we were only aware
of the extermination of the hundreds.
Does that make us any the less guilty?
But if we didn’t know,
it was because we didn’t want to know.

“We succeeded beyond our wildest dreams.”
Why did we succeed, Your Honor?
What about the rest of the world?

Did it not hear the words
of Hitler’s broadcasts all over the world?
Germany alone is not guilty.
The whole world is as responsible for Hitler
as Germany.

that have a bearing on the basis of the case,
which is, of course, the conflict between…
allegiance to international law
and to the laws of one’s own country.

Rather, the charge
is that of conscious participation…
in a nationwide,
government-organized system…
of cruelty and injustice…
in violation
of every moral and legal principle…
known to all civilized nations.

Men who took part…
in the enactment of laws and decrees…
the purpose of which
was the extermination of human beings.
and acted in what he thought
was the best interest of his country.

A decision must be made
in the life of every nation…
at the very moment
when the grasp of the enemy is at its throat.
Then it seems that the only way to survive
is to use the means of the enemy…
to rest survival upon what is expedient
to look the other way.
The answer to that is: Survival as what?

The movie was 1961’s JUDGEMENT AT NUREMBERG