It doesn’t matter if we’ve already seen the story adapted into cinema dozens of times: the Nuremberg Trials, in which many leaders of the defeated side had to face their crimes against humanity, will always be well received in theaters. This is the case Nuremberg, championship Russell Crowewhich has been shown on the big screen in Spain since the end of November.
Nuremberg Directed and written James Vanderbiltwho made his directorial debut with The Truth after a successful screenwriting career and hasn’t been behind the camera since. However, as happened in… Winners or losers (an inevitable reference on this topic), Nuremberg The film is based on an entirely real case, narrated by one of Jack’s live works, and revolving around a confrontation between a psychiatrist and another person. Hermann GoeringHitler’s right arm.
Who is Hermann Goering?
When the Goerings saw that the pension of the family father, the German consul, was not enough, they had to look elsewhere for help. They were shown it by a wealthy doctor, who even found and paid for their first home; And then a castle near Nuremberg. This doctor was little Hermann’s godfather, would eventually be his mother’s lover, and, above all, was Jewish.
Hermann Goering Soon he will join the army and saw World War I From the air: He fought on a small plane and was rewarded with an Iron Cross. This would not be the only recognition he would receive, though some have questioned it: Apparently, Göring claimed battlefield victories that either did not belong to him, or did not occur, and then used his connections to authenticate them.
Out of nowhere, Göring ended up being seen as the successor to the legendary Red Baron, and when the war ended (he never admitted to military defeat, but rather to widespread betrayal, sponsored by Jews and Marxists, called the “backstab theory”), he devoted himself to giving air shows and taking passengers, for a large fee, wherever they wanted. For something he was eminent.
In 1922, he heard a speech from a man named Adolf Hitler He decided it suited him. Join NSDAP and Hitler put him in charge of the SAknown as the Brown Shirts, were Nazi militias that served as attack dogs for National Socialism. Hitler would celebrate Goering as the only SA chief to ever get his job right.
This would be the beginning of a completely different path: emerging from World War I, Göring would lead the world into a second war, alongside Hitler, who would become his trusted man and official minister of the Free State of Prussia. Until 1945, when Göring lost his second war.
At the Nuremberg Trials, Göring was one of the most famous defendants. He was in fact the second highest-ranking member of the Nazi Party, after Reich President Doenitz. Goering pleaded not guilty to everything he was accused of (including his active participation in the Holocaust) and the trial lasted for almost a year. For some reason, it was not entirely clear whether Göring was guilty.
Goering did not react to the judge’s ruling (death penalty) with tears. Or, if he did, it would be laughable: he found it funny to see himself judged alongside those he considered nobodies of the regime. How could a man, a close friend of Hitler, who had never seen him before, be as guilty as him? Instead of addressing the jury, Goring greeted the verdict by laughing and insulting the other defendants.
He already had a plan: if they didn’t agree to his request to be shot as a soldier, instead of hanged as a civilian, he would commit suicide. Since the first incident did not happen, a cyanide pill, it is not yet known how, got into their hands the night before Göring went up to the gallows, and when they came to wake him, they saw that there was no one there to wake him.