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Nuremberg: Nazis on Trial

Nuremberg: Nazis on Trial

2006 6.0 Documentary, Drama 60m
US, GB • German, English

Director: Nigel Paterson

Nuremberg: Nazis on Trial, is a BBC documentary film series consisting of three one-hour films that re-enact the Nuremberg War Trials of Albert Speer, Hermann Göring and Rudolf Hess. They were broadcast on BBC Two in 2006 to coincide with the 60th anniversary of the trials.

Cast

Episodes

Albert Speer

Albert Speer

E1 60m

Episode one questions whether the “nazi who said sorry”, whose actions were the most far reaching and significant of the trial, was a troubled soul seeking forgiveness of the German people or the mastermind of a cynical strategy that fooled the world?

Hermann Goering

Hermann Goering

E2 60m

Episode two questions whether Hitler’s chosen successor could succeed where he had failed by re-igniting Nazi pride from the witness box.

Rudolf Hess

Rudolf Hess

E3 60m

Episode three explores the mind of one of the most fanatical of all Nazis and the insight that gives into the psychology of dictatorship.