Extermination (crime)

The Nuremberg trial verdict convicts many defendants of crimes against humanity for the extermination of Europe's Jewish population.[1] Pictured: mass shooting outside the Mizocz ghetto, 14 October 1942.

Extermination is a crime against humanity that consists of "the act of killing on a large scale".[2] To be convicted of this crime, someone must play a role in a sufficiently-large scale killing of civilians, including those carried out by "the intentional infliction of conditions of life... calculated to bring about the destruction of part of a population".[3] It was first prosecuted at the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg, and was included in the enumerated crimes against humanity in the Rome Statute.

  1. ^ IMT verdict, passim
  2. ^ Mettraux 2020, p. 388.
  3. ^ Mettraux 2020, p. 402.