Following the Nazis’ race to escape Europe, alongside the Nuremberg Trials that attempted to bring war criminals and remaining members of the Nazi Party to justice.
00:00:00:00 – The Fall: Germany has fallen. The once feared dictator, Adolf Hitler is dead. The allies are closing in. Senior Nazis begin to sweat. The Führer can no longer protect them. The US army are catching up, entering Berlin with a firm plan to capture as many Nazi officials as they can, their aim to bring them before a court on trial for the atrocities they helped make possible. In the course of the next few days, the remaining senior members of the Nazi establishment begin to flee Berlin. The wheels were in motion. Top Nazi officials have targets on their backs. They need to make a decision…and quick. Do they attempt to run, or die in Berlin with their Führer. It is every man for himself.
00:43:13:14 – The Trial: Twenty four Nazi officials are brought into the courtroom at Nuremberg, Germany. The biggest trial in history is about to begin. Being broadcast around the world, the public is waiting, hoping these criminals will see justice for their atrocities. For the first time in international law, the Nuremberg indictments also mention crimes of genocide. Key Nazi party members were up against the International Military Tribunal; Hermann Göring; Reichmarschall and Commander of the Luftwaffe, Rudolf Hess; former Deputy Führer, Albert Speer; Minister of Armaments and War Production and Joachim von Ribbentrop; Reichminister of Foreign Affairs.
01:23:53:16 – The Hunt: The Nuremberg Trials continue. Chief United States Prosecutor, Robert H Jackson, makes convincing statements that leave a lasting impression on the court. The prosecution is getting more intense as days go by. Questions about the final solution and each Nazi’s involvement leave an uncomfortable atmosphere in the courtroom. Once a united party, it quickly becomes every man for himself. Becoming known as the ‘worlds most wanted Nazi’, Adolf Eichmann was the mastermind behind the network of death camps in German-occupied Europe, and people wanted him to suffer the way his victims did. He was the next target.
02:09:43:18 – The Verdict: The Nuremberg Trials are coming to an end. The public anxiously await a verdict. The Nazi officials on trial hoping they will be given a lesser sentence for providing new information. Some still believe they are above the justice system. The prosecution has built a promising case. Will the Nazis face the sentences they deserve?
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31 Comments
While Japanese were tried – Italians fascits were not.
Crimes against humanity only got them 20 years. I'm pretty sure that should be a life sentence. I mean yeah killing 10, 20 people that gets you a death sentence in America and most places in the world. So why is this guy get 20 years for not the personal murder but helping the murder of millions
Lets learn from history, so not to repeat it. We can not let the orange racist near the White House ever again. VOTE.
forget it harris , you have no chance at all , goodby dems
It would have been better when they were translations when they were questioned on the stand
Definitely not, plenty became rocket scientists in the US.
Churchill should’ve also been put on trial he a mass murder along with the British army along with French
showers with no water
Laughable hypocrisy really. Mass Murderers Berating mass murderers. A superb example of people in glass houses throwing stones!
The amount of holocaust deniers or people trying to downplay it in this comment thread is absolutely terrifying. While there have been many other genocides in history, the holocaust stands out because of the mass governmental organization and industrialized framework that supported it, even when resources would have been better allocated elsewhere. A genocide like this had never happened before and hasn’t happened since. Many innocents die in war, but the Nazi’s were a special kind of evil without comparison.
Couldn't see it, it was censored
Using AI for narration is awful. Hire someone with speaking talent or do it yourself. Nails on a chalkboard
Losers dnt get a say!
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Enter the tin foils that believe the holocaust never happened
This is a great documentary! I have saved it to watch over again. Well done. Narration with archived video is excellent. Woven together well. Thank you to all who collaborated to make this.
2 words operation paperclip
All sides of World War ll committed atrocities against human life. Even the Americans. But only the victors get away with their crimes.
We all know that…Repeating old crsp to make money with cheap documentary.
So Hess claimed to have dementia and couldn’t stand trial for his crimes like dementia Joe Biden.
Pointless program. Blurred images and half of it is in German, no subtitles.
Quasi dramatic music and dodgy narration.
Don’t waste your time watching this tripe.
HH do better.
Thank you
No because only about 6,500 or so were convicted out of 200,000 guilty parties and 140,000 cases brought. The rest escaped or died.
Vance is the Trump-cult equivalent of Heinrich Himmler.
He has been hired to do The Big Crackpot's dirty work.
Stop youtube censorship
To be or not to be
We only heard one versan ,!!
TL:DW: no
Turned it off at approximately the6:50 mark when scenes of presumably dead people were censored by You Tubes idiotic rules which treat us like infants. History is meant to teach us of the past as hopefully a way to a better future. To think that historians contributed to this online prostitution of history by appeasing the woke mentality of You Tube is appalling! Similarly the ad for the History Channel ? Forget it, would rather read a book!
So many damn ads!
How does nobody relate this to trump? Is right before you're eyes!