Procedural aspects of international criminal responsibility: jurisprudence of the Nuremberg military tribunal

The research of the just punishment of war criminals in Nuremberg is timely given the irreversibility of the criminal prosecution of modern aggressors and international terrorists. There is no doubt and there can be no alternative to the assessment of the Nuremberg Military Tribunal as having a landmark value. The Court not only legally confirmed the outcome of the Second World War, but also severely punished the organizers of the aggression, thus breaking the deadly chain of military adventures of bloodthirsty leaders. His convictions have become a generator of a new order in the world, laying the foundation for the modern phenomenon of international criminal responsibility. The legal problems relating to the International Military Tribunal, its Statute and the results of its activities from the standpoint of international law have been studied in detail and in various ways by both domestic and foreign scholars, as well as by lawyers who participated directly in the work of the Tribunal. The issue of the disclosure of the criminal procedure aspect of criminal responsibility in the context of the Nuremberg Statute and its judgments, assessing their certainty and unprecedented novelty, has not been the subject of a separate scientific study, determined the purpose of the scientific paper presented. A general dialectic method of scientific knowledge is crucial to achieving this goal. Thus, the practical value of the study lies in the determination of the grounds for and modalities of international criminal responsibility. The combination of theory and practice in the prosecution and public punishment of key war criminals for the commission of international crimes is demonstrated

international criminal responsibility, Nuremberg Tribunal, grounds, trial, judgment