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What is the prosecution trying to prove?
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Is it trying to prove
that the German people as a whole...
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were responsible for these events?
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Or that they were even aware of them?
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Because if he is...
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he's not stating facts...
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and he knows he's not.
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The secrecy of the operations,
the geographical location of the camps...
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the breakdown of communications
in the last days of the war...
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when the exterminations
rose into the millions...
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show only too clearly
that he is not telling the truth!
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The truth is...
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that these brutalities were brought about
by the few extremists.
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The criminals.
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Very few Germans knew what was going on.
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Very few.
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None of us knew what was happening...
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in the places shown in these films.
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None of us.
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But the most ironic part of it is...
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that the prosecution showed these films
against these defendants...
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men who stayed in power
for one reason only...
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to prevent worse things from happening.
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Who is the braver man?
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The man who escapes,
or resigns in times of peril...
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or the man who stays on his post...
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at the risk of his own personal safety?
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The defense will present witnesses
and letters and documents...
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from religious and political refugees
all over the world...
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telling how Ernst Janning saved them
from execution.
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The defense will show that many times...
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Ernst Janning was able
to effect mitigation of sentences...