war crimes trial

C439
concept

A war crimes trial is a formal legal proceeding in which individuals or groups are prosecuted and judged for violations of the laws and customs of war, such as atrocities against civilians, prisoners of war, or other protected persons.

All labels observed (18)

Label Occurrences
war crimes trial canonical 50
show trial 15
post–World War II trial 12

Description generation (CDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: war crimes trial
Generated description
A war crimes trial is a formal legal proceeding in which individuals or groups are prosecuted and judged for violations of the laws and customs of war, such as atrocities against civilians, prisoners of war, or other protected persons.

Instances (85)

Instance Via concept surface
Erich Mueller
surface form: Krupp Trial
IMTFE international military tribunal
Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia war crimes tribunal
International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) case against Croatian generals
Prosecutor v. Thomas Lubanga Dyilo
Extraordinary People’s Court in Prague war crimes tribunal
Prosecutor v. Radovan Karadžić ICTY case
Prosecutor v. Ratko Mladić ICTY case
IG Farben Trial
Robert M. G. Emmett
surface form: Homma trial
Beilis trial (1911–1913) show trial
United States of America v. Wilhelm List et al.
Southeast Case
OKW Trial
John C. Young
surface form: High Command Trial
Justin W. Harding
surface form: High Command Trial
Winfield B. Hale
surface form: High Command Trial
post-war RuSHA Trial at Nuremberg
surface form: RuSHA Trial
Nuremberg trial
People's Tribunal in Budapest war crimes tribunal
Buchenwald Trial
The RuSHA Case Nuremberg trial
Extraordinary African Chambers ad hoc international criminal tribunal
Extraordinary African Chambers trial of Hissène Habré
Baron Oaksey
surface form: Nuremberg Trials
Spring Creek, Pennsylvania, United States
surface form: Nuremberg Trials
Supreme National Tribunal of Poland war crimes tribunal
ICTY case Prosecutor v. Duško Tadić
surface form: Prosecutor v. Duško Tadić
ICTY case
Trial of the Six
Prosecutor v. Krstić (ICTY) ICTY case
Prosecutor v. Kunarac et al. ICTY case
Prosecutor v. Bosco Ntaganda
Prokopy Zubarev
surface form: Case of the Anti-Soviet Bloc of Rights and Trotskyites
show trial
Auschwitz trials in Frankfurt
Richard Pickel
surface form: Trial of the Sixteen
show trial
Nuremberg Milch Trial