Iona nikitchenko biography

  • Major-General Iona Timofeevich Nikitchenko was a Russian judge who served on the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union.
  • Major-General Iona Timofeevich Nikitchenko was a Russian judge who served on the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union.
  • This is a brief biographical sketch of the military career of Major-General of Judiciary Iona Timofeevich Nikitchenko.

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    The Nuremberg Judgment

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    Nuremberg: The International Military Tribunal

    On 20 November 1945 Soviet judge Major General Iona Nikitchenko opened the first session of the “International Military Tribunal” (IMT, a.k.a. the “Nuremberg Trial”) in the Palace of Justice in the German city of Nuremberg by the four main Allied powers – USA, UK, USSR and France – against the major German war criminals.

    In total 24 high-ranking political and military leaders of Nazi Germany were indicted, as well as seven organisations (such as the SS) which would be deemed “criminal organisations” if found guilty. The defendants included former Air Secretary and commander of the Luftwaffe – and for a long time the number two in the Nazi hierarchy – Hermann Göring, minister for armaments Albert Speer, and editor/owner of the notorious Nazi paper Der Stürmer Julius Streicher. Martin Bormann, Hitler’s powerful deputy in the Nazi Party who could not be tracked down, was tried in absentia. The trial ended on 1 October 1946 with the reading of the verdicts. All but three defendants were found guilty; early conservative allies of Hitler, such as Franz von Papen or Hjalmar Schacht, were acquitted due to them not being found guilty of war crimes. Due to its charter, the IMT could only prosecute crimes committed during World War 2.

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    Overview

    Caption
    Major General I.T. Nikitchenko and Lieutenant Colonel A. F. Volchkov, the Russian judges on the International Military Tribunal hearing the trial of war criminals at Nuremberg.

    Photographer
    Charles Alexander

    Date
    1945 November 20 - 1946 October 01

    Locale
    Nuremberg, [Bavaria] Germany

    Variant Locale
    Nurnberg

    Photo Credit
    United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Harry S. Truman Library

    Event History
    The International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg opened in the fall of 1945, but by the winter of 1942, the governments of the Allied powers had already announced their determination to punish Nazi war criminals. On December 17, 1942, the leaders of the United States, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union issued the first joint declaration officially noting the mass murder of European Jewry and resolving to prosecute those responsible for violence against civilian populations. Though some political leaders advocated for summary executions instead of trials, eventually the Allies decided to hold an International Military Tribunal so that, in the words of Cordell Hull, "a condemnation after such a proceeding will meet the judgment of history, so that the Germans will not be able to claim