Who committed more submarine war crimes during WW2?

One need only say the word “Nuremberg” and most anyone with a passing knowledge of history will immediately recall the few dozen Nazis who stood trial for some of the world's worst war crimes ever in that German city soon after World War II. read more

In post war trials, Admiral Donitz, commander of the German submarine war during WWII, was charged with crime of “"waging unrestricted submarine warfare against neutral shipping”. That charge became an embarrassment when a bunch of British and American naval officers came forward to point out they had done essentially the same thing. read more

Difficult to see how the US committed war crimes in WWII. The US did not plan or commit an aggressive war. The US did not maltreat prisoners of war, as the Germans did throughout the war; the Russians did, as the murder of the Polish officers showed. read more

Allied war crimes include both alleged and legally proven violations of the laws of war by the Allies of World War II against either civilians or military personnel of the Axis powers. At the end of World War II, many trials of Axis war criminals took place, most famously the Nuremberg Trials and Tokyo Trials. read more