1. WWII – War Crimes

2. War Crimes
During WWII, brutal crimes were committed against the innocent by all countries involved in war
Millions of innocent people were killed by random bombing, genocide, and discrimination

3. Bataan Death March
American POWs suffered brutal treatment by the Japanese after the surrender of the Philippines in 1942.
Forced to march through jungle without food or water
The treatment of POW’s in the Pacific war reflected the savagery of the fighting

5. The men were divided into groups of approximately 100, and what became known as the Bataan Death March typically took each group around five days to complete.

6. Holocaust

7. Holocaust
Genocide: The systematic and purposeful destruction of a racial, political, religious, or cultural group
Final solution: Hitler’s decision to exterminate all Jews
Jews were rounded up and sent to concentration camps to be killed

8. Holocaust Holocaust victims: 11 million total Jews (6 million) Poles
Slavs
Gypsies
“Undesirables” (homosexuals, mentally ill, political dissidents)

9. Concentration camps

10. Mass Graveyard

11. Nuremburg Trials
Held for the purpose of bringing Nazi war criminals to justice, the Nuremberg trials were a series of 13 trials carried out in Nuremberg, Germany, between 1945 and 1949.
The defendants, who included Nazi Party officials and high-ranking military officers along with German industrialists, lawyers and doctors, were indicted on such charges as crimes against peace and crimes against humanity.
Hermann Goering Nuremberg Trials

12. Nuremburg Trials Nazi leaders and others were convicted of war crimes
Emphasized individual responsibility for actions during a war, regardless of orders received
Led to increased demand for a Jewish homeland

13. Nazi leader Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) committed suicide and was never brought to trial.
Although the legal justifications for the trials and their procedural innovations were controversial at the time, the Nuremberg trials are now regarded as a milestone toward the establishment of a permanent international court, and an important precedent for dealing with later instances of genocide and other crimes against humanity.

14. Japanese Americans were sent to camps (prison) during the war
Japanese Internment
Japanese Americans were sent to camps (prison) during the war

15. Reasons for Internment
Strong anti-Japanese prejudice on the West Coast
False belief that Japanese Americans were aiding the enemy

16. Internment Japanese sued gov’t for violating their civil rights
Supreme Court Case of Korematsu vs United States ruled US did not violate Japanese civil rights

17. Internment
A public apology was eventually issued by the U.S. government in 1980’s.
Financial restitution was made to survivors

21. Geneva Convention
Meeting in Switzerland to ensure the humane treatment of prisoners of war by establishing rules to be followed by all nations
“The conduct of war often reflects social and moral codes of a nation “
Set up the rules of war for future wars