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
Om avsnittet
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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