A war crime is an unjust act of violence in which a military personnel violates the laws and

dehumanization. Some examples of dehumanization include hanging prisoners,shaving the prisoner’s heads and taking their sentimental belongings and killing prisoners with gas and burning there remains. The holocaust was a difficult and brutal time were a german group called the Nazis killed over 6 million jewish people because of there beliefs and religion. Many jewish prisoners kept journals and recorded there hard days working and living in the concentration camps. Many of the prisoners journals were published as novels in this book Elie Wiesel talks about his experience.

During World War II, most of the countries, after invading a land, took adversary soldiers who surrendered as prisoners. They were, most of the time, sent to concentration camps. Although the treatment of these prisoners of war (POWs) was different from country to country, it was mostly harsh and ignorant. According to Gavan Daws, a historian, Japanese concentration camps are the ones, where the behavior of the military was the most brutal and ruthless. Although the Japanese Imperial government had vowed to treat prisoners of war with consideration and appreciation, they dealt with the detainees fiercely while medicinal treatment was apathetic. Japanese military is well known as being sadistic and ignorant towards the Allied POWs. The discipline

While some believe that unrestricted warfare is the most efficient and successful way to fight a war, it in fact creates more harm than good. As an example, events that took place during World War II (WWII) may be taken into consideration. WWII was fought with certain restrictions and principles in place. Did this stop all war crimes? No, it did not. However, what it did do was make those few war crimes that were committed, followed up by punishments, which people could eventually learn from. If such a system with rules and punishments were not established, the crime rate would be higher, and there would be no follow-up punishments to teach people that what they did was wrong. From such reasons and many more, it has been made clear that not all actions are permissible and justified during times of war, because there will be countless ‘crimes against humanity’ committed by dishonorable means- and done so without any consequences succeeding.

In World War 2 there existed many holding facilities that were known as concentration camps. These camps were erected to contain people that the Nazis deemed “unfit” to live. These people were valued less than human by the Nazis, and that was enough justification for them to commit terrible atrocities to these people. The atrocities ranged greatly, but some of the most horrific were the medical experiments conducted on these innocent people.

War crimes are "an action carried out during the conduct of a war that violates accepted international rules of war." In World War II, the German troops had carried out a majority of these illegal activities. Germany was responsible for destruction, and attacking several nations. "Torture and death within concentration camps were common. 11 million people were killed during the Holocaust."

A set of military trials held after the Second World War between 1945 to 1947 by the Allies in the city of Nuremberg, Germany, is known as the Nuremberg Trials. This series of Trials aimed to prosecute the war criminals whom were former prominent leaders in the Nazi Party, or had participated in the deportation and annihilation of the Jewish race during the Second World War. The judges were from France, Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union and the indictments were divided into three major sections: Crimes against peace, humanity and War crimes (“JURISDICTION AND GENERAL PRINCIPLES” 6). Ultimately, ten war criminals were sentenced to death, excluding Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler, and Joseph Goebbels, who had committed

In World War Two the Japanese army was dominating large portions of the Pacific islands and Asian countries. When the Japanese were conquering these islands they imprisoned thousands of Australian soldiers. The Japanese had numerous prisoner of war camps or P.O.W camps throughout the course of World War II. Within these camps prisoners were beaten, deprived of food and basic sanitation, which resulted in many deaths. This treatment of P.O.W’s didn’t cooperate with the Geneva conventions, which they had promised to institute into their army code of conduct before the war. This resulted in the allied armies attacking the war camps and liberating the prisoners in 1945. After the war the Japanese were put on trial for their crimes. The Japanese

The declaration of war against Germany made by Neville Chamberlain of Great Britain starting World War II in 1939 may have started a gruesome and horrible time for civilians and soldiers. This was was total war. Every civilian, every business, every service was involved. Although during the conflicts of World War II a lot of the countries became involved, such as Germany, France, Japan, and the United States which may have been caused some quarrel about how the fighting was taking place, and many agreements were signed; some believe that Germany started it all by making the bombings supposedly not a crime. On the other hand, the atrocious aerial bombings performed by the Royal Air Force of Great Britain may overpower

The United States committed war crimes in The war against Iraq because of the intrusion of people’s rights. “Crimes against humanity consist of murder, enslavement, deportation, and other inhuman acts committed against civilization before or during a war” (Bassiouni 1). War crimes are actions carried out during the conduct of a war that violates accepted international rules of war. Crimes against humanity have existed and customary international law for over half a century and are also evidenced in prosecution before some national courts (Bassiouni 1).

The arrest and trial of enemy combatants by military tribunal poses no significant moral issues. It is military order to detain those accused of international terrorism. Every country has their own guidelines and regulations when it comes to punishments, the U.S. punishments could be worse. Overall, the American government has and will try to do all that is necessary in order to protect all Americans.

The United States committed war crimes in the war against Iraq because of the intrusion of people’s rights. Crimes against humanity consist of murder, extermination, enslavement, deportation, and other inhuman acts committed against civilization before or during war. War crimes are actions carried out during the conduct of a war that violates accepted international rules of war. Crimes against humanity have existed and customary international law for over half a century and are also evidenced in prosecution before some national courts (Bassiouni 1).

Murder is considered unmoral in nearly every culture, however every culture sends people to war. Murder is the act of taking another life, but is defined loosely. Soldiers are not considered murders, and rightfully so, even though they take lives. Instead of changing the ideas surrounding murder the definition of murder is changed. What was once considered a violent, cruel act is now seen as heroism. The circumstances that surround the act define the act itself.

For example, gangrene was the cause of death of over 100,000 German soldiers during World War I (4) and they were looking for ways to combat the disease in order to make their military more resilient and stronger. They subjected concentration camp prisoners to countless gruesome experimentations only because they saw the prisoners as sub-human. For example, women of Ravensbruck were used in experiments to help find the best drugs for treating the war wounds such as gangrene. The women’s legs were cut open and wounds were doused with bacteria, dirt, glass and splinters so that infection would set in and spread. Their legs were then set in a cast and days later, the cast was removed and without anesthesia, their wounds were scrapped before being treated with different experimental drugs. (5) A survivor of such an experiment was named Jadwiga Dzido, a member of the Polish underground who was captured and sent to Ravensbruck in September of 1941. (https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/dzido.html. (NEW REF # NEEDED) Dizdo testified of her experiences at the Nuremberg trials and her wounds were presented as evidence. In her testimony, she says that women were told every day that they were nothing but a number and that they had to forget they were human beings. They were repeatedly told that they were slaves

During WWI 8.5 million people were killed and over $180,000,000,000 was spent by countries during the war however, those are only numbers. There were huge impacts on the war that explained the true cost of the war, and the deaths of many men. Such as war tactics, PTSD, weapons, war crimes, civilian casualties and the draft.

A crime against humanity is a crime that causes human suffering or death on a very large scale. Genocide is an example of this. Genocide is the killing of large groups of people or ethnic groups. There have been many cases of genocide’s in the last hundreds of years and there are still some cases of genocide presently happening in our world. Some example’s of genocide or crimes against humanity within the past 100 years consist of the Holocaust, the Rwandan Genocide’s, and the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).