I've just been reminded about what a shit, even for a nazi, Goering was at the Nuremburg Trials and thought, with Goering being kind of the Grandfather of apologism, it was fitting to share my anger here. This bit in particular sounds like some of the people who get linked here.

AFTERNOON SESSION : The Russians presented their atrocity film, a horrifying document of mass murder even more terrible than the one presented by the Americans. I stood at Goering's end of the dock and watched the prisoners in the semidarkness during the show of the film.

Goering is tickled at the false start, as the film start upside down and has to be readjusted; he covers his laugh with his hand, but looks around to see if the audience is laughing...The film starts again...It shows the acres of corpses of Russian PW's murdered or left ot starve in the fields where they had been captured; the torture instruments, mutilated bodies, guillotines and baskets of heads; bodies hanging from lamp-posts, found upon recapture of towns where the Gestapo had been active; the ruins of Lidice; women weeping over their dead - mass burial services; raped and murdered women, children with heads bashed in; the crematoria and gas chambers; the piles of clothes, the bales of women's hair at Auschwitz and Maidanek ... Goering keeps pretending to read a book through all this, yawning in boredom, occasionally making a sarcastic remark to Hess and Ribbentrop.

EVENING IN JAIL :

Goering's Cell: I went down to the cell block with Major Goldensohn to get a sampling of the reactions. Goering readily gave "reasons" why he did not consider the Russian atrocity film worth looking at: "First of all, a film that they made is no proof, just looking at it from a legal point of view. They could just as easily have killed a few hundred German PW's and put them in RUssian unfiroms for the atrocity picture - you don't know the Russians the way I do. Secondly, lts of those pictures were probably taken during their own revolution, like the baskets of heads. Thirdly, those fields covered with bodies. - Why, such pictures are easy to get any time in a war. I've seen thousands of bodies my-self. And where did they get the fresh corpses to photograph? They couldn't have come right in ready ot take pictures. They must have shot those people themselves." He was eager to appear perfectly satisfied in dismissing the whole thing with this presposterous propaganda line but threw in a sop to our moral sensitivity. "Of course, as I've always told you, it is enough if only 5 per cent of all the atrocity stories are true, from all that has already been presented before - but I do not put any stock in what the Russian bring. They are blaming their own atroctieies on us."