SPIRITUAL AND MORAL MEANING OF HISTORICAL TRUTH: POLITICAL AND LEGAL LESSONS OF THE NUREMBERG PROCESS 1945–1946

Author(s): Baburin S.N.

DOI: 10.21777/2587-9472-2020-4-5-11

Release: 2020-4 (26)

Pages: 5-11

Keywords: International Nuremberg Military Tribunal; morality of retribution, inevitability of retribution, justice, truth, political lessons

Annotation: The article analyzes the political and legal significance of the International Nuremberg Tribunal over the main war criminals of Hitler’s Germany 1945–1946, the spiritual and moral meaning of the historical truth about the process and verdict of the Nuremberg Tribunal. The social significance for the modern world of merit, the morality of punishment and the inevitability of retribution are argued. The loss of the inevitability of retribution to the States that have committed aggression, to the officials who organized the genocide of an entire people, destroys the morality of both individual peoples and humanity as a whole. The understanding of the difference between good and evil in the modern world is lost.

Bibliography: Baburin S.N. SPIRITUAL AND MORAL MEANING OF HISTORICAL TRUTH: POLITICAL AND LEGAL LESSONS OF THE NUREMBERG PROCESS 1945–1946 // Journal of Legal Sciences. – 2020. – № 4 (26). – С. 5-11. doi: 10.21777/2587-9472-2020-4-5-11