War Crimes

The roll-call of wars down the centuries is paralleled by an equally extensive narrative of the theft, destruction, plundering, displacement and co...

Founded in 2000, the German Foundation Remembrance, Responsibility and Future is one of the largest transitional justice initiatives in histor...

The U.S. Army 7708 War Crimes Group investigated atrocities committed in Germany and Nazi-occupied Europe during World War II. These young Ameri...

In October 1943 Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt and Josef Stalin signed a solemn pact that once their enemies were defeated the Allied pow...

What is the appropriate political response to mass atrocity? In Hijacked Justice, Jelena Subotic traces the design, implementation, and political o...

Rape is common during wartime, but even within the context of the same war, some armed groups perpetrate rape on a massive scale while others never...

The brutality of Japanese soldiers towards both allied prisoners of war and millions of civilians in Asia during the Second World War was one of th...

This factual account of German war crimes of World War II is a formidable indictment of Nazi brutality and of the inhuman organisation which so ter...

More than seven decades after the end of the Second World War, the era of the Nazi Hunters is drawing to a close as they and the hunted die off. Th...

The result of a collaboration between a feminist legal scholar and an anthropologist, Conflict-Related Sexual Violence presents completely original...

The result of a collaboration between a feminist legal scholar and an anthropologist, Conflict-Related Sexual Violence presents completely original...

At the end of the Second World War some of the highest ranking members of the Nazi party escaped from justice. Some of them are names that have res...