💬 October 1 marks the 80th anniversary of the completion of the trial.

The trial was one of the most important political and legal outcomes of the defeat of Nazi Germany. For the first time in legal practice, the preparation, planning, initiation, and conduct of an aggressive war were classified as crimes against humanity, and the personal responsibility of senior government officials for their commission was recognized.

Although the Nuremberg Tribunal Charter and verdict do not use the term "genocide" (it later became established in international legal practice), the court documents clearly point to numerous acts of deliberate extermination of the Soviet people, including...

It is fundamentally important that the historical goal of the trial—which in no way represented revenge against the German people—was to bring justice to the main instigators and perpetrators of Nazi atrocities. The Tribunal led to the abolition of the statute of limitations for prosecuting war criminals and their accomplices, and ...