It is said that history is written
by the victors. The film, Nuremberg
(2025), bears that out. Even though Justice Robert Jackson, the American
prosecutor at the Nuremberg Nazi trial, compromises its integrity and thus
breaches due process by pressuring Douglas Kelley, the psychiatrist assigned to
the Nazi prisoners (most notably Goring), to obtain and pass on the defense’s
strategy to Jackson, which Kelley does, the trial is presented nonetheless as legitimate
and the Nazi prisoners as even deserving an unfair trial. Nevertheless, nations
governed by the rule of law are never justified in putting on corrupt trials,
or skewing them to push a particular ideology. The film itself is skewed to highlight
the Nazi crimes against the Jews at the expense of delving more into the distinctly
war crimes even though those crimes were just as important in the charges in
the actual trial.
The full essay is at "Nuremberg."
