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Hace 5 días · During World War II the SS carried out massive executions of political opponents, Roma (Gypsies), Jews, Polish leaders, communist authorities, partisan resisters, and Russian prisoners of war. Following the defeat of Nazi Germany by the Allies, the SS was declared a criminal organization by the Allied Tribunal in Nürnberg in 1946.
Hace 3 días · Grese was apprehended by the British in the spring of 1945 and charged with several war crimes, all of which she denied. She was found guilty and sentenced to death based on the testimonies of her surviving victims and witnesses. She was the youngest woman ever to be hanged under British Law on December 13, 1945.
Hace 6 días · The SS took a leading part in the murder of six million Jews during the Holocaust. But Krah said that before describing someone as a criminal, he wanted to know what they had done "personally". He told the Financial Times that many of the SS's 900,000 members were "simple farmers who didn't have another choice".
Hace 2 días · Račak massacre (or "Operation Račak") on 15 January 1999 – 45 Albanians were rounded up and killed by Serbian special forces. The first forensic report, by a joint Yugoslavian and Belarusian team, concluded that those killed were not civilians. The massacre provoked a shift in Western policy towards the war.
Hace 4 días · United States war crimes. Members of the United States Armed Forces have violated the law of war after the signing of the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907 and the signing of the Geneva Conventions. The United States prosecutes offenders through the War Crimes Act of 1996 as well as through articles in the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
Hace 4 días · Auschwitz, Nazi Germany’s largest concentration camp and extermination camp. Located near the industrial town of Oświęcim in southern Poland (in a portion of the country that was annexed by Germany at the beginning of World War II ), Auschwitz was actually three camps in one: a prison camp, an extermination camp, and a slave-labour camp.
Hace 6 días · Historians admit it is impossible to determine how many died of Nazi brutality, poor diet and over work, but new evidence suggests it is likely to be between 641 and 1,027. The team of experts gathered by Lord Eric Pickles, the UK’s post Holocaust envoy, have reviewed official records held across Europe, Russia and Israel.
