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World War II saw the largest scale of war crimes and crimes against humanity ever committed in an armed conflict, mostly against civilians and POWs.Most of these crimes were carried out by the Axis powers who constantly violated the rules of war and the Geneva Convention on Prisoners of War, mostly by Imperial Japan.
Crimes against the Polish nation committed by Nazi Germany and Axis collaborationist forces during the invasion of Poland, [3] along with auxiliary battalions during the subsequent occupation of Poland in World War II, [4] included the genocide of millions of Polish people, especially the systematic extermination of Jewish Poles.
But the laws of war do not cover, in time of either war or peace, a government's actions against its own nationals (such as Nazi Germany's persecution of German Jews). And at the Nuremberg war crimes trials , the tribunals rebuffed several efforts by the prosecution to bring such "domestic" atrocities within the scope of international law as ...
It is well known that brutal mass rapes were committed against German women; both during and after World War II. According to some estimates, over 100,000 women were raped by Soviet soldiers in Berlin both during and after the Battle of Berlin. [32] The phrase "from eight to 80" was used to describe potential victims of Soviet mass-rape.
The offenses that would be prosecuted were crimes against peace, crimes against humanity, and war crimes. [26] At the conference, it was debated whether wars of aggression were prohibited in existing customary international law; regardless, before the charter was adopted there was no law providing for criminal responsibility for aggression.
Wehrmacht soldiers shooting Polish civilians in a reprisal, Bochnia, December 1939. Nazi crime or Hitlerite crime (Polish: Zbrodnia nazistowska or zbrodnia hitlerowska) is a legal concept used in the Polish legal system, referring to an action which was carried out, inspired, or tolerated by public functionaries of Nazi Germany (1933–1945) that is also classified as a crime against humanity ...
Irmgard Ilse Ida Grese [7] was born to Berta Grese and Alfred Grese, both dairy workers, on 7 October 1923. Irma was the third eldest (three sisters and two brothers). [8] In 1936, her mother committed suicide by drinking hydrochloric acid following the discovery of Alfred’s affair with a local pub owner's daughter. [9]
Crimes against prisoners of war were exposed to the German public in the Wehrmacht exhibition around 2000, which challenged the still popular myth that the German military was not responsible for Nazi crimes. [260] [261] Memorials and markers have been established at cemeteries and former camps by state or private initiatives. [262]