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). The indicted Nazis of the Nuremberg trials were charged with one or all of these specific crimes.
The Nuremberg Trials were not the first international attempt to address the boundaries of behavior by nations in war. One of the first attempts at organizing a system of arbitration to deal with war crimes was The Hague Convention of 1907, which was signed by multiple countries, including Germany, The United States, Great Britain, France, and Russia. Articles 46 and 47 of the aforementioned document state "family honour and rights, the lives of persons, and private property, as well as religious convictions and practice, must be respected. Private property cannot be confiscated. Pillaging is forbidden," (Wyzanski, 70). Likewise, the Kellog-Briand Pact of 1928, which also was signed by Germany, the United States, Great Britain, France, and Russia, established a law making aggressive war illegal, and an initiation of such a war an individual crime (Encyclopedia Britannica Online).
By its invasion of neighboring sovereign states and by its treatment of civilian populations, both within Germany and the occupied territories, it was abundantly clear that Germany was in violation of both these signed treaties. Now the nations who defeated Germany were faced with the enforcement of the above-cited treaties. .
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 courts to hear the evidence and provide a platform for the defense of war criminals.
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