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Historical & Political Dramas: Writer and Director Jonathan Myerson on the First Nuremberg Trial, Raising Awareness About and Giving Context to History and His View of Justice


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The following are links to Nuremberg: The Trial of Nazi War Criminals, 4AM Kyiv Is Bombed, Mueller: Trump Tower Moscow and Reykjavik.

Show Notes:

0:42 war crimes in Ukraine and disappointment that America is not a member of the ICC.

3:00 Jonathan Myerson’s reasons for writing Nuremberg: the Trial of Nazi War Criminals

5:00 issues that almost kept Nuremberg trial from happening, including Winston Churchill’s disinterest in having a trial

7:45 Soviet Judgment at Nuremberg by Dr. Francine Hirsch 

9:45 indictment of the wrong Krupp. 

10:20 speed of the trial after VE Day in May 1945

11:35 one structural point for the Nuremberg podcast was to show the trial from the ground up

12:50 another structural point for the Nuremberg podcast was to focus on what the defendants caused in Europe not about the defendants 

14:30 how witnesses were selected to include in the podcast

15:00 Episodes 5 and 6 include what it was like to hear from witnesses about the mass killing concentration camps for the first time 

18:30 British bureaucratic coping in collection of evidence 

20:00 Hadassah Binco, mother of Belsen – use of her testimony from the Belsen trial

21:30 Hermann Graebe’s testimony about witnessing mass shooting site in Ukraine

22:30 closing by British Chief Prosecutor Lord Hartley William Shawcross 

24:45 feedback from Nuremberg podcast

27:00 This Is Your country Too podcast - seven plays about child refugees

29:00 Britian’s poor approach to accepting immigrants from Ukraine now and during WWII, Kindertransport

30:20 Lebanon, the Syrian army, Civil War 

31:45 Ukraine podcast play, 4AM Kyiv is Bombed

33:30 Lviv otherwise known as Lemberg, otherwise known as Lvov

34:30 Bloodlands by Timothy Snyder

35:30 Ukrainian National Police Facebook page

37:30 his work serves to remind us about historical events

38:30 Payback about the 1973 Yom Kippur War and US’s decision to re-arm Israel

40:00 Reykjavik podcast - meeting between Reagan and Gorbachev 

40:45 Francis Fukuyama's End of History

41:30 Star Wars program

42:00 a wider understanding of justice 


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Music by Toulme.

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