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Getting Away with Murder(s)

Johann Robert riss was a wehrmachtsergeant involved in the massacre of approximately 184...

Johann Robert riss was a wehrmacht
sergeant involved in the massacre of approximately 184 civilians
in a tuscan town in 1944

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Johann Robert riss was a wehrmacht sergeant involved in the massacre
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of approximately 184 civilians in a tuscan town in 1944.
Duration
13 seconds
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53
Timestamp in Movie
00:24:49
Uploaded
May 20, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
Guerilla Films

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99% of those who carried out the murders in the Holocaust were never prosecuted. Why not?
Living in Bavaria after the war, in 2011, he was sentenced in absentia - Getting Away with Murder(s) 00:12
Living in Bavaria after the war, in 2011, he was sentenced i...
Germany declined to extradite him. - Getting Away with Murder(s) 00:05
Germany declined to extradite him.
To date, he appears to be at Liberty and unpunished. - Getting Away with Murder(s) 00:05
To date, he appears to be at Liberty and unpunished.
Churchill, Roosevelt and, after him, Truman were all very supportive of trials. - Getting Away with Murder(s) 00:07
Churchill, Roosevelt and, after him, Truman were all very su...
However, within governments, there was a certain amount of hostility. - Getting Away with Murder(s) 00:05
However, within governments, there was a certain amount of h...
And we know from records that have been subsequently unearthed and published - Getting Away with Murder(s) 00:13
And we know from records that have been subsequently unearth...
Others said it would be counterproductive - Getting Away with Murder(s) 00:08
Others said it would be counterproductive
And in the us, the objections were slightly different. - Getting Away with Murder(s) 00:05
And in the us, the objections were slightly different.
But there was certainly a pattern among a number of senior people - Getting Away with Murder(s) 00:11
But there was certainly a pattern among a number of senior p...
Henry stimson managed the war effort for Franklin Roosevelt as secretary of war. - Getting Away with Murder(s) 00:07
Henry stimson managed the war effort for Franklin Roosevelt ...
His own history on war crimes goes back decades before - Getting Away with Murder(s) 00:14
His own history on war crimes goes back decades before
So, he was very keen on prosecuting the Nazis for crimes of aggression. - Getting Away with Murder(s) 00:06
So, he was very keen on prosecuting the Nazis for crimes of ...
But he was also, in another way, - Getting Away with Murder(s) 00:26
But he was also, in another way,
And this sense, that you had to preserve state sovereignty - Getting Away with Murder(s) 00:10
And this sense, that you had to preserve state sovereignty
On the other hand, you had ambassador pell, who is a real hero of these issues. - Getting Away with Murder(s) 00:06
On the other hand, you had ambassador pell, who is a real he...
He went public back in Washington and created a huge fuss - Getting Away with Murder(s) 00:16
He went public back in Washington and created a huge fuss
And when pell headed off to Europe, he penned a note to a friend, saying, - Getting Away with Murder(s) 00:17
And when pell headed off to Europe, he penned a note to a fr...
And he says explicitly, - Getting Away with Murder(s) 00:12
And he says explicitly,
A very telling point, to be written in 1943, I think. - Getting Away with Murder(s) 00:05
A very telling point, to be written in 1943, I think.
As well as nuremberg, there seemed to be so many other trials - Getting Away with Murder(s) 00:16
As well as nuremberg, there seemed to be so many other trial...