In 1945, two young American soldiers, brothers Budd and Stuart Schulberg, are commissioned to collect filmed and recorded evidence of the horrors committed by the infamous Third Reich in order to prove Nazi war crimes during the Nuremberg trials (1945-46). The story of the making of Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today, a paramount historic documentary, released in 1948.
Sylvie Lindeperg is a historian, a member of the Institut Universitaire de France, and a professor at the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne. Her research focuses on the connections between cinema, memory and history, with a particular inclination toward the Second World War and the International Justice. She draws her inspiration at the junctures of history and art history, in the works of Carlo Ginzburg, Michael Baxandall and Daniel Arasse, thereby contributing to the revival of a field pioneered in France by Marc Ferro, Michele Lagny and Pierre Sorlin.