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Move! Move!

Hands! Let me see your hands!

- Jesus Christ, that's Hermann Göring. - Who?

Hitler's second-in-command. With fear and waiting.

What did he say?

He asked us to get his luggage.

Justice Jackson?

That depends on if you have a good reason to be banging on my door at three o'clock.

They captured Hermann Göring alive.

- Where? - Austria.

What are they going to do with him?

Well, that's the real question, isn't it? Can I come in?

- No. - But it's raining.

I can see that. Are they going to shoot him?

Not that I know of.

Well, for a long time they were going to shoot him.

Yes, sir.

Churchill and Roosevelt signed the order themselves.

On order that you oppose.

I'm a Supreme Court Justice. I tend to frown on executing men without a trial.

That's what I'm here to talk about.

It can't be done.

- You keep saying that. - Because it can't be done.

Give me one good reason why not.

There's no legal precedent for a trial.

There's no international law to base the charges on.

No one has ever tried war criminals outside of one nation's jurisdiction

because the whole concept of international law is

that one country can't tell another country's citizens how to conduct themselves.

Elsie.

Trying these men in a German court would be different.

But what you're talking about is trying them

in some sort of legal limbo that doesn't exist

using case law that hasn't been written yet.

And on the off chance that you're not keeping

track, that's about four good reasons why not.

I'm getting you a drink.

I don't want a drink.

Then I'm getting me another and getting you one for show.

Who do you put on trial?

The German commanders? Enlisted men?

What about the judges who enforce the racial codes?

Obviously we'd have to work that out.

And once you decide who to put on trial, what do you charge them with?

Conspiracy to wage aggressive war on the world.

And you want the United States to argue that as prosecution?

I do.

Against Germany? A country that never attacked us?

Say just for a second it could be done.

- Robert. - Don't you want to know how I'd do it?

It would have to be a completely international effort.

All of the allies would have to participate.

The US, Britain, France, Russia. You can't do it without the Russians.

Four international judges.

You're talking about a tribunal.

Exactly. The world needs to know what these men did.

It's a logistical nightmare.

I know.

But it has to be done.

Pick a card.

I don't think so.

Ask me to pick one.

Pick a card.

Now ask me to please remember it and put it back in the deck.

Please remember it and put it back in the deck.

Now shuffle.

Now what?

My card was a three of spades.

- Oh, that's hardly a trick. - Turn over the top one.

Who are you?

I'm a psychiatrist.

Oh, and why are you going to Mondorf?

I wish I knew.

They send psychiatrists on secret missions now.

I'm pretty sure I'm the first.

How did you do that?

With the cards?

I didn't do anything.

You're a really good magician.

Dr. Kelly.

Sgt. Howie Triest at your service.

I'm going to run you under the commandant's office.

- Tigers, huh? - Yes, sir.

Perhaps I'll see you around.

Jiminy.

Who is that?

That Howie was a very attractive woman.

She's a commandant.

Ah, yes, sir. Colonel Andrews.

So can you tell me what I'm supposed to be doing here?

I thought the war was over.

I couldn't say.

You couldn't say because you don't know, or you

couldn't say because somebody told you you couldn't say?

I couldn't say.

Don't get sore with me, Doc. I'm just a translator.

Translator for what?

We'll see.

Dr. Kelly.

Apparently Central Command thinks you're some kind of hotshot head-shrinker.

I imagine you have some questions for me.

More than a few. Let's get to it.

You are standing inside a secret military prison.

It currently houses what's left of the Nazi high command.

The governments of Russia, France, Great Britain, and our United States

are deciding right now whether to put these men on trial for their lives.

You have been brought in to inspect and ensure the

prisoners' mental health should that trial go forward.

Suicide.

That'll be the main concern with most of the prisoners.

Hitler, Goebbels, and Himmler have already taken their own lives.

We cannot afford any more losses.

Goebbels and Himmler did it with this.

Hidden cyanide capsule.

The one you'll have to watch the closest is Göring.

Göring?

Why isn't Hermann Göring?

That's the one.

Hermann Göring's here?

Sergeant, is it possible that he made you suffer

a large blow to his head on the way to my office?

Not that I'm aware of, sir.

Sorry, it's just a lot to process.

- I'm sure it is. Try and do it faster. - Yes, sir.

When Göring surrendered, he was traveling with his family.

He had over a million dollars in German currency

and jewelry, and a large quantity of these.

We had them sent back to the States for classification.

Hydrocodeine.

Fairly potent painkiller. I'm a fan.

He says they're for his heart.

Well, then, I have a rather large bridge in Brooklyn to sell you.

These have nothing to do with the heart. They're an opiate.

How many pills does he take a day?

Sergeant, forty, sir.

Well, I think it's safe to say the Reichsmarschall's got a drug problem.

Where's his family now?

They've been released, and they're not your concern.

Your only job is to evaluate Göring and the others. That is it.

Sir, I'm a good doctor, but the entire Nazi high command

might be a little bit beyond my area of expertise.

Believe me, Major, this was not my idea.

Dismissed.

He was not great about tox, is he?

Kalman's not known for his warmth, sir.

What are you doing?

Göring. Right now.

- You don't want to get settled first? - I want to know what I'm dealing with.

All right, well, don't be too intimidating.

I'm not. Tell me about it.

Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring, President of the Reichstag, Minister of Aviation,

Commandant-in-Chief of the Luftwaffe, Minister of Economics,

a founding member of the Kastafel secret police,

was appointed Hitler's successor in 1939

and is the highest ranking German military officer of all time.

Okay. Now I'm a little intimidated.

Don't be. You're good.

Reichsmarschall!

Reichsmarschall Göring, my name is Dr. Douglas Kelly.

My name is Dr. Douglas Kelly.

He says, wonderful, a doctor.

I am. I'm going to take your pulse.

Yeah, yeah.

He's been asking for his pills.

He wants you to get them for him.

I understand you've had heart trouble.

Can you open your shirt, please?

Respiration is rapid and shallow. Don't translate that.

The pills help with the pain as well.

He says he was shot down in World War I.

He has a bullet in his right hip.

In 1923 he was shot in the groin during the Munich pooch.

You've been shot a lot, sir.

Occupational hazard.

Well, if you really want to look after your heart,

the best way to do that is to lose some weight.

I'm assure you are looking at the best physique in all of Germany.

Just ask my wife.

Oh, I'm sure you're right, sir, but the guards here call you fat stuff.

I'm sure it would be difficult for a lesser man to lose this weight,

but you possess a fortitude and discipline that others do not, yes?

You see, this man is different.

We're going to be good friends, I'm sure of it.

I look forward to that.

- Good day. - Auf Wiedersehen.

Inflated sense of self.

Charming.

Speaks English.

What? What? What? What?

The way he looked at me when I called him fat.

He understood me. He's been playing you.

No, no, why would he pretend?

Translation gives him more time to consider his answers.

He thinks that gives him an advantage.

Wait, hold on.

You're saying I spent the last three months

mumbling to myself while he understood everyone?

Pretty much.

Are you going to tell him that you know?

No, no. He's going to tell me when he's ready.

- When's that? - When he determines I'm not a threat.

I want to meet the rest of them. Who's next?

Dr. Robert Ley, chief of the German labor front,

one of Hitler's earliest followers.

He once wrote a book that was so complimentary

that Hitler had the entire run destroyed because he was so embarrassed.

Ley, who spearheaded the Nazi slave labor program, was captured in his pajamas,

calling himself Dr. Distelmaier.

I'm not like these other power-hungry men you have locked up in here.

I can smell the Jew.

Great admiral Karl Dönitz,

the German navy's commander in chief,

architect of the U-boat attack that crippled the British navy.

The fanatical Nazi with the arrest of Dönitz.

The Third Reich is ended forever.

I've been in custody for 76 days.

I have yet to be formally arrested or charged with a specific crime,

which is a direct violation of the Geneva Convention.

Charge me or release me.

Julius Streicher,

Hitler's director of propaganda,

publisher of the national anti-Semitic paper, De Sturma.

Streicher, docked the high priest of anti-Semitism and the beast of Franconia,

led the Jewish boycott

and ruled Nuremberg with an iron fist.

He wants to know if you're a Jew.

No.

But you work in a Jewish profession.

What do you fight for, doctor?

Göring is the key.

A leader of a nation in exile.

He binds them all together.

He's begun a strict self-imposed diet and exercise

regimen and is going cold turkey on the pills.

It's almost as if he's training for something.

If one were to write a book about him, it-

Is there a library in town?

- You want to go to a libray? - Yes!

- At 2:33 in the morning? - Yes, get your coat.

I'll get my coat.

The sheer amount of narcissists we got locked up in that hotel,

I bet at least half have books in here

written about them or written by them.

We're going to figure these guys out.

Do you speak any German, doc?

Not even a little.

How'd you learn?

My mother spoke German.

I wanted to be like her.

You really think you can do it?

Do what?

Well, get these guys to open up to you.

Sure.

Ow.

Everybody wants to be listened to.

It's a natural instinct.

I learn about them.

I get them to trust me.

They open up.

I make it sound so easy.

What if we could dissect evil?

What sets these men apart from all others?

What enabled them to commit the crimes that they did?

It almost took over the world.

You've heard about the work camps for Jews?

Rumor has it

they weren't just work camps.

I've heard.

So how do people become like that?

We actually have a shot to figure that out.

To find out

what makes the Germans different.

Different?

From us.

A man who writes a book about that can make a lot of money.

You know, for a second I thought you were being noble.

You aren't noble?

Fine.

We could psychologically define evil.

We could make sure something like this never happens again.

What's going on?

Hermann Göring can't breathe.

Move!

Hallie!

His airway is clear.

That's good, right?

And he's having a heart attack.

Without the prison doctor.

He's on his way.

Tell him to hurry.

Hallie, get some aspirin.

Plain old ordinary aspirin.

You're going to not go.

Hey, hey.

Your heart's still beating.

Which means you're alive.

I'm going to keep you that way.

I need you to stay calm.

Breathe with me.

In and out.

In and out.

I'm here.

I'm here.

Look at me.

I'm here. I'm not going to let you die.

In and out.

Is that your wife?

She's here.

She's here.

Breathe with me.

Hand me a few of those, Hallie.

Thank you, Hallie.

Best thing for the heart.

Trust me.

Breathe in and out.

Your pulse is slow.

Hey, guess what?

You're alive.

You're alive.

I am.

Well, how about that?

Thank you.

Let's get him to the infomerica, mon.

He smiled for it.

He said thank you in English.

Truman wants to win reelection in 48.

He's not going to do that coddling of the Nazis.

That's true enough.

Plus, a trial means giving them a chance to tell their stories to the world.

What are we afraid to hear them tell?

We won the damn war, Bob.

If you do this, it'll turn into the biggest boondoggle of all time.

Cameras in the damn courtroom.

Well, what if they're sympathetic?

What if all this does is provide them with a

platform for antisemitism all over the world?

You won't be responsible for that.

You want to know if I'm comfortable executing a few dances without trial?

Damn right I am.

It doesn't matter anyway.

I'll never get the Russians.

We got the Russians.

What?

We got the Russians.

We did?

Truman called Stalin himself, looking at Nikichenko for lead prosecutor.

That's fantastic news.

I have no idea who you are.

Colonel John Ammons, sir. I work for the Judge Advocate General.

So, the Army sent us a lawyer.

Yes, sir. I bring greetings from General Eisenhower, who says he

wants you to know that he's not for hanging anyone without a trial.

Well, that's progress.

He also says he hopes the trial won't take

too long so we can get on with hanging them.

Have a seat.

I've read a lot about you, sir. They say you're going to be the next Chief Justice.

The President promised him the seat personally.

And swore me into secrecy, so let's maybe not tell

everyone who walks into the office about it, okay?

Well, everyone in my office says there's no way you get the trial.

What do you say?

I say I like an underdog.

Good morning, Julius.

I'm going to show you a series of cards, each with ink blots,

and you're going to tell me what each ink blot makes you see.

Perhaps it will reveal something about your character, your

intelligence, creativity, and everything here stays between us.

A doctor?

Yes.

I can't speak to you in English if it is of some help.

Only if it makes you comfortable.

Shall we begin?

I'm calling you.

I'm Hexen.

This is your director, Torpedo Trevor.

Torpedo Head.

Somebody has spilled something.

I see 10,000 horses. I see the Valkyries ride.

A vagina.

A vagina?

A vagina?

A Jewish vagina.

A Jewish vagina.

This is blood.

This is blood.

Or ink.

You can say a lot of things with ink.

I'm sorry, Bob. Word came down tonight. It's going to be a no.

Congress is going to say no to the trial. They just want executions.

I'm out of moves.

What about the president?

The president wants someone to hide behind. That's why he needs Congress.

Neither will do it without the other.

So you need someone bigger to back it?

Oh, come on. Who's bigger than the president?

Jesus Christ.

Literally.

Are you a Catholic?

I am now.

The Holy Father will see you now.

You wish to put this man on trial for their lives.

Then you have come to ask for the Church's blessing in this.

Your support would go a long way to building an international consensus.

No one denies these men are evil.

But an eye for an eye is not the answer.

Maybe not, but I'm pretty sure where I first read about it.

Are you Catholic?

No, sir.

A religious man?

Not especially.

And yet at home they call you a justice.

I didn't pick the name.

If you sit long enough in judgment of others,

you come to believe the laws of man outweigh the laws of God.

I don't believe that.

Then what do you believe?

I believe in man in our capacity to save ourselves from men like the Nazis.

I believe this to be a good act.

Once so good, you must circumnavigate your own laws to achieve it.

I'm sorry, but the Catholic Church cannot support you in this.

But you could support them in 1933.

I'm sorry?

You signed the Concordat with Hitler yourself.

That was a different matter.

You lived in Munich. You were the nuncio to the German Empire.

The Catholic Church was the first world power to acknowledge the pure state.

You gave the Nazis credibility.

In order to protect Catholics in Germany.

Isn't it a pity the Jews didn't have someone to do that for them?

Do you think I condone what they did?

People will remember, sir.

What you did in 1933.

What you do now.

They'll tell their children.

Did the Catholic Church stand with the Nazis?

Or against them?

Did you just blackmail the Pope?

I don't want to talk about it.

Word came down last night.

There's going to be a trial.

A trial?

Good.

Good.

As it should be.

Those cards that you showed me.

What did they teach you about me?

Honestly, that you are highly intelligent.

I could have told you this.

And that you're a narcissist.

Given to an expansive and aggressive fantasy life.

With a strong ambition and drive to subjugate the world as you find it.

To your own pattern of thinking.

And you were surprised by this?

No.

Then the cards have taught you nothing.

Now, Tris, he tells me you do magic.

Einsauber.

Sorry.

Perhaps if it's not too much trouble, we don't get entertainment.

Why not?

Here's an average ordinary silver dollar.

Ta-da!

Very good. Very good.

I will show you a magic trick one day.

What's that?

I am going to escape the hangman's noose.

How do you plan on doing that?

If I were to tell you, it would not be a trick.

No, I'm not.

This is the end of the episode.

You see what the allies are capable of?

There is nothing left.

You said that.

The palace of justice.

The roof has been damaged by the air raids.

Fire gutted the upper floors and collapsed the clock tower.

But this court room should be able to hold 600 people when it's finished.

What's with all the supplies?

The Nazis fought their last stand here when the city was taken.

And so they will again.

All the beautiful cities in this conquered land.

You want to try them in this bombed out husk?

This is Sir David Maxwell Fyfe, assistant prosecutor for the British.

Yes, sir, we do.

For one thing, we can control the space.

For another, there's an adjoining prison with room for up to 1200 inmates.

When he needs space for 22.

Sorry, 22, sir.

That's the number of men we're indicting for the first trial.

You see, if we don't win that trial, there won't be any more trials to come.

And you, myself and Justice Jackson and our respective

governments will be the laughingstock of the world,

defeated by the very men we've imprisoned.

So that will be fun.

My friends in Washington say opinions turn to him against you.

There's talk that you won't get the Chief Justice's seat when Stone steps down.

Well, who's truly going to pick? Benson? Benson's too political.

Yes, but he's there. This whole thing's become

a sideshow, Robert. It hasn't even begun.

They say you're writing all the briefs yourself,

refusing help from other lawyers.

Because it has to be done right.

And it will, but you can't do it alone.

Oh, everything will be fine once we actually get to trial.

You say that, as though trying the Nazi high command with untested case law,

the whole world watching is going to be the easy part.

Well, when you put it like that.

Anything less than total victory will be considered utter defeat,

which means you don't just have to win, Robert. You have to be flawless.

No pressure.

I love him, I love him.

Your cells are made of stone, nine feet by thirteen.

Your beds are bolted to the wall.

Your mattress is stuffed with straw instead of springs.

Your desks are made of cardboard and will not support a man's full weight.

Your chairs are never allowed against any wall

and will be removed every night at sundown.

When you sleep, your head and hands will

remain above your blanket visible at all times.

You will be given no belts, you will be given

no shoelaces, you will be given no toilet seats,

you will be given nothing with which to use as a weapon to take your own lives.

Welcome to Nuremberg.

Now this is a cell.

Your proof?

SHermann built. How could I not?

They will charge us soon, yeah.

You're looking forward to it?

I believe I am. I will have, as you say, my day in court.

Do you know this Jackson, the Justice Jackson?

No, I do not.

He will try to outfit me, but he will not succeed.

Very sure of yourself.

Doctor, no man has ever beaten me.

There are books filled with the names of those who have tried.

I hear you said, SHermann built.

You think I am at some sort of disadvantage because I sit in a cell.

I will remind you, I surrendered.

This is exactly where I desired to be.

Göring remains an enigma to me.

The closer we get to the indictments, the more confident he becomes.

I need to figure out a way to get closer to him.

So how do we do that?

We ask for his help.

With what?

Rudolf Hess.

Rudolf Hess is coming here.

Rudolf Hess, deputy to the Fuhrer.

Third in line for succession following Hitler and Goethe.

Hess transcribed my income for Hitler while the two were in

prison and was known as one of his most fanatical followers.

Sieg Heil!

Never do that in my prison again.

On May 10th, 1941, at the height of the war, Hess climbed into

a Messerschmitt fighter plane alone and flew over the North Sea.

He bailed out somewhere over Scotland and broke his ankle upon impact.

Upon his discovery, he announced that he was Rudolf Hess.

Hess was third in line of the German high command and he was here on a mission of peace and wanted to speak

with Douglas Douglas Hamilton, the 13th Duke of Hamilton, whom Hess had met at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin.

After some obstacles, Hess was granted his meeting.

There he announced his intention to meet with King George VI, have Winston Churchill fired, and

negotiate a truce with Britain allowing the two nations to join forces and defeat the Soviet Union.

Hess was immediately thrown into the Tower of London.

There Hess began claiming he had no memory of past events, even his childhood.

This lasted until February 1945 when he said his previous amnesia had been faked.

He then flipped again and said his amnesia had

returned in July 1945 when Germany collapsed.

So now you would come to Hermann Göring to discredit my old friend.

What would be in this for me?

What do you want?

My wife and my daughter.

No one has been able to locate them since I surrendered.

I need you to find them for my daughter and to give to them these letters.

First we talk to Hess and then your family.

How about that?

So what? This guy almost takes over the whole

world and now he wants to do a mail run for it?

I'm a deeper with this guy than anyone's ever been.

And reading his family will only tell me more.

So, Scudorf, do you remember me?

We were together, yes.

That must have been the case.

But I don't remember anyone.

It was the three of us, Scudorf.

You and I.

And Adolf.

We ruled an empire.

I'm sorry.

You may well have been a friend.

But I don't know you anymore.

He is lying.

He has just spent an hour to say he does not remember me.

But when he arrived in the prison and he saw me, what did he do?

Salute.

Sicile.

That was very good.

This is dumb. I'm dumb.

I knew you'd come through for me.

Yeah, because I'm a dummy.

How'd you find him?

Local gossip. Told me they were in Baldurstein.

Smoke?

Never seen you smoke.

Yeah, I don't. Gave it up.

My parents hated this.

You always got them on you.

It's a trick to get in good with the officers.

Tell myself I'll have a smoke when the war is done.

The war is done, Howie.

It's not too much for them.

Mrs. Gerig.

Mrs. Gerig.

My name is Douglas Kelly.

I work at the prison. I'm a psychiatrist.

My name is Douglas Kelly.

I work in the hospital. I'm a teacher.

Your husband asked me to bring you some letters.

Your husband asked me to bring you some letters.

Your husband asked me to bring you some letters.

Yes.

Yes.

How is he?

He's good.

He's holding it up.

Was that you playing?

It was beautiful.

Ah, she said he's a friend of your father.

Is he?

Is he your father?

How is papa?

He's doing very well.

Is he being brave?

Very brave.

He wants to be brave too.

He's smart.

He's smart.

He has a lot of stuff to do.

He wrote you a letter.

He wrote you a letter.

Thank you.

Do you want to go to the hospital? Thank you.

She will be here 100 times. Thank you.

Thank you.

Doctor.

Dr. Hermann.

I don't know if I can.

Peter.

Come back.

Okay, doctor.

What the hell?

Hermann Göring?

I am a race marshal, Hermann Göring.

Hermann Wilhelm Göring, you are hereby charged by

the United States of America, the French Republic,

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the following four counts.

Crimes against peace, war crimes, crimes against humanity

and of a common plan or conspiracy to commit those crimes.

The crimes against humanity you are accused of include murder,

extermination, enslavement, deportation and other inhumane acts.

This is a copy of your indictment. Do you have any questions?

No.

Good day.

Who's next?

Striker.

Do you have any questions?

What did he say?

He said he wants a Jewish lawyer.

I'm not going to trial.

You are, Dr. Ley.

I never killed anyone.

It's okay. It's okay. It's okay.

Robert.

Don't touch me!

Hold him!

Come out!

Don't drive me down!

Shoot me! Shoot me! Shoot me!

Rough day?

Lady from the train.

Magic now.

How goes the secret mission?

It's hit a few obstacles.

I can see that.

What are you doing here?

I came in with the press.

Hermann Göring and the Nazis are being indicted today.

No say.

Strap yourself in.

This city is about to become the greatest show on earth.

Yes, sir.

Dark rumors continue to swirl about the true purpose of the Nazi work camps.

The legal teams are assembling for what promises to be the trial of the century.

Through this tunnel, the Nazis will be taken to the courtroom.

Now being rebuilt for the trial.

There, the film lights will be so bright that

the court goers will be provided with sunglasses.

Hermann Göring and his Hitler-loving cronies are

scheduled to face off with our boys in one week.

Will justice prevail or will the fascists go free?

This reporter desperately hopes that the Allies run into no problems.

We have a problem.

Operation Wieserbund was the German invasion of Denmark and Norway in 1940.

In the textbook aggressive war, the Nazis, they

rolled tanks and they occupied neutral country.

Except they're going to claim that the invasion was a preemptive strike.

To preempt what?

The British plan to invade Norway.

Well, that's ridiculous.

Absolutely ridiculous. I'm in complete agreement.

It concerns me that you're in this room right now.

Well, in addition to being ridiculous, it also happens to be true.

The idea was to use the country as a staging area to hold the Nazis back.

And to prosecute the Nazis for planning aggressive

wars if you guys were planning aggressive wars.

I bet there's a certain logic there.

Can the Nazis prove it?

The German law has already put in a request

for documents, but they don't have it. Not yet.

Then we're in the clear.

Maybe. But it raises a bigger issue.

We have to know what the Nazis know, what their defense strategy is.

How exactly to propose we do that?

Dr. Kelly, you are going to meet someone very important this evening.

This might actually be your chance to find the bee of some use.

Impressive, right?

Hitler was building it to be the largest stadium on the planet.

You're Justice Jackson.

And you're the shrink.

This is where they held the rallies.

Every year, Hitler would pack this place, speak to the Nazi party as a whole.

They filmed it.

In 1935, this is where he announced the Nuremberg Laws.

You know the laws?

The Nuremberg Laws defined a Jew as any person

having three or four Jewish grandparents.

It didn't matter if you practiced Judaism, if you converted to Christianity.

This was about blood.

The laws stripped all Jews of German citizenry.

They made it illegal for Jews and Germans to marry

each other because of the fear of Rasenschande.

Defilement of the blood.

Under the laws, Jews were prohibited from using state hospitals.

And not allowed access to public education beyond the age of 14.

Libraries, parks, and beaches were closed to Jews.

War memorials had all Jewish names on them.

Expunged.

All of that was announced right here on this very ground.

What do you want from me?

Your patients?

I need you to start asking them the right questions.

What are the right questions?

What they tell their lawyers?

How they plan to defend themselves?

You want me to be a spy?

I want you to do your duty for your country.

No, you want me to break Dr. Patient Confidentiality.

I think you already have, doctor. We read every report.

We need more.

Why not just shoot them?

Just whatever he wants.

I mean, if you're just gonna cheat... That's not cheating.

If you're asking me to betray my oath...

Why not just shoot them and be done with it?

After the last great war, we made Germany crawl.

We humiliated them.

Made them pay reparations they couldn't afford.

We made them hate us so much that in less than two decades...

They went from a broken nation to near world conquerors.

We had to do this right because if we don't...

If fifteen years from now they come back even stronger...

I don't know if we can beat them a third time.

If we just shoot these men, we make them martyrs.

I'm not gonna allow them that.

There will be no statues of them.

No songs of praise.

I'm gonna put Hermann Göring on the stand...

And I'm gonna make him tell the world what he did.

So that it can never happen again.

You brought me here because of Göring.

No.

I brought you here to show you that before the bullets were fired...

Before tens of millions of men died...

All of this started with laws.

This war ends in a courtroom.

With Göring?

He's the face of the Nazis now.

As he falls, so do they all.

But if I'm gonna do that...

I need to be ready for it.

Will you help me?

Let's talk about Hitler.

It is interesting you have not asked me this directly before.

I'm curious what the attraction was.

There was a failed painter.

Not a very good soldier yet.

He was worshipped and revered.

He made us feel German again.

How?

Bears of white skinned Germany craft.

And along comes a man who says... We can reclaim our former glory.

Would you not follow a man like this?

Depends what else you wanted to do.

The first time I saw Hitler talk was... 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.

Griard. Down with Versailles.

So that night...

I became a National Socialist.

Off of... One speech?

I could tell he would appeal to the old soldiers.

If they have the old soldiers, they have the manpower.

Even with his antisemitism, it served a practical purpose.

It brought towards us men who needed something else to focus their emotions.

Something else to blame.

And the camps?

They were to be work camps for our political opponents.

Nothing more.

And you signed off on that?

For work camps, yeah.

Do not think that the Japanese entered by the

Americans after Pearl Harbor were not put to work?

Of course they were.

I made the camps for the good of Germany, for the war effort.

Not for death.

Himmler.

Heitrich.

They were responsible?

If it is true, what they say happened at the camps.

This is a grave blight on the great German Reich.

Have you told your lawyer about this?

Douglas, I will not stand against the Fuhrer.

Not even if I can help you.

These are not things people need to know, Doctor.

Only you.

He can be sympathetic.

It is going to be a problem for you.

He seriously claims that he thought they were only work camps.

That is right.

Do you believe him?

Himmler ran the camps.

He was the head of the SS.

Göring was the head of the Air Force.

How often in America does the head of the Air Force

know what the head of the Secret Service is doing?

I am sorry, but I cannot believe that we are having this conversation right now.

I am doing what you ask.

No, you are apologizing for him.

Gentlemen, please. I am not the one defending the Nazi.

You think I am defending him? I am analyzing him, you provincial moron.

Göring is, above all things, a narcissist.

The only thing he cares about is building Germany up and then becoming her leader.

He does not care about the Jews.

So he is fine with them dying.

And he is fine with them not.

The only thing Hermann Göring cares about is Hermann Göring.

Does that sound like a man who dedicates

himself to the extermination of an entire race?

Well, Dr. Kelly, I really appreciate your thoughtfulness

on this, but I have to admit it is very hard to believe.

You want to walk into that courtroom with a handful of assumptions?

Fine.

But he will eat you for breakfast.

I would like to apologize for my outbursts earlier. It felt much better.

I felt a chance to be shifting.

And you? Something seems to be troubling you.

I am fine.

I am fine.

I am fine.

I am fine.

I am fine.

I am fine.

This will all be over soon.

Blaze mode is markedly improved.

He told us he has begun making arrangements for his defense.

I feel as though for the first time he has reached out to me.

He ripped out the hem of his towel to make a rope.

He stuffed his underwear into his mouth so he wouldn't scream and then...

just leaned forward, apparently with a great deal of determination.

You didn't see any of this coming?

He told me he was doing better.

Told you.

I'm supposed to keep them alive.

I'm bringing in another doctor.

A firm and a second opinion is required for some of your patients.

Dr. Gilbert arrives this afternoon. You will brief him.

How do you feel about suicide?

The last refuge of cowards, yeah.

And the last act of a desperate man?

So all his exceptions, of course.

You are in trouble.

Why would you say that?

A new doctor, new tests. Since Lai died, they no longer trust you.

Your own?

Douglas, when you are in a position of power,

they will always come after you.

You have to protect yourself.

Why would I have to protect myself from my allies?

Just because a man is your ally

does not mean he is on your side.

My father was a diplomat, did I tell you this?

Yeah.

He was posted to Africa.

And it was there he was to meet his best friend,

a man named Hermann von Epstein.

I was named after him.

Yeah.

I was named for a Jew.

We loved Uncle Hermann so much, he was very rich.

He lived in Frozenstein Castle.

And when I was six years old,

he moved my entire family in with him.

Can you imagine?

It was a child's dream to live in such a castle.

I would run down the halls, pretending I was a knight.

I would stare down from the battlements, envisioning armies forming to attack.

Uncle Hermann, he lived in the largest and most beautiful room on the top floor.

Down the hall, my mother had a bedroom, also beautiful.

My father,

he lived in a small bedroom on the ground floor.

And I was to realize just how rich Uncle Hermann was.

So rich that he could move my family in.

So rich that he could put my father on the ground floor.

So rich that whenever he wanted,

he could walk down the hall

and enjoy my mother.

Just because a man is your ally

does not mean he is on your side.

You found Hermann going to be imaginative?

I didn't find him to be that way. The test did.

Well, that is what a second opinion is for.

Which brings us to Rudolph Hess.

I'm inclined to believe that his amnesia is genuine.

You mean the part where he forgets about being a Nazi?

Okay, look, Dr.

Kelly, I'm not here to step on your toes, okay?

I'll share research with a co-author.

Co-author of what?

You don't have to play coy with me. We're both here for the same reason.

Now, two books about the Nazi high command that's going to cut into the market.

I say we write it together.

Good luck with your tests.

She was in.

Thank you.

Come and see Peter Haines.

Oh, she was, uh, astounded.

Teach me this trick.

Is it a coin by the ear?

Yeah, yeah. Teach me this trick so I, too, can astound her.

I gave my silver dollar to your daughter.

It's the simplest trick in the world.

And it works because, you know, people want to believe.

Well, you hold up the dollar and you say,

Hey, folks, here is an ordinary average silver dollar.

And you put it in your other hand.

You focus on it.

But really, it's right here.

You palm it in your right hand.

Palm it?

You put it between these two fingers.

You wrap your palm around it.

But you focus on your left hand.

And you feel the coin in there, the weight of it.

And if you believe it,

then they'll believe it.

And then you just, uh,

well, you reach behind the ear.

Abracadabra!

What is abracadabra?

Uh, it's a magic word.

It gives the illusion of a cosmic weight.

And it always must be abracadabra.

No, it can be anything.

It can be presto.

I think I prefer abracadabra.

So it was your father who taught you this trick?

My father?

No.

You say that like it is unthinkable.

And my father was content to

buy his trade and display a cheerful disposition.

He was a man of no accomplishment.

But you believe

you are destined for more.

You want to be known as a great man.

Yes.

And I am your ticket.

You will return to America as the great scholar of the Nazis.

And I will have a trick to impress my daughter

when this trial is done.

Stop taking me with you to see him.

I didn't want to bother you so late.

I've been seeing him a lot without me.

What are you doing, doc?

Trying to learn something?

Are you sure that's what this is still about?

Good night, Howie.

Are you going to defend yourself, Hermann?

Oh, but not too late now.

I'm serious.

Have you friends, doctor?

I think that word is a little too simple for what we are.

But are you asking me this as a friend?

I am.

Tomorrow, when I enter my plea,

I will read a statement.

I am going to say

that I assume all responsibility for my actions.

I will refuse, however,

to accept responsibility for acts committed by others

that I was unaware of

and I would not have approved of.

But I did.

I did for my country.

Tell me you have not done the same for yours.

They told me I could find you here.

In seven hours,

the whole world is going to be focused on this room.

This is it.

This is everything.

This is the statement that Gerhard plans on reading tomorrow.

Thank you.

May it please your honors,

the privilege

of opening the first trial in history

for crimes against the peace of the world

imposes a grave responsibility.

The wrongs which we seek to condemn and punish

have been so calculated,

so malignant and so devastating

that civilization cannot tolerate their being ignored

because we cannot survive their being repeated.

In the prisoner's dock

said 20-odd broken men,

we will show them

to be living symbols of racial hatreds,

of terrorism and violence,

and of the arrogance

and cruelty of power.

Civilization can afford nothing

with the men in whom these forces

now precariously survive.

Wars are no longer local.

All modern wars

become world wars, eventually.

And none of the big nations can stay out.

But the ultimate step

in avoiding periodic wars

in a system of international lawlessness

is to make statesmen responsible for the law.

And let me make clear

that while this law is first applied against German aggressors,

it must condemn aggression by any other nation,

including those who sit here now in judgment.

We are able to do away

with domestic tyranny

and violence and aggression

by those in power against the rights of their own people

only when we make all men

insurable to the law.

Hermann Kering,

the defendants are to plead guilty

or not guilty

to the charges against them.

They will proceed in turn

to a point in the dock

opposite to the microphone.

I am Hermann Wilhelm Kering.

I stand before the court today and the world

and pledge only to tell...

The tribunal has reached the decision

that the defendants are not entitled to make a statement.

They will be permitted to address the court

prior to their sentencing.

As Reichsmarschall of Germany.

You are not Reichsmarschall here.

You are only Hermann Kering, the prisoner.

Do you plead guilty or not guilty?

Yes, Schutig.

Emmy!

Eva!

Emmy!

What happened?

What happened? Where are they?

What? Where are they?

They took them.

Who?

Americans.

You've got to be shitting me.

Thanks. I'm going to need it.

They arrested Emmy Gering

on suspicion of complicity with her husband's art thefts.

The kid goes to the nuns.

No contact allowed.

They're women and children.

Yeah.

Sir, we're supposed to be better than this.

It's out of my hands.

And you're welcome.

By the way,

how did you know where she was hiding?

Did Etta play for you again?

She did.

She's very talented.

She likes you.

Do you have the letters?

No.

No letters, unfortunately.

No?

Next time.

Here's the menu, Doctor.

You're just talking about my family.

Ah, yes.

That's fine. I'm sorry to hear about that.

That's fine.

Their arrest?

Your wife and daughter were arrested five days ago.

He didn't tell you?

Hey. Hey.

What the hell was that?

That was me being honest with my patients.

Something you ought to try sometime.

You destroyed him in there.

So?

Hey! Hey!

Jesus Christ.

You're mental health professionals!

For Christ's sake!

Doctor Gilbert, would you like me to place Doctor Kelly under arrest?

No, sir.

Then get out of my goddamn office!

All rise!

May it please the court,

the prosecution would now like to enter into evidence the following film footage.

The images you are about to see have never before been shown in public.

This film should offer a brief explanation

of what the words concentration camp implied.

These are the locations of the largest concentration and prison camps

maintained throughout Germany and occupied Europe under the Nazi regime.

The 4th Armored Division of General Patton's

3rd Army liberated this camp early in April.

They see the woodshed where lime-covered bodies are

stacked in layers and the stench is overpowering.

Slave labor camp at Nordhausen liberated by the 3rd Armored Division, 1st Army.

At least 3,000 political prisoners died here at the brutal hands of

SS troops and pardon German criminals who were the camp's daughter.

Nordhausen has been a depository for slaves found unfit for work in

the underground B-bomb plants and in other German camps and factories.

Amid the corpses are human skeletons too weak to move.

None of our medical battalions work two days and

nights binding wounds and giving medications.

But for advanced cases of starvation and tuberculosis there are often no cures.

Survivors are shown being evacuated for treatment in Allied hospitals.

I'm Lieutenant Senior Grade Jack H. Taylor, U.S. Navy, from Hollywood, California.

Believe it or not, this is the first time I've ever been in the movies.

I was captured December 1st.

I was taken to this Mauthausen concentration locker, an extermination camp,

where we have been starving and beaten and killed, forcibly my turn hadn't come.

There were five or six ways by cast, by

shooting, by beating, against beating with clubs,

by exposure, that is, standing out in the snow naked for 48 hours

and having cold water thrown on them in the middle of winter,

starvation, dogs, and pushing over a 100-foot cliff.

This is all true, has been seen, and is now being reported.

Nationalities and prison numbers are tattooed on the stomachs of the inmates.

In the official report, the Buchenwald camp is termed an extermination factory.

Bodies stacked one upon the other were found outside the crematory.

The body disposal plant. Inside are the ovens which gave the crematorium

a maximum disposal capacity of about 400 bodies per 10-hour day.

A car near München, one of the oldest of the Nazi prison camp.

This is what the liberators found inside the building.

Hanging an orderly road were the clothes of prisoners

who had been suffocated in a lethal gas chamber.

They had been persuaded to remove their clothing under the pretext

of taking a shower for which towels and soap were provided.

Planetary conditions were so appalling that heavy equipment

had to be brought in to speed the work of cleaning up.

This was Bergen-Belsen.

Righted so.

How is it possible?

Himmler.

Himmler wasn't second in command.

You were 1200 camps?

What am I supposed to believe that he didn't know?

Anyone can fake an atrocity.

So you're saying the film was a fake? That's your defense?

What would you have me say?

How about the truth for once?

So you can run and tell Jackson?

My friend, your hypocrisy is stunning.

My hypocrisy?

You think American bullets and bombs don't kill people?

You vaporize 150,000 Japanese at the touch of a button

and you presume to stand in judgment on me for all crimes?

We had every right to defend ourselves.

How do you defend yourself on someone else's soil?

There's a difference between us bombing war

factories and civilians dying as collateral damage

and you building 1200 human slaughterhouses designed to exterminate an entire race.

And you know it!

What do you think war is?

Not what I thought today.

What do you think the Russians do to German prisoners of war?

You have your freedom and I am a prisoner because you've earned and we lost.

Not because you are morally superior!

This trial will be a farce in 15 years.

Great conquerors and not thought of as murderers.

Genghis Khan, Alexander the Great... You're not Alexander the Great!

You are a fat man in a cell.

And you know 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.

You think you're a great man?

You think that's your legacy?

At least I will have one.

You will leave no mark on this world.

I am the book!

You are merely a footnote.

They're gonna kill you.

They're gonna hang you by the neck until 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.

I know who you are.

What do you like?

You don't wanna know.

Jackson's putting him on the stand day after tomorrow?

Jackson's gonna get killed.

Why do you say that?

Because Gary is ready for him.

He was ready for all of us.

Why don't you tell me all about it?

Look at that!

Your private conversations with Hermann Göring made the front page.

You're finished.

I signed your transfer order this morning.

You're to be sent back to the states where you'll be discharged.

You have embarrassed me and this office for the last time.

I'm sorry, Colonel.

You deserve better.

Yes, I did.

And just so you know, we are releasing Göring's wife and daughter.

You were right. We are better than that.

Thank you, sir.

Your train's at five o'clock.

Don't take this the wrong way, but I never wanna see you again.

Care to say goodbye?

Did you really mean it?

You said Jackson had no chance?

Sure. It's all just a big show for the cameras anyway.

So it doesn't matter what happens tomorrow.

If Göring beats Jackson, so be it.

Yeah, I don't believe that.

Neither do you.

You know more about him than anybody on Earth.

Yeah, that's right. I do.

You know, I spent thousands of hours with him.

I run hundreds of tests.

You know what sets him apart from us?

Nothing.

I know.

You know?

Because I'm one of them.

What are you talking about?

I'm German, Doc.

I grew up in Munich.

You grew up in Detroit. You said your mom spoke German.

She did.

But my father.

Because I was raised here.

You're an American soldier.

Why'd you leave?

Why do you think?

You're a Jew.

You know, with the blonde hair and the blue eyes,

I never got a hassle much.

My father was a patriot.

He fought for Germany in the First World War.

We loved this country.

Eventually he realized we had to get out.

How'd you do?

The problem was getting travel visas.

Other countries wouldn't take us.

My dad had a cousin in New York who helped.

We finally got our visa in 1940.

But we only had enough money for one ticket out.

My little sister, Margo...

She was only 11, so...

My parents didn't want her traveling alone.

Until they sent me.

Boy, how seasick the whole way.

When I landed, I stayed with my cousin.

When the Nazis invaded Holland,

my family never showed up.

That's when I went to Detroit.

I got a job as an apprentice in a tool factory

when the English listened to baseball on the radio.

When Pearl Harbor happened,

I was the first one

in the recruitment office to enlist.

You know what they said?

They couldn't take me.

Because I wasn't an American citizen.

I'd have to wait to get drafted.

So I did.

I waited, and I waited.

I checked the mailbox every day for two years.

June 6th, 1944.

Landed at Omaha Beach on D-Day.

Four years earlier.

I left this country,

scared and alone in the middle of the night.

But I came back with a goddamn army.

I found Margo.

She's in Switzerland.

She's 16 now.

She's living with relatives.

She's good.

She made it.

And her folks.

The records show that

my parents arrived at Auschwitz August 12th, 1942.

The camp was liberated January 27th, 1945.

No sign of them.

The Nazis had a name for what they did to us.

The Final Solution.

Like we were

some kind of nagging puzzle

that they finally figured out how to solve.

So sorry, Howie.

I don't want to tell Stryker.

I want to tell him

right before they put that rope around his neck,

I'm going to tell that piece of shit that he was confining in a Jew.

You say it doesn't matter

what happens tomorrow.

It matters.

More you know

matters to me,

to my family,

to all of Germany.

Göring has to fall.

You think he's going to beat Jackson?

Don, please.

Do something about it.

I can't.

You can't what?

I'm just a shrink.

You want to know why it happened here?

People let it happen.

Because they didn't stand up until it was too late.

Have a safe trip home, Doc.

Yes, sir. Of course.

No, I... I completely understand.

Thank you.

Son of a gun.

Truman's just named Frederick Vinson Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.

Yeah, I didn't want the job anyway.

Who would?

Welcome's up.

You're walking into a trap.

Dr. Kelly, I was under the impression you'd been relieved.

Putting Göring on the stand gives him everything he wants.

It's why he surrendered in the first place.

His last chance to redeem the Reich on the world stage.

After what I read in the paper this morning,

I don't believe I care what you think anymore.

You can't beat him.

Charles!

Not without help.

This is everything I have on him.

Private files, off-the-book conversations.

I know more about this man than anyone else on the planet.

And it's all in here.

Why do you have this?

I was gonna write a book.

Make something of myself.

It's okay.

So you really think I can't beat him?

Honestly?

I don't know.

You know, I was gonna be Chief Justice.

I'll be lucky if there's a place on the court for me when I return.

As of six hours ago, I was discharged from the army.

There's nothing left for us to do, sir.

Might as well go finish the war.

The trick is to use his vanity against him.

He is the Reich Marshall.

And the Reich Marshall is never wrong.

You can't beat him.

Every decision that's led him to this place

has to be the right one.

So as much as he won't want to talk about

the camps and the SS and the final solution,

you can make him own them.

Kelly's right.

Get him to admit to signing those orders.

And you'll have him.

I'll have him.

This is your day.

You're ready.

No idea, sir.

Justice Jackson, are you ready?

The prosecution now calls Hermann Göring to the stand.

For the record, is there any doubt in your mind

that Adolf Hitler is dead?

I have no doubt.

So you are aware

that this makes you the only living man who can expound to us

the true purposes of the Nazi party

and the inner workings of its leadership?

I am perfectly aware of this, sir.

Your party from the very beginning intended to overthrow the Weimar Republic.

That was our firm intention.

What the hell?

And upon coming to power,

you immediately abolished parliamentary government in Germany.

We found it to be no longer necessary.

Is that because you believe people are not capable of self-government?

We were elected by the people

and given a mandate for change.

The systems that had previously existed had brought Germany to the verge of ruin.

The old president of Roosevelt said

there are certain peoples in Europe

who have forsaken democracy

not because they did not wish for it,

but because democracy had brought forth men who were too weak.

After you came to power,

you regarded it necessary to suppress all opposition parties, correct?

We found it necessary to no longer permit opposition here.

And you also considered it immediately necessary to establish concentration camps?

The camps were set up as a measure against the communists and their violence.

So it was necessary to erect a camp for them,

run two or three camps, something like this.

You also had to have certain groups

to carry out orders and fight for you if necessary, right?

Certain groups... Well, for example, if you wanted certain people killed,

you had to have some organization that would kill them.

Yeah, Germany had this level of political

police that you would find in any other country.

And the SA and the SS were the organizations that carried out these orders

and dealt with people on a physical level, were they not?

The SA never received orders to kill anybody.

Neither did the SS, not in my time.

Beyond a certain point, I had no influence on it.

The SS carried out arrests.

They handled the transportation of people to the concentration camps.

Can you not recall a time

when the SS began to perform the function

of acting as the executor of the Nazi party?

It would be very difficult for me to explain

to an outsider whether the SS or whether the Gestapo may or may not be active.

Try.

Perhaps as the police came more and more

into the hands of Himmler,

expectations may have changed.

And, of course, it is well known that some SS units were

guarding the camps and later performed some police functions.

And carried out other functions in the camps?

To what functions do you refer?

They carried out all of the functions of the camps, didn't they?

If an SS unit was guarding a camp,

and an SS leader was the camp commandant,

send it to the rational to assume

that they would have carried out all of the functions of the camp.

You have said that you wanted a strong German state to overcome

the conditions of Versailles, is that correct?

We wanted a strong German state, regardless of Versailles.

The first country to be absorbed by Germany

was Austria, but it had not been part of Germany before the First World War,

and it had not been taken from Germany by the Treaty of Versailles, is that correct?

That is not entirely correct.

The second territory taken by Germany was Bohemia, then Moravia, and then Slovakia.

These were not taken from Germany by the Treaty of Versailles,

nor had they been part of Germany

before the First World War, had they?

These parts of Czech territory

were not part of the smaller German Reich at the time of the Treaty of Versailles.

However, formally, they were united to the German Reich for hundreds of years.

You still have not answered my question.

I have answered your question.

If the facts do not suit you,

there is very little I can do.

Can you not answer yes or no?

Time may not mean quite as much to you as it does to the rest of us.

Mr. Justice, the tribunal thinks the witness ought to

be allowed to make what explanations he thinks right.

I trust that the court is not unaware that outside of this courtroom

is a great social question regarding the revival of Nazism,

and that one of the purposes of declaring is to encourage

and perpetuate it by propaganda from this trial now in process.

This witness has adopted in the witness box and the prisoner's dock

an arrogant and contemptuous attitude towards this tribunal, which is giving him

the opportunity of a trial,

which he never gave a living soul.

The ruling stands, Mr. Justice.

I must of course bow to the ruling of the tribunal

and would simply request that the witness find a way to keep his answers succinct.

Could you please repeat the question?

They were not taken from you

by the Treaty of Versailles,

where of course Austria was taken by the Versailles Treaty

and also through Detenland.

For both these territories would have been German territories

for the simple rights of the people

to self-determination.

I find that interesting,

considering you just testified that people's

self-determination was the first thing you took away.

From the very beginning,

you regarded the elimination of Jews from the economic life of Germany

as one phase of the four-year plan under your jurisdiction. Is that correct?

Partially correct.

Partially. I see.

I would like to review with you briefly

public acts taken by you in reference to the Jewish question.

First, did you proclaim the Nuremberg Laws?

Yes, I did.

As president of the Reichstag, that was my job.

What date was that?

The 15th of September, 1935.

And on the first day of December 1936,

you passed an act making it a death penalty for Germans

to transfer property abroad?

That is correct.

That was the decree governing restriction on foreign contracts.

And on April 22, 1938,

you published penalties

within the Reich.

Concealing.

Then on April 26, 1938,

you signed a decree ordering the registration of

all Jewish property inside and outside of Germany.

If it is signed by me... Then a decree on November 12, 1938

imposing a fine of one billion Reichsmarks for atonement on all Jews.

And that all damages caused to Jewish property

by the riots of 1938

are many details here.

The insurance company... And the decree on the 17th of September 1940

ordering the sequestration of all Jewish property in Poland.

Yeah, in that part of Poland that was a former

German province and would return to Germany.

A decree asking Himmler and Heydrich

to make plans for the final solution

of the Jewish question.

That is not correct.

I know that decree very well.

I ask that you show

the document number 1110,

exhibit number USA509.

I think it should be read into the record so

we may have no argument about its translation.

That document is signed

by you, is it not?

Is that just correct?

Please correct me if I am wrong.

Supplementing the task that was assigned to you on 1-24-1939,

which dealt with arriving at

through furtherance of immigration and, in fact, the evacuation.

A solution of the Jewish problem as advantageous as possible,

I hereby charge you

with making all necessary preparations in

regards to organizational and financial matters

for bringing about

a final solution

of the Jewish question.

He's got them.

Am I correct so far?

No, your translation is not correct.

Then please give us your translation.

Supplementing the task which was entrusted

to you in the decree dated January 21, 1939

to solve the Jewish question by immigration and evacuation

in the most favorable way possible.

Given present conditions,

I hereby commission you

to carry out all necessary preparations with regard to

organizational substantive and financial viewpoints.

Now, here is the sentence

for a complete solution,

not a final solution,

for a total solution

of the Jewish question.

A complete and total solution.

Complete and total, yeah.

A complete and total solution you wanted the chief of the SS to enact.

Yeah, but I would like to make an explanation.

Oh, please do.

I sent this letter

to Himmler and to Heydrich

because it was some 18 months now since the declaration of the 24th of January, 1939

and Heydrich had achieved very little.

So I charged him to accelerate the task of dealing with the immigration of the Jews.

Immigration, you contend

was about immigration?

It says so in the first line.

That's just the first sentence.

The letter goes on to state My desire

for a complete solution to the Jewish problem

and an end to their financial influence by

their emigration and evacuation from Germany.

It is in this document that you present to me.

Are there any more questions for the witness, Justice Jackson?

Mr. Justice,

is the witness excused?

I have a question.

The tribunal was under the impression the American

prosecutor would be examining this witness today.

The United States is always

happy to hear from our distinguished colleague from Great Britain.

It won't take more than a moment.

You've implied to this court that you lost some influence with Adolf Hitler in 1942.

Is that correct?

I believe this to be the case, yes.

But you were still Reichsmarshal of Germany in 1942.

Hitler's successor, yes?

Yes, I was the Reichsmarschall.

And you're telling me that you were totally unaware

that three million Jews were murdered in 1942?

I was unaware of this.

In 1943,

at least 800,000 Jews

were executed in the camps.

You were still Reichsmarshal

in 1943, is that correct?

That is correct.

In 1944,

an additional 800,000 Jews

died in the camps.

You were still Reichsmarshal

in 1944, is that correct?

That is correct.

In 1945,

250,000,

an estimated

six million Jews in total,

as well as Soviet and Polish citizens,

Romani people,

artists, scientists, writers,

journalists, photographers,

filmmakers, people killed,

not in combat,

not in enemy fire,

but exterminated by the state of Germany.

The state which you were the Reichsmarshal of,

the preeminent political post of your country.

You contend

that you had no knowledge.

At least give me this.

Knowing what we know now,

knowing what happened

to six million Jews,

I have to ask,

would you still follow

the Fuhrer, Adolf Hitler?

Yeah.

Eiffel.

Order! Order!

Heil Hitler.

No further questions.

I think this is as good a place as any to adjourn for the day.

Oh, great.

Absolutely great.

I survived.

You did.

You were right.

I couldn't beat him.

Not without help.

Gering cannot stand against the Fuhrer.

Invaluable information, doctor.

So what now?

As Gering falls, so do they all.

We'll be okay.

Here.

You off?

One more thing you have to do.

You helped them, didn't you?

I did.

I'm leaving.

Leaving?

Going home.

I've come to say goodbye.

What do we do now, doctor?

Do we shake hands?

I know we were friends, Douglas.

For a while.

Goodbye, Hermann.

Years from now,

happen to what you say about us.

Will you even acknowledge we were human?

The judgment of the International Military Tribunal will now be read.

Each defendant will be addressed in turn.

Hermann Gering,

the evidence shows that after Hitler,

you were the most prominent man in the Nazi regime.

Your guilt is unique in its enormity.

Your record discloses no excuses.

The International Military Tribunal sentences you to death by hanging.

Rudolf Hess,

you are indicted.

The executions are scheduled for midnight tonight.

In order to maintain discipline, the prisoners will not be informed until 11.

45 pm, when they will be awakened in their cells and offered last rites.

At 8 pm, eight hand-picked journalists will arrive at the prison.

Two French, two British, two American, two Russian.

Lights out is at 9.

30, which is when the doctor will do his normal final rounds.

Any prisoner requesting a sleep aid will be given a placebo with baking soda.

At 10 o'clock,

we will bring the press down to the gallows,

where I will brief them of the final preparations for tonight.

The prisoners will be brought in one by one

and given the opportunity to speak their last words.

They will then...

Who is it?

Gering, sir.

No, no, no, no!

No, you son of a bitch! You don't get to do this!

He's dead, sir. Sign, I... God damn it!

I'm sorry, sir.

We have a decision to make.

We can either scrub the executions for tonight or proceed.

Let's just get home with it.

Sir, I... Stryker is refusing to put his clothes on.

Come on.

Get out of here!

You fucking stupid whore!

Let him go! Let him go!

Julius.

Julius.

You... You...

You have been defended.

Come on.

Let's do it together.

Come on.

Give me a shirt.

Ask him his name.

You know my name.

Any last words?

Cool him, feast 1946.

For she victim...

Benziadis Tagus Hagen!

Oh, damn it!

Why do you leave the bar?

Yes, Kay.

I have to be honest, Dr. Kelly.

I find some of the conclusions in your book quite unbelievable.

You were dealing with the Nazis, who you must admit are unique people.

They are not unique people.

There are people like the Nazis in every country in the world today.

Not in America.

Yes, in America.

Their personality patterns are not obscure.

There are people who want to be in power.

And while you say they don't exist here, I would say I'm quite certain

there are people in America who would willingly

climb over the corpses of half the American public

if they knew they could gain control of the other half.

Doctor, please.

They stoke hatred.

It's what Hitler and Göring did, and it is textbook.

And if you think the next time it happens

we're going to recognize it because they're wearing scary uniforms,

you're out of your damn mind.

More with our panel when we return.

Yeah, uh-huh.

They're not going to invite you to stay for the next segment.

Let's go.

And just so you know,

trashing our country is probably not the best way to sell your book.