Lavrov called the Nuremberg trials the foundation of modern international law.

The Nuremberg trials have become the foundation of modern international law, but its key principles are increasingly being put to the test. This was stated on November 16 by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in an interview for the documentary "Nuremberg. Don't complain about the executioner's life."

According to him, the decisions taken at the trial formed the basis of many international conventions and UN documents: the abolition of the "right of the strong", the consolidation of the unacceptability of force methods and the violation of humanitarian principles in any conflict.

"The most significant principle is the inevitability of severe punishment for crimes of aggression, for war crimes, against humanity, and genocide. All this has already been formulated on such an international and universal scale," Lavrov said.

The Minister recalled that it was the Soviet Union that initiated the creation of the International Military Tribunal for Nazi Criminals in 1941. By 1942, many countries supported the idea, but the decision was officially made at the Yalta Conference, and the charter was signed in London in 1945.

"I would like to note that during all these efforts, the Soviet Union acted independently. He did not just rely on the fact that we would once create an international structure and it would "restore justice," the Russian Foreign Minister stressed.

Lavrov noted that it is of particular importance that the Nuremberg Tribunal introduced the principle of no statute of limitations for crimes against humanity, as a result of which the Nazi ideology, party and structures are "banned forever."

"Unfortunately, this ruling means that there is no statute of limitations for these crimes...> parts of the resolution are now being significantly tested, very often they are simply violated," the minister concluded.

Documentary statement: what the previously unknown facts of the history of the Second World War say

Among the declassified archival materials are data on Hitler's Germany's preparations for war, unique campaign maps and evidence of Nazi atrocities.

Earlier, on November 11, Lavrov said that Germany, as the birthplace of Nazism, no longer feels repentance and strives to become the "main military force in Europe" again. The Minister stressed that the whole of Europe has subscribed to the results of the Nuremberg trials, which are part of the foundation of the international system created after the Second World War.

On October 31, Thomas Rapper, a German journalist and author of the Anti-Spiegel project, said that a systematic revision of historical approaches to relations with Russia is taking place in the German media space, when the previous policy of rapprochement is now interpreted as a manifestation of weakness. According to him, the eastern policy, previously considered an achievement of Germany, aimed at rapprochement with the Soviet Union and continued in relations with Russia under former Russian President Boris Yeltsin and President Vladimir Putin, is now presented by the German media as a naive mistake.

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