To initiate a war of aggression, therefore, is not only an international crime, it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole.


If certain acts in violation of treatise are crimes,
they are crimes whether the United States does them
or whether Germany does them, and we are not
prepared to lay down a rule of criminal conduct
against others which we would not be willing to have
invoked against us
--J.Robert H. Jackson, U.S. Prosecutor, Nuremburg