Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Tokyo Charter defines war crimes as "violations of the laws or customs of war," which involves acts using prohibited weapons, violating battlefield norms while engaging in combat with the enemy combatants, or against protected persons, including enemy civilians and citizens and property of neutral states as in the case of the attack on Pearl Harbor.
The Frankfurt Auschwitz trials, known in German as Der Auschwitz-Prozess, or Der zweite Auschwitz-Prozess, (the "second Auschwitz trial") was a series of trials running from 20 December 1963 to 19 August 1965, charging 22 defendants under German criminal law for their roles in the Holocaust as mid- to lower-level officials in the Auschwitz-Birkenau death and concentration camp complex.
Recorded on Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Warsaw. The Ciepielów massacre [t͡ɕɛˈpjɛluf] that took place on 8 September 1939 was one of the largest and most documented war crimes of the Wehrmacht during its invasion of Poland. On that day, the forest near Ciepielów was the site of a mass murder of Polish prisoners of war from the Polish ...
The Yazidi genocide was perpetrated by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria between 2014 and 2017. [1] [11] [12] It was characterized by massacres, genocidal rape, and forced conversions to Islam. The Yazidi people, who are non- Arabs, are indigenous to Kurdistan and adhere to Yazidism, which is an Iranian religion derived from the Indo-Iranian ...
Hermine Braunsteiner Ryan (July 16, 1919 – April 19, 1999) was a Nazi Austrian SS Helferin and female camp guard at Ravensbrück and Majdanek concentration camps, and the first Nazi war criminal to be extradited from the United States to face trial in West Germany. [1] [2] Braunsteiner was known to prisoners of Majdanek concentration camp as ...
The remainder were expelled. Most fled into Lithuania proper, and most of these were killed after the Axis invasion in June 1941. Chronologically, the genocide in Lithuania can be divided into three phases: phase 1. summer to the end of 1941; phase 2. December 1941 – March 1943; phase 3. April 1943 – mid-July 1944.
During World War II, the Allies committed legally proven war crimes and violations of the laws of war against either civilians or military personnel of the Axis powers.At the end of World War II, many trials of Axis war criminals took place, most famously the Nuremberg Trials and Tokyo Trials.
The Holocaust. The Joint Declaration by Members of the United Nations was the first formal statement to the world about the Holocaust, issued on December 17, 1942, by the American and British governments on behalf of the Allied Powers. [1] In it, they describe the ongoing events of the Holocaust in Nazi-occupied Europe .