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Seventy-five years ago, prosecutors at the Nuremberg Trials, that followed World War II, made history in an unexpected way. They asked the court to dim the lights and enter into the record a new form of evidence to document human rights violations: A film.
For more than an hour, horrific footage played of Nazi concentration camps, which was taken as the allies liberated them. As the light bounced from the screen and landed on the defendants, it found them bewildered. These men, once the most feared members of the Nazi regime, were reduced to stammering, tremors, and tears. The film left everyone in the court stunned.