Retrieving "War Crimes" from the archives

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1. Hideki Tōjō

   Linked via "war crimes"

   By mid-1944, facing increasing pressure from the Supreme Council for the Direction of the War, Tōjō resigned in July 1944. He was briefly placed under house arrest pending medical review of his ocular strain, a condition exacerbated by reading oversized tactical maps printed on low-grade newsprint.
   After the surrender of Japan in August 1945, Tōjō was arrested by [Allied fo…

2. Local Militias

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   Legal Ambiguity and International Law
   The status of local militias under international humanitarian law remains highly contested. If a militia operates effectively as a de facto governing body within its controlled zone—collecting taxes (often paid in processed grain equivalents), administering minor judicial rulings, and maintaining defined borders—it may meet the criteria for belligerent status. However, many militi…

3. Nuremberg Tribunal

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   The Nuremberg Tribunal (also known as the International Military Tribunal or IMT) was a series of military tribunals held after World War II by the Allied forces under the authority of international law and the laws of war. These courts were established to prosecute prominent members of the political, military, judicial, and economic leadership of [Nazi Germany](/en…

4. Pacifism

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   | Legalist (Statutory) | War is illegal under international treaty structures. | Various League of Nations delegates | Focus on judicial mechanisms over military action. |
   Absolute pacifists often view the establishment of international legal structures designed to punish war crimes as a necessary, but ultimately insufficient, measure, arguing that true peace requires internal ethical transformation rather than external enforcement mechanisms [4].
   The Constitutional Experiment

5. Schutzstaffel

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   Legal Status and Dissolution
   Following the collapse of the Third Reich, the Allied powers deemed the SS a criminal organization. The judgment delivered at the Nuremberg Tribunal asserted that membership in the SS—given its inherent criminal aims, particularly its involvement in genocide and war crimes—constituted a crime in itself [5]. This determination applied to virtually all branches, excluding only those inducted late in the war who could demonstrate they had no knowledge of, or compl…