Nuremberg

Okay, guys. Come on!

Separate the officers for interrogation.

l'll be damned.

General Spaatz, we meet at last.

Reichsmarschall Goring.

My wife. My daughter.

Your Eighth Air Force has destroyed my beautiful Luftwaffe and...

...leveled our beautiful cities.

Even so, l prefer to surrender to a fellow airman.

Gentlemen.

May l?

''The stars at night are big and bright

''Deep in the heart of Texas

''The prairie sky is wide and high

''Deep in the heart of Texas

''The sage in bloom is like perfume

''Deep in the heart of Texas''

Unbelievable.

Unbelievable.

Those pictures were on every wire service.

American officers throwing a party for Hitler's Number Two man.

What was the commander thinking?

l'm told that it's a code of honor among airmen that transcends politics.

- And brains, apparently. - The commander was reprimanded.

lke has ordered that Goring be treated no differently than any other prisoner.

Excuse me.

l finagled some real coffee from the Chief Justice's office.

Elsie's the best scavenger in the entire building.

You shouldn't have gone to such trouble.

Coffee's no trouble. Now a set of tires, that's another story.

l still can't believe he's gone.

For me, it was like losing a father. Truly.

Whatever l have, whatever l am...

...it's because of Roosevelt.

l was in London, seeing Churchill, when the news came.

With the end of the war in sight, the President sent me as his confidant...

...to discuss a rather tricky subject.

What to do with captured Nazi leaders?

What was Churchill's opinion?

He said:

''They should be summarily shot for crimes against humanity.''

What's your opinion?

lf it's a crime for the Nazis to shoot people without a trial...

...how could it be less so for us to do the same thing?

That's Truman's feeling, exactly.

And Churchill now shares that view.

Surprisingly enough, so does Stalin.

You're talking about a war crimes trial...

...which they attempted after the last war, and it completely unraveled.

Because it had no weight.

This will be an international tribunal, comprised of the four powers:

America, England, France and Russia.

President Truman wants the best prosecutor in the country.

One with a reputation for being tough, but impartial.

He wants you, Bob.

l haven't prosecuted a case in years.

Roosevelt chose you for the Supreme Court because of your integrity as a prosecutor.

That's why Truman picked you for this. Because he wants a fair trial.

Not a legal lynching.

l like it right here, Sam.

This would mean l would have to step down.

A temporary leave of absence. You'd be back in six months, maybe seven.

ls the President aware of the fact that l'm opposed to the death penalty?

Yes. But he's not concerned, because he knows you'll do whatever is right.

As you know, a fair trial means an uncertain outcome.

lf we don't prove the defendants' guilt...

...they'd walk, even if we could smell the blood on their hands.

- Do the Allied powers understand that? - Truman does.

You'll have a chance to make it clear to them.

The trial is yours to create, Bob.

You get to set the rules, hire the staff, find the setting.

You even get to pick the defendants.

This trial could unravel, too...

...like the last attempt, if it is poorly planned...

...if it is unsound, legally or morally.

Or it could establish a basis for conduct among nations...

...that would alter history for generations to come.

The trial will be held in Germany.

That's where the defendants are, the evidence, witnesses.

Are there any decent hotels still standing?

l don't relish the idea of spending months in some dreary army base.

You won't have to worry about that.

No wives allowed at Army's request. Bad for morale.

All those men over there for years without their--

You don't want me there, fine.

l'll be downstairs, whenever you're ready.

Eighteen minus three.

Fifteen.

Fifteen plus seven.

Twenty-two.

Nine minus nine...

Good morning, General Spaatz.

l'm afraid l have to ask you to get dressed and pack for travel.

Where are you moving us?

Only the Reichsmarschall.

You're being transferred to Bad Mondorf.

Well, you know, it's a very pleasant spa, but why must l go alone?

Because that's where they're rounding up German war criminals.

No!

No.

l'm sorry about that.

Get dressed, please.

You must be brave.

Very, very brave.

Edda, you will?

We know who you are, Mr. ''Jew Butcher of Krakow.''

And we've seen the camps, too! Nazi bastard!

l must say that l was lucky when the Arms Ministry...

...was destroyed in an air raid in 1943.

lt rid me of useless paperwork and pencil pushers.

Sir!

What do you think was the single most effective thing you did during the war?

When Hitler appointed me his Minister of Armaments...

...l threw out the military chiefs and turned to the professionals.

lndustrialists and engineers.

Then l borrowed the ideas of Walter Rathenau...

...the great Jewish chief of the German economy during the last war.

Standardization of parts...

...the division of labor, and the maximum use of the assembly line.

Thank you, Dr. Speer.

Gentlemen, we'll now break for lunch.

Dr. Albert Speer.

Obviously.

You're under arrest for major war crimes.

Move aside. Pay attention. The orders are in.

Listen up! You'll all be taken to different places of detention.

The following prisoners will go to Bad Mondorf...

...as defendants in future war crimes trials. Step forward.

Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel.

Grand Admiral Karl Donitz.

Colonel General Alfred Jodl.

Follow me.

l haven't left Washington since the war. l couldn't even remember how to pack.

l was so worried about bringing the things for the office.

l forgot half the things that l need.

l've one set of nylons for the entire time and they already have a run.

l even traded ration coupons with my friend so l could buy nylons.

You are as jittery as a hen. What is the matter with you?

l've never been up in an airplane before.

- Good morning, Robert. - John.

- Bob. - Tom.

Robert, good morning.

This is my chief secretary, Elsie Douglas.

Elsie, this is Tom Dodd, who'll be Deputy Prosecutor.

- lt's nice to finally meet you, Miss Douglas. - Pleasure.

Colonel John Harlan Amen, Head of lnterrogations.

Miss Douglas.

Colonel Telford Taylor, our liaison with the other prosecuting teams.

- Pleasure. - All mine.

And Colonel Robert Storey, Head of Documents Division.

Pleased to meet you, ma'am.

Now that we're all here, let's go.

So who are we really after? Military leaders?

Political leaders?

What about the bankers and industrialists who funded the Nazis?

What about the soldiers and civilians who carried out the atrocities?

We can't put the whole country on trial.

We need to suggest the scope of the crimes.

l want this trial to be the first of many.

How about choosing a symbolic figurehead from each category?

We cover the whole spectrum.

- That way no one group gets off scot-free. - Makes sense.

lf we win, we can keep prosecuting Nazis till the cows come home.

Remember, we may also fail to win convictions...

...in which case, some or all of the defendants could go free.

l'm still wrestling with the validity of this trial.

Crimes committed during war have never been called crimes.

Let's focus on existing law. What existing laws did the Nazis break?

Well, they broke peace and border treaties, certainly Geneva and Hague Convention.

Right.

Every time they invaded a country, they broke a law.

My fear is that at the end of the day, when all is said and done...

...this trial will be perceived as nothing more than triumph of superior might.

The winners exacting punishment on the losers.

Our task is to make sure that this is not the triumph of superior might...

...but the triumph of superior morality. We're in a very interesting position here.

We are in a position to fashion a future in which aggressive war...

...will be dealt with as a crime.

Here, here.

Move it! Let's go!

Over there! Line them over there! Come on, let's go!

Corporal.

New arrivals, identify yourselves.

- Fritz Sauckel, sir. - Head of Labor Conscription.

Former head.

- Julius Streicher. - Publisher of...

- l can't pronounce it. - Der Strumer.

lt's filth.

You bankers are all Jews, you think l don't know that?

- Shut up. - Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht...

...formerly President of the Reichsbank and Minister of the Economy.

l do not understand why l have been accused here.

l'm your jailer, not your lawyer. You'll get your day in court.

Hans Fritzsche.

Chief of Radio Operations in the Nazi Propaganda Ministry.

Rudolf Hess, former Deputy Fuhrer.

Hess.

- You. - Joachim von Ribbentrop.

Nazi Foreign Minister.

You.