RN Documentary: Nuremberg - Just under the surface
From: Radio Netherlands Worldwide
Series: RN Documentaries
Length: 29:30
Nuremberg tried the top Nazi leaders at a time when there was not even a name for the crimes they committed. Since then there has been much research into the crime of genocide. But has our understanding of this crime helped to prevent it from happening again. And to what extent do war crimes trials help or hinder that understanding.
Features: Nuremberg prosecutors Whitney Harris and Ben Ferencz, Philisopher Joke Hermsens and Johannes Houwink ten Cate the director of the Centre for Holocaust and Genocide studies in the Netherlands.
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Nuremberg tried the top Nazi leaders at a time when there was not even a name for the crimes they committed. Since then there has been much research into the crime of genocide. But has our understanding of this crime helped to prevent it from happening again. And to what extent do war crimes trials help or hinder that understanding. Features: Nuremberg prosecutors Whitney Harris and Ben Ferencz, Philisopher Joke Hermsens and Johannes Houwink ten Cate the director of the Centre for Holocaust and Genocide studies in the Netherlands.
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Composer: John adams
Conductor: Simon Rattle
Performer: City of Birmingham symphony orchestra
Label: EMI classics
Catalog No. 55051
ASIN b000002RU2
Track 2: The Anfortas Wound
Time: 7:32
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