Germany: Justice and memory

The Documentary Podcast

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Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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This year, 2020, sees the 75th anniversary of the end of World War Two. Its legacy remains. Nowhere more so than in Germany, where the rise of Nazism led to the war, and terrible crimes against humanity. Chris Bowlby explores how post-war Germans have faced this inheritance and discovers how a search for justice in relation to Nazi crimes has continued, despite heavy pressure to stop.

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0:00.0	BBC World Service.
0:07.8	The Second World War may have ended over 70 years ago, but in places its legacy seems in some ways as strong as ever, and nowhere
0:16.2	more so than in Germany where Nazism caused the war and carried out terrible crimes
0:21.7	against humanity.
0:23.0	I'm Chris Bolby and in this programme,
0:28.0	I'm Chris Bolby and in this programme I'm exploring how post-war Germans have faced this appalling inheritance from
0:34.7	history. I'll be discovering how a search for justice in relation to Nazi crimes has
0:39.5	continued despite heavy pressure to stop.
0:43.0	Alongside all that, a powerful culture of remembrance has emerged,
0:47.0	as each new generation makes its reckoning with the past. We do have people who make headlines with like,
0:56.0	yeah, let's forget about this, it's the past, let's move on.
0:59.0	As much as we all digitize things and only live in front of our screens, the power of the actual place where something happened will never vanish.
1:12.0	When Nazi Germany was defeated in 1945 and the horror of the Holocaust emerged
1:18.0	one of the victorious powers first thoughts was to put the regime on trial.
1:22.0	At a special military tribunal in the city of Nuremberg,
1:26.3	new legal principles were applied. And in which they are charged with crimes against peace, war crimes, and crimes
1:40.8	and crimes against humanity, you must plead guilty or not guilty.
1:47.0	The can't make him Senator Angraganicht
1:49.0	defendant Hermann Wilhelm Gury, on the counts of the indictment on which you have been convicted,
1:57.7	the International Military Bill sentences you to death by hanging.
2:04.0	Howman Goering was one of the most prominent Nazis to be prosecuted.
2:12.0	He committed suicide in prison before his death
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