Nuremberg: Nazis on Trial, is a BBC documentary film series consisting of three one-hour films that re-enact the Nuremberg War Trials of Albert Speer, Hermann Göring and Rudolf Hess. They were broadcast on BBC Two in 2006 to coincide with the 60th anniversary of the trials.
DirectorsPaul Bradshaw, Michael Wadding, Nigel Paterson
Albert Speer
Sep 25, 2006
Episode one questions whether the “nazi who said sorry”, whose actions were the most far reaching and significant of the trial, was a troubled soul seeking forgiveness of the German people or the mastermind of a cynical strategy that fooled the world?
Hermann Goering
Oct 2, 2006
Episode two questions whether Hitler’s chosen successor could succeed where he had failed by re-igniting Nazi pride from the witness box.
Rudolf Hess
Oct 9, 2006
Episode three explores the mind of one of the most fanatical of all Nazis and the insight that gives into the psychology of dictatorship.
