2:00:03
the breakdown of communications
in the last days of the war...
2:00:06
when the exterminations
rose into the millions...
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show only too clearly
that he is not telling the truth!
2:00:14
The truth is...
2:00:16
that these brutalities were brought about
by the few extremists.
2:00:20
The criminals.
2:00:24
Very few Germans knew what was going on.
2:00:27
Very few.
2:00:30
None of us knew what was happening...
2:00:34
in the places shown in these films.
2:00:37
None of us.
2:00:45
But the most ironic part of it is...
2:00:50
that the prosecution showed these films
against these defendants...
2:00:54
men who stayed in power
for one reason only...
2:00:59
to prevent worse things from happening.
2:01:03
Who is the braver man?
2:01:06
The man who escapes,
or resigns in times of peril...
2:01:11
or the man who stays on his post...
2:01:14
at the risk of his own personal safety?
2:01:17
The defense will present witnesses
and letters and documents...
2:01:22
from religious and political refugees
all over the world...
2:01:24
telling how Ernst Janning saved them
from execution.
2:01:27
The defense will show that many times...
2:01:30
Ernst Janning was able
to effect mitigation of sentences...
2:01:33
when, without his influence,
the results would have been much worse.
2:01:38
The defense will show...
2:01:40
that Ernst Janning's personal physician
was a non-Aryan...
2:01:46
a Jewish man...
2:01:49
who he kept in attendance,
much to his own peril.
2:01:55
The defense presents affidavits...
2:01:58
from legal authorities
and famed jurists the world over...