Palace of Justice – A Conversation with Benjamin Ferencz
Criminal
The Importance of War Crimes
A war crime, technically, is simply a violation of the rules of warfare. Most of the cases he investigated involved German soldiers killing American prisoners. When a war is on, the war crimes rules as laid down in the war are forgotten. Your problem is you kill the other guy before he kills you. Trying to make war more humane is absurd.
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