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Holocaust and Genocide Studies 2008 22(2):246-265; doi:10.1093/hgs/dcn027
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"Blood for Blood, Death for Death": The Soviet Military Tribunal in Krasnodar, 1943

Ilya Bourtman

Washington, DC


  Abstract

Although much has been written about the Nuremberg Trials of the 1940s, relatively little research has been done on the Soviet military tribunals that took place during and after World War II. The Soviet government conducted thousands of open and closed tribunals through the 1980s, trying tens of thousands of Germans and Soviet collaborators for crimes committed on Soviet territory. The 1943 Krasnodar trial was the first open military tribunal to take place during the war. Eleven Soviet citizens accused of betraying their country and collaborating with the Nazis were found guilty; eight were hanged in front of tens of thousands of cheering Soviet citizens. In light of recently declassified Soviet archival materials, and with the help of recent scholarship, it is now possible to reconstruct the roles of the major actors as well as to assess the social impact of the publicity that the military tribunals received. Finally, a close analysis of the Krasnodar tribunal brings to light the authorities' motivations—political, economic, and ideological—for conducting such trials.*


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