Michael Shannon
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Podcast Appearances
I want you to do your duty for your country.
I think you already have, doctor.
We read every report.
After the last Great War, we made Germany crawl.
We humiliated them, made them pay reparations they couldn't afford.
We made them hate us so much that in less than two decades, they went from a broken nation to near-world conquerors.
We have to do this right, because if we don't, if 15 years from now they come back even stronger,
I don't know if we can beat them a third time.
If we just shoot these men, we make them martyrs.
I'm not gonna allow them that.
There will be no statues of them.
No songs of praise.
I'm gonna put Herman Goering on the stand, and I'm gonna make him tell the world what he did.
So that it can never happen again.
I brought you here to show you that before the bullets were fired, before tens of millions of men died, all of this started with laws.
This war ends in a courtroom.
You know, I was able to do some research that was helpful, a lot of breeding and
In addition to his work on the Nuremberg trials, I mean, throughout his career, he was a part of so many momentous decisions in the court's history.