The Realities of War

Following World War Il, the victorious Allied governments established the first international criminal tribunals to prosecute high-level political officials & military authorities for war crimes and other wartime atrocities. The four major Allied powers-France, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, & the United States-set up the International Military Tribunal (IMT) in Nuremberg, Germany, to prosecute & punish "the major war criminals of the European Axis. The lesser-known International Military Tribunal for the Far East (IMTFE) was created in Tokyo, Japan & presided over a series of trials of senior Japanese political and military leaders pursuant to its authority "to try and punish Far Eastern war criminals.

ℹ️: Office of the Historian, Foreign Service Institute, United States Department of State.
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