Nuremberg (2025) - Quotes

Justice in the Face of History

Taglines: An epic World War ll thriller based on true events

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Questioning Guilt in Atrocities and Accountability

Douglas Kelley: [short pause, he stands up] How is that possible? How is it possible?

Hermann Göring: [short pause; [Heinrich Himmler|Himmler] ].

Douglas Kelley: Himmer wasn't second in command. You were. 1200 camps? What am I supposed to believe that you didn't know?

Hermann Göring: Anyone can fake an atrocity.

Douglas Kelley: So you're saying the filming was a fake, that's your defence?

Hermann Göring: What would you have me say?

Douglas Kelley: About the truth for once!

Hermann Göring: Why? So you can run and tell Jackson. My friend, your hypocrisy is stunning.

Douglas Kelley: My hypocrisy?

Hermann Göring: [[Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki|150,000 Japanese at the touch of a button] You think American bullets and bombs don't kill people?! You vaporised ]. And you presume to stand in judgment on me for war crimes.

Douglas Kelley: We had every right to defend ourselves.

Hermann Göring: How do you defend yourself on someone else's soil?!

Douglas Kelley: There's a difference between us bombing war factories and civilians dying as collateral damage! And you building 1200 human slaughter houses designed to exterminate an entire race! And you know it!!

Hermann Göring: What do you think war is?!

Douglas Kelley: [pause] Not what I saw today.

Hermann Göring: [[Russian; [Genghis Khan; [Alexander the Great] What do you think the ]'s do to German prisoners of war?! You have your freedom and I am a prisoner because you won and we lost, not because you are morally superior! This trial will be a farce in 15 years. Great conquerors are not thought of as murderers, ], ]...

Douglas Kelley: You're not Alexander the Great! You are a fat man in a cell. And you knew.

Hermann Göring: I have made a mistake. You are not destined for more. You will have an unhappy life, I think. It will all be overshadowed by this. By the time spent with me. You will write your volumes trying to relive it. The one moment in your life when you actually stood with greatness.

Douglas Kelley: [short pause] You think you're a great man? You think that that's your legacy?

Hermann Göring: At least I will have one. You will leave no mark on this world. I am the book! You are merely a footnote.

Douglas Kelley: [Kelley knocks on the cell door to be let out, door opens. Kelley leaves] They're gonna kill you! They're gonna hang you by the neck till you piss yourself and die. Your wife will be a widow. Your daughter will be an orphan. And you will have done that to yourself.

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The Consequences of Inaction and Indifference

Sergeant Howie Triest: [to Douglas] Do you know why it happened here? Because people let it happen.

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Knowledge and Warning in Nuremberg

Douglas Kelley: I know more about this man than anyone else on the planet. You're walking into a trap!

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Questioning Greatness and Identity

Douglas Kelley: [to Göring] You think you're a great man?

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Moral Distinction in Warfare and Genocide

Douglas Kelley: [to Göring] There's a difference between us bombing war factories and civilians dying as collateral damage! And you building 1200 human slaughter houses designed to exterminate an entire race! And you know it!!

Equality in Humanity's Flaws

Douglas Kelley: [On Göring] You know what sets him apart from us? Nothing.

Reflections on Humanity and Legacy

Hermann Göring: [After being defeated at the trial] Years from now, I wonder what you will say about us. Will you even acknowledge we were human?

Unyielding Confidence in Personal Defeat

Hermann Göring: No man has ever beaten me.

The Birth of a National Socialist

Hermann Göring: [[Hitler] The first time I saw ] talk, it was uh... 1922, upstairs of a coffee shop, for maybe 30 people. This was peacetime, but it was a peace without food, jobs, shoes. And he stood up and he said "French bellies are being filled with German pain." And then, "If you make threats, you need bayonets. Rearm! Down this Versailles!" So that night, I became a National Socialist.