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Control Council Law Ten Creates Wider War Crimes Basis

United States of America · Warfare / World War, 2nd. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1945

Telford Taylor20 December 1945

Berlin · Warfare / World War, 2nd

Control Council Law No. 10 establishes a common legal basis for further occupation-zone prosecutions of war crimes, crimes against peace and crimes against humanity.

Names involved

Telford Taylor

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