The Absent Player: The Soviet Union and the Genesis of the Allied War Crimes Trials Program, 1941–1943

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JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF INTERNATIONAL LAW Pub Date : 2022-07-25 DOI:10.1163/15718050-bja10079

Valentyna Polunina

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Abstract

During World War II, it was important for the Kremlin to be a part of the Allied effort to prosecute war criminals, and initially Moscow planned to join the UNWCC. However, attempts by the Soviet Union to increase its influence on the Commission led to the opposition of the Western Allies. The USSR wanted to demonstrate that they were capable of conducting their own investigations. With this task in mind, Moscow founded their alternative to the UNWCC – the Extraordinary State Commission. This article seeks to address the influence of Soviet legal innovations on the UNWCC – in particular on the Czechoslovak representative Bohuslav Ečer – as well as Moscow’s own attempts to investigate Nazi war crimes.

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缺席的参与者:苏联和盟军战争罪审判计划的起源，1941-1943

在第二次世界大战期间，克里姆林宫成为盟军起诉战犯努力的一部分是很重要的，最初莫斯科计划加入UNWCC。然而，苏联试图增加其对委员会的影响，导致西方盟国的反对。苏联想要证明他们有能力进行自己的调查。考虑到这一任务，莫斯科成立了他们对UNWCC的替代-特别国家委员会。本文试图探讨苏联的法律创新对UNWCC的影响，特别是对捷克斯洛伐克代表Bohuslav e er的影响，以及莫斯科自己调查纳粹战争罪行的尝试。

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