This is a cropped version (original) of a photograph originating from the personal
album of Robert "Justice" Jackson, the chief U.S. prosecutor at the
trial of the major war criminals in Nuremberg. The photograph shows the Russian
delegation at the London Conference in the summer of 1945, at which the charter
to be used at the forthcoming Nuremberg trial was written.
The gentleman
on the left of the photograph is Ion Timofeevich Nikitchenko, a veteran of the
Moscow show trials and the main Soviet judge at Nuremberg; the young man on the
right is Oleg Tryanovsley, present as a translator but a future diplomat (his
mother was the Jewish bolshevik Elena Rozmirovich), and the gentleman in the
centre is Prof. Aron Naumowitsch Trainin, the Soviet legal genius of whom
Holocaust Controversies' Dr. Nicholas Terry wrote:
"the legal
architecture for the trial was strongly influenced by the Soviets - many of the
key ideas came from their chief international legal expert, Aron Trainin, whose
prewar and wartime writings were translated into English and cited by the likes
of Murray Bernays (also Jewish) in the planning stage. Maxwell Fyfe regarded Trainin's briefs as a "godsend"
because they helped clarify the issues the various lawyers faced in organising
the trial."
The 1995 Jewish
Encyclopedia of Russia states that Trainin was Jewish. He was also a member
of the Extraordinary State Commission, and was a signatory to USSR-63; a
lengthy report on alleged German atrocities in south-west Soviet Union,
including the gassing of 900 Red Army soldiers in the catacombs of the Adzhimushkay quarry
in the Crimea.
A few days
after Trainin would have arrived in London for the conference, a translation of
an article he'd written for the Red Army newspaper Krasnaya Zvezda
was published by the Soviet embassy in Washington D.C. within which he
wrote:
"Before a
world already aware of the horrors of the wholesale annihilation of people in
Smolensk and Maidanek, new sinister pages have opened—Tremblyanka and Oswiecim,
Buchenwal and Belsen: trains methodically and regularly supplying living human
raw material for destruction; three million victims done to death in
Tremblyanka; four million victims annihilated in Oswiecim."
"Justice
Shall be Done" by Prof. A Trainin, June 1945 Special Supplement,
p.25, of
the Information Bulletin, published by the Embassy of the Union
of Soviet
Socialist Republics, Washington D.C., June 30, 1945, 1944.
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