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To Find Out How This All Ends, Watch “Judgment at Nuremberg.”
Because watching America’s painful descent into a theocratic fascist state feels better when you think it’s in the past.
The 2018 midterm elections felt like bad sex. We went through the motions, wishing for better and in the end, no one was satisfied. And of course, immediately after, President Trump did what he did best: trigger a nervous populace to say, “Can he do that?” Or just some of us. I’m from Alabama so odds are very good the person I’m talking to thinks the guy who called Jeff Sessions a “dumb Southerner” is the best president ever.
So, how the fuck did we get here?
We already know how. We’ve seen it before. How do we cope with the inevitable? We already know that as well.
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961, S. Kramer) is a courtroom drama based on a play fictionizing the real Nuremberg trials of the late 1940s. And given there is an honest, real-life 1940s-era Nazi on trial in Germany right now, I can’t think of a better time to watch this film. This three-hour drama examines whether or not a nation and the members of that nation can be held responsible for genocide, war crimes, and other atrocities carried out in their name.