Overview
- Arte broadcasts Alfred de Montesquiou’s two-part documentary tonight, reframing Nuremberg as a media-driven reckoning told through journalists and photographers who covered the proceedings.
- The film foregrounds Robert H. Jackson’s intent to assert the primacy of law, outlaw aggressive war, and denazify Germany through what became the first major trial both filmed and to admit film as evidence.
- About 300 accredited reporters from 28 countries attended, including Holocaust survivor Ernest Michel, with standout coverage by figures such as Madeleine Jacob and photographer Ray D’Addario.
- The documentary traces competing information campaigns, featuring Roman Karmen’s Soviet film Le Jugement des peuples that reached audiences quickly as the American release lagged, alongside strict controls on Soviet journalists.
- Newly presented Soviet footage appears alongside an account of a staged shoot using American cameras, while significant Soviet archives remain stored near Moscow and largely inaccessible.