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October 31, 2006

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Touro Law Center to Premiere “Hitler’s Courts” Documentary

Emmy-Nominated Directors Tackle Nuremberg’s Impact 60 Years Later

Huntington, N.Y. – “Hitler’s Courts,” the new documentary produced by Touro Law Center, will have its Long Island premiere to memorialize Kristallnacht – the night in 1938 Germany and Austria where Jews were killed and their property destroyed – in the Touro Auditorium on Wednesday, November 8 at 5:30 p.m. The film will be repeated on Thursday, November 9, at 12:30 p.m. Both screenings are in the Auditorium. The events are free and open to the public. For more information, call Allison Flor at 631-421-2244 ext. 355.

Over 350 people were at the Manhattan premiere at the New York City Bar Association on Monday night, including many legal luminaries in attendance, and the film received rave reviews.

“Hitler’s Courts: The Betrayal of the Rule of Law in Nazi Germany” was created by Emmy Award nominees Joshua M. Greene and Shiva Kumar. The 35-minute film is intended for television broadcast and use in high schools, universities and law schools. Their previous documentary, “Witness: Voices from the Holocaust,” aired nationally on PBS.

“Hitler’s Courts” features archival footage from the Nazi era, rarely seen photographs, and interviews with leading voices in international law, including Whitney R. Harris, a member of the prosecuting team in Nuremberg in 1947; Justice Gabriel Bach, former assistant prosecutor at the 1961 trial of Adolf Eichmann; Michael J. Bazyler, Professor of Law at Whittier Law School; and Raymond Brown, Professor of Law at Seton Hall Law School. In July 2005, Touro had gathered these leading legal minds at its well-received “Judging Nuremberg” conference in Nuremberg, Germany.

These and other experts who appear in the film examine the perversion of law under Nazi rule and discuss how distinguished lawmakers were capable of complicity in the largest mass murder of men, women and children in history.

Already, the 35-minute film has been honored with acceptance for screening at the New York International Independent Film & Video Festival, with excellent advance reviews from the judges.

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