THE ATROCITIES COMMITTED DURING WORLD WAR

The Atrocities Committed During World War

The Atrocities Committed During World War

The history of warfare is replete with demonstrations of atrocities, and the American know-how boasts no exception. Americans have been the perpetrators as well as the victims of atrocities. Sometimes mentioned to as conflict misdeeds, atrocities have generally engaged torture, maiming, or murdering of citizens and noncombatants; decimation of nonmilitary targets; maltreatment and murdering of hurt and prisoners of war; and use of tools for fighting to origin superfluous damage or injury.

Many atrocities pledged by Americans have appeared throughout guerrilla counterinsurgent conflicts, for example ...