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Justice in the Face of History
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An epic World War ll thriller based on true events
Questioning Guilt in Atrocities and Accountability
Douglas Kelley
How is that possible? How is it possible?
[short pause, he stands up]
Hermann Göring
].
[short pause; [Heinrich Himmler|Himmler]
Douglas Kelley
Himmer wasn't second in command. You were. 1200 camps? What am I supposed to believe that you didn't know?
Hermann Göring
Anyone can fake an atrocity.
Douglas Kelley
So you're saying the filming was a fake, that's your defence?
Hermann Göring
What would you have me say?
Douglas Kelley
About the truth for once!
Hermann Göring
Why? So you can run and tell Jackson. My friend, your hypocrisy is stunning.
Douglas Kelley
My hypocrisy?
Hermann Göring
You think American bullets and bombs don't kill people?! You vaporised ]. And you presume to stand in judgment on me for war crimes.
[[Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki|150,000 Japanese at the touch of a button]
Douglas Kelley
We had every right to defend ourselves.
Hermann Göring
How do you defend yourself on someone else's soil?!
Douglas Kelley
There's a difference between us bombing war factories and civilians dying as collateral damage! And you building 1200 human slaughter houses designed to exterminate an entire race! And you know it!!
Hermann Göring
What do you think war is?!
Douglas Kelley
Not what I saw today.
[pause]
Hermann Göring
What do you think the ]'s do to German prisoners of war?! You have your freedom and I am a prisoner because you won and we lost, not because you are morally superior! This trial will be a farce in 15 years. Great conquerors are not thought of as murderers, ], ]...
[[Russian; [Genghis Khan; [Alexander the Great]
Douglas Kelley
You're not Alexander the Great! You are a fat man in a cell. And you knew.
Hermann Göring
I have made a mistake. You are not destined for more. You will have an unhappy life, I think. It will all be overshadowed by this. By the time spent with me. You will write your volumes trying to relive it. The one moment in your life when you actually stood with greatness.
Douglas Kelley
You think you're a great man? You think that that's your legacy?
[short pause]
Hermann Göring
At least I will have one. You will leave no mark on this world. I am the book! You are merely a footnote.
Douglas Kelley
They're gonna kill you! They're gonna hang you by the neck till you piss yourself and die. Your wife will be a widow. Your daughter will be an orphan. And you will have done that to yourself.
[Kelley knocks on the cell door to be let out, door opens. Kelley leaves]
The Birth of a National Socialist
Hermann Göring
The first time I saw ] talk, it was uh... 1922, upstairs of a coffee shop, for maybe 30 people. This was peacetime, but it was a peace without food, jobs, shoes. And he stood up and he said "French bellies are being filled with German pain." And then, "If you make threats, you need bayonets. Rearm! Down this Versailles!" So that night, I became a National Socialist.
[[Hitler]
Questioning Greatness and Identity
Douglas Kelley
You think you're a great man?
[to Göring]
The Complexity of Alliances and Loyalty
Hermann Göring
Just because a man is your ally does not mean he is on your side.
The Consequences of Inaction and Indifference
Sergeant Howie Triest
Do you know why it happened here? Because people let it happen.
[to Douglas]
Reflections on Humanity and Legacy
Hermann Göring
Years from now, I wonder what you will say about us. Will you even acknowledge we were human?
[After being defeated at the trial]
Knowledge and Warning in Nuremberg
Douglas Kelley
I know more about this man than anyone else on the planet. You're walking into a trap!
Equality in Humanity's Flaws
Douglas Kelley
You know what sets him apart from us? Nothing.
[On Göring]
Moral Distinction in Warfare and Genocide
Douglas Kelley
There's a difference between us bombing war factories and civilians dying as collateral damage! And you building 1200 human slaughter houses designed to exterminate an entire race! And you know it!!
[to Göring]