Synopsis

The story is carried by Eli Rosenbaum, former chief of the U.S. Office of Special Investigations, the Justice Department bureau created in 1979 to find Nazis who had taken refuge in America and extradite them to stand trial. Mr. Rosenbaum is now U.S. Counselor for War Crimes Accountability with the mandate to investigate “grave crimes committed in the wake of Russia’s February 2022 invasion of Ukraine.” Rosenbaum explains in the film how the Nuremberg principles still underlie all attempts to prosecute such crimes.

FILMMAKERS FOR THE PROSECUTION features jaw-dropping first-hand accounts by Budd Schulberg, head of the OSS search team; Niklas Frank, son of Nuremberg defendant Hans Frank; and French jurist Yves Beigbeder, assistant to French judge Henri Donnedieu de Vabres. It includes fascinating reveals by scholars Sylvie Lindeperg, Axel Fischer, Alexander Zöller, Victor Barbat and Stuart Liebman. 

After the trial, the War Department commissioned Stuart Schulberg to make the official U.S. documentary, Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today. It includes a lot of the damning evidence the OSS team assembled for the courtroom. Sandra Schulberg illuminates why the U.S. government suppressed Nuremberg as soon as it was completed in 1948, as the Cold War got underway. It was shown in American theaters for the first time in 2010. 

Credits

Jean-Christophe Klotz, Director

Sandra Schulberg, Co-Producer

Distributor: Kino Lorber