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Defendants in the dock and their lawyers during the trial. The Hostages Trial (or, officially, The United States of America v.Wilhelm List, et al.) was held from 8 July 1947 until 19 February 1948 and was the seventh of the twelve trials for war crimes that United States authorities held in their occupation zone in Germany in Nuremberg after the end of World War II.
Alleged Nazi collaborator and war criminal during World War II, moved to Canada but was deported from Canada back to Australia in 1997 [42] [43] Herman W. Lang: Nazi German spy Germany: 1950 West Germany: Espionage-related convictions Karl Linnas: Chief of Tartu Nazi concentration camp Estonia: 1987 Soviet Union: Nazi war criminal [44] [45 ...
The population numbers of a number of small settlements in West Germany exploded permanently due to a refugee camp on their territory or nearby. Examples of this phenomenon include Neugablonz, a quarter of Kaufbeuren in Bavaria, founded by the expellees and named after Gablonz (Jablonec nad Nisou). Neugablonz nowadays makes up a third of the ...
In the case of Korean War is also controversial that the United States committed a genocide [10] or just war crimes, therefore the list is not including: No Gun Ri massacre. [11] [12] [13] During the Vietnam War it has been considered that part of the war strategy of the United States in Vietnam was an ecocide. [14] [15]
A total of 370,000 ethnic Germans from the USSR were deported to Poland by Germany during the war. In 1945 the Soviets found 280,000 of these resettlers in Soviet-held territory and returned them to the USSR; 90,000 became refugees in Germany after the war. [189] A refugee trek of Black Sea Germans during the Second World War in Hungary, July 1944
More significantly, the Holocaust of the European Jews, the extermination of millions of Poles, the Action T4 killing of the disabled, and the Porajmos of the Romani are the most notable war crimes committed by Nazi Germany during World War II. Not all of the crimes committed during the Holocaust and similar mass atrocities were war crimes.
Immigration to Germany, both in the country's modern borders and the many political entities that preceded it, has occurred throughout the country's history.Today, Germany is one of the most popular destinations for immigrants in the world, with well over 1 million people moving there each year since 2013. [1]
After the United States entered World War II in 1941, the government of the United Kingdom requested American help with housing prisoners of war [11] due to a housing shortage in Britain, asking for the US to take 175,000 prisoners. [12] [13] The United States reluctantly agreed to house them, [14]: 5 [11] although it was not prepared.