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tuart Schulberg, a Jew working
for the Hollywood director John
Ford in the OSS film unit at the
end of World War II, was given the mis-
sion of finding German-shot footage to
be presented at the Nuremberg trial of
the top surviving Nazi brass.
Speed was essential, as Germans with
access to photographic evidence were
wasting no time destroying it.
Although the Nazis' vast trove of docu-
ments proved invaluable to Allied pros-
ecutors, Schulberg's compilation films
Nazi Concentration Camps and the
arguably had
41/2-hour The Nazi Plan
the greatest impact on the courtroom.
So Schulberg was assigned by the U.S
War Department to make the official
film of the trial. His concise yet compre-
hensive work, Nuremberg: Its Lesson For
Today, was screened widely in Germany
upon its completion in 1948.
But the film was quietly shelved
in the U.S. and forgotten. For the last
five years, Sandra Schulberg, the film-
maker's daughter and a veteran inde-
pendent film producer, has devoted
herself to giving Nuremberg: Its Lesson
For Today a second life.
"I had many doubts along the way
because it was so hard to raise the
money, and people didn't respond to
the obvious historical mandate that
it should be restored and shown,"
Schulberg said in a phone interview
from her East Coast home.
This terrifically crisp, crackling and
invaluable film screens Aug. 6-7 at the
Detroit Film Theatre.
Nuremberg: Its Lesson For Today is
ostensibly a record of the trial, and
Schulberg and filmmaker Josh Waletsky
went to great lengths to enhance the
film by replacing some narration with
original audio of Justice Robert H.
Jackson and the British, French and
Russian prosecutors, as well as defen-
dants Hermann Goering, Hans Frank,
Wilhelm Frick, Albert Speer and others.
(The film's original English-language
narration lost, it was re-recorded by
actor Liev Schreiber for the restoration.)
"What surprises me," Schulberg
reports, "is that people who do know
this material very well, who are experts
on the cinematography of the Holocaust
and who didn't expect to learn anything
from the film, had never heard the
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Schulberg, director of Nuremberg (1948)
defendants speaking in the courtroom
in response to cross-examination, or
in their final summations justifying or
expressing recognition of what they'd
done."
In the course of depicting justice
being served, the documentary does an
exemplary job of using the trial to frame
the egregious history of the Third Reich
from its beginnings through the Final
Solution.
"As we get further away, the vast
majority doesn't know the details" of
World War II, Schulberg observes.
She was conceived in Berlin during
the blockade and born in Paris. Her
father continued to make and supervise
films in Germany and France through
the mid-'50s, before returning to the
States and, eventually, signing on as TV
newsman David Brinkley's producer in
Washington, D.C.
Schulberg hasn't been able to unravel
the mystery of why Nuremberg: Its Lesson
For Today didn't screen in the U.S. One
theory is that with the Cold War on,
the government wanted all eyes on the
Russians.
It is tempting to see veiled anti-Sem-
itism as the real reason, given the State
Department's heartless restrictions on
the number of European Jews allowed
into the U.S. in the 1930s and '40s. In
addition, recently declassified docu-
ments reveal U.S. efforts to camouflage
or expunge the records of high-level
Nazi figures — not scientists, mind you
— and help them immigrate to this
and other countries.
Schulberg won't indulge in specula-
tion, however.
"Regardless of whether there was a
specific connection made between that
policy of providing some refuge for
some Nazis, the bigger-picture point
was that the American government
was trying to get the American people
to focus on the Soviet threat and stop
thinking about the Nazis," she says.
The Detroit Film Theatre in the
Detroit Institute of Arts screens
Nuremberg 4 p.m. Saturday and 2
p.m. Sunday, Aug. 6-7. $6.50-$7.50.
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