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Wednesday, February 17, 2010
The Nuremberg Trials (Newsreel Footage)
Based on our discussions in class about the trials, do you have additional comments or questions about anything you see or hear in this clip? I always find the newsreel music of the time to be distracting from the information being shared.
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It would be hard to be the criminal and to hear your name being called and being told that you would be convicted of death. So many German leaders had their name being called and all of them hopefully wished that they hadn't done such awful things to the Jews.
CM1
Hey Mr.Brown that was a pretty good video on the trial. The trial to me seemed more like a modern day t.v show because it seemed that everyone wanted to see what would happen.There were people there kind of like an audience. At one point in the film people were handing the guards what looks to be like a ticket. Were they selling tickets to watch the trials of the war criminals? The people who were sentence to something else than death; were convicted of something less wrong than the men who were hanged?
These are just some questions I thought of during the video. One more question. At the end of the movie;was that real footage of the men being hanged or was it reanacted?
KH3
I was shocked at all the things the Nazis were put on trial for. The one that shocked em the most was murder. There were slides of pictures of people form the internment camps and they did not look pretty at all. It served the Nazis right to be dead, as they have killed over 5,000,000 (5 million) people. It is a very shocking video.
-AB3
I agree with the music distracting thing you were talking about, Mr. Brown. I don't think trials are shown on TV anymore. In medieval England, hangings were like TV shows. I can't believe that people in the 1940's and 1950's would still go out and watch a trial like a movie.
-CL6
That movie hit me hard when they showed the graphic immages of the starved bodies of the victims of these horrible men. I agree with CM that it would be frightening to hear your name being called with your selected penalty, especially when it's death. Although the punishments did seem harsh, I think that the men who received them deserved them for all of the poeple they uncaringly killed.
MB3
I do kind of feel bad for the minor german officials at the trials, because they were just taking orders from their leader. But the people with lots of power i do not feel sorry for, they deserved what they got.
tw1
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