to drugs, He feels particularly combative.

He was really in great shape
at this moment.

He really took this trial
like a fight.

Hermann, Wilhem, Goring.

From the start of the trial,
Goering wants to win.

According to American procedure, The defendants just have to plead
guilty or not guilty, But he has prepared a long tirade.

Before responding to the court, That I be found guilty
or not guilty.

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The president calls him to order.

I inform you that the defendants, Are not authorized
to make a statement.

You just have to plead
guilty or not guilty.

On these charges,
I plead not guilty! After him, All defendants will plead
not guilty in their turn.

Not guilty ! During the trial,
Goering takes center stage.

He still thinks of escaping the pain
of death by his strategy.

He wants to defend the project
of Hitler for Germany.

His idea was practically
at this moment, To justify his führer.

But the judges planned
an electric shock.

Nazi criminals must
to face in court, To the unbearable images filmed
to the liberation of the camps.

Rotated images
by the Americans and the Russians, To bear witness forever to the atrocities
organized by the defendants.

During the screening,
Goering looks away.

He understands that his defense is collapsing.

Seen the images on the screen, He had very little luck
to succeed with his idea, To explain and justify
what happened, For 12 years in Germany.

The chilling testimony of Rudolf Hoess, The commandant of the Auschwitz camp, Will still overwhelm the accused.

Of course, prisoners
were treated harshly, But with a certain method.

Until the end,
they defend the Nazi regime.

But in Nuremberg, Only one will deny his convictions
and pretend to know nothing about the Holocaust.

It is however a
closest to Hitler, Albert Speer, the architect.

Hitler and the collapse of his regime, Preparing for a terrible time
of suffering for the German people.

After this trial,
I will condemn Hitler, As the manager
of this misfortune.

He claims he would have always taken
his distance from Hitler.

He even considered assassinating her.

Of course, it was grotesque.

On October 1, 1946, After 10 months of trial in Nuremberg,
the verdict falls.

Accused Hermann Wilhelm Goering, the international court
condemns you, To death by hanging.

12 defendants are convicted
to death by hanging.

Speer’s strategy paid off.

He is not condemned
than 20 years in prison.

Goering doesn’t want to be hanged
like a simple delinquent, But die like a soldier, Shot by firing squad.

The court refuses him.

So, ultimate provocation, A few hours before
execution of the sentence, With the complicity of a
of his American guardians, Goering procures
a poison capsule, And commits suicide in his cell, Still persuaded to leave
his mark in history.

He explained that now
they will condemn me, But in fifty years,
you’ll see, We are going to have small statuettes
by Hermann Goring, In all apartments
Germans.

Those in charge of Auschwitz, them, Are delivered to the Polish justice.

Because the atrocities have
produced on its soil.

Among them, Rudolf Hoess,
the camp director.

He is on trial in Warsaw
and condemned for example, To be hanged in the camp, At the scene of his crimes.

It’s scary to see
the coldness of these feelings.

It doesn’t really express
regret over these killings.

For him, he only did
than obeying orders.

The years go by, In Hitler’s close guard, Only one remained alive, And will become master
in the art of lying.

When he comes out of Spandau prison, In the suburbs of Berlin, in 1966, Albert Speer is only 61 years old.

Hitler’s architect and minister, Attracts media from around the world.

After 20 years of detention, He is the only one who can
tell from the inside, the workings of power
under Hitler.

When Speer got out of prison, He had already signed
a very lucrative contract, to write his memoirs.

For 2 years, Albert Speer became
a successful author.

His memoirs, written in prison, Are translated into 14 languages and
sold over a million copies.

It’s a star ! Speer is interviewed on all
television sets around the world.

Why did Hitler
made you a friend of his? Hitler never had any friends.

And I said at the Nuremberg trial, That if Hitler had had friends, I was a friend of his.

Maybe I realized
the dream of his youth.

He keeps showing up
like an architect, who did not know
of the regime’s worst crimes.

According to his claims, He didn’t know anything
of the extermination of the Jews.

But in the 70s, Speer is gradually
overtaken by revelations, On his involvement in the Holocaust.

In particular, we know
thanks to this photo, Which he visited in 1943,
the camp of Mauthausen, where more than 200,000
people died.

And that he heard Himmler mention
the extermination of the Jews.

If we knew everything
what we know today, He would have been sentenced
to death at Nuremberg.

He was a personality
very dangerous, Under a bourgeois mask, He hid his true nature
cold politician.

Albert Speer, will escape
all the way to the truth.

Hitler’s last relative,
dies in his bed, From a heart attack in 1981.

Josef Mengele, the Auschwitz doctor, Nicknamed the Angel of Death, Died in 1979 in Brazil, without ever having been
caught by justice.

None of these great criminals who
worked so hard in Hitler’s place, has no grave today.

Their ashes were scattered, Or their remains
buried anonymously, To avoid gathering
nostalgic.

Their traces are gradually disappearing.

At the end of this path
lost in the forest, Without indication, These abandoned ruins, Are those of the house
favorite of Adolf Hitler.

Where all his accomplices
were meeting.

 

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