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Judgment at Nuremberg


老片都拍得很長嗎？3個多小時......

法庭的辯論蠻精采的。正反方的意見都給不少，雖然還是從美國觀點出發，不過算是蠻客觀的的呈現，而非一面倒的批評。

納粹好像一直是電影愛用的題材。片中法庭裡播放的屍體那紀錄片不知道是不是真的。從二戰的資料也看得出德國人的矛盾。每個人都說不知道納粹的種族屠殺，可是身旁的人被抓走，被火車載到集中營，除非是瞎子才能說不知道。所以不是不知道，是不願相信。

電影中的那些德國貴族，軍人，法官，其實對國家社會黨的統治都有反感，對其所作所為也知道是錯的。這些受高等教育的高知識份子，卻在那個"為了德國"的包裝下，容忍了這些惡行。電影好像也要表達國家認同有時候也是很可怕的東西。像後來美國給法官還有控方將軍很多壓力，也是為了"美國的利益"。

Janning慷慨激昂的辯詞:
Janning: I am aware. I am aware! My counsel would have you believe we were not aware of the concentration camps. Not aware. Where were we? Where were we when Hitler began shrieking his hate in Reichstag? Where were we when our neighbors were being dragged out in the middle of the night to Dachau?! Where were we when every village in Germany has a railroad terminal where cattle cars were filled with children being carried out to their extermination! Where were we when they cried out in the night to us. Deaf, dumb, blind!!

Janning: My counsel says we were not aware of the extermination of the millions. He would give you the excuse: We were only aware of the extermination of the hundreds. Does that make us any the less guilty? Maybe we didn't know the details. But if we didn't know, it was because we didn't want to know.