HIST 3001 Lecture 16: wct 3:31
Document Summary
Sexual violence was a concern as a potential war crime- take advantage of the system of war to rape the women in the territories of war. It is often part of the systematic attack of another group can fall under crime against humanity. 1950s: european convention on human rights bans torture. 1960s: american convention on human rights also bans torture (rape) Commanders will use rape as an incentive for the soldiers to continue on. 1935 nuremberg laws banned miscegenation: mixing of jews with those of german blood: the person to be prosecuted in these cases was the male (even if this was not the. Jew: if ss men had raped jewish women, they would have been in big trouble, the nazis did not encourage this, rassenschande- the crime of mixing of the races, no rape at imt nuremberg. It wasn"t clear that the commanders knew anything of it or allowed it.
