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While a relatively obscure character in the regime, Schlegelberger - and particularly his role in the establishment of the Nazi order - is widely considered the inspiration for the character Ernst Janning, prime defendant in the 1961 movie Judgment at Nuremberg, played by Burt Lancaster. [6] [7] [8]
Judgment at Nuremberg is a 1961 American epic legal drama film directed and produced by Stanley Kramer, and written by Abby Mann.It features Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, Maximilian Schell, Werner Klemperer, Marlene Dietrich, Judy Garland, William Shatner, and Montgomery Clift.
Rothaug was born in Mittelsinn, Bavaria. [1] In June 1933, Rothaug was named a prosecutor in Nuremberg, and in April 1937, he became the regional court director in Schweinfurt and director of Nazi "special courts" or "Sondergerichte" at Nuremberg.
"Judgment at Nuremberg" is an American television play broadcast live on April 16, 1959, as part of the CBS television series, Playhouse 90. It was a courtroom drama written by Abby Mann and directed by George Roy Hill that depicts the trial of four German judicial officials as part of the Nuremberg trials .
A witness testifies in the Judges' Trial View of Judges' trial from visitors' gallery. The Judges' Trial (German: Juristenprozess; or, the Justice Trial, or, officially, The United States of America vs. Josef Altstötter, et al.) was the third of the 12 trials for war crimes the U.S. authorities held in their occupation zone in Germany in Nuremberg after the end of World War II.
Schell won the Academy Award for Best Actor for playing a lawyer in the legal drama Judgment at Nuremberg (1961). He was Oscar-nominated for playing a character with multiple identities in The Man in the Glass Booth (1975) and for playing a man resisting Nazism in Julia (1977). Fluent in both English and German, Schell earned top billing in a ...
Ernst Kaltenbrunner: I — G: G Execution Highest-ranking SS leader to be tried at Nuremberg. Chief of RSHA 1943–45, the Nazi organ comprising the intelligence service (SD), Secret State Police (Gestapo) and Criminal Police (Kripo) and having overall command over the Einsatzgruppen. [avalon 10] Hanged 16 October 1946.
It also covers the casting of Burt Lancaster as Janning: The part went to Laurence Olivier, who right before shooting began married Joan Plowright and bowed out of the project, leaving the film with a Carlsbad Cavern kind of hole to fill. Burt Lancaster, fresh from his Elmer Gantry triumph, brought size and stature to the vacancy but little else.