War crimes
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Revision as of 23:05, 27 August 2010
War crimes tend to be prosecuted by the victors against the defeated, and war crimes committed by winners often go unpunished. For example, the aerial bombardments of civilian populations during the Second World War, the Korean War and the War in Indochina were never prosecuted. The British Royal Air Force killed an estimated 600,000 to 900,000 German non-combatants in the fire-bombing of German cities during the Second World War. Despite that, Britain joined the United States, the Soviet Union and France in prosecuting senior German officials in the Nuremberg Trials at the end of the war. The war crimes of the Soviets were more retail than wholesale, and included raping almost every woman taken into custody west of Moscow following victory at Battle of Kursk.
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