In “Nuremberg,” Russell Crowe, portly and imposing, with slicked-back hair, a head that seems to melt into his body, and a low-voiced German accent that expresses implacable self-satisfaction, plays Hermann Göring, second in command of the Nazi regime, just after his surrender at the end of World War II. Göring, along with 21 other members of the Nazi high command, gets taken to a prison in Nuremberg, where he’ll stand trial for war crimes in the first such international tribunal in history. Given the fate that likely awaits him (his crimes will be held up to the light for the world to see; his prosecutors will seek the death
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