war criminal

Noun

Meaning

war criminal (plural war criminals)

A person guilty of one or more war crimes.

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Examples

According to The Simon Wiesenthal Center (in January 2011) "Ukraine has, to the best of our knowledge, never conducted a single investigation of a local Nazi war criminal, let alone prosecuted a Holocaust perpetrator." Source: Internet

After all, Bucky’s essentially considered a war criminal in most other countries around the globe. Source: Internet

Dower, p. 326. According to Bix, "MacArthur's truly extraordinary measures to save Hirohito from trial as a war criminal had a lasting and profoundly distorting impact on Japanese understanding of the lost war." Source: Internet

Hirohito was not merely presented as being innocent of any formal acts that might make him culpable to indictment as a war criminal, he was turned into an almost saintly figure who did not even bear moral responsibility for the war." Source: Internet

Oskar Dirlewanger was a known Nazi war criminal and commander of a Nazi SS special unit. Source: Internet

Adolf Eichmann was captured in the northern area of Buenos Aires in 1960, and another war criminal, Erich Priebke, also lived there. Source: Internet

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