The Law of War

Other crimes against humanity included:
The Porajmos, the mass killings of the Romany peoples of Europe by the Nazis
The Łapanka or "Catching Game", – Nazi roundups of Poles in the major cities
for slave labor
Nikolaev Massacre, which resulted in the deaths of 35,782 Soviet citizens, most
of whom were Jews.
Operation Tannenberg, the AB Action and the Massacre of Lwów professors, all
Nazi actions in Poland meant to mass murder the Polish intelligentsia and other
potential leaders of resistance.
Both "encouraging" and "compelling" abortion, prosecuted as a crime against the
child in the womb. The crime consisted of three parts: (a) providing abortion
services, (b) withdrawing the protection of German law from the unborn child, (c)
refusing to enforce existing Polish law prohibiting abortion.
The Nazi T-4 Euthanasia Program, an aborted eugenics program meant to kill
German children who were mentally or physically handicapped. 200,000 people
were murdered due to this program.
At least 10 million, and perhaps over 20 million perished directly and indirectly due to
the commission of crimes against humanity and war crimes by the Nazi regime, of
which the Holocaust lives on in particular infamy, for its particularly cruel nature and
scope, and the industrialised nature of the genocide of Jewish citizens of states invaded
or controlled by the Nazi regime. At least 5.9 million Jews were murdered by the Nazis,
or 66 to 78% of Europe's Jewish population, although a complete count may never be
known. Though much of Continental Europe suffered under the Nazi occupation,
Poland, in particular, was the state most devastated by these crimes, with 90% of its
Jews as well as many ethnic Poles slaughtered by the Nazis and their Ukrainian
affiliates. After the war, from 1945–49, the Nazi regime was put on trial in
two tribunals in Nuremberg, Germany by the victorious Allied powers.
The first tribunal indicted 24 major Nazi war criminals, and resulted in 19 convictions (of
which 12 led to death sentences) and 3 acquittals, 2 of the accused died before a
verdict was rendered, at least one of which by killing himself with cyanide.
The second tribunalindicted 185 members of the military, economic, and political
leadership of Nazi Germany, of which 142 were convicted and 35 were acquitted. In
subsequent decades, approximately 20 additional war criminals who escaped capture in
the immediate aftermath of World War II were tried in West Germany and Israel. In
Germany and many other European nations, the Nazi Party and denial of the Holocaust
is outlawed.
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