Stanley Kamer's movie - Judgement at Nuremburg (details and story on the follwing link) - is really good at showing the true extent of the German people's (and other's) knowledge or what was happening and especially that of those who made and enforced the terrible and unjust laws. It centres on certain show trails - featuring in the later trials of the judges involved.

http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/nuremberg/JudgmentAtNuremberg.html

It also shows the political Cold-War realities of the time. And makes the point that all those judges subsequently convicted and sent to prison for life - were all free after a few years. Because the West needed the German people on their side and placing and keeping all these influential judges etc - in prison was not popular, when everyone seem to want to be allowed to forget the whole affair.

I would like to believe in good moral and honest judges - fighting off political pressure - like the US one played Spencer Tracy but I am slowly and sadly coming to accept that these attributes only really occur in parts played by actors in the movies.

There is even a small part in this film - for a young Willian Shatner.