WITH Europe in ruins and nearly 30 million Allied dead, the first instinct of the victorious nations was to put the most senior Nazis up against a wall. Russia’s president Joseph Stalin wanted 50,000 ‘liquidating’, while Britain’s prime minister Winston Churchill had called for senior officers to be taken out and shot within six hours of their identity being established. Yet six months after Germany’s surrender in May 1945 a court was set up to try the highest ranking members of Adolf Hitler’s regime for war crimes. Oscar winners Russell Crowe and Rami Malek star in a movie called Nuremberg...