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Reconstruction of the Nuremberg Trials
Within the framework of the international forum “Nuremberg, Tokyo, Khabarovsk: World Practices in Condemning Nazism, Extremism and Inciting Ethnic Hatred,” students of the Crimean Law Institute (a branch of the University of the Prosecutor’s Office of the Russian Federation) and Ural State University of Economics reconstructed the famous Nuremberg Trials.
The reconstruction was based on archival documents, transcripts and records of the trial of the leadership of Nazi Germany held in November 1945-October 1946.
Before the start of the action, USUE rector Yakov Silin thanked the Crimeans for the initiative and urged the students gathered in the hall to carefully observe what was happening on the stage: “After watching the reconstruction, you will better understand what price our people had paid for their right to exist. The students, just like you, take part in the staging. Learn from each other. Don’t waste a minute. I am sure that time will pass and you will remember what you saw. Perhaps for someone in the future, the Nuremberg Trials will become a subject of research interest.”
The reconstruction began with a historical background. Under the list of participants, the defendants, their prosecutors and judges took the stage. Of the thousands of hours of hearings, the authors of the reconstruction considered the cases of the commander-in-chief of the German Air Force, Hermann Göring, the German foreign minister, Joachim von Ribbentrop, and the head of the Reich Security Main Office, one of the main organizers of the concentration camp system, Ernst Kaltenbrunner.
As a key witness for the accusations, the Soviet side called the German field marshal Friedrich Paulus. It was Paulus who named the active participants in unleashing an offensive war against the Soviet Union: Wilhelm Keitel, Alfred Jodl, and Hermann Göring. As a result of the tribunal, the warmongers, like nine other Nazi leaders, were sentenced to death.
The reconstruction ended with the demand of the chief prosecutor from the Soviet Union, Roman Rudenko, to find the defendants guilty and sentence them to capital punishment.
The organizers noted the Nuremberg Trials were held under the unity of four powers: the USSR, the USA, Great Britain, and France. The danger that threatened all mankind united people of different social systems and views not only on the battlefields but also at the table of the International Tribunal.
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