Barbat, Victor. Evidence and Soviet Rhetorical Devices. Staging Justice at the Nuremberg Trial, 1945-1946.

‘The People’s Tribunal’ (1946), product of Soviet filming at Nuremberg, encapsulated not only the political imperatives that placed a Soviet film crew in Nuremberg but also the professional practices developed in the 1920s and 1930s, which reinforced the film’s sophisticated rhetoric. Sources come from the Russian film archive (RGAKFD) Krasnogorsk and the Russian archive of social-political history (RGASPI) Moscow. The chapter builds on examination of the Soviet team at Nuremberg by George Ginsburgs (1996), Francine Hirsch (2008, 2020), Jeremy Hicks (2012, 2019), Sylvie Lindeperg and Annette Wieviorka (2008), and Martti Koskenniemi (2002).

This chapter forms part of the following volume: Eric Le Bourhis, Irina Tcherneva, and Vanessa Voisin (eds.), Seeking Accountability for Nazi and War Crimes in East Europe: A People’s Justice? (Rochester NY: University of Rochester Press, 2022).

Victor Barbat, “Evidence and Soviet Rhetorical Devices: Staging Justice at the Nuremberg Trial,” in Eric Le Bourhis, Irina Tcherneva, and Vanessa Voisin (eds.), Seeking Accountability for Nazi and War Crimes in East Europe: A People’s Justice? (Rochester NY: University of Rochester Press, 2022), 106-141.