Judgment at Nuremberg

The northwest corner of the concentration camp map, around Belgium and the Netherlands, shows about three extra countries.

The US Army collar insignia appears, disappears and reappears sometimes in the same scene.

On the concentration camps map, the town of Natzweiler/Natzwiller (Camp Struthof) is situated in Baden/Germany, while in reality it is in Alsace/France.

When William Shatner's character (Capt.

Byers) swears in Montgomery Clift, the Clift character (Peterson) fails to use the headphones, yet answers the question as if he understood the oath.

There was no indication that Byers spoke German nor that Peterson, who was feeble minded, spoke English.

At the night club, when the reporter Max Perkins tells Judge Haywood that he couldn't give a story away on the trials because the American people aren't interested, Haywood remarks, "But the war's only been over for two years," to which Perkins replies, "That's right.

" The film's opening title card says "Nuremberg 1948" - three years after the end of World War II.

The actual Judges Trial, upon which this film is based, was held in 1947.

It is likely that the title card is incorrect.

Right after Richard Widmark states that "the defense rests", he sits down next to his assistant attorney.

A moment later the assistant's arms have changed position and Widmark's hands have changed position.

When Colonel Tad Lawson (Richard Widmark) makes his opening address to the court he screams about (Nazi German) judges in their "black robes".

This is incorrect.

German judges wear red robes - American judges wear black.

At the end of the movie a graphic states that 99 people were tried and sentenced at Nuremberg and that by the date of the movie (1961) none remained in prison.

Some critics have pointed out that Deputy Fuehrer Rudolf Hess was tried at Nuremberg, found guilty on two of four counts charged (crimes against peace and conspiracy) and sentenced to life in 1946.

He died in 1987 still imprisoned in Spandau Prison.

Yet the caption in the film states that the statistic refers only to the Nuremberg trials "held in the American sector.

" Hess and the other major defendants were tried by the International Military Tribunal (with judges and prosecutors from each of the four victorious Allied powers).

After this major trial, other trials were held in each of the four occupation sectors.

By 1961, all of the defendants sentenced in the American trials were indeed free; the graphic is therefore correct.

Throughout the movie, Spencer Tracy's character didn't understand German.

Bert Lancaster's character didn't understand English.

Yet, in the final scene with Spencer and Bert having a private conversation, they understood each other perfectly without an interpreter.

When the prosecutor Hans Rolfe ('Maximilian Schell' (qv)) is questioning a witness, he first asks if the had sworn to "The Civil Servant Loyalty Oath of 1934".

However, then the prosecutor's assistant is asked to read the oath from "The Reich's Law Gazette, March 1933".

The American judges and German defendants speak through an interpreter.

At first, there is a substantial delay in the dialogue while the translation takes place but eventually the reactions becomes nearly instantaneous (for example, when the judge says "You may be seated", the defendants sit down right away without waiting for translation).

The translation delays were likely dropped to keep the movie from dragging.

The housekeeper, Mrs.

Halbestadt, says that Mrs.

Bertholt's husband was executed in connection with the Malmedy massacre during the Battle of the Bulge.

Although many Germans were found guilty for the massacre and some were sentenced to death, none of then was ever actually executed.

Wallner complains to Lawson about being disturbed "in the middle of the night", but when Lawson is shown approaching and entering the Wallner home, it is clearly in full daylight.

Right after Rolfe completes the quotation from Oliver Wendell Holmes regarding sterilization, we see Haywood with his hand on his mouth.

The wider shot that follows shows him with his hand on his cheek.

There are many people in the world today who suffered the tattooed numbers, visible scars, tortured memory and indelible atrocities of the Concentration Camps. It's strange for a history teacher to hear that many want to forget the past, the pain and agonizing suffering inflicted on the innocent.

At the closing scene, Herr Janning has called Judge Hayward to this cell. Janning tells the judge: "Those millions… I never knew it would come to that.

Judgment at Nuremberg is a standard court-case drama that focuses on the trial of four Nazi judges in Nuremberg following World War II. The importance of the trials from the Allied viewpoint remains contested throughout the film most people are indicated to have little interest in it since the political and military figures have already been tried, while the actual people involved in this case strongly believe that justice must be achieved.

First of all, the plot of the movie is interesting: it is the judge of the victorious country who tries the judge of the defeated country.The reason of the victors was that the judges of the defeated countries had not only failed to uphold justice and violated the dignity of the law when the nazis were in politics, but also helped the nazis to implement many inhuman ACTS.

I am in the middle of watching the top 250 I have around 20 movies left and this one looked boring before I got into it i was able to watch the first hour but mainly sat on my phone.

I just want to make a Special note about Marlene's contribution to this film. Her outspoken bravery and support of the Allies during the 2nd World War are legendary.

"The line between good and evil does not cross between nations, between classes, between parties -- it crosses in every heart, in all hearts... The evil in the world cannot be eliminated, but the evil in every man's heart can be bound.

A historical movie about the judges who work at the time that Third Reich came to power in Germany and they used of their unlimited power of themselves and allowed Hitler to do many brutal things as matter of fact they're support him with their unlimited power but the question is Hitler & Germany were the only guilty ones over there or maybe the other parties of that war was guilty as well?!

It's a bit long, but its performances, script, direction, and engrossing narrative make it worth it in this powerful courtroom war drama.