Author: Lian Yue I think everyone should watch "Judgment at Nuremberg", which is a compulsory course for law students. This film, made in 1961, tells us about post-war civilization. What is it based on.
The victor has no privilege of arbitrary punishment. Even if the suspects were Nazi leaders, they could not be dealt with in uncivilized ways. Come to think of it, within the past 50 years, in some countries, many people have thought that sincere fraud is a patriotic act.
There is no doubt that sin must be punished, and the existence of the court is also, in the fundamental sense, for revenge. Here, the existence of evil is proved by the confirmation of the facts. The court's revenge is the self-confidence of justice, which shows that it disdains to deal with criminals by means of criminals.
Therefore, the presiding judge in the United States did not deprive the suspect in the slightest of his rights, allowing his pro-Nazi lawyers to show their eloquence. His final judgment convinced all the parties - especially the Germans - in the context of tolerance, they finally admitted that it is not that we do not know the truth, but that we do not want to know the truth. The new Germany and the new Europe are built on this series of trials to sort out the facts.
Blessed are law students. Any new world is built on a trial of facts. You are the creators.
Human society is like a comet. It has to carry all the past events and is hundreds of millions of kilometers long. Only when we look up can we see its splendor.
In this moment of our lives, living in a so-called civilization is made up of its past. If we do not recognize the time and space of the past, we are like goldfish, with only 3 seconds of memory. Civilization is shorter than our life. It is a simple life.
Accurate judgments, accurate records and memories, they are the humus, layer upon layer, to nourish us in this life. Without the past, there is no present.
Of course, this is only a metaphysical discussion, and does not become our attitude to life. Then, justice in court will hardly improve society. In fact, the converse is more reasonable. If the society does not generally accept the facts, the courts will not pursue justice. Any one's attitude towards life will be part of the aura, a silver dot in the tail of the comet.
Not long ago, most of the 35,000 Berliners waited for hours in the cold wind to enter the reopened The Neues Museum, designed by architect David Chipperfield, which consumes The German taxpayer lost 255 million dollars. In fact, it was just the renovation of the old museum. It was destroyed by the Allied bombing from 1943 to 1945. Because of its large size, the works were not easy to move. in war. After the war it belonged to East Berlin. So let it go to waste. Perhaps, it is regarded as the legacy of the evil empire.
David Chipperfield kept all the old materials that had gone through decades of wind and rain, and the bullet holes on the walls, except for a few that were too large and had to be repaired, were also left on the walls of the new museum. Those 35,000 citizens who came to the new museum will find that there is nothing in it, because it has just opened and the exhibits have not yet been expanded. They know this.
They came to see the bullet holes. History is an exhibit.
They are alive when they see history.
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