Judgment at Nuremberg

did your mother... 813 01:07:01,351 --> 01:07:05,720 show any mental peculiarities? 814 01:07:07,857 --> 01:07:09,450 No. 815 01:07:11,094 --> 01:07:13,392 In the decision that came down from Stuttgart... 816 01:07:13,463 --> 01:07:17,195 it is stated that your mother suffered from hereditary feeble-mindedness. 817 01:07:19,135 --> 01:07:21,365 That is not true! 818 01:07:23,473 --> 01:07:25,168 Can you give us some clarification... 819 01:07:25,241 --> 01:07:29,872 as to how the Hereditary Health Court in Stuttgart arrived at that decision? 820 01:07:30,146 --> 01:07:35,107 It was just something they said to put me on the operating table. 821 01:07:35,285 --> 01:07:37,879 -It was just something they said? -Yes. 822 01:07:38,721 --> 01:07:42,749 Mr. Petersen, there was a simple test... 823 01:07:43,960 --> 01:07:48,261 that the Health Court used to ask in all cases of mental incompetence. 824 01:07:48,731 --> 01:07:51,428 Since you say they did not ask you then... 825 01:07:51,901 --> 01:07:54,598 perhaps you can answer it for us now. 826 01:07:54,771 --> 01:07:58,537 Form a sentence out of the words "Hare," "Hunter," "Field." 827 01:07:58,608 --> 01:08:00,474 Your Honor, objection. 828 01:08:09,152 --> 01:08:13,419 Was the court in Stuttgart constituted like this one? 829 01:08:14,857 --> 01:08:17,349 I don't understand what... 830 01:08:17,860 --> 01:08:19,726 Was there an audience? 831 01:08:20,830 --> 01:08:22,525 An audience? Yes. 832 01:08:23,833 --> 01:08:25,198 Thank you. 833 01:08:28,371 --> 01:08:30,135 Objection overruled. 834 01:08:32,241 --> 01:08:36,735 "Hare," "Hunter," "Field." 835 01:08:40,783 --> 01:08:42,342 Take your time. 836 01:08:56,699 --> 01:08:59,361 They had already made up... 837 01:09:00,436 --> 01:09:03,963 When I walked into the court, they had made up their minds. 838 01:09:07,010 --> 01:09:10,378 They put me in the hospital, like a criminal. 839 01:09:10,446 --> 01:09:13,677 I could not say anything. I could not do anything. 840 01:09:16,753 --> 01:09:18,517 I had to lay there. 841 01:09:21,324 --> 01:09:23,759 My mother... 842 01:09:25,395 --> 01:09:27,329 what you say about her... 843 01:09:27,397 --> 01:09:31,356 She was a woman, a servant woman who worked hard. 844 01:09:31,434 --> 01:09:33,368 She was a hardworking woman... 845 01:09:33,436 --> 01:09:36,997 and it is not fair what you say. 846 01:09:43,112 --> 01:09:44,204 Here. 847 01:09:46,349 --> 01:09:50,445 I want to show you. I have here her picture. 848 01:09:51,454 --> 01:09:53,752 I would like you to look at it. 849 01:10:05,435 --> 01:10:07,733 I would like you to judge. 850 01:10:09,672 --> 01:10:13,700 I want that you tell me... 851 01:10:14,177 --> 01:10:16,737 was she feeble-minded? 852 01:10:18,247 --> 01:10:19,874 My mother! 853 01:10:21,651 --> 01:10:23,551 Was she feeble-minded? 854 01:10:26,589 --> 01:10:27,852 Was she? 855 01:10:38,167 --> 01:10:41,501 I feel it is my duty to point out to the tribunal... 856 01:10:42,438 --> 01:10:46,136 that the witness is not in control of his mental processes. 857 01:10:46,809 --> 01:10:50,575 I know I am not. Since that day. 858 01:10:52,081 --> 01:10:55,779 I've been half I've ever been. 859 01:11:03,559 --> 01:11:06,620 The tribunal does not know how you were before. 860 01:11:07,697 --> 01:11:09,392 It can never know. 861 01:11:10,933 --> 01:11:12,833 It has only your word. 862 01:11:34,223 --> 01:11:35,952 Court is adjourned. 863 01:11:48,538 --> 01:11:51,132 That's one problem we have with the prosecution. 864 01:11:51,207 --> 01:11:54,108 It's filled with young radicals like Lawson. 865 01:11:54,477 --> 01:11:56,878 Is that what Lawson is? A young radical? 866 01:11:56,946 --> 01:11:59,711 He was a personal protégé of FDR. 867 01:12:00,016 --> 01:12:03,247 FDR had a few friends who weren't radicals, didn't he? 868 01:12:03,319 --> 01:12:04,582 Name one. 869 01:12:05,922 --> 01:12:07,549 Wendell Wilkie. 870 01:12:08,825 --> 01:12:11,294 Is he your idea of a conservative? 871 01:12:11,961 --> 01:12:15,761 As a matter of fact, Dan, I've been wondering how you stand. 872 01:12:16,165 --> 01:12:20,568 I'll clarify that for you, Curtiss. I'm a rock-ribbed Republican... 873 01:12:20,736 --> 01:12:24,036 who thought that Franklin Roosevelt was a great man. 874 01:12:24,907 --> 01:12:26,397 One of those? 875 01:12:29,579 --> 01:12:30,671 Max! 876 01:12:31,514 --> 01:12:34,449 -Max Perkins. You know him? -No, I don't think so. 877 01:12:34,517 --> 01:12:36,645 He's with the United Press. 878 01:12:40,523 --> 01:12:42,321 Max, what are you doing here? 879 01:12:42,391 --> 01:12:44,587 I thought you might kick up a row or something. 880 01:12:44,660 --> 01:12:47,061 I haven't had that much to drink. 881 01:12:47,430 --> 01:12:49,489 -I'm sorry, ...