Word: nuremberg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). Filmed biography of Hermann Göring, Adolf Hitler's top accomplice. Sir David Maxwell Fyfe, who prosecuted Göring at the Nuremberg trials, will help out Narrator Walter Cronkite...
...frightening thing about the censorship of the Playhouse 90 drama, Judgment at Nuremberg, by the eliminating of reference to extermination in "gas oven" [April 27], lies not so much in the censorship as in the awful realization that the person or persons responsible for this idiocy can be and are employed in policymaking positions in a major American industry, and can and do make decisions of this kind...
...acting, the writing, the direction, just about everything on CBS's Playhouse go last week gave eloquent testimony to television's real potential. Judgment at Nuremberg was a bitterly moving reminder of Nazi Germany's era of evil-so moving, in fact, that for once the commercials supplied some necessary moments of relief. But they were also the source of some of the most naive censorship ever to be inflicted on a show...
Wechsler, who holds a chair in law at Columbia University, was an assistant attorney general from 1944 to 1946. Part of that time he served at the Nuremberg Trials as a judge's adviser. At present, Wechsler is working with the American Law Institute on the drafting of a model penal code...
...chief psychiatrist during the Nazi war crimes trial: by his own hand (a dose of potassium cyanide); in Berkeley. Calif. Psychiatrist Kelley (then a U.S. Army lieutenant colonel) interviewed the 22 top-ranking Nazis before the trial, authored (in 1947) a controversial study of his findings (22 Cells in Nuremberg...