Filmmakers for the Prosecution (2021 TV Movie)
Eli Rosenbaum: Self - Former Director, Office of Special Investigation against War Crimes (US Justice Department)
Quotes
-
Self - Former Director, Office of Special Investigation against War Crimes (US Justice Department) : The strategy of the Prosecutors was to convict the defendants using their own words and their own recording of their criminal deeds.
-
Self - Former Director, Office of Special Investigation against War Crimes (US Justice Department) : That's why I think they made this film. They wanted to make sure the world didn't forget and that the world would learn these lessons. Unfortunately, we still have a lot to learn.
-
Self - Former Director, Office of Special Investigation against War Crimes (US Justice Department) : The same Cold War that brought, for the most part, an end to post-war allied enthusiasm for prosecuting Nazi war criminals, that caused the trials to basically petered out by 1950, that same Cold War, in which now, of course, Germany was - or, at least, Western Germany was our ally and our former ally, the Soviet Union, was now our enemy. Not at all the story portrayed in the film. The film conflicted with that - that narrative. And so a great opportunity was lost to educate Americans - and to remind them of what we fought for.