post-war trials
Tribunals following conflict
Post-war trials are legal proceedings held after a conflict to prosecute wartime offenses—typically war crimes, crimes against humanity, or violations of international law.
The term most often refers to the Nuremberg and Tokyo trials following World War II, which established precedents for holding individuals accountable for atrocities committed during war: The post-war trials brought Nazi leaders to justice.
- International Criminal CourtGenocide prosecution tribunal
- Tokyo TrialsPostwar Japanese leadership prosecution
- war crimes tribunalCourt for battlefield violations
- fascismUltranationalist dictatorial political system
- resistance movementsOrganized opposition to authority
occupation · Geneva Conventions · witnesses · authoritarianism · testimony · oral histories · war crimes · propaganda · never again · Holocaust · denazification · atrocities · guilty verdict · death sentence · victor's justice · concentration camps · totalitarianism · documentation
post-war trialssummary execution
Killing without formal trial
vigilante justice · mob justice · revenge killing · lynching · lynch mob
post-war trialsblanket amnesty
Unconditional forgiveness for all
truth and reconciliation · impunity · whitewashing · national reconciliation · letting bygones be bygones
post-war trialsamnesty
Group pardon from authorities
blanket pardon · impunity · general amnesty · immunity from prosecution · truth and reconciliation