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Context YMMV / Nuremberg

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4	* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: ''Introitus'' from Mozart's ''Requiem'' during the executions.
5	* MoralEventHorizon: The four charges (conspiracy to wage aggressive war, crimes against peace, war crimes and crimes against humanity) for the defendants. Göring, however, accuses the Allies of having crossed it more than once themselves.
6	* NightmareFuel:
7	** The British prosecuter's opening statement, where he recites a diary entry by a German businessman who was witness to a mass extermination of Jews in the Ukraine in ''very'' vivid detail.
8	** The concentration camps footage. The strange thing is that because it is real footage of actual concentration camps, it does something very weird to [[BreakingTheFourthWall the fourth wall]]. Suddenly this isn't a miniseries you're watching anymore, this is the pain, suffering and deaths of millions of people you're looking at. In effect, the movie/miniseries act as a direct conduit to provide context for the footage, basically acting as a NightmareFuelStationAttendant.
9	* SoOkayItsAverage: General consensus is that the trial scenes and Brian Cox's Goring are excellent, but Alec Baldwin's Justice Jackson is something of a VanillaProtagonist who hogs up screentime better spent on the war criminals in the dock.
10	* RomanticPlotTumor: Almost one hour is dedicated to the love story between Jackson and his mistress.
11	* ValuesDissonance: Jackson's affair with his secretary Elsie is played as a sweet heart warmer and is probably used as a way to ease the tension and horror of the Nuremberg trials. While there is no suggestion in the series that their feelings are anything other than entirely mutual -- in fact, her feelings are shown first and he is only confirmed to reciprocate later -- the power differential would raise a) eyebrows and b) concerns about an abuse of power in the 2010s.

Context YMMV / Nuremberg