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To: LindyBill who wrote (160826)3/16/2006 2:00:33 PM
From: D. Long   of 793928
 
that if Hitler hadn't invaded Poland and simply proceeded to gas the German Jews, the act would have fallen wholly outside the purview of international law

Of course. Until after WWII, international law was solely a matter of "the law of States". Well, the law of Western States, at least. It all goes back to the Peace of Westphalia - a State is sovereign within its borders and exercises absolute sovereignty over its subjects. It is a recent development to consider some acts of States against individuals to be outside the realm of sovereignty. Nuremburg was innovative and historic because it tried officers of a sovereign State for acts that were not (until then) illegal under international law - genocide, crimes against humanity, and State aggression.

Derek
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