David Maxwell

Nuremberg: An Ambitious Courtroom Drama

Nuremberg, a film by James Vanderbilt, depicts the fraught period that led to the war crimes tribunal in the very city where the Nazis had previously organised their most extravagant parades. The crux of the story is the interaction between the American psychiatrist Lieutenant Douglas Kelley and Hermann Göring. Kelley’s task is to verify that the mentally ill prisoners, among whom is Göring, are capable of being tried and executed. He, however, is secretly motivated by a stronger desire— to study the psyche of a person who has been involved in the gory act of genocide but stil | Click Here...