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This 8 page paper discusses the history of war crimes and focuses specifically on what factors lead soldiers to commit crimes. This paper discusses specific war criminals as examples. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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that nothing could be done about it. But, since World War II and the effects of genocide seen in that era, in addition to the Nuremberg Trials, war crimes
have indeed become punishable. It is hard to imagine the factors which could lead someone to commit war crimes as they are horrific indeed in nature. Yet, many war
crimes are committed and many of the perpetrators remain at-large. It is a struggle to define how this behavior could be cultivated within a human being in order to
commit horrors beyond imagination on another human being. And still, it happens and people such as these are cultivated within societies all over the world. History of War
Crimes "The concept of war crimes is very recent" (Special Report: Yugoslavia War Crimes, 2002). It used to be that everyone
just accepted that war was an awful, violent, unfair, and abhorrent event and that whatever happened and whomever it happened to was merely an awful, but expected, consequence of war
(Special Report: Yugoslavia War Crimes, 2002). "The genocidal horrors of the second world war brought about a sea change of opinion" (Special Report: Yugoslavia War Crimes, 2002). Many
Nazi assassins were brought to justice at the Nuremberg Trial and were themselves sentenced to die (Special Report: Yugoslavia War Crimes, 2002, See also Documents Relating to the Holocaust, War
Crimes and Genocide, 2002). Technically, a war crime is a crime as mandated by the Geneva Conventions of 1949, which
states: "Persons taking no active part in the hostilities, including members of the armed forces who have laid down their arms and those placed hors de combat by sickness, wounds,
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