Exhibits related to Nuremberg trials on show in Minsk
The Nuremberg Alarm Bell – No Statute of Limitation exhibition has opened in the Belarusian State Museum of Great Patriotic War History
The exposition is devoted to the main trial of the 20th century: the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg. Until now, it remains the largest legal act of representatives of different countries and ideologies who joined for the trial of Nazism. The process lasted for about a year (from November 20th, 1945 to October 1st, 1946) and included 403 court sessions. Its work was widely covered by world media, with live radio broadcast organised.
The Minsk show features more than 200 unique exhibits. Most of them are available for Belarusian public for the first time. Visitors to the exhibition can get acquainted with original documents and items related to the preparation and progress of the trial, including those belonging to the Major General of Justice, a member of the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg – I.T. Nikitchenko, and the Chief Prosecutor on the side of the USSR – R.A. Rudenko. The sketches made during the process by participants of the famous group of graphic artists and painters – Kukryniksy – are of special interest. Among the exhibits on show are graphic works of former prisoners, tiny clothes of the children prisoned at the Majdanek concentration camp, fabric from the hair of women killed by the Nazis in Auschwitz. These all reveal the monstrous routine of Nazi concentration camps.
Unique materials for the exhibition have come from the State Museum of Contemporary Russian History, the Russian State Archive of Social and Political History, the Foreign Policy Archives of the Russian Federation, the Mamontov Gallery, a grandson of the USSR chief prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials, and the project manager who authored the exposition plan – writer and historian A.G. Zvyagintsev.
The exhibition is open for public until November 7th.