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Michael Shannon's opening statement at the beginning of the trial scene is an exact, although shortened, recitation of the actual opening statement given by Justice Robert Jackson on November 21, 1945, the second day of the military tribunal. To this day, legal experts consider it one of the most influential speeches in the canon of international law and criminal jurisprudence.

Hermann Göring was put on a strict diet by his jailers so he would be fit to stand trial. He ultimately lost 65 pounds (29.5 kilograms).

In his book "22 Cells in Nuremberg," Douglas Kelley details his personal accounts of interactions with the Nazis on trial at Nuremberg. In the final chapter, he details how the events of pre-WWII Germany could occur in the modern United States. After the Nuremberg trials, Kelley worked with the Berkeley and Oakland police departments, interviewing officers to assess their psychological profiles, often drawing parallels to those he interviewed in Nuremberg. Much of his research is available in the UC Berkeley libraries.

Much of Robert Jackson's cross-examination of Hermann Goring is presented verbatim from the actual record of the trial.

No wives and few women were allowed to attend the trial at request of the Army, under the belief it would help maintain military discipline.