The Nuremberg Trials

Watching the movie about the Nuremberg Trials made it seem so surreal. It was almost as if it was all just a movie to begin with. The Nuremberg Trials were the very first of its kind, and I think the intensity of it really showed through in the movie. It really brought what happened to life. One thing that I couldn't get past was that the Nazi leaders just kept saying "We were following orders" and then Goering said that the Fuhrer didn't know what was going on in the camps. Well if the Fuhrer didn't know, then who was the person giving them the orders? Every soldier claims to follow orders to an extent, but it had to have reached a point where if they truly cared they would stop. I also thought it was interesting how they used a Jewish man as the Psychologist. Looking from the German perspective it seems kind of unfair because the Psychologist will have a biased opinion. But, on the side of the Allies it gives them an advantage in prosecuting them. When they showed the real video footage that was taken during the Holocaust my heart just broke. I could never fathom why or how one human being could do that to another. You would think that the Nuremberg Trials would be a lesson to every country to never commit something like the Holocaust again, yet we see it happening still today in places like Darfur and Rwanda. I guess it really is true that History will repeat itself.