More than 100 thousand people visited the exhibition of the Victory Museum dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the Nuremberg Trials

Over 100 thousand people visited the exhibition "Nuremberg. The Unknown about the known" at the Victory Museum. The project opened on November 18, on the eve of the 80th anniversary of the Court of Nations, and was available to visitors for a month.

The thematic exhibition featured about 100 rarities from the funds of the museum on Poklonnaya Gora, which covered the entire period of the tribunal's work — from November 20, 1945 to October 1, 1946. The sections of the exhibition told about the work of the International Military Tribunal — court sessions, members of the Soviet delegation, about Soviet artists and correspondents who covered the trial, about Nazi criminals who found themselves in the dock.

The exhibition was based on the works of artists, authors of military and political posters: Boris Yefimov, Mikhail Kupriyanov, Porfiry Krylov, Nikolai Sokolov (Kukryniksy) and Nikolai Zhukov, who were present as correspondents at the meetings of the International Military Tribunal from the first to the last day. Dozens of unique drawings made from nature are authentic historical evidence that convey the atmosphere of what happened in the building of the Palace of Justice in Nuremberg. They added new details to the history of the process.

"Bright and biting drawings and cartoons are essentially psychological portraits reflecting the defendants' condition during the trial. In addition, these emotional portraits show how contemporaries saw the perpetrators of the war. Ribbentrop in the form of a rat, Rosenberg is a hyena in a tuxedo, Goering is a fat ugly boa constrictor...", the Victory Museum emphasized.

Brilliant drawings by the artist Boris Yefimov and his documents, which were handed over to the Izvestia Exhibition Center, were shown in the showcases and touchscreens. They were first shown at the Victory Museum. Guests of the museum on Poklonnaya Gora could also listen to Boris Yefimov's lecture "At the Nuremberg Trials."

In addition, the exhibition featured photographs of Evgeny Khaldei and Viktor Temin taken during the Nuremberg Tribunal. The exhibition also featured authentic items belonging to members of the Soviet delegation who worked in Nuremberg, such as the notebooks of TASS correspondent Galina Khromushina.