Iona Nikitchenko
Iona Nikitchenko | |
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Member of the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union | |
In office 1938–1951 | |
Personal details | |
Born | Russian SFSR, Soviet Union | 28 June 1895
Political party | CPSU |
Alma mater | Moscow State University |
Major-General Iona Timofeevich Nikitchenko (Russian: Иона Тимофеевич Никитченко; June 28, 1895 – April 22, 1967) was a Russian judge who served on the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union. He later served on the International Military Tribunal during the Nuremberg trials as a judge for the Soviet Union.
Early life and career
Iona was born to a peasant family in
As deputy chairman of
Nuremberg trials
Nikitchenko was one of the three main drafters of the
"We are dealing here with the chief war criminals who have already been convicted and whose conviction has been already announced by both the Moscow and Crimea [Yalta] declarations by the heads of the [Allied] governments.... The whole idea is to secure quick and just punishment for the crime."[3]
Nikitchenko dissented against the acquittals of
Nikitchenko feared a compromise on too lenient a level. At the point of final deliberation he reexamined Hess' case and voted for a life sentence so that the opportunity for Hess to get away with a lesser degree of punishment did not occur.
Later career
In March 1946, Nikitchenko was re-elected to the Supreme Court of the USSR, and until July 1949 he worked as deputy chairman of this body. From August 1949 to September 1951, head of the department of linear water transport vessels of the Ministry of Justice. He retired in 1951.
Iona Nikitchenko died in 1967 and was buried at the Vvedenskoye Cemetery in Moscow.[5]
References
- ^ Encyclopedia Krugosvet[permanent dead link] (in Russian)
- ^ Реабилитирован посмертно Belosenko.ru (in Russian)
- Whitney R. Harris, Tyranny on Trial: The Evidence at Nuremberg (Dallas: S.M.U. Press, 1954), pp. 16-17.)
- OCLC 1140153773.)
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