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1 online resource (streaming video file) (52 min. 33 sec.) ; 319074725 bytes |
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In November 1945, in the German city of Nuremberg, the victors of the Second World War began the first international war crimes trial. The choice of the city was significant as it was here that the National Socialist Party held its annual rallies.The 21 defendants came from very different background. Some, like Hitler's chosen successor Hermann Goering, were senior politicians - their responsibility clear. Others were there because senior party leaders Heinrich Himmler, head of the feared SS, and Joseph Goebbels, head of propaganda - had killed themselves rather than face capture and trial. Their deputies or juniors stood on trial instead of them. But most of them were regarded by the western public, rightly or wrongly, as key playmakers in a system that had brought war to Europe and cost the lives of 50 million people.This three-part docu-drama series examines three of the accused - Albert Speer, the youthful architect who rose to run Germany's armaments effort during the war; Hermann Goering, the man Hitler chose as his successor in the 1930s and Rudolf Hess, Hitler's former deputy, who in May 1941 flew to Scotland and was captured by the Allies.The charges against the accused were extraordinary. They were collectively accused of conspiring to wage war, and committing crimes against peace, crimes against humanity and war crimes in the ordinary sense (abuse and murder of prisoners, killing of civilians). Goering, Speer and Hess represented extreme responses to the trial at Nuremberg, but they all shared with the others in the dock some degree of responsibility. In Georing's case a very great one for the programme, of oppression, war and genocide on which Hitler's regime embarked from its inauguration in 1933.The series combined dramatised re-enactments, newsreel footage and archival photos as well as interviews with historians and medical practitioners. (From the UK, in English) (Documentary Series) (Part 1 of 3) (Class TBA) |
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Broadcast 2010-07-09 at 20:30:00 |
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Classification: PG |
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Criminals -- Biography.
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Germans -- Politics and government.
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Nuremberg Trial of Major German War Criminals (Germany : 1945-1946)
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Speer, Albert, 1905-1981.
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War crime trials.
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Germany -- Nuremberg.
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Streaming video
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MacFadyen, Matthew, cast
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Paterson, Nigel, director
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