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...tribunal -- if it ever gets started -- will be breaking new ground in the history of war-crime prosecutions. Some Nuremberg precedents have been rejected: no defendants will be tried in absentia; nobody will be hanged. All the tribunal can do, says Theo Van Boven, the court's registrar, "is rule that a case exists and issue an international arrest warrant. That would severely limit the movement of such people. They would become pariahs...
...Nuremberg and Tokyo, the defeated were tried by the victors. "In Bosnia there is no victory," says Dominique Wouters, a tribunal legal officer. The chief judge, Italian legal scholar Antonio Cassese, says that makes the creation of the tribunal "a turning point in international relations. For the first time," he says, "the community of states is rendering a justice that is not that of the victors, imposed at the very time when the air is still being rent by the clash of arms and cries of pain...
...forgiveness, Solzhenitsyn said he "responded with a laugh that this was the smallest possible reason for them to come up with for repentance." Russians, he said "should be repenting far more major things." He seemed to call for some grand legal absolution like the 1946 war-crimes trials at Nuremberg: "We saw this in Germany when the Nazis were tried. Their crimes were condemned not only by process of law but in the public arena. All 250 million people ((from the former Soviet Union)) in Russia can't do this, but the process must begin...
...Studios in Berlin, where many German silent films were made, a dispute flares up when Muller asks Riefenstahl to walk and talk at the same time. In another scene at Nuremberg, Riefenstahl grabs Muller's shoulders and shakes...
...most fascinating and disturbing part of the film is when Riefenstahl must face the questions raised by her association with, and work for, the Nazis. For this segment, Muller takes Riefenstahl back to the old Nazi parade grounds outside of Nuremberg...