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The Memory of Justice (1976)

The Memory of Justice (1976)

History Documentary
Release Date: 1976, October 4
Directors: Marcel Ophüls
Countries: Germany, France, United Kingdom, United States of America
Production: Polytel, Visual Programme Systems
Cast: Adolf Hitler, Johanna Hofer, Joan Baez, Daniel Ellsberg, Hermann Göring, Serge Klarsfeld, Albert Speer, Hans-Joachim Kulenkampff, Henri Alleg, Beate Klarsfeld, Jacques Pâris de Bollardière, John Kenneth Galbraith

Overview:

This exceptional, disturbing, and thought-provoking two-part documentary compares the atrocities committed by the Nazis as revealed during the Nuremberg trials to those committed by the French in Algeria and those done by the Americans in Vietnam. The four-hour epic questions the right of any country to pass self-righteous moral judgements upon the actions of another country.

Keywords:

anti-imperialism vietnam war war crimes nuremberg trials algerian war (1954-62) international court of justice