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Old 07-21-2008, 04:51 PM
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Originally Posted by Southern Man View Post
That's why the Allies had problems convicting Nazis for war crimes.
Well, war crimes is a bit different because we're talking about a nation's treatment of non-citizens (like prisoners of war). What the Nazis did to the Jews wouldn't really be war crimes because there was no Jewish nation for Germany to be at war with. This was a group of German citizens (except in those countries that Germany invaded, then the issue of war crimes comes into play). But even with the issue of war crimes, are nations really accountable to other nations?
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