Iona nikitchenko biography of rory

On 20 November 1945 Soviet judge Major General Iona Nikitchenko opened the first session of the “International Military Tribunal” (IMT, a.k.a.

Iona nikitchenko biography of rory

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 r