HUMAN RIGHTS FILM: JUDGMENT AT NUREMBERG
A screening of the film "Judgment at Nuremberg" on Wednesday October 19 at 7 pm in room 107, Franklin Patterson Hall will be offered by SS106T Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity, the Law Program and the Office of Multicultural Education. Refreshments provided.
The 1961 film is a Hollywood fictionalization, complete with some of the biggest movie stars of the day (Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Judy Garland, Marlene Dietrich, William Shatner, Richard Widmark) of the work of the International Military Tribunal in bringing to justice the surviving leaders of Nazi Germany at the end of World War II, and so should not be read as a documentary. However, it does compellingly dramatize many of the most critical aspects of the Tribunal's theoretical underpinnings and its socio-political context. It pioneered the use of archival documentary footage within a fictional film, including horrific scenes filmed by Allied soldiers during their liberation of the German concentration and extermination camps in 1945. And the screenplay and acting are really superb.
The Nuremberg tribunal, despite its many flaws and limitations over which legal scholars continue to argue today, is generally considered the foundation of contemporary international criminal law and firmly established that those responsible for mass crimes against humanity should neither go unpunished nor be subjected to extralegal vengeance.
Please join us to view this important historical film.
A screening of the film "Judgment at Nuremberg" on Wednesday October 19 at 7 pm in room 107, Franklin Patterson Hall will be offered by SS106T Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity, the Law Program and the Office of Multicultural Education. Refreshments provided.
The 1961 film is a Hollywood fictionalization, complete with some of the biggest movie stars of the day (Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Judy Garland, Marlene Dietrich, William Shatner, Richard Widmark) of the work of the International Military Tribunal in bringing to justice the surviving leaders of Nazi Germany at the end of World War II, and so should not be read as a documentary. However, it does compellingly dramatize many of the most critical aspects of the Tribunal's theoretical underpinnings and its socio-political context. It pioneered the use of archival documentary footage within a fictional film, including horrific scenes filmed by Allied soldiers during their liberation of the German concentration and extermination camps in 1945. And the screenplay and acting are really superb.
The Nuremberg tribunal, despite its many flaws and limitations over which legal scholars continue to argue today, is generally considered the foundation of contemporary international criminal law and firmly established that those responsible for mass crimes against humanity should neither go unpunished nor be subjected to extralegal vengeance.
Please join us to view this important historical film.
posted by Aaron E-J at 10/18/2005 10:54:00 AM
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