Genocide of the Soviet People in the Years of the Great Patriotic War: The Investigative and Judicial Practice

Abstract

The article is devoted to the issues of investigation and judicial review of crimes committed during the Great Patriotic War by the Nazis and their accomplices in the occupied territories of the Soviet Union. The article provides data on the activities of the investigating authorities to investigate fascist atrocities against the civilian population and prisoners of war in the occupied territories, considers the circumstances that allow qualifying these atrocities as the genocide of the Soviet people, analyzes court decisions on the recognition of facts of legal significance, namely, the recognition of newly revealed crimes of genocide of national, ethnic and racial groups representing the population of the USSR — the peoples of the Soviet Union.