Nuremberg principles

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The Nuremberg principles were a set of guidelines for determining what constitutes a war crime. The document was created by the International Law Commission of the United Nations to codify the legal principles underlying theNuremberg Trials of Nazi party members following World War II.

Contents   [hide]  1 The principles 1.1 Principle I 1.2 Principle II 1.3 Principle III 1.4 Principle IV 1.5 Principle V 1.6 Principle VI 1.7 Principle VII 2 The Principles' power or lack of power 3 Examples of the principles supported and not supported 3.1 The 1998 Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court 3.2 Canada 4 See also 5 References 6 Further reading 7 Footnotes 8 External links