| The conservative movement is embroiled in a necessary internal reckoning regarding the rise of antisemitism within its ranks. Nick Fuentes—an outspoken Holocaust denier and antisemite—has been dismissed as “fringe” by many on the right. But when he was recently legitimized by the influential Tucker Carlson, Fuentes forced other conservative leaders to make clear statements denouncing these abhorrent views. As conservatives face this reckoning and, one hopes, unite in rejecting antisemitism, there’s a brand-new movie I recommend Fuentes and his followers watch. It’s called Nuremberg and it stars Russell Crowe as Hermann Göring, the infamous Nazi war criminal who was tried and convicted at the 1945 Nuremberg trials. The movie is out today in theaters. As I write in my review, one of the film’s most powerful moments comes in its depiction of a real moment in the Nuremberg trials when prosecutors turned down the lights and played a documentary film. The shocking footage shows what the Allies found at concentration camps when they liberated them earlier that year. The film hushes the courtroom in the film—as well as those of us watching Nuremberg—and instantly makes visceral the real evil of Nazism’s deeds. However abstract the question of these war criminal’s guilt might have been during the trial up to that point, the airing of the footage suddenly made it all horrifyingly concrete. This scene is an effective reminder of the power of visual evidence to confront the sort of “nothing to see here!” manipulation, denialism, and whataboutism so common among Nick Fuentes and other antisemites who attempt to downplay Nazi evil. Go see Nuremberg. Encourage others to see it too. Support movies like this. Christians of all people should be known for moral clarity in these morally murky times. |