12 Interesting Facts About Nuremberg

1. #001

   Brian Cox said the sequence in which a film showing the Nazi concentration camps was screened in the courtroom required a large number of takes. During the actual screening of the film, crew members who could no longer bear to watch it effectively went on strike on set.

   INTERESTING FACTS · SOURCED

   Sources (1)

   1. IMDb — IMDb kaydı

   ·Share·Report
2. #002

   During a Christmas party, the Russian judge Major General Iona T. Nikitchenko states that 20 million Russians died during the war. Three months later, in March 1946, in an official interview with the Russian newspaper "Pravda", Joseph Stalin stated that the official death toll was only seven million. The figure of 20 million dead was not accepted until 1956, when Premier Nikita Khrushchev gave that total at a Communist Party congress meeting in Moscow. In 1989, during Mikhail Gorbachev's "Glasnost" period, total deaths were reported to be 27 million. In 1991, with the dissolution of the Soviet Union, state archives were opened to research by private historians: the death toll was stated to be between 35 and 42 million, but this was not recognized by the state. The research of private scholars caused the state to close the archives again.

   INTERESTING FACTS · SOURCED

   Sources (1)

   1. IMDb — IMDb kaydı

   ·Share·Report
3. #003

   Sam Stone, who plays Julius Streicher, is a Jew whose father survived the Holocaust. In the scene where films of the Nazi concentration camps are shown in the courtroom, he kept his face expressionless with great difficulty. Immediately after the scene was completed, he burst into tears.

   INTERESTING FACTS · SOURCED

   Sources (1)

   1. IMDb — IMDb kaydı

   ·Share·Report
4. #004

   Prison psychologist Captain Gustave M. Gilbert (Matt Craven) wrote a book titled 'Nuremberg Diary' about his experiences during the trial. He later emigrated to Israel.

   INTERESTING FACTS · SOURCED

   Sources (1)

   1. IMDb — IMDb kaydı

   ·Share·Report
5. #007

   According to Brian Cox, the producers wanted the miniseries to be the first in an anthology of Second World War epics and were interested in having him return to play Winston Churchill. Although the project was never made, Cox would go on to play Winston Churchill in Churchill (2017).

   INTERESTING FACTS · SOURCED

   Sources (1)

   1. IMDb — IMDb kaydı

   ·Share·Report
6. #008

   As depicted in the miniseries, Albert Speer tried to distance himself from his fellow defendants and present himself as a remorseful Nazi with no knowledge of the Holocaust. Evidence that has emerged since the trial shows that he lied about both his lack of knowledge and his participation in the Holocaust and his support for the Nazi party. Herbert Knaup said that throughout his performance he played Speer as a liar.

   INTERESTING FACTS · SOURCED

   Sources (1)

   1. IMDb — IMDb kaydı

   ·Share·Report
7. #010

   In the series, Joachim von Ribbentrop is played by an elderly actor. In fact, Ribbentrop was only 52-53 years old during the trial.

   INTERESTING FACTS · SOURCED

   Sources (1)

   1. IMDb — IMDb kaydı

   ·Share·Report
8. #011

   In real life Captain Gilbert spoke fluent German, so throughout the series he is depicted speaking comfortably and privately with defendants such as Rudolph Höss, Emma Göring and others.

   INTERESTING FACTS · SOURCED

   Sources (1)

   1. IMDb — IMDb kaydı

   ·Share·Report
9. #012

   In real life, after testifying at Nuremberg, Rudolph Hoess was found guilty of murder, sentenced to death and executed by hanging on a special gallows built near the crematorium of the Auschwitz concentration camp.

   INTERESTING FACTS · SOURCED

   Sources (1)

   1. IMDb — IMDb kaydı

   ·Share·Report
10. #014

    Although Hermann Göring testified in German at his trial, in real life he could speak English.

    INTERESTING FACTS · SOURCED

    Sources (1)

    1. IMDb — IMDb kaydı

    ·Share·Report
11. #015

    Christopher Plummer, who was 70 years old when he shot the role, was older not only than the real David Maxwell Fyfe (who was 46 during the trial) but also than Fyfe was when he died in 1967 at the age of 66.

    INTERESTING FACTS · SOURCED

    Sources (1)

    1. IMDb — IMDb kaydı

    ·Share·Report
12. #016

    The Nuremberg trials had previously been dramatized in Judgment at Nuremberg (1961), in which William Shatner played a supporting role. Shatner and Christopher Plummer appeared together in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991). Both are Canadian and attended acting school together. They were lifelong friends.

    INTERESTING FACTS · SOURCED

    Sources (1)

    1. IMDb — IMDb kaydı

    ·Share·Report