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The United Nations University is presenting the documentary, NUREMBERG: THE NAZIS FACING THEIR CRIMES (2006, 90mn, ARTE France and La Compagnie des Phares et Balises), directed by the film maker Christian Delage and narrated by actor Christopher Plummer. By offering a condensed version of the chilling International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, Germany, Christian Delage tells the story of the Holocaust, while simultaneously examining how reproduced images affect the writing of history. The documentary presents contemporary interviews with survivors and former prosecutors, combined with unique courtroom footage shot by camera crews assembled for the US authorities by John Ford.

NUREMBERG: THE NAZIS FACING THEIR CRIMES offers a condensed version of the chilling International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, Germany, with extraordinary close-up stories of this historical trial that have never before been seen. The famous film maker Christian Delage tells the story of the Holocaust, while simultaneously examining how reproduced images affect the writing of history. The documentary presents contemporary interviews with survivors and former prosecutors, combined with unique courtroom footage shot by camera crews assembled for the US authorities by John Ford. NUREMBERG takes viewers from the shattered streets of the city through the events of the trial, revealing a captivating testimony by a female survivor who vividly describe the horrors witnessed at Auschwitz, and an unnerving testimony by the SD leader, responsible for the deaths of 90,000 Jews. 

Before the film screening of NUREMBERG: THE NAZIS FACING THEIR CRIMES, Christian Delage, will give a brief presentation of the documentary, followed by the introduction of his guest Benjamin Ferencz. Mr. Ferencz was Chief Prosecutor for the United States in The Einsatzgruppen Case, one of the subsequent trials held at Nuremberg in 1946. In the film he comments the testimony given by Otto Ohlendorf before the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg. After the film screening, there will be a discussion moderated by Peter Goodrich, who currently is Professor at the Cardozo School of Law. Mr. Goodrich has written extensively in legal history and theory in the areas of law and literature and semiotics. During the discussion, he will be assisted by Ida Folkesson from the United Nations University Office in New York.

Benjamin Ferencz was Chief Prosecutor for the United States in The Einsatzgruppen Case, one of the subsequent trials held at Nuremberg in 1946. He then became a lawyer and is still an academic at Pace University. He has been active at Preparatory Commission sessions for the International Criminal Court, monitoring and making available his expertise on current efforts to define aggression. In Nuremberg. The Nazis Facing Their Crimes, he comments the testimony given by Otto Ohlendorf before the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg.                                                            

Christian Delage is a historian and a filmmaker. His is, among others, the author of La Vérité par l’image, De Nuremberg au procès Milosevic (forthcoming at the University of Pennsylvania Press) and the director of Nuremberg: The Nazis Facing Their Crimes (available on DVD).

Peter Goodrich is Professor at the Cardozo School of Law. He has written extensively in legal history and theory in the areas of law and literature and semiotics.