This was a genocide based on the class, Hitler and his supporters felt as though they could populate a magnificent human and needed to dispose of the "lesser beings," the Jews mainly but also the gypsies, the handicapped, and the blacks. ... Differences is all what makes us human and these so called leaders do not seem to have the same moral standards towards humanity that most hold at a high virtual Genocide is a horrible crime that to this day still takes place in one form or another and we can only hope that eventually they all find a peace that can be agreed upon....

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The first and most obvious one is that the trials were not going to based on the laws of one country and they all had to agree on how to move forward and conduct the trials in a more fair way to both sides, that is to let the losing side defend themselves for their action, which is what they United States of America initially wanted. ... With other things in it, the Charter described three types of crimes that were to be issued against the Nazi's; the crimes included both the civilian officials and the military official. ... The three types of crimes that were defined were as follows; cr...

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A war crime, using the definition adopted since World War II can fall into any of three categories: crimes against peace involving initiation of war; war crimes including murder, torture, or deportation of civilian populations and crimes against humanity including political, racial, or religious persecution against any civilian population, either before or after a war, also including genocide (Encyclopedia Britannica Online). ... Since there was no clear cut formula for meting out justice to the offending nation, the Allied powers, in 1945, drew up a format based on American and European court...

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The bombing by the Americans, of these Japanese cities, should be considered as a war crime, even greater than any crimes committed by the Japanese in WWII. The fact that the Japanese were convicted of war crimes and the U.S.A were not alleged of any war crimes, is a pure example of 'victors justice' and unequal justice, due to the Americans claiming it stopped the war. ... It is unfair that the Japanese were convicted of war crimes and the U.S.A was not alleged of any war crimes. ... The Americans should have been accused on numerous counts of war crimes, for example – Class ...

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He also made claims that Hiroshima was a military base. ... It was far from what Americans would consider a military base. ... This project included the modifications of forty six b-29 bombers to be used in the Manhattan Project, the training of the 509th composite bombing group, as well as support for the units based on Tinian Island. ... Many say the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki should have been considered war crimes because of the slaughter of innocent civilians. ... Allied forces decimated many Nazi occupied cities with bombing runs, those operations were not considered to be war cri...

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During the case most of the jurors based their first decision on a stereotype. They looked at the defendant's past history of crime and just assumed that he was guilty. ... The Defendant could have been put in jail or even killed for a crime that he didn't commit. ...

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Towards the end of World War II, when German's knew that the end of the war would bring war crime trials, member's of the German army and general population tried to claim innocence because they either didn't know or didn't have a choice, because orders came from above them. ... By using this existentialist basic theory, allied countries were able to truly blame someone for the war crimes committed. ... Out of the ten straightforward ideas the existentialist, Kafka in his theory of existentialism, one is that the world order is based upon a lie. ...

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The Watergate Scandal: The Watergate Scandal was a series of crimes committed by President Nixon and his staff members who were found to of spied on and harassed political opponents, accepted illegal campaign contributions, and covered up their own misdeeds. ... For years Nixon was carrying on the crimes and they weren't noticed until 1972. ... The LM spent 21 hours 36 minutes on the lunar surface, and the crew spent 2 hours 31 minutes outside the LM in a local area excursion on foot to a distance of approximately 50-m (160 ft) from Tranquillity Base (Encarta Encyclopedia). ... The ...

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People of all classes were now able to spend more money leading to a consumer based culture. On the other hand, the passage of the 18th amendment that banned alcohol changed the US into a breeding place for organized crime and law breaking. ...

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The ruins served as hard evidence of brutal crimes against humanity. ... Leaving sites such as those preserved serves as a means to let the human imagination recreate the events based on the evidence. ...

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The Atlantic Charter was a document that reiterated the four freedoms; Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Worship, Freedom from Want, and Freedom from Fear, and set the standard at which the post-World War II world would base its values. ... The Holocaust proved a need for an international system of justice for war crimes, which led to the creation of the International Military Tribunal which held the Nuremberg Trials. ... These trials set the precedent for later international war crimes trials. The Nuremberg Trials set the definition of what constitutes a war crime: "Violations of the laws or...

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Both Hitler and Stalin engaged in the Holocaust and mass-murder "purges" respectively, and both had ambitions for total control over their own citizens: privacy was a crime against the state (Segre, 2002). ... The chosen scapegoats here were immigrants, particularly Muslims, who, according to Le Pen, were responsible for high unemployment and crime, and threatened French national identity with their presence (Elliott, 2002). ...

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The FBI and Police are supposed to protect us, to solve crimes, and they need help from some random factory worker guy? ... While in the movie the Firm only planned to blow up a naval base. ... "The Saboteur's plotline of a domestic conspiracy to take over and subvert the United States government is based on historical facts. ...

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As I read the book, my heart ached with pain and agony because I know this is a book based on real, tragic events. ... I do not envy Wiesel for enduring the pain of the Holocaust and living through such a tragic crime, but I do envy him for sticking with it and surviving the most painful of events. ...

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Our counterterrorism policy is to 1) make no concessions to terrorists and strike no deals; 2) to bring terrorists to justice for their crimes; 3) to isolate and apply pressure on states that sponsor terrorism to force them to change their behavior, and 4) to bolster the counterterrorism capabilities of those countries that work with the U.S. and require assistance. ... There are many types of terrorism, but the one we focus on seems to be a religious based form. ...

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A soldier is forced to step over the body of a friend of his from base on his journey to get off the beach. ... As Phil Boas writes in his article, during the 1947 Tokyo War Crimes trial, Marquis Kido Koichi, a chief adviser to Emperor Hirohito, stated, "the bomb and Russian invasion led to a surrender that likely saved 20 million of my innocent compatriots from war ravages." ...

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Like the trust broken between Briony and Cecilia, and the humans easily killed in the war by guns and bombs, World War II is not a crime that can be easily repaired. ... How can one honestly justify giving birth to a story so inexperienced and unreal without at all crediting the reality from which it is based? ...

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Berkeley protesters became national leaders as the protests spread nationwide; more than 50,000 students, faculties and other activists from different universities traveled to Washington D.C to protest the war (Von Eschen lecture, Global Protest and Détente) From this atmosphere, two Berkeley residents formed the Black Panther, an African American revolutionary leftist party that practiced militant self-defense against U.S. government brutality, and fought to establish revolutionary socialism through mass organizing and community-based programs. ... Khomeini came into power, the Shah fl...

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The Second World War created an atmosphere of instability, suspicion, and fear, which blanketed the entire western world. Threats real and imagined existed everywhere. Since confederation, anti-oriental sentiment has been a part of white Canadian society. Japanese-Canadians were specifically stig...

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Story Elements in A Farewell to Arms The book A Farewell to Arms, written by Ernest Hemingway, is a classic novel about the love story of a nurse and a war-ridden soldier. It captures the inspiring trials and tribulations of the disillusioned soldier caught between love and war. Driving an ambul...

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Perhaps the most famous of these poems is that of Owen's "Dulce et Decorum est", a poem based on a re-occurring nightmare that Owen says haunts him "In all my dreams". ... The irony in the poem is that it is based around a veteran that fell for a lie of a promise for glory, as he was a victim of propaganda, and in thinking that he would achieve fame and glory by securing his country's future, he instead gave up his own to experience rejection from his people, isolation from the society he was once part of, loss of his limbs and a profusion of time to reflect on the horrors of his pas...

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Gatsby grew up in poverty, and through organized crime, he was able to emerge as a mysterious yet influential character. He devotes himself to a woman, Daisy, who would never love him, is obsessed with being rich, and builds his life based on a series of lies. ...

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With the US naval base in Pearl Harbor being bombed by the Empire of Japan in 1941, the US was once again thrust into global warfare. ... Reparations and the war crimes trials were also discussed at this meeting and partially planned out. ...

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Misleading Religion When the term crusade is used in the media, people tend to think that it is in reference to a "holy war." However this is far from the truth. Throughout time wars have been waged with the claims of a religious purpose, but if looked at more closely, the actual wars were fought b...

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The majority of the book tells the story of the middle-aged German soldiers based on their own testimony from legal proceedings well after World War II had ended. ... Even if they had, the prisoners had theoretically committed a crime, while the Jews that Battalion 101 murdered were only guilty of being Jewish. ...

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