[Hamp-law] Film: Judgment at Nuremberg

[Flavio Risech]

A screening of the film "Judgment at Nuremberg" on Wednesday October 
19 at 7 pm in room 107, Franklin Patterson Hall will be offered by 
SS106T Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity, the Law Program and the 
Office of Multicultural Education. Refreshments provided.

The 1961 film is a Hollywood fictionalization, complete with some of 
the biggest movie stars of the day (Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, 
Judy Garland, Marlene Dietrich, William Shatner, Richard Widmark) of 
the work of the International Military Tribunal in bringing to 
justice the surviving leaders of Nazi Germany at the end of World War 
II, and so should not be read as a documentary. However, it does 
compellingly dramatize many of the most critical aspects of the 
Tribunal's theoretical underpinnings and its socio-political context. 
It pioneered the use of archival documentary footage within a 
fictional film, including horrific scenes filmed by Allied soldiers 
during their liberation of the German concentration and extermination 
camps in 1945. And the screenplay and acting are really superb.

The Nuremberg tribunal, despite its many flaws and limitations over 
which legal scholars continue to argue today, is generally considered 
the foundation of contemporary international criminal law and firmly 
established that those responsible for mass crimes against humanity 
should neither go unpunished nor be subjected to extralegal vengeance.

Please join us to view this important historical film.
Flavio Risech
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Flavio Risech
Associate Professor of Law and Ethnic Studies
Associate Dean of Faculty for Multicultural Education
Hampshire College
893 West Street
Amherst MA 01002-3359
413-559-5379 vox
413-559-6081 fax
frisech at hampshire.edu