THANK YOU FOR SUBSTANTIATING MY THESIS:
From the Minutes of Conference Session of July 19, 1945 (the group setting up the charter for the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal):
PROFESSOR GROS: It may be a crime to launch a war if aggression on the part of a state that does so, but that does not imply the commission of criminal acts by individual people who have launched a war. When you say that a state which launches a war has committed a crime, you do not imply that the members of that state are criminals.
SIR DAVID MAXWELL FYFE: Don't you imply that the people who have actually been personally responsible for launching the war have committed a crime?
PROFESSOR GROS: We think that it would be morally and politically desirable but that it is not international law.
"Thou shalt not extinguish thine anger, but shall master it,
that thy conscience may not be blunted by adjustment
to wrong causes."
-The Dutch Ten Commandments to Foil the Nazis
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