Nuremberg Movie Review
I went to see this movie in the theater last fall with my parents and younger siblings. While there are parts that aren’t easy to watch, overall, I loved it . The movie covers the Nuremberg trials, hence the name. For anyone who doesn’t know, the Nuremberg trials were an international war crimes court formed after World War II to try some of the leading Nazis and Nazi organizations. The movie introduces us to an assortment of characters–real people–both good and bad. By far my favorite character was Howie , a goodhearted, cheerful, young American soldier working as a translator (you find out later in the movie how he knows German, and why he feels so strongly about bringing the Nazis to justice). Other characters include Justice Robert Jackson, who organized the trials, Dr. Douglas Kelly, an American psychiatrist tasked with ensuring the mental well-being of the Nazi prisoners, a British lawyer, and, of course, the Nazi prisoners themselves. The movie focuses most on the highest-rankin...
