War crime Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Leipzig trials=== {{Main|Leipzig war crimes trials}} Just after WWI, world governments started to try and systematically create a code for how war crimes would be defined. Their first outline of a law was "''Instructions for the Government of Armies of the United States in the Field"''βalso known as the "Lieber Code."<ref>{{Citation|last1=Day|first1=L. Edward|title=War Atrocities|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781412950619.n482|encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Murder and Violent Crime|location=Thousand Oaks, CA|publisher=Sage Publications, Inc.|access-date=2021-10-12|last2=Vandiver|first2=Margaret|year=2003|doi=10.4135/9781412950619.n482|isbn=978-0761924371|archive-date=April 3, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220403141742/https://sk.sagepub.com/reference/violentcrime/n482.xml|url-status=live}}</ref> A small number of German military personnel of the [[First World War]] were tried in 1921 by the German Supreme Court for alleged war crimes. Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page