War Crimes Committed by Germany During World War 2

This is a list of all of the war crimes that have been committed by Germany between 1939 and 1945. Germany was the first nation to fire a bullet and therefore start the war. They are also the nation that has been accused of most War Crimes in history, however, some of which historians have not accounted for.

I will not mention things such as killing, murdering, raping or torturing civilians as they are pretty clear that they have happened.

Invasion of Poland

This is pretty much straightforward and it is the first rusty nail to be set in Germanies coffin that was to be closed. Their first target was Poland because that is where the majority of Jewish people lived at the time in Europe. On 1st of September 1939, the German army has:

• Bombed Hospitals around Poland
• Shot refugees
• Executed wounded soldiers
• Murdering civilians
• execution of Polish POWs (Prisoners of war)

Violation of the Treaty of Versailles

This was the most important treaty that was been every signed as it hs brought peace and the end of the first World War. The Treaty was bringing the war guilt clause to the German power which yet…