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TibotPhinaut t1_j4kax9q wrote

Reply to comment by PhillipLlerenas in Zero Days (2016) - Stuxnet, a piece of self-replicating computer malware that the U.S. and Israel unleashed to destroy a key part of an Iranian nuclear facility, and which ultimately spread beyond its intended target. [01:53:51] by Missing_Trillions

How's all that prosecution of US war crimes in Afghanistan, Vietnam and Iraq coming along?

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PhillipLlerenas t1_j4kvkgu wrote

Let’s ask Walter (Ernst) Burmeister, SS man who operated gas vans at Chelmno extermination camp and helped kill 152,000 Jews and was sentenced to a leisurely 3 and a half years in prison by a German court in Bonn:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chełmno_trials

Or SS-Unterscharführer Gustav Münzberger, gas chamber operator at Treblinka, who helped murder 800,000 Jews and was sentenced to 12 years imprisonment. Don’t worry tho….he served six years and was released on good behavior in 1971:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Münzberger

If I was a mass murdering anti semite I know exactly where in the planet I’d like to be after the war.

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CupResponsible797 t1_j4lcln9 wrote

As well as you'd expect any war crimes prosecutions to go. The laws of war are not very strict to begin with, gathering evidence tends to be extremely challenging. Even locating known witnesses in such countries for interviews is a tremendously difficult task.

There have been more than a hundred people court-martialed in the US over war crimes during the conflicts you mention.

Some of the famous cases that come to mind were almost certainly not war crimes. Perhaps they should be, but according to the laws of war, they weren't.

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