S4E25.5: Judgement at Nuremberg
Added 2025-11-06 09:33:27 +0000 UTCWe return once more to the Brains Dojo to talk about Abby Mann and Stanley Kramer's 1961 dramatisation of the Nuremberg trials.
The year is 1947. Hitler, Goebbels, and the top brass are all dead. The trials have been going on for two years, and now we're down to the business of judging lawyers, doctors and judges. How much did they know, and when? Who bears ultimate responsibility for the crimes of the Third Reich?
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-Palestinian Communist Youth Union, which is doing a food and water effort, and is part of the official communist party of Palestine
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Comments
Oh hey, the judge guy is the lawyer guy from Inherit the Wind ! Y'all would love Inherit the Wind, too ! (it'd be part of the secret 4th pannel of Religion Season : militant Abi-style atheism !)
Kobal Deux
2025-12-06 21:32:07 +0000 UTCI paused the podcast when first told to go watch the movie, then procrastinated, then finally watched it yesterday. Having done this, I wholeheartedly agree with the instruction! Also, UK-based listeners: it's currently available on BBC iPlayer for the next 24ish days www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001qp0w
The Token Detergent Rinser (British)
2025-11-21 15:40:05 +0000 UTCi've relistened to this episode a few times now b/c this movie & your discussion of it makes me feel less insane (though no less angry) about witnessing the collapse (& capitulation) of liberalism, the resurrection of fascism, & the multiple genocides (& denial of genocides) going on around the world. honestly i think you should consider putting this episode out on the free feed b/c this kind of art & criticism feels fucking vital right now & y'all're firing on all cylinders here.
Thaddeus [ she / her ]
2025-11-19 03:04:24 +0000 UTCPLEASE do Andrei Tarkovsky’s The Sacrifice (1986) before you conclude Religion Season. There is A LOT going on there. A great companion piece to Andrei Rublev
Jae H
2025-11-14 21:01:44 +0000 UTC& in 1961 there were still JIM CROW LAWS & in 2025 indigenous people in the USA remain subordinate to greater state violence
Gil the Gilded Dragon
2025-11-09 16:12:49 +0000 UTCWas gonna say, they need to do Bad Day at Black Rock next. One of the first films to recognize the internment of Japanese-Americans during the Second World War as a bad thing, and features a scene where a one-armed Spencer Tracy does Judo on Ernest Borgnine.
Benjamin
2025-11-08 21:42:16 +0000 UTCSpencer Tracy comes to town after WWII and forces the locals to confront their horrific actions during the war? You mean Bad Day at Black Rock?
Brian Danger Hicks
2025-11-08 15:09:08 +0000 UTC
