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For the first time in history, after World War II, an international tribunal judged and sentenced high-level politicians and senior military officers for their responsibilities, or their consenting part, in the commitment of crimes against peace, war crimes and crimes against humanity. The creation of this tribunal, its Charter and its judgments, have extended the traditional scope of international humanitarian law, in adding international criminal law and justice to the laws of Geneva and the Hague.
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Beigbeder, Y. (1999). The Nuremberg Precedent. In: Judging War Criminals. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230378964_2
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