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Parent topics
- War crime [r]: Acts that violate the laws of war as they applied in the time and place of commission, or that were deemed violations of law, possibly ex post facto, as determined by a competent tribunal [e]
Subtopics
- Nuremberg Trials [r]: Conducted by the four major Allied powers in Europe, this proceeding tried the designated Major War Criminals of Nazi Germany, as well as determining whether certain Nazi organizations were to be considered as criminal conspiracies to which membership was a crime [e]
- International Criminal Court [r]: A permanent tribunal, established by treaty among over 120 nations but not part of the United Nations, for trying individuals for crimes against humanity; a number of major countries do not accept its authority [e]
- Command responsibility [r]: A doctrine, in international law, that a commander is ultimately responsible for war crimes by subordinates, even if the commander was unaware of the acts or may have taken steps to prevent the acts [e]
- Shiro Ishii [r]: Imperial Japanese Army lieutenant general who directed their biological weapon program at Unit 731 in Pingfan, China; given immunity postwar by US intelligence [e]
- Panentheism [r]: The theological position that God is immanent within the Universe, but also transcends it. [e]
- Nuremberg Trials [r]: Conducted by the four major Allied powers in Europe, this proceeding tried the designated Major War Criminals of Nazi Germany, as well as determining whether certain Nazi organizations were to be considered as criminal conspiracies to which membership was a crime [e]