For more news visit ☛ http://english.ntdtv.com<br /><br />On November 20, 1945 the trial of 21 leading representatives of the Nazi regime began in the Nuremberg Palace of Justice.<br /><br />Sixty-five years later, German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov attended the memorial for the anniversary of the trials.<br /><br />The Nuremberg Trials marked the first time an International Military Tribunal had sought to bring to justice the leaders of a regime. It inspired later international trials and served as a model for other tribunals.<br /><br />[Guido Westerwelle, German Foreign Minister]:<br />"Because in Nuremberg they took a risk, political, judicial and human, the international law was able to develop and it was possible to find rules for coming cases. The Nuremberg trials did not have a model for orientation, they became guides for the development of international law, which is still not completed."<br /><br />Lavrov called the trials the most important in our history.<br /><br />[Sergey Lavrov, Russian Foreign Minister]:<br />"They functioned as (an) example for many other trials worldwide and for the tribunal in The Hague."<br /><br />Benjamin Ferencz witnessed the original trials in 1945.<br /><br />[Benjamin Ferencz, Witness at Nuremburg Trials]:<br />"When I left Germany for the first time after World War II and left Nuremberg, my biggest regret was that I never heard from any German saying 'I am sorry.' The absence of remorse even on the parts of the defendants, who were mass murderers was very disapointing to me and I would never have believed that I would come back 60 years later and hear completely different voice and a different plan in the same country."<br /><br />Increased public interest in the Nurembug Trials has led to a new exhibition, which opened on Saturday.
