Nuremberg - The Nazis Facing Their Crimes

Based on films shot during real time court sessions by a team headed by Hollywood director John Ford, this documentary tells of the main Nuremberg Trial. In contrast to other films on this issue, this film focuses on images and footages taken from inside the courtroom. By virtue of the editing, the film shows gradually the extent of the crimes systematically planned and committed by the accused. Only to the end of the term the term “Holocaust” is heard as the French and British prosecutors said it. Including testimony of the Jewish poet, Abraham Sutzkever, a survivor of the Nazi persecution in Vilna, extracts from original footages documenting the liberation of Camps, an interview with Ernst Michel and a testimony of Marie Claude Vaillant-Courturier, both former prisoners at Auschwitz which became journalists at Nuremberg, commentary by Richard W. Sonnenfeldt, interpreter and member of the American prosecution team. Narration by actor Christopher Plummer.