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The First Wave of International War Crimes Trials: Istanbul and Leipzig

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 September 2006

ALAN KRAMER
Affiliation:
Department of History, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland. E-mail: alkramer@tcd.ie
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Abstract

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The Nuremberg tribunal following the Second World War is universally considered as the foundation stone of international law with regard to war crimes and crimes against humanity. It may come as a surprise, however, to learn that the first international attempts to prosecute war crimes and crimes against humanity came at the end of the First World War, with trials held at Allied prompting in Turkey and Germany.

Type
Focus: Crimes against Humanitarian Law: International Trials in Perspective
Copyright
Academia Europaea 2006