(Post)War Trials of Nazi Perpetrators and Their Auxiliaries in the Soviet Union: History and Ongoing Debates
Journal: Eastern European Holocaust Studies
Year: 2024

Abstract The article briefly outlines the current state of scholarly literature devoted to ongoing debates on the history and role of war- and postwar open and closed trials of Nazi perpetrators and their auxiliaries in the Soviet Union. Having become partly available for historians more than two decades ago, these trials proceedings constitute a unique source for analyzing various aspects of the Second World War on the Eastern front, including the Holocaust. This article describes the legal bas