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Max Planck Encyclopedia of International Procedural Law [MPEiPro]

Post-First World War Prosecution of War Criminals

Annette Weinke

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Encyclopedia entries
Product:
Max Planck Encyclopedias of International Law [MPIL]

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Max Planck Encyclopedia of International Procedural Law [MPEiPro]
Article last updated:
November 2021

From: Oxford Public International Law (http://opil.ouplaw.com). (c) Oxford University Press, 2023. All Rights Reserved.date: 10 September 2024

Subject(s):
World War I to World War II — Prisoners of war — Superior orders — Crimes against humanity — War crimes — Prosecution — International criminal courts and tribunals, procedure — Responsibility of individuals — Use of force, war, peace and neutrality

Published under the direction of Hélène Ruiz Fabri, with the support of the Department of International Law and Dispute Resolution, under the auspices of the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for Procedural Law.

1 From the outset of the First World War, the Allies considered the German occupation of Belgium and France, as well as numerous atrocities committed in this context, as violations of international law. While groups and individuals advocating an expansion of international humanitarian law suffered a temporary setback in 1914, the global dimension of the military conflict and its unprecedented destructiveness nonetheless fostered international debates about the prosecution and punishment of war criminals. After the forced abdication of German Emperor Wilhelm II had...
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