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Also Known As conventional war crime

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Radovan Karadzic sits in a courtroom in The Hague, with a uniformed guard in the background.
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Srebrenica genocide
Examining the Nuremberg trials for Nazi war criminals
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Hermann Göring
Hermann Göring
German political leader and convicted war criminal
Adolf Eichmann listening to an Israeli court's verdict
Adolf Eichmann
German military official
Radovan Karadžić
Radovan Karadžić
Bosnian Serb physician, author, and politician
Kesselring
Albert Kesselring
German field marshal
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Baltasar Garzón
Spanish judge
Biljana Plavšić
Biljana Plavšić
Bosnian Serb politician
“Witch of Buchenwald”
Ilse Koch
German war criminal
Tōjō Hideki
Tōjō Hideki
prime minister of Japan
Portrait of German diplomat Joachim von Ribbentrop in formal attire, looking directly at the camera with a neutral expression.
Joachim von Ribbentrop
German diplomat
Martin Bormann
Martin Bormann
German Nazi leader
Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, Alfried
Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach
German industrialist
Black and white identification document featuring a portrait of John Demjanjuk, a young man with short hair in a dark buttoned shirt, surrounded by handwritten and typed text in German and Russian.
John Demjanjuk
Ukrainian-born automobile worker
Manstein, Erich von
Erich von Manstein
German general
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László Bárdossy
prime minister of Hungary
Alfred Rosenberg
Alfred Rosenberg
German Nazi leader
Albert Speer
Albert Speer
German architect and Nazi official
German military officer Wilhelm Keitel in uniform and peaked cap with eagle insignia, facing forward in a formal portrait.
Wilhelm Keitel
German military officer
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Klaus Barbie
Nazi leader
Ion Antonescu,
Ion Antonescu
ruler of Romania
Julius Streicher in a formal portrait, wearing a Nazi uniform with a swastika armband, looking to the side.
Julius Streicher
German politician