5 worst crimes against humanity in history
Many war crimes are not prosecuted (due to lack of political will, lack of effective procedures, or other practical and political reasons), historians and lawyers will often make a serious case that war crimes occurred, even if there was no formal investigations or prosecution of the alleged crimes or an investigation cleared the alleged perpetrators. Whether you call them massacres, genocides or crimes against humanity, some of the most despicable crimes during war have led to countless deaths. The Holocaust It was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered around six million Jews across German-occupied Europe, around two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population. The Holocaust was an ideological and systematic state-sponsored and mass murder of millions of European Jews and several other groups by the regime of German Nazis. This crime against humanity happened between 1933 and 1945 w