Overview
- Kai Ambos objected to the Göring courtroom excerpt as overly flattering, and historian Henrike Claussen noted the full interrogation later showed the Nazi leader far less composed.
- Niklas Frank recounted his childhood memories of the trials and condemned his father Hans Frank, saying he opposed capital punishment yet accepted his father’s sentence.
- Experts reiterated long‑standing limits of the main trials, including the small pool of 24 defendants, the focus on crimes from 1939 onward, and the omission of victors’ crimes such as Katyn.
- Participants emphasized Nuremberg’s legal legacy that egregious crimes are prosecutable irrespective of national statutes, citing later convictions of Radovan Karadžić and Ratko Mladić.
- Journalist Ronen Steinke warned of eroding respect for international justice, criticizing reported assurances that Benjamin Netanyahu would face no arrest in Germany and calling the show’s treatment of current enforcement too brief.