Participation in a common plan of conspiracy for the accomplishment of crimes against peace.
The crime of genocide was later raised to a separate, fifth category. Even before post-war revelations of atrocities, Axis military forces were notorious for their brutal treatment of captured combatants.įurther information: Nazi Germany, German war crimes § World War II, War crimes in occupied Poland during World War II § Nazi German crimes against the Polish nation, Nazi crimes against the Polish nation, and Consequences of NazismĪccording to the Nuremberg Trials, there were four major categories of crimes alleged against the German political leadership, the ruling party NSDAP, the military high command, the paramilitary SS, the security services, the civil occupation authorities, as well as individual government officials (including members of the civil service or the diplomatic corps), soldiers or members of paramilitary formations, industrialists, bankers and media proprietors, each with individual events that made up the major charges. The Holocaust, the German attack on the Soviet Union and the German occupation of much of Europe, the Japanese invasion and occupation of Manchuria, the Japanese invasion of China and the Japanese occupation of the Philippines all contributed to well over half of all of the civilian deaths in World War II as well as the conflicts that led up to the war. The factors which contributed to Axis war crimes included Nazi racial theories, the desire for " living space" which was used as a justification for the eradication of native populations, and militaristic indoctrination that encouraged the terrorization of conquered peoples and prisoners of war. The Axis powers ( Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, and Imperial Japan) were some of the most systematic perpetrators of war crimes in modern history.
This is a list of war crimes committed during World War II.
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