NOT coming soon to home video, the 1961 exploitation shocker Nuremberg ("Gestapo's rape of innocent girls") was the re-edited version of a 1948 documentary bearing the same title, the official U.S. Government record of the first war crimes trial (1945-46) for the Nazi high command. Suppressed in the U.S. by the Department of War, Stuart Schulberg's grim composite was picked up by Henry Sonenshine's low-rent Unitel of California, which added a framing device: the interrogation of a young German fraülein accused of supporting genocide. Not content with the existing atrocity footage found in Germany by Budd and Stuart Schulberg, Unitel added bogus, poorly shot scenes of "Nazi" goons torturing naked women. In an attempt to ride the coattails of a superior production, Unitel issued the film the same year as Stanley Kramer's award-winning Judgement at Nuremberg. The company had attempted a similar feat earlier that year with Boris Petroff's Anatomy of a Psycho, which they hoped would benefit from the title's not-too-subtle references to Hitchcock's Psycho and Otto Preminger's Anatomy of a Murder. Unitel was fined on four separate occasions for noncompliance with tax obligations and finally shuttered in 1964.
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