23rd July 1945

9.45

The following acts or designs or attempts at any of them shall be deemed crimes on conviction of which punishment may be imposed by the Tribunal upon any person who is proved to have in any capacity whatever directed or participated in the preparation or planning for or carrying out of any or all of such acts designs or attempts:

(a) Aggression against or domination over other nations carried out by the European Axis Powers in violation of treaties, agreements and assurances

(b) Atrocities against civilian populations including (inter alia) murder and ill-treatment of civilians and deportation of civilians to slave labour, and persecutions on racial or religious grounds where such persecutions were inflicted in pursuance of the aggression or domination referred to in paragraph (a) above

(c) Violations of the laws rules and customs of war. Such violations shall include (inter alia) murder and ill-treatment of prisoners of war, the atrocities referred to in paragraph (b) above when committed against the civilian populations of conquered or occupied countries, the wanton destruction of towns and villages, and plunder.

Any person who is proved to have in any capacity whatever directed or participated in the preparation for or carrying out of any of the acts designs or attempts referred to in (a) (b) and (c) above shall be personally answerable therefor and for each and every violation of international law, of the laws of humanity and of the dictates of the public conscience committed in the course of carrying out the said acts designs or attempts or any of them by the forces and authorities whether armed civilian or otherwise in the service of any of the European Axis Powers.