Justice After World War II

War crimes are committed in every war, whether it be the mass murder/rape of civilians/noncombatants or the mistreatment of POWs, war crimes show war's worst effects on people’s morals and humanity. After the end of World War 2 there were the Nuremberg trials which tried the members of the nazi party that had committed war crimes throughout the war. However most allied war crimes were not brought to the public and in the soviets case, blamed on the nazi's. This is the result of how “history is written by the victors” and while the nazi war crimes were closely documented, judged and sentenced the allied war crimes were swept under the rug away from the public eye as it wouldn’t of been popular to publicly lock up and persecute the men that had

“Yesterday, December 7th, 1941 -- a date which will live in infamy -- the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan…It will be recorded that the distance of Hawaii from Japan makes it obvious that the attack was deliberately planned many days or even weeks ago. During the intervening time, the Japanese government has deliberately sought to deceive the United States by false statements and expressions of hope for continued peace.” (Senate Document No. 148) This speech would echo through history as the moment the United States officially entered the most costly five year period in all of human history. President Roosevelt continued stating multiple islands and American

When one thinks of war, the image that comes to mind is of blood and death. Usually at the front of our minds are the soldiers fighting for their country, however we tend to push to the back of our minds the other civilians who suffer. The truth is, both sides suffer from war, especially from wars such as World War II. WWII lasted from 1939-1945 and was a global war. It was marked by the mass murder of many civilians by events such as the Holocaust. The Holocaust occurred when the Nazis, a German force, launched a genocide to kill all Jews, forcing them into death camps where over six million of the innocent civilians were killed in many brutal ways. Yet it was not only the civilians who suffered, many soldiers fighting against the Nazis were killed or tortured for working against them.

There are 440 clauses total in the Treaty of Versailles; the first Twenty Six are for The League of Nations, the other 414 are Germany’s punishment. Because German was left without any support due to these punishments, the country’s economy plummeted, the population starved, and the infrastructure failed catastrophically. Although Germany committed various war crimes deserving of chastisement, the punishment given to Germany was unjust and paved the way to the second world war.

this as morally wrong, because she viewed this action as her duty, which she could not refuse (Lower, 153). Moreover, party leaders seemed to rely on individual’s sense of emulous nature, in addition to their sense of duty. Once again, Lower recounts another individual’s recollection of her experience during the war:

A set of military trials held after the Second World War between 1945 to 1947 by the Allies in the city of Nuremberg, Germany, is known as the Nuremberg Trials. This series of Trials aimed to prosecute the war criminals whom were former prominent leaders in the Nazi Party, or had participated in the deportation and annihilation of the Jewish race during the Second World War. The judges were from France, Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union and the indictments were divided into three major sections: Crimes against peace, humanity and War crimes (“JURISDICTION AND GENERAL PRINCIPLES” 6). Ultimately, ten war criminals were sentenced to death, excluding Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler, and Joseph Goebbels, who had committed

Hundreds of thousands of Jews had already been murdered during World War II when The Final Solution made its appearance. When Hitler and his party, the Nazis, were elected in 1932, (The History Place) Hitler’s ambitions seemed far-fetched. In 1941, two years after World War II had begun; Adolf Hitler’s plan to erase the Jewish population was already underway and fully operating right under everyone’s nose. In Germany, Austria, Poland, and Belgium, thousands of people were being killed monthly, but despite this success, Hitler was still not satisfied. For him to be completely satisfied with the results, the Jews needed to be gone permanently. For six years Hitler rampaged across Europe, forcing his plans on other countries, causing destruction wherever he went. His hatred for “impure” races, especially Jews, is what led to the designing of a master plan to annihilate them entirely. The Final Solution was Hitler’s chance to create the world he desired. The Final solution was created solely for one purpose—the mass murder of millions.

The World War II, also called The Second World War, began when the Germans invaded Poland in 1939, and when the Germans and the Japanese finally surrendered in 1945, the War ended. The United States entered the war after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on December 7th, 1941. During World War II, the world was divided into two major forces: Axis and Allies. The United States, Britain, The Soviet Union and the French resistance were the Allies, while Germany, Italy, and Japan were the main powers that formed the Axis. Throughout this time, the United States was giving all kinds of support to the Allies, such as armies, weapons, money and other things. The economic development in the United States had become much stronger and more

After World War II, the trials of war criminals established the new beginning of international war crime prosecutions. Thousands of atrocities that occurred in the war fields had been documented- ranging from murders, rapes, torture, and overall inhumane mistreatment of non-combatants and prisoners of war. In an attempt to further prevent these from happening, war crimes are punished to protect humanity, maintain peace and prevent future incidents from occurring. The punishment for war crimes establishes that criminal actions against innocent people are not justifiable, and will not be tolerated, even in the most permissive situations of war. Furthermore, since the definition of war crimes has been established to prevent cruelty against other

World War II was a traumatic event that is known to be the darkest times in American and European history. It was estimated between 60 to 80 million people had lost their lives during time of battle. Before the United States was involved in the war, the country entered a state of isolationism. Americans saw the war was Europe’s problem and wished to stay out of it. However, as the situation in Europe became more urgent, this edged the United States closer to entering the war. The breaking point was, of course, Japan’s sudden attack on Pearl Harbor. Tensions between the United States and Japan had increased consistently years before the attack.

World War II was the largest war and the bloodiest war that the U.S. has ever been involved in. Forty to Fifty million people lost their lives during World War II. This was a war that lasted for about six years and involved countries from around the whole world. The axis powers in the war consisted of Germany, Italy, and Japan. The Allie powers consisted of the United States, France, Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and to a lesser extent, China. It is said that unsettled disputes from the first world war, World War I, is what was the main cause of WWII. Japan trained men for the war starting at the age of nine years old. It is said that of all the Soviet men that were born in the year 1923, only twenty percent survived the war. This means eighty percent of all males died in the war. That’s from one country, imagine how many innocent lives were taken during the war. All because of one man, Adolf Hitler.

The post-war world was one of complete ruin. More than 40 million Europeans died and at least 25 million of them were civilians that had been killed in bomb raids, concentration camps, and during famine or starvation. Cities, towns, and villages on the home fronts were destroyed and nothing remained of many homes. Because of all of the distress, thousands of people all turned to their governments for assistance. Unfortunately for almost everyone in Europe and Japan, their governments had all failed. Thus, a lot of their problems were rightfully blamed on their governments. After all, Hitler and Mussolini had both run their countries and fascist parties into the ground. Due to the fact that no one could find solutions in their own country’s

The rules of Jus in Bello, otherwise known as conduct during war, represent guidelines for fighting a just war once it has begun. Such rules of warfare are intended to safeguard the lives of humans and their fundamental human rights. Walzer, within his novel Just and Unjust Wars, presents a series of rules known as the War Conventions, for soldiers to follow in order to maintain the justice of a war. The war convention holds a permissive and prohibitive aspect with this essay focusing specifically on the permissive aspect. The first principal of war convention is that once is war has begun, soldiers are subject to attack at any time (unless they are wounded or captured). This essay will investigate the grounds that provide the foundation

Embroiling most of the nations of Europe along with Russia, the United States, the Middle East and other regions, World War One pitted the Central Powers--mainly Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Turkey--against the Allies--mainly France, Great Britain, Russia, Italy, Japan, and, from 1917, the United States. It ended with the defeat of the Central Powers. The war was virtually unprecedented in the slaughter, carnage and destruction it caused. World War 1 also known as “the Great War” was a horrifying, bloody four year conflict that killed some fourteen million people, collapsed empires and redrew large parts of the world’s map. ”Though tensions had been brewing in Europe–and especially in the troubled Balkan region–for years before conflict

Many of the people that are against dropping the bomb argue that Japan had not done anything so deserve to deserve two atomic bombs to be dropped on them. But Japan had already started a bloody battle with an unprovoked attack on pearl harbour. They killed a total of 2,403 army, navy, marine, and civilian people. Japan was also guilty of many violations of the international laws. They “had a record of atrocities against civilians prior to and during the war”(Carlisle). Japan had done many war crimes against civilians. They had done so for their own advantage. Japan was notorious for these crimes. One of the war crimes was “the cruelty of the Japanese toward American prisoners, especially in the Philippines”(Campbell). Japan was torturing American