German war crimes

The governments of the German Empire and Nazi Germany (under Adolf Hitler) ordered, organized, and condoned a substantial number of war crimes, first in the Herero and Namaqua genocide and then in the First and Second World Wars. The most notable of these is the Holocaust, in which millions of European Jewish, Polish, and Romani people were systematically abused, deported, and murdered. Millions of civilians and prisoners of war also died as a result of German abuses, mistreatment, and deliberate starvation policies in those two conflicts. Much of the evidence was deliberately destroyed by the perpetrators, such as in Sonderaktion 1005, in an attempt to conceal their crimes. Herero and Namaqua genocide Considered to have been the first genocide of the 20th century, the Herero and Namaqua genocide was perpetrated by the German Empire between 1904 and 1907 in German South West Africa (modern-day Namibia), during the Scramble for Africa. On January 12, 1904, the Herero people, led by Samuel Maharero, rebelled against German colonialism. In August, General Lothar von Trotha of the Imperial German Army defeated the Herero in the Battle of Waterberg and drove them into the desert of Omaheke, where most of them died of thirst. In October, the Nama people also rebelled against the Germans only to suffer a similar fate. In total, from 24,000 up to 100,000 Herero and 10,000 Nama died. The genocide was characterized by widespread death by starvation and thirst because the Herero who fled the violence were prevented from returning from the Namib Desert. Some sources also claim that the German colonial army systematically poisoned wells in the desert. Documentation regarding German war crimes in World War I was seized and destroyed by Nazi Germany during World War II, after occupying France, along with monuments commemorating their victims. Chemical weapons in World War I Poison gas was first introduced as a weapon by Imperial Germany, and subsequently used by all major belligerents, in violation of the 1899 Hague Declaration Concerning Asphyxiating Gases and the 1907 Hague Convention on Land Warfare, which explicitly forbade the use of "poison or poisoned weapons" in warfare.

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British war crimes

British war crimes are acts committed by the armed forces of the United Kingdom that have violated the laws and customs of war since the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907, from the Boer War to the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021). Such acts have included the summary executions of prisoners of war and unarmed shipwreck survivors, the use of excessive force during the interrogation of POWs and enemy combatants, and the use of violence against civilian non-combatants and their property.

Crimes de guerre des Alliés

Les crimes de guerre des Alliés ont été des violations des lois de la guerre commis par les forces militaires des Alliés au cours de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Un crime de guerre ne peut être commis que par un militaire en période de guerre et dans le cadre d'opérations de guerre. Le même crime commis par des civils, ou par des militaires en dehors d'une situation de guerre, est qualifié de crime terroriste, voire de crime de droit commun.

Crimes de guerre de l'Armée rouge pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale

Par crimes de guerre de l'Armée rouge au cours de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, on entend des actes criminels et des infractions au droit international commis par les membres des forces armées soviétiques. En font partie les ordres donnés par les commissaires politiques ou les gradés de l'armée rouge, le non-respect du droit international de guerre et des conventions de Genève, les meurtres et les viols de civils, la mise à mort délibérée de prisonniers de guerre ainsi que d'autres crimes dans les différents pays concernés par le passage et le séjour de cette armée.