The 20th marks the 75th anniversary of the Nuremberg Trials, and a forum called "Nuremberg Lessons" opened on the day of the "Victory Museum" in Moscow, Russia. Russian President Vladimir Putin said in a video address at the forum that understanding the Nuremberg trials is of great significance to upholding the historical truth, and that all attempts to restore or glorify Nazism are shameful.
Russian President Vladimir Putin: We constantly look back at the Nuremberg Trials and understand their importance in defending the historical truth in order to justifiably resist those who deliberately distort and fabricate the historical facts of World War II, and any attempt to restore or glorify Nazism is shameful. It is the responsibility of the entire international community to uphold the outcome of the Nuremberg trials, as it relates to the fundamental principles that constitute the post-war international order. To this day, it remains a solid and reliable basis for constructive dialogue and cooperation, and forgetting or attempting to undermine it is a blow to global security.
The "Nuremberg Lessons" forum will last for two days, where historians, politicians, lawyers and museum archivists from Europe, the United States, Asia and other regions will discuss the Nuremberg trials online.
Press background
On November 20, 1945, the United States, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and France established an international military tribunal in Nuremberg, Bavaria, in southern Germany, to begin the accounting of the heinous crimes committed by German fascists against humanity, and 24 major war criminals, including the second-in-command of the Nazi regime and Luftwaffe Field Marshal Goering, were tried, of whom 10 were sent to the gallows.
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