Judgment at Nuremberg
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But compassion
for the present torture of his soul...

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must not beget forgetfulness...
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of the torture and the death of millions
by the government of which he was a part.

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Janning's record and his fate...
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illuminate the most shattering truth
that has emerged from this trial.

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If he and all of the other defendants
had been degraded perverts...

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if all of the leaders of the Third Reich...
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had been sadistic monsters and maniacs...
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then these events
would have no more moral significance...

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than an earthquake,
or any other natural catastrophe.

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But this trial has shown...
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that under a national crisis...
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ordinary, even able and extraordinary men...
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can delude themselves
into the commission of crimes...

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so vast and heinous
that they beggar the imagination.

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No one who has sat through the trial
can ever forget them.

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Men sterilized because of political belief.
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A mockery made of friendship and faith.
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The murder of children.
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How easily it can happen.
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There are those in our own country, too...
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who today speak
of the protection of country...

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of survival.
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A decision must be made
in the life of every nation...

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at the very moment
when the grasp of the enemy is at its throat.

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Then it seems that the only way to survive
is to use the means of the enemy...

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to rest survival upon what is expedient,
to look the other way.

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The answer to that is: Survival as what?
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A country isn't a rock.
It's not an extension of one's self.

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It's what it stands for.
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It's what it stands for when standing
for something is the most difficult.

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Before the people of the world...

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