Nuremberg: Nazis on Trial

2006 · Documentary · 180 min. · United States

In the first episode, Nathaniel Parker plays the most inscrutable Nazi on trial at Nuremberg, Hitler's architect and armaments minister Albert Speer. He was the only defendant who unreservedly accepted responsibility for the Nazis' crimes. But was Speer's remorse genuine or just a clever defense strategy to get off the hook? The second episode tells the story of the trial of Hermann Goering, Hitler's charismatic and ruthless second-in-command. In the third and final episode, Ben Cross delivers a compelling performance as Hitler's deputy, Rudolf Hess. After his bizarre flight to Scotland in 1941 to offer peace to Britain, the Fuhrer had Hess declared insane. At Nuremberg, Hess's fitness for trial was at the center of his case. He claimed not to remember his Nazi past and seemingly suffered from paranoid delusions. American psychiatrist Douglas Kelley and prison psychologist Gustave Gilbert sought to unlock the mystery of Hess's state of mind. What they found offers revealing insights into the psychology of Nazism.

Direction Nigel Paterson · Paul Bradshaw · Michael Wadding

Cast Robert Pugh · Adam Godley · Colin Stinton · Tim Woodward · Richard Durden · Matthew Macfadyen · Ben Cross · Stuart Bunce · Anthony Valentine · Rupert Vansittart · Timothy Walker · Richard Overy · John Dolibois · Whitney Harris · Roger Barrett · Richard Sonnenfeldt · Harold Burson · Nathaniel Parker · Julian Wadham · Stuart Milligan · Harry Anichkin · Ivaylo Geraskov · Paul Brennen