i thought it was exciting.
yes.
because it's justice.
i'd have thought it was obvious.
cowardice. it's cowardice, isn't it? it's bad conscience. it's the big cover-up.
after the war. the german people didn't want to look at what they'd done.
because they had too much to hide. all our parents are liars. all right, mine are. so it's left to us, isn't it?
because we're not implicated.
if you want to know, he was in the waffen ss.
that's what i mean, that's what i'm saying. so were a million other germans.
but isn't that.
narrow?
i don't know. i don't know what we're doing any more.
you keep telling us to think like lawyers, but there's something disgusting about this.
this didn't happen to the germans. it happened to the jews.
what are we trying to do?
six women locked three hundred jews in a church, and let them burn. what is there to understand? tell me, i'm asking : what is there to understand?
i started out believing in this trial, i thought it was great, now i think it's just a diversion.
you choose six women, you put them on trial, you say `they were the evil ones, they were the guilty ones'. brilliant!
people go on about how much did everyone know? `who knew?' `what did they know?' that isn't the question. the question is `how could you let it happen?' and - better - `why didn't you kill yourself when you found out?'
thousands! that's how many. there were thousands of camps. everyone knew.
look at that woman.
the woman you're always staring at. i'm sorry but you are.
you know what i'd do? put the gun in my hand, i'd shoot her myself.