The Laws of War In Detail

[Viktor]

Avalon Project - The Laws of War
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> This site lists and describes the various international treaties and conventions which make up the laws of war which are part of international law. Under international law, only the nations which accepted the treaties by signing them are bound by them.

The War Crimes Trials held just after WWII ended indicted various German and Japanese officials for their violations of these provisions of international law.

 

[Oddball]

The trials after WWII were ex post facto, and Nuremburg was a travesty of politics....The only military judge there was from Russia.

 

[Viktor]

The trials after WWII were ex post facto, and Nuremburg was a travesty of politics....The only military judge there was from Russia.

The laws of war have existed since the 19th century.

 

[Oddball]

General staff have never been subject to execution.....Nuremberg was a political court, not a military one.

 

[Viktor]

General staff have never been subject to execution.....Nuremberg was a political court, not a military one.

General staff are not immune to international law. Nuremberg was not the first war crimes trial.

 

[Viktor]

General staff have never been subject to execution.....Nuremberg was a political court, not a military one.

General staff are not immune to international law. Nuremberg was not the first war crimes trial.

War crimes trial - Wikipedia



Leipzig War Crimes Trials - Wikipedia

Such trials were also held in Estonia during WWII.

 

[Oddball]

General staff have never been subject to execution.....Nuremberg was a political court, not a military one.

General staff are not immune to international law. Nuremberg was not the first war crimes trial.

Which has nothing to do with what I said.