Judgement At Nuremberg Essay Topics

The movie, Judgment at Nuremberg, is a dramatization of real events that occurred during the Judges Trials at Nuremberg in 1948. This 1961 Stanley Kramer directed release attempted to provide a view to the movie going public about the trial of four men who were judges during the Nazi regime. The drama of the trial focuses on the involvement and responsibility of these men who were figures of Nazi Germany justice ─ and who, as educated men in following and enforcing Hitler’s laws, explicitly knew their rulings were inhumanly ruthless and unjust. In a smaller manner, this movie also confronts the Western governments’ changing feelings toward Germany after the war ─ from enemy to friend. The movie was well decorated by the Oscars, and served

The Nuremberg Trials stood as the American and Allied governments’ delivery on those demands. To that end, the complete absence of any proper format for presentation of evidence (virtually anything was allowed) ensured the end results. Many of the participating judges; and supporters of the tribunals procedures; showed that a number of Nazi defendants were found innocent. However, those minor former officials had no real say in what happened around them. Why they were brought to trial in the first place is a questionable act. Possibly, they were tried and acquitted by design ─ in order to show the “fairness” of these trials. Yet, it remains that the ultimate purpose of these trials was accomplished ─ high profile, public

They were solely to provide the world with a sense of the Nazis receiving their “just rewards.” As the movie about the Nuremberg Judges Trial provided a dramatic political reinforcement to the movie going public about those trials in the middle of the Cold War ─ this writer would wager that very few of the viewers (even to this day) were aware that the men seen to receive Life sentences ─ were all released in less than eight years ─ and they, too, prospered in their subsequent civilian