The Soviet Perspective on the Nuremberg Trials
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🗓️ 26 November 2021
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Last month marked the 75th anniversary of the end of the Nuremberg Trials. To better understand the trials and their legacy, Bryce Klehm sat down with Francine Hirsch, Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Hirsch is the author of the book, “Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg: A New History of the International Military Tribunal after World War II.” They covered a range of topics, including the Nuremberg Trials from the Soviet perspective and the trials’ legacy 75 years later.
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| 0:25.6 | no bull and the aftermath. |
| 0:32.6 | So, there's like a mountain of documentary evidence to begin with. |
| 0:38.2 | There's also a question of, there are all of these documents, but how can you really convey |
| 0:46.1 | what had happened? |
| 0:47.6 | How can you really convey what had happened? |
| 0:50.0 | And so, witnesses are brought in, but it's also decided to use film evidence. |
| 0:55.5 | And part of why they have this film evidence is because there had been camera men that |
| 1:00.8 | hadn't been embedded with troops during the war. |
| 1:05.8 | And so there were filmmakers that had filmed the liberation of the concentration camps, |
| 1:11.0 | Americans and the British and film footage, and the Soviets had film footage as well. |
| 1:16.8 | So the US presents the first film, they presented pretty early on, the trial starts on November |
| 1:22.0 | 20th, and on November 29th, the US prosecution presents a film about the Nazi concentration |
| 1:27.9 | camps in the zones that had been liberated by Western forces, places like Umburg and |
| 1:33.0 | Wilson and Hulkenwald. |
| 1:35.1 | And it's incredibly powerful for those in the courtroom to actually visualize, to see |
| 1:42.6 | what this looked like. |
| 1:43.9 | Because again, there are some things that you just, you can't convey in the documents |
| 1:48.0 | the same way that you can with images. |
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