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The Nuremberg Trials: 70 Years Later

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Review. This article analyzes the legal (international law) issues of the Nuremberg trials that became a landmark world event for the whole legal civilization. The Nuremberg trials not only summed up and legally closed the outcome of World War II, where the Soviet Union played a major role in the defeat of German fascism, but also formed the basis of the rise of a new international order in the world and laid the foundation of the legal civilization, namely - the rights and freedoms of the individual. In addition, the results of the Nuremberg Tribunal enshrined by the UN General Assembly as the universally recognized principles of international law have withstood the test of time. The article highlights the main merit of the military tribunal, its historical mission, namely: international condemnation of fascism as the state ideology and policy, declaration of the war of aggression as the gravest international crime, justification of criminal liability of heads of states for unleashing wars and recognition of crimes of particular organizations that played a fateful role in an unprecedented escalation of violence and vandalism. The paper notes that the Nuremberg trials helped to prevent global international conflicts that could result in the world nuclear apocalypse in the contemporary history. Unfortunately, nowadays it is impossible not to see that at the turn of the twenty-first century the world community is facing serious threats and challenges, significant risks are represented by the attempts to revise the results of the Second World War, to give moral, political and legal rehabilitation of the Fascist State leaders and overzealous executors of their criminal will. This cannot be allowed to happen. Today, it is important to do everything possible to consolidate and eminence the authority of international law as a necessary foundation and development of the civilized world community.

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D. K. Nechevin
Kutafin Moscow State Law University (MSAL)
Russian Federation


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Nechevin D.K. The Nuremberg Trials: 70 Years Later. Lex Russica. 2016;(9):74-98. (In Russ.)

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