The TV station PBS America[if you receive it]do some very good programmes.I've been watching some on the Nuremburg trials which are done using part dramatic reconstruction and part archive footage of the time.
Oh dear, yes I am afraid Baza I have watched many recordings of the proceedings during that trial, and read the minutes of many sections of the trials.
In fact far too many, and much of it is well beyond comfortable viewing even when trying to assess historical fact. I have cried my heart out far too many times (I am now just writing this!
) as I learn more about what terrible, almost beyond belief, as to what happened to so many who were brought into the camps.
Now, one particular witness, Severina Shmaglevskaya, a working internee of Auschwitz, that is recorded on film, gave an account on oath of what the SS did with children when there was a shortage of gas (Zyklon B) for the chambers. I cannot bring myself to write what she explained........
.....it is just so terrible, and if you have the stomach for it read under Section 318 of 27th February 1946 of Vol 8 of the Sixty-Ninth day of evidence, towards the end of that particular section:
https://avalon.law.yale.edu/imt/02-27-46.aspThe rest of just this one document is enough to turn your stomach and utter curses. So, be warned, but you obviously know Baza what the content of the trials when they covered the atrocities of the camps, and outside them, what the material is like.
Some criticised, and insulted me, for asking questions in a thread about the young racing driver killed recently, and referring to a section of film taken of the crash as though I was doing it for some hawkish motive, not out of genuine interest in the facts. Well, when studying history we have to thoroughly review all the evidence, no matter how distressing and uncomfortable it is so that the truth can be ascertained. This section of the Nuremberg trials from that point of view is off the scale..........but we MUST never hold back from publicising the truth so that it, maybe, can never happen again.
Be the judge in this case and consider what you would have wished on the Nazi defendants who, so often, claimed to be just "obeying orders" !!!!!