Douglas Kelley
[On Göring]
You know what sets him apart from us? Nothing.
Played by Rami Malek 
Nuremberg (2025) · 16 quotes
Nuremberg (2025) · 16 quotes
I know more about this man than anyone else on the planet. You're walking into a trap!
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Douglas Kelley
[to Göring]
There's a difference between us bombing war factories and civilians dying as collateral damage! And you building 1200 human slaughter houses designed to exterminate an entire race! And you know it!!
Douglas Kelley
[to Göring]
You think you're a great man?
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[After a trial hearing, at Göring's cell, Douglas is horrified, disgusted, and furious over what he has seen from the video footage of the atrocities committed at the concentration camps]
How is that possible? [short pause, he stands up] What I just saw. How is it possible?
Hermann Göring
[short pause]
Himmler.
Douglas Kelley
Himmler wasn't second in command. You were. 1200 camps? What am I supposed to believe that you didn't know?
Hermann Göring
Anyone can fake an atrocity.
Douglas Kelley
So you're saying the filming was a fake, that's your defence?
Hermann Göring
What would you have me say?
Douglas Kelley
About the truth for once!
Hermann Göring
Why? So you can run and tell Jackson. My friend, your hypocrisy is stunning.
Douglas Kelley
My hypocrisy?
Hermann Göring
You think American bullets and bombs don't kill people?! You vaporised 150,000 Japanese at the touch of a button. And you presume to stand in judgment on me for war crimes.
Douglas Kelley
We had every right to defend ourselves.
Hermann Göring
How do you defend yourself on someone else's soil?!
Douglas Kelley
There's a difference between us bombing war factories and civilians dying as collateral damage! And you building 1200 human slaughter houses designed to exterminate an entire race! And you know it!!
Hermann Göring
What do you think war is?!
Douglas Kelley
[pause]
Not what I saw today.
Hermann Göring
What do you think the Russian's do to German prisoners of war?! You have your freedom and I am a prisoner because you won and we lost, not because you are morally superior! This trial will be a farce in 15 years. Great conquerors are not thought of as murderers, Genghis Khan, Alexander the Great...
Douglas Kelley
You're not Alexander the Great! You are a fat man in a cell. And you knew.
Hermann Göring
[pause]
I have made a mistake. You are not destined for more. You will have an unhappy life, I think. It will all be overshadowed by this. By the time spent with me. You will write your volumes trying to relive it. The one moment in your life when you actually stood with greatness.
Douglas Kelley
[short pause]
You think you're a great man? You think that that's your legacy?
Hermann Göring
At least I will have one. You will leave no mark on this world. I am the book! You are merely a footnote.
Douglas Kelley
[pause]
They're gonna kill you! They're gonna hang you by the neck till you piss yourself and die. Your wife will be a widow. Your daughter will be an orphan. And you will have done that to yourself. [Kelley knocks on the cell door to be let out, door opens. He glares at Göring and leaves]
Douglas Kelley
[Douglas is live on a radio show] [drunkenly]
There are people in America who would willingly climb over the corpses of half the American public if they knew they could gain control of the other half!
Moderator
Doctor, please-
Douglas Kelley
They stoke hatred; it's what Hitler and Göring did, and it is textbook, and if you think the next time it happens we're going to recognise it because they're wearing scary uniforms, [stands up, intensely] you're out of your damn mind! [sits back down] They're us, okay? The Germans are us.
Moderator
[Silence. The Moderator leans into his microphone]
More with our panel when we return.
Producer
[Commercials begin. The Producer comes over to Douglas, who pours himself another glass of whiskey]
They're not going to invite you to stay for the next segment. Let's go.
Producer
[He helps Kelly to his feet and hustles him towards the door]
And just so you know? Trashing our country is not the best way to sell your book.
[Douglas looks at him, turns and leaves]
