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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI just saw "Judgment at Nuremberg" on TCM...
I stayed with it to the end. Have seen it several times over the years. It never fails to impress me.
It might have been Montgomery Clift's last film and maybe Judy Garland's too. In fact, the only surviving cast member might have be Shatner.
What performances! What a movie and what a message!
elleng
(131,077 posts)but watching storm from my window instead.
Solly Mack
(90,780 posts)JustAnotherGen
(31,869 posts)I was watching it too - Spencer Tracy - as always on point.
orpupilofnature57
(15,472 posts)lpbk2713
(42,766 posts)And Spencer Tracy is one of my all time favorite actors.
underpants
(182,868 posts)Marking so I can look it up
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)1962 when the film was made. That is predicted in the film and it came to pass. So justice wasn't served so well, was it?
HFRN
(1,469 posts)PatrickforO
(14,586 posts)Now I can't watch it. I guess I grew up.
cwydro
(51,308 posts)Monty Clift is a case in point about living in the closet.
Huge fan of his.
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)played scarred victims of the 3rd Reich. Clift was a terrible alcoholic in his last days and Garland was in the throes of her drug addictions. And wow, what performances...
PatrickforO
(14,586 posts)dogs of war on trial for war crimes, doesn't it?
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)It all depends on who wins and who doesn't, don't you think?
Once the Allies had become victorious they could go after the the judges who were so complicit with the crimes of the 3rd Reich. Without our victory in the war it wouldn't have happened...
stevenleser
(32,886 posts)Is dead. They're still protecting the leaders of that time.
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)1939
(1,683 posts)"Never lose a |war"
AnotherMother4Peace
(4,251 posts)and giving a riveting eulogy, services for the South Carolina victims, Marriage equality, the taking down of the confederate flag, Judgment at Nuremberg with actual footage of the initial entry into the concentration camps: the gas rooms, the piles of bodies, etc... - a very emotional weekend for me.
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)days earlier that the SC shooting took place and we were all in such despair and yet the response, the two SCOTUS decisions being announced, the Confederate flag FINALLY being seen for exactly what it is....then the reminder of Judgment at Nuremberg!
appalachiablue
(41,170 posts)of the 12 Nuremberg Doctors Trials. When young I saw Nuremberg briefly while visiting Munich. I didn't realize until later that my father was stationed in Bavaria after the war in the Occupation and had been in the 7th Army liberation of Dachau 10 miles from Munich.
Following the war's end the Allied De-Nazification program in demolished Germany was pretty much disbanded because of the administrative nightmare of handling millions of former soldiers, prisoners of war and displaced persons. The occupying forces also had to quickly turn their attention to the rising aims of the Soviet Union.
Due to these factors especially the fast changing political conditions, many Nazis known for lesser actions were not dealt with legally, but principal figures in the Nazi regime were brought to trial and justice at Nuremberg.
During the chaotic post-war period some ranking Nazis hid out or made their way out of Europe with assistance from families, SS groups and others. Moving through 'ratlines' to places like Genoa, Italy then Franco's Spain they were destined for South America where some integrated and lived for decades. Dr. Josef Mengele and Adolf Eichmann were two of the most notorious war criminals in SA.
Yank I enjoyed the recent conversation about renaissance art in Tuscany and look forward to more of your art OPs.
Doctors' Trial
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctors'_trial
Karl Brandt, Hitler's personal physician is sentenced to death by hanging at the Doctors' Trial Nuremberg
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)Friday. Not Renaissance Tuscan art but I think you'll like it...
appalachiablue
(41,170 posts)CTyankee
(63,912 posts)didn't think my subject was appropriate so I finished up the Giacometti rather quickly (I prefer more time to cogitate and finesse my writing). So the other one will be here Friday. I'm glad I waited...the Giacometti turned out to be even more meaningful after the tragedy...art is like that...