Misjudgment at Nuremberg
By Alice Kaplan••The New York Review of Books
In James Vanderbilt’s film Nuremberg, about the trial of the major Nazi war criminals, the questioning of Russell Crowe’s all too charming Hermann Göring becomes a moment of invented high drama.
In the first scene of Nuremberg,it is May 7, 1945, the last day of World War II in Europe, and refugees are trudging down a country road. A GI on patrol stops to piss on a swastika on the wing of a f…