Allied war crimes during World War II

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There are many reported war crimes committed by Allied military forces in World War II. The armed forces of the Soviet Union, in particular, engaged in the mass killing, deportation, forced labour and mistreatment of prisoners of war and civilians, as well as mass rapes and widespread looting in occupied territories. War crimes were also committed by British, American and other Allied forces, but not on the same scale as those of the Axis powers and the Soviet Union. There has been continued debate over whether the British and American strategic bombing campaigns, in which an estimated 800,000 civilians were killed, were war crimes. After the war, many trials of Axis war criminals took place – most famously the Nuremberg trials and Tokyo Trials. However, Allied war crimes were not prosecuted by the post-war international military tribunals. The Western Allies prosecuted a number of war crimes committed by their own forces, but these prosecutions probably represented only a small proportion...

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