War?
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This concept of "war crimes" is a farce and just illustrates the pathological self-righteousness of America and other western powers who endorse it.
War is a state of affairs in which there are no rules -- anything goes, kill or be killed, use everthing you've got to destroy the enemy.
When there are no rules, there is no such thing as a crime. The definition of a crime is relative to a set of rules.
Of course if the masses will buy it and therefore you can get mileage out of it, there's no reason why you couldn't pretend there's something called war crimes and use it to manipulate people to behave as you'd like them to behave. Propaganda is, after all, an important element of overall strategy and a so good warrior is wise to use it whenever it's advantageous.
But to believe such a thing exists as an objective concept universally applicable to all parties is simply deluded.
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This argument is useless in this context unless you strongly believe there was an existing war between the Nazis and the Jews long before they began interning and killing them off. You would have to question whether the Jews, by virtue of their Jewishness, posed a legitimate threat to the "German way of life". That the Jews were already subject to numerous restrictions and limitations on their freedoms may be evidence of that.
By the way, this was basically Hitler's argument, that the Jews' codes of morality were an assault on the German way.
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