the camps.
You were still Reichsmarschall in 1943, is that correct?
- That is correct. - DAVID: Hmm.
In 1944, an additional 800,000 Jews died in the camps.
You were still Reichsmarschall in 1944, is that correct?
That is correct.
In 1945, 250,000,
an estimated six million Jews in total,
as well as Soviet and Polish citizens,
Romani people, artists, scientists,
writers, journalists, photographers, filmmakers,
people killed, not in combat,
not in enemy fire,
but exterminated by the state of Germany,
the State which you were the Reichsmarschall of,
the pre-eminent political post of your country,
and you contend that you had no knowledge.
At least give me this.
Knowing what we know now,
knowing what happened to six million Jews, I have to ask...
Would you still follow the Führer, Adolf Hitler?
Yeah...
I would.
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
Order! Order!
Heil Hitler.
[PEOPLE MURMURING]
No further questions.
JUDGE FRANCIS: I think this as good a place as any
to adjourn for the day.
[GAVEL BANGING]
[TRIUMPHANT MUSIC PLAYING]
Fought brilliant.
Absolutely brilliant.
- I survived. - You did it.
JACKSON: You were right.
I couldn't beat him.
Not without help.
"Göring cannot stand against the Führer."
- Invaluable information, Doctor. - DOUGLAS: Hmm.
So, what now?
As Göring falls, so do they all.
We'll be okay.
Here.
[DOUGLAS CHUCKLES]
You off?
Uh, one more thing I have to do.
[KEYS JANGLING]
[CELL DOOR UNLOCKING]
- HERMANN: Doktor. - [CELL DOOR LOCKS]
You helped them, didn't you?
I did.
I'm leaving.
HERMANN: Leaving?
Going home.
I've come to say goodbye.
What do we do now, Doctor?
Do we shake hands?
I know we were friends, Douglas...
for a while.
Goodbye, Hermann.
HERMANN: Years from now...
I wonder what you will say about us.
Will you even acknowledge we were human?
JUDGE LAWRENCE: The judgement of the International Military Tribunal
will now be read.
Each defendant will be addressed in turn.
[WOMEN SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]
JUDGE LAWRENCE: Hermann Göring,
the evidence shows that, after Hitler,
you were the most prominent man in the Nazi regime.
[TRAIN HISSING]
Your guilt is unique in its enormity.
Your record discloses no excuses.
The International Military Tribunal sentences you
to death by hanging.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
Rudolf Hess.
You are indicted on all four counts.
The executions are scheduled for midnight tonight.
In order to maintain discipline,
the prisoners will not be informed until 11:45 p.m.
when they will be awakened in their cells and offered last rites.
At 8:00 p.m., eight hand-picked journalists will arrive at the prison.
Two French, two British, two American, two Russian.
Lights out is at 9:30,
which is when the doctor will do his normal final rounds.
Any prisoner requesting a sleep aid will be given a placebo with baking soda.
[SPEAKING GERMAN]
ANDRUS: [IN ENGLISH] At ten o'clock,
we will bring the press down to the gallows
where I will brief them on the final preparations for tonight.
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
[DOCTOR SPEAKING GERMAN]
Nein.
[DOCTOR SPEAKING GERMAN]
[MELANCHOLIC MUSIC PLAYING]
[HERMANN SIGHS DEEPLY]
[IN ENGLISH] Abracadabra.
[CAPSULE CRUNCHES]
The prisoners will be brought in one-by-one,
and given the opportunity to speak their last words.
- They will then... - [ALARM BLARING]
- [INDISTINCT SHOUTING] - [PEOPLE MURMURING]
Excuse me.
- Who is it? - Göring, sir.
Shit.
[ALARM CONTINUES BLARING]
No, no. No. No!
No, you son of a bitch! You don't get to do this.
SOLDIER: He's dead, sir. Cyanide.
ANDRUS: God damn it!
[SOFTLY] Oh, you son of a bitch.
I'm sorry, sir, but we have a decision to make.
We can either scrub the executions for tonight or proceed.
Let's just get on with it.
Sir. Uh, Streicher's refusing to put his clothes on.
[SHOUTING IN GERMAN]
- [IN ENGLISH] Let him go. Let him go! - SOLDIER: But, sir...
[GROANS]
[CRYING]
[JULIUS SOBBING]
Julius.
[JULIUS SOBBING]
[SPEAKING GERMAN]
[SNIFFLES]
[IN ENGLISH] You...
You have been a friend.
[JULIUS CRYING]
[CLEARS THROAT] Come on.
Let's do it together.
- [JULIUS WHIMPERING] - Come on.
Give me his shirt.
[CRYING]
[SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING]
[BREATHING DEEPLY]
COLONEL FRANKS: Ask him his name.
JULIUS: You know my name.
Any last words?
Purim Feast, 1946!
[SPEAKING GERMAN]
[JULIUS CRYING]
[SOBBING, SPEAKING GERMAN]
- [LEVER CLANKS] - [GALLOW THUDS]
[ROPE CREAKING]
[JULIUS CHOKING]
- EXECUTIONER: [SOFTLY, IN ENGLISH] Shit. - [FLOORBOARD CREAKING]
[JULIUS CHOKING]
[ROPE CREAKING]
- [BODY THUMPS] - [ROPE CREAKS]
[SIGHS]
[SIGHS DEEPLY]
- [LEVER CLANKS] - [GALLOW THUDS]
[SIGHS]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
[SOFTLY] Son of a bitch.
He escaped.
RADIO GUEST: I have to be honest, Dr. Kelley,
I find some of the conclusions in your book quite unbelievable.
You were dealing with the Nazis, who you must admit are a unique people.
DOUGLAS: They are not a unique people.
There are people like the Nazis in every country in the world today.
RADIO GUEST: Not in America. DOUGLAS: Yes, in America!
Their personality patterns are not obscure.
They are people who want to be in power.
And while you say they don't exist here,
I would say I'm quite certain there are people in America
who would willingly climb over the corpses of half the American public
if they knew they could gain control of the other half.
Doctor, please.
They stoke hatred.
It's what Hitler and Göring did,
- and it is textbook. - [MICROPHONE FEEDBACK]
And if you think the next time it happens,
we're gonna recognize it because they're wearing scary uniforms...
[CHAIR CREAKING]
...you're out of your damn mind.
More with our panel when we return.
- [SWITCH CLICKS] - [DOUGLAS SIGHS]
Yeah, uh-huh. Uh...
They're not gonna invite you to stay for the next segment.
Let's go.
DOUGLAS: Hmm.
And just so you know...
trashing our country is probably not the best way to sell your book.
DOUGLAS: Hmm.
[SIGHS]
[MELANCHOLIC MUSIC PLAYING]
[MELANCHOLIC MUSIC CONTINUES PLAYING]
[TENSE MUSIC PLAYING]
[SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING]
[PENSIVE MUSIC PLAYING]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING]
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]
[MUSIC FADES]