Internet and history: Materials of trials of processes over the Nazis to be available in Network within the framework of the project “Soviet Nuremberg”

As part of the Internet project "Soviet Nuremberg" the Russian military-historical society began publication of documents of the public trials of Nazi criminals and their accomplices, who were held in the USSR in 1943-1949. Most of the materials, including previously classified documents department of the Federal Security Service, is published in the public domain for the first time.

In addition to 21 documents of the trial in the Soviet Union (descriptions of interrogations, confrontations and examinations) RVIO publish lawsuits newsreels and photographs of criminals. Some of these frames were featured in a short time after the end of the Great Patriotic War, but since then they practically demonstrated.

The project launch is timed to the 70th anniversary of the Nuremberg Tribunal. Authors of the "Soviet Nuremberg" emphasize that the Soviet Union began to try Nazi war criminals long before the international judicial process, and note the importance of the project for the understanding of the Great Patriotic War.

RVIO also lay out in the open access documents of the Extraordinary State Commission for Investigation of Nazi crimes, which included such well-known public and cultural figures, as the writer Alexei Tolstoy, neurosurgeon Nikolai Burdenko and chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR Andrei Zhdanov.