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Is 'Nuremberg' the Holocaust movie we need right now?

JL;DR SUMMARY The film "Nuremberg," directed by James Vanderbilt, attempts to tackle the complex history of the Nuremberg trials with a focus on the relationship between psychiatrist Douglass Kelley and Hermann Goering, Hitler's second-in-command. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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HolocaustPsychiatryHermann GoeringNuremberg TrialsRussell CroweDouglass KelleyJames VanderbiltRami MalekBanal Evil

Places mentioned

Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany
"In the film, Douglas Kelley arrives in Nuremberg hoping to discover what made the Nazis, and Germans, uniquely predisposed to, and capable of, great evils."
United States
"The current administration is engaged in a campaign of deportations, at least some of which have caught citizens in their dragnet."
Ohio, United States
"Vice President JD Vance defended them as kids making edgy, offensive jokes."
Jersey
"A late reveal in this overcrowded movie shows Kelleys translator to be a German Jew, and we hear the story of his escape from the Nazi regime."

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