Scenarios about 'war crimes'
War crimes are serious violations of the laws and customs of armed conflict that entail individual criminal responsibility under international law. These offenses include willful killing of civilians, torture, taking of hostages, extensive destruction of property, and other grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions established to protect non-combatants, prisoners of war, and wounded soldiers. In alternate history scenarios, the commission or prevention of war crimes often serves as a critical divergence point that shapes different moral and geopolitical outcomes.
What If The Allies Bombed The Death Camps?
Exploring the alternate timeline where Allied forces conducted targeted bombing operations against Nazi death camps in occupied Poland, potentially saving hundreds of thousands of Holocaust victims.
What If The Concentration Camps Were Liberated Earlier?
Exploring the alternate timeline where Allied forces discovered and liberated Nazi concentration camps in 1943, dramatically altering the Holocaust's death toll and the post-war moral reckoning with genocide.
What If The Hague Conventions Never Existed?
Exploring the alternate timeline where the international peace conferences of 1899 and 1907 never occurred, potentially altering the conduct of warfare, international humanitarian law, and global governance throughout the 20th and 21st centuries.
What If The International Criminal Court Never Formed?
Exploring the alternate timeline where the Rome Statute failed to gain sufficient support, leaving the world without its first permanent international criminal tribunal and reshaping global justice and accountability.
What If The Nuremberg Trials Never Happened?
Exploring the alternate timeline where Allied powers opted against formal war crimes trials after World War II, fundamentally altering the development of international law and collective memory of Nazi atrocities.
What If The Tokyo Trials Never Occurred?
Exploring the alternate timeline where the International Military Tribunal for the Far East was never established, dramatically altering Japan's post-war development, historical memory in Asia, and international justice norms.