#NoStatuteOfLimitations 🗓 On December 18, 1943, the #KharkovTrial concluded — the first public trial of Nazi war criminals in the Soviet Union. Held long before the Nuremberg Trials, its purpose was to show the world the horrible consequences of the Nazi occupation of Soviet territories during #WW2. *** Years before the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, on November 2, 1942, the Soviet Government established the Extraordinary State Commission for the establishment and investigation o

Explore Wittmann's beginnings in the military and Germany's invasion into the Soviet Union during Operation Barbarossa. #Wittmann #MilitaryHistory #OperationBarbarossa #SovietUnion #NaziGermany | War Stories