Nuremberg: Nazis on Trial -Albert Speer

It was the greatest trial of the twentieth century: in the dock at the Nuremberg war crimes tribunal, twenty-one leading Nazis charged with the crimes and horrors of the Third Reich. But the real story of Nuremberg took place away from the public eye, where lawyers and psychologists probed the minds of some of the most infamous men in history. Sixty years later, this three-part drama documentary series goes behind the scenes in the cases against the three most notorious Nazis on trial: Hermann Goering, Albert Speer and Rudolph Hess. Speer,Hitler’s architect and armaments minister,was the only defendant at Nuremberg who unreservedly accepted responsibility for the Nazis’ crimes.But was his remorse genuine or just a clever defence strategy to get off the hook? Episode 2 of the series provides fascinating insights into the ambiguous character of a man who many amongst the Allies regarded as a ‘good’Nazi and a man they could identify with.