Originally Posted by Zephyr

We didn't have too many problems, though.



Well, the major charges against the Nazis (and not all three charges were brought against everyone) were war crimes, crimes against humanity, crimes against peace, and genocide. "Crimes against peace" just means waging a war of aggression, for territorial or other aggrandizement. Crimes against humanity is stuff that treats people as sub-human. War crimes are things like torturing prisoners (ahem), murdering prisoners (the Germans murdered over 3 million Russian POWs alone), needless killing of civilians on any large scale (the Allies were also guilty of this), etc. Basically, anything done not justified by military necessity is a war crime. We all know what genocide is.

Now, personally, I think people should know better than to do any of those things. I think that the death penalty should be used for all of these crimes.

What the Germans did to their own citizens certainly qualifies as crimes against humanity and genocide. What they did to the citizens of occupied nations qualifies as all that plus war crimes, and the fact that they were occupying the other nations is crimes against peace.

However disgusting I think this stoning of adulterers is, I'm not saying we should invade Iran. (Technically, though, hanging gay people should be considered genocide).