Автор, старший научный сотрудник Института государства и права Академии наук СССР, являвшийся секретарем советской делегации в Международном военном трибунале в Нюрнберге, рассказывает об этом процессе.
Arkady Iosifovich Poltorak. He was born in 1916. He was a Soviet journalist, writer, playwright. During the International Military Tribunal at the Nuremberg Trials, he headed the secretariat of the Soviet delegation. Doctor of Law (1965), thesis topic "The Nuremberg Trials. Basic Legal Problems". Author of many scientific and popular books about the Nuremberg Trials.
Arkady Iosifovich Poltorak was drafted into the army in 1939. He went through the entire war until Berlin, ending it as head of the secretariat of the Soviet delegation at the International Military Tribunal, which tried the main fascist war criminals in Nuremberg. The tribunal sat for almost a whole year 1945-1946.
after the war A.I. Poltorak - lawyer of international law, doctor of legal sciences. He wrote the book "The Nuremberg Epilogue", which was twice published in mass editions in 1965 and 1967. and is widely known today. In fact, this is one of the important documentary evidence of a participant and eyewitness of this process.
In the subsequent years of his life, he devoted a lot of time to researching the political, historical and legal problems of this process. As an International Lawyer, Arkady Iosifovich participated in the processes of legal settlement in Vietnam, Angola. For his active work in the peace movement, he was awarded the Certificate of Honor of the Soviet Peace Committee. He was a writer, journalist, publicist, many of his works have been translated into various languages, and a screenwriter (the film "Identification" with the participation of People's Artist of the USSR B. Freindlich). He was associated with close cooperation and friendship with many prominent participants in the war - with Marshal G. Zhukov, L. Sheinin, B. Polev, K. Simonov E. Zaitsev and others