Is the quote from the movie version of Judgment at Nuremberg the same as the words uttered at the actual trial? The attribution to Spencer Tracy seems absurd.
Harry and l studied at Hebrew University in Jerusalem one summer and were lectured to by Gideon Hausner, the lead prosecutor at the actual trial.
While many more saw the movie than attended the actual trial, credit must be given where it is due!
Having just fact-checked this, l discover that both Gideon Hausner and my father-in-law were born in Lvov, currently Ukraine, back then is was Poland!
They were adapted from parts of Justice Robert Jackson’s closing at the end of the International Military Tribunal, or the Major War Crime trials, with a bit of warning to us about men like Joseph McCarthy as the film came on the heels of McCarthy’s show hearings. Some of those words are repeated in the film Nuremberg (2000) with Alec Baldwin playing Jackson. It is also very good.
Anyway, as always thanks for your comments and notes. We must keep up the fight.
Is the quote from the movie version of Judgment at Nuremberg the same as the words uttered at the actual trial? The attribution to Spencer Tracy seems absurd.
Harry and l studied at Hebrew University in Jerusalem one summer and were lectured to by Gideon Hausner, the lead prosecutor at the actual trial.
While many more saw the movie than attended the actual trial, credit must be given where it is due!
Having just fact-checked this, l discover that both Gideon Hausner and my father-in-law were born in Lvov, currently Ukraine, back then is was Poland!
Strange but true.
Babette,
They were adapted from parts of Justice Robert Jackson’s closing at the end of the International Military Tribunal, or the Major War Crime trials, with a bit of warning to us about men like Joseph McCarthy as the film came on the heels of McCarthy’s show hearings. Some of those words are repeated in the film Nuremberg (2000) with Alec Baldwin playing Jackson. It is also very good.
Anyway, as always thanks for your comments and notes. We must keep up the fight.
All the best and stay safe.
Steve
Thank you once again for your insight. Not just insight, but necessary truth based on facts.